A material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. Materials can be pure or impure, living or non-living matter. Materials can be classified based on their physical and chemical properties, or on their geological origin or biological function. Materials science is the study of materials and their applications.
Raw materials can be processed in different ways to influence their properties, by purification, shaping or the introduction of other materials. New materials can be produced from raw materials by synthesis.
In industry, materials are inputs to manufacturing processes to produce products or more complex materials.
I have to design and assemble a solar water heater for a small Anaerobic Digester system.
It will have two connected sections, using pipe, ... one assembly section to collect solar heat, one assembly to radiate the heat.
Attached is an illustration. Please disregard the pipe arrangement design...
Summary:: Need help with finding values using Fe c diagram
Hi, I'm doing a materials engineering assignment. In the assignment they require us to make 3 swords being given martenistic steel bars with dimensions 40x100x1000mm with a composition of Fe-0.76wt.%C (eutectoid composition). Sword A...
Hi, I just wanted to know if anyone has any experience with a textbook that deals with topics like crystals+lattices+symmetries, diffraction, microstructure, mechanical behaviour of materials, etc.? Thanks.
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I am enrolled in a graduate level course to HPC computing. The lecture, however, is often very superficial. For example, after the session to processors, I was left wondering about the differences between clock cycles, machine cycles and the difference between FLOP count and clock...
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So, if i take an element and place it on top of another element and heat it, will the heat energy pass through the first and charge the other or it'll melt both elements?
Thanks!
Ok so I am building a fume hood
What materials are the most resistant to chemicals that are also cheap?
also what cfm fan can I use to suck out the air?
(asking for someone knowlageable)
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Are the felt and foam seals used inside clothes dryers made of different materials than the felt and foam seals used for weather stripping? They look the same.
Sites that sell replacement seals mention attaching them with "high temperature glue". Do any glues commonly sold in hardware...
Are sound waves in air affected by wind? If the medium of the air propagation travels forward, does the sound also travel faster or is the sound simply vibrations in positions of space which disregard the movement of its medium.
Would a transverse wave similarly move faster?
If I was to...
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A certain steel tape is known to be 100000 feet long when the temperature of 70°F . When the tape is at a temperature of 10°F, what reading corresponds to a distance of 90000 ft? Coefficient of linear expansion of the tape is 5.833 x 10-6 per °F.
I just read an article about how electrostaticly charged filters, such as hvac filters, the charge is reduced if soaked in ipa or washed with soapy water. I know some peoe want to save money so they wash the filters.
My question is, why does rubbing alcohol and soapy water cancel the charge...
Hi all, i need Permissible stress (Shear & Bending) values of various materials that is used for shaft design, as like below.
Is there any software or excel sheet.
kindly let know.
Hello, so I am not actually seeking help sketching the stress strain graphs. However, I am rather confused about the last part of the question to comprehensively label the stress-strain graph of copper with the limit of proportionality etc.
Evaluating the graph, it becomes clear that these...
After seeing Putin wearing a full face respirator and gown while entering hospital with Covid and seeing a local doctor wearing one too. I ordered the 3M full face respirator like it. But I'm not sure what kind of gown or coveralls to gets.
There are many local advertisements about the gown but...
I know only about Laminated,Iron and wooden coil.I don't know what is Air cored coil.
So according to me,it should be Wooden cored coil because less current will flow through wooden cored coil.Ans it will be maximum in Iron cored coil.
Please tell,am I correct or not?I don't know the answer.
As you all know, everyone is in a mad DIY mask rush right now as it has become an official recommendation. Some have been searching for the best materials, and some of them have been found to be great filters. However, these non-standard mask materials are also not tested and evaluated for use...
When two materials of the same type or different type collide or rub against each other (either slightly or vigorously) that happens around us every day everywhere
At the molecular level, do they lose any particles/atoms because of the collision?
Summary:: I would appreciate it someone could help me as my mind is completely gone on this and I am struggling to get the correct answer.
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I am trying to use this formula to fill in the rest of the table and I expect to get an answer between 0-5 x10-11. However i am getting nowhere...
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So recently me and a group of friends have begun working towards the construction of a cyclotron - and I was wondering, if anybody here would have an idea what kind of materials would be able to be used for the vacuum chamber that aren't specific Aluminium Alloys such as 7075 or 6061...
I'm new to the world of acoustics, and I've been reading up on various methods for wireless communication/sensing through ultrasound, especially with piezoelectric materials such as AlN. Fundamentally, I can't seem to find a difference between thin-film bulk acoustic resonators (1 um thick) and...
This project is stressing me out along with other workload and I'm in panic mode right now. The brief of the project is in the attachment.
I can interpret 4 objectives out of this:
(1) Analysing the relation of the physical parameters in the composite material with the characteristics of wave...
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Hello , I am researching some material science and looking for suitable structural materials for high altitude , low level orbit flight .
Would a carbon structure be suitable or would there be pressure problems that cause structural collapse ?
What is the different between fissionable materials and fissile materials? And how I can distinguish between them?I am deeply looking to your answers.
Thank you
I just wanted to ask something that's being bugging me for quite a while now, if you don't mind. In standard testing, Biological Materials often are found to have impressive strength characteristics, for example, both Type I Collagen, the supporting protein of muscle (And I think Skin as well)...
I converted dm3 to m3, all the degrees to kelvins and found out the specific heat constants of iron and aluminium (0,45 and 0,91 KJ/kg K), but now i am failing to understand how this was supposed to be calculated. The equation given doesn't really help, as there are two unknowns in it: Q and the...
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1 Materials that can control moisture in themselves ? (I want to know which material has properties similar to this.)
2 Materials that know moisture content without measuring ? (I want to know which material has properties similar to this.)
3 The material has a uniform moisture distribution...
True black materials theoretically absorbs all wavelengths of visible light. True white materials reflect all wavelengths of light.
If a material which was black at room temperature was heated up to incandescence so that it was emitting all visible wavelengths (white light), and then light was...
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I have another questions about that fact that we have only a few solids that are ferromagnetic. In ferromagnetics i also read a few time ago it is important to consider 2 things about the reason why there is no magnetizaion. And i don't really understand both reasons, so i hope you can...
For the second one I thought I'd find the shear max caused by the first torque, and use the value as my radius in Mohr's circle, then proceed to find the stress and shear caused by the new torsion and moment (in terms of M), and proceed to use the criteria to solve for M. I seem to be going in...
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So,I'm helping a guy with his mechanical engineering homework.
The problem is that the guy is so off, he doesn't even know the name of the subject.
And honestly, I having a hard question finding out what this question is about.
I need to proove the Zb=h^2/3 thingy. I have no idea what this...
I see new environmental friendly glass materials coming in the future. Is it possible for companies to make new cathode ray tube monitors with 100% green environment friendly glass materials. How will this work?
Hi, for lower frequencies most electrical devices use laminated electric steel , like transformers and motors. But this makes the core made up of individual metal sheets and in older transformers taking the core apart sometimes results in the individual sheets falling apart.
Is there any...
I have plastic which contains large amounts of Co-60 and Cs-137. I have already calculated the integrated (50k years) deposited dose from the gamma radiation using Monte-Carlo methods (SCALE).
I am now interested in the contribution to deposited dose from the Beta emissions.
-I am assuming that...
Not sure if this thread belongs in this section. I was thinking who could give a better advice than the teachers themselves? Please do move the thread if it does not belong here. Thank you.
I am first year non-physics student. I kind of never had any experience with physics. I have about 3...
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Currently, I am trying to optimize CuO unit cell and CuO(1 1 1) through using gaussian interface and DFT calculation method. can somebody guide me the appropriate parameters in order to do that because so far all the basis sets and functional have failed to work so if you could...
First, let me apologise if this is in the wrong thread, wrong place, or wrong forum.
I've not had any good experiences so far getting an answer I can understand, because my maths education didn’t really prepare me to even begin to try to figure this one out!
I'll try to explain the situation...
A) What are the modern techniques used for enhancing the thermal conductivity of Phase changing materials (PCM) ?
B) what are the negative effects (disadvantages) of using old methods of enhancing thermal conductivity of PCM ? ( construct table )
C) what are the different techniques used for...
I have read, heard and seen texts and youtube videos about the slowing down of light through matter, and also about why some materials are transparent. I am satisfied with the explanation of the slowing down of photons through matter, but not the explanation of why materials are transparent. I...
Hi everyone, I am currently a third year University Student in the UK and I'm in the midst of doing my dissertation.
My dissertation topic (Effective methods of decreasing the thermal Conductivity of Housing Materials) requires that I produce several experiments to test and analyse a certain...
In wikipedia I found:
If what I underlined is correct, it means that from one incident photon we will get at the other end countless similar photons, as the "shaken" charges radiate "their own electromagnetic wave" (photons, right?). This sounds like light amplification, but the explanation...
If an electron is divided into quasiparticles in a material, then at the contact between the two materials does the interaction only occur between holons, since they carry a charge?
I've read about light slowing materials, and I'm wondering if you could slow down light enough, could it be used to say store light from the sun during the day so solar panels could work at night? Or would it not work because the process of slowing light down gradually absorbs some of the...
It is commonly said that the speed of light when traveling inside materials is lower than that of light in vacuum, but I don't understand how this can be true. It is the same light traveling, so how can it act differently? Does light appear to be slower in materials because it is not following a...
I am about to graduate with a doctorate in a Materials Science & Engineer degree. I have the following experience:
- Mechanical testing such as indentation and bend testing
- X-ray/neutron diffraction characterization (in/ex situ)...
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I have been trying to read up on quantum foundations after being first introduced to it on this Perimeter Institute page:
https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/research/research-areas/quantum-foundations/more-quantum-foundations
However, I have had difficulty finding notes and papers on...
chemical vapor deposition, Molecular beam epitaxy or magnetron sputtering
What is the best way to bond GaAs to the intrinsic layer of a laser diode? I am planning on building a refactory oven on a concrete pad this summer once I clear of one side of my yard. There is just no way around it...
Hi, I'm an undergrad materials engineering student. I am thinking of studying all the way to a PhD as I'm interested on working in research. Right now I work with Semiconductors and I like the field a lot. However, considering what I'm studying, I want to know if it's a good Idea to look for a...
In the UK you would need good grades at A-levels (age 18) in maths, physics and chemistry to start a three year BSc or four year MEng in Materials science. Some universities offer an additional 1 year foundation course if you don't quite have the required grades or possibly a missing subject...