This paper describes a novel, hybrid process developed to engineer the surfaces of austenitic stainless steels at temperatures below 450°C for the improvement in wear and corrosion resistance. The process is carr...This paper describes a novel, hybrid process developed to engineer the surfaces of austenitic stainless steels at temperatures below 450°C for the improvement in wear and corrosion resistance. The process is carried out in the plasma of a glow discharge containing both nitrogen and carbon reactive species, and facilitates the incorporation of both nitrogen and carbon into the austenite surface to form a dual-layer structure comprising a nitrogen-rich layer on top of a carbon-rich layer. Both layers can be precipitation-free at sufficiently low processing temperatures, and contain nitrogen and carbon respectively in supersaturated fee austenite solid solutions. The resultant hybrid structure offers several advantages over the conventional low temperature nitriding and the newly developed carburizing processes in terms of mechanical and chemical properties, including higher surface hardness, a hardness gradient from the surface towards the layer-core interface, uniform layer thickness, and much enhanced corrosion resistance. This paper discusses the main features of this hybrid process and the various structural and properties characteristics of the resultant engineered surfaces.展开更多
An artificial neural networks(ANNs) based gear material selection hybrid intelligent system is established by analyzing the individual advantages and weakness of expert system (ES) and ANNs and the applications in mat...An artificial neural networks(ANNs) based gear material selection hybrid intelligent system is established by analyzing the individual advantages and weakness of expert system (ES) and ANNs and the applications in material select of them. The system mainly consists of tow parts: ES and ANNs. By being trained with much data samples, the back propagation (BP) ANN gets the knowledge of gear materials selection, and is able to inference according to user input. The system realizes the complementing of ANNs and ES. Using this system, engineers without materials selection experience can conveniently deal with gear materials selection.展开更多
For low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) materials, a glass-ceramic composite consisting of a BaNd2Ti5O14 ceramic, and a lead-free rare earth derived boron glasses (LBT) was tested in this present study. The glass...For low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) materials, a glass-ceramic composite consisting of a BaNd2Ti5O14 ceramic, and a lead-free rare earth derived boron glasses (LBT) was tested in this present study. The glass-ceramic composite was evaluated for relative densities, shrinkage and microwave dielectric properties (εr, Qxf0). The sintered body at low temperature demonstrated applicable properties such as high relative density over 85% and various dielectric properties,namely 13-20 for εr, 2000-10000 GHz for Qxf0. The results suggest that the composite has a good potential for using low temperature co-fired ceramic compositions for high-frequency application.展开更多
文摘This paper describes a novel, hybrid process developed to engineer the surfaces of austenitic stainless steels at temperatures below 450°C for the improvement in wear and corrosion resistance. The process is carried out in the plasma of a glow discharge containing both nitrogen and carbon reactive species, and facilitates the incorporation of both nitrogen and carbon into the austenite surface to form a dual-layer structure comprising a nitrogen-rich layer on top of a carbon-rich layer. Both layers can be precipitation-free at sufficiently low processing temperatures, and contain nitrogen and carbon respectively in supersaturated fee austenite solid solutions. The resultant hybrid structure offers several advantages over the conventional low temperature nitriding and the newly developed carburizing processes in terms of mechanical and chemical properties, including higher surface hardness, a hardness gradient from the surface towards the layer-core interface, uniform layer thickness, and much enhanced corrosion resistance. This paper discusses the main features of this hybrid process and the various structural and properties characteristics of the resultant engineered surfaces.
文摘An artificial neural networks(ANNs) based gear material selection hybrid intelligent system is established by analyzing the individual advantages and weakness of expert system (ES) and ANNs and the applications in material select of them. The system mainly consists of tow parts: ES and ANNs. By being trained with much data samples, the back propagation (BP) ANN gets the knowledge of gear materials selection, and is able to inference according to user input. The system realizes the complementing of ANNs and ES. Using this system, engineers without materials selection experience can conveniently deal with gear materials selection.
文摘For low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) materials, a glass-ceramic composite consisting of a BaNd2Ti5O14 ceramic, and a lead-free rare earth derived boron glasses (LBT) was tested in this present study. The glass-ceramic composite was evaluated for relative densities, shrinkage and microwave dielectric properties (εr, Qxf0). The sintered body at low temperature demonstrated applicable properties such as high relative density over 85% and various dielectric properties,namely 13-20 for εr, 2000-10000 GHz for Qxf0. The results suggest that the composite has a good potential for using low temperature co-fired ceramic compositions for high-frequency application.
