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The purpose of this talk is to demonstrate the utility of fractography in failure analysis investigations.A CPVCA fire sprinkler pipe sections were subjected to controlled loading conditions typifying hydrostatic burst, impact loading, and environmental stress cracking to induce cracks.A Hydrostatic burst is an overload failure mode , which may ...

Hybrid solar cells have been constructed by using nanocrystalline titania and hole-transporting polymers.

Templeton Middle School eighth-graders Aaron Sonnemann and Bailee Bobert and Hamilton High School freshman Alan Mamerow showcased their knowledge of the design and engineering process Oct.

Could the six-hour runtime of a netbook go to 36 hours in the future? It sounds possible based on recent ionic battery projects .

Julich / Oak Ridge , 5 November 2009 - A unique large-scale research device from Julich went into operation in the USA yesterday.

A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market, and now it has the funding it needs to prove it.

The bio-inspired approach to controllable biomimetic synthesis of silver nanoparticles in organic matrix of chitosan and silver-binding peptide Export Materials Science and Engineering: C , Vol.

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Source: NASA HQ - Comments All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

Rice University scientists today unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers that could lead to revolutionary advances in materials science, power distribution and nanoelectronics.

JOM has enjoyed a rising impact factor for several years now. Clearly, the research being published here is recognized for its superior quality.

A simple method for the fitting of the ion radii for ions in aqueous solution, which is a consistently difficult problem for implicit solvent models, is described.

Dye-sensitized solar cells are flexible and cheap to make, but they tend to be inefficient at converting light into electricity.

The Great Dome at MIT, shown here in an architectural draft, includes a cement liner that seals and secures the sandstone overlay.

Software helps optimize cost, improve product performance, meet environmental objectives a ' new tools for packaging, plastics, and medical applications Cambridge a ' October 26, 2009 a ' Granta Design has announced a new release of the CES Selectora software, helping engineering enterprises to make important decisions about materials and processes ...

North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that could allow a fingernail-sized chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text - fifty times the capacity of current memory chips.

Evan Ma is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA e-mail: ema@jhu.edu Jian Xu is at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China.

Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Materials Science, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897, USA E-mail: LifengDong@MissouriState.edu Abstract.

North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.

The structure of metal nanoparticles embedded inside dielectric nanowires/nanotubes, namely nanopeapods, has been of increasing interest due to their unusual photoresponse and optical adsorption properties.

Though the long-term durability of the new mixed ion conductor material must still be proven, its development could address two of the most vexing problems facing the solid oxide fuel cells: tolerance of sulfur in fuels and resistance to carbon build-up known as coking.