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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Material Research"”.
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Reactor configurations to support advanced material research
<p>"The research goal is to configure a research reactor with multi-spectral capability for advance material research. This required the consideration of high and low-power levels alongside advanced fuel with high physical density and low enriched <sup>235</sup>U. Selected fuel was U-10Mo with …
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Transformed materials : a material research center in Milan, Italy
[Transformed Materials] is an exploration into today's design methodologies of architecture production. The emergence of architectural form is questioned in relation to the temporal state of design intent and the physical material construct. At a time when there is an increased awareness of the …
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On Building: A Return of the Master Builder
… inclusion of a variety of innovative building materials/techniques, particularity the use of hardwood cross-laminated timber (CLT). This building will serve as an ongoing research opportunity to evaluate the conditions of building with this material in an extreme condition, complete exposure to …
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The Competing Roles of Microstructure and Flaw Size on the Fatigue Limit of Metals
Research includes the development and verification of an analytical model that addresses the fatigue process, namely the threshold condition of non-propagating cracks. Two parameters are identified to govern the fatigue resistance: non-propagating crack size and crack barrier strength. The concept …
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Optical characterization of compound semiconductors using photoconductivity and photoreflectance
… and used to characterize semiconductor materials. The ternary Cd1--xZnxTe compound was studied to achieve fine control over its composition to provide lattice-matched substrates for the growth of Hg1--xCdxTe which is used in infrared detectors. Photoreflectance spectroscopy, capable of …
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Electronic transport in low-angle twisted bilayer graphene
Graphene is a two-dimensional material with exotic electronic, optical and mechanical properties. By stacking two layers of graphene together with a small rotation angle between them, a superlattice of arbitrarily large size can be formed. The hybridization of the electronic states in the two …
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An exploration of materials and methods in manufacturing : shoreline membranes
… constructed. An essential part of this thesis research is the study of materials. After an intense investigation of the potential uses and intrinsic properties of new materials in the automotive and construction industries, a select few materials will be applied directly in the thesis. The …
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Automated infrared fiber optic characterizer
… fluorozirconate optical fibers has increased the material research efforts for these new waveguides. Fluorozirconate fibers, which are inherently more transparent than silica fibers, are predicted to have intrinsic losses as low as 0.001 dB/km at 3.45 μm [11]. Unfortunately, high intrinsic losses …
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Cultivating Earthworks of the Anthropocene: A Laboratory for Land and Environmental Art in Lime, Oregon
… for artistic explorations, such as land art, material research, and photography.This approach generates a site for land art practice and an artist in residency outpost. In developing architecture to serve the site and program, this thesis implements the spatial and material characteristics of …
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Spectroscopic analysis of selected silicon ceramics
… are popular in both commercial applications and material research. The purpose of this thesis is to present measurements and analysis of four different silicon ceramics: α, β and γ phases of silicon nitride and silicon oxynitride using soft x-ray spectroscopy, which analyses the electronic …
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An Instrument for the Measurement of Soft Material Nonlinear Mechanical Response
Soft material research has seen significant growth in recent years, with emerging applications in robotics, electronics, and healthcare diagnostics where understanding material mechanical response is crucial for precision design. Traditional methods for measuring nonlinear mechanical properties of …
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Motion and Spatiality: Material Illusions in Abstract Painting
This practice-led research investigates the continuing role of abstraction within contemporary art through a painting practice that involves collage, works on paper and paintings on canvas. The project is focussed on testing ways in which devices historically associated with illusionistic painting …
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Motion and Spatiality: Material Illusions in Abstract Painting
This practice-led research investigates the continuing role of abstraction within contemporary art through a painting practice that involves collage, works on paper and paintings on canvas. The project is focussed on testing ways in which devices historically associated with illusionistic painting …
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Electron Beam Diagnostic at the ELBE Free Electron Laser
… be used to produce monoenergetic positrons for material research. One more future application of the beam is the production of neutrons by bremsstrahlung via reactions. The neutrons will be used for material research oriented toward construction of future nuclear fusion reactors. In the …
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PROTON IRRADIATION SAMPLE HOLDER II (PISH II)
… with activity in reactor refurbishments and research in new reactors. The Reactor Material Testing Laboratory (RMTL) at Queen’s University plays a significant role in material research that has applications in extending the lifetime of existing reactors, as well as the evolution of new …
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The Role of Slip System Activation on Ni-Based Superalloy High Temperature Fatigue
… in aircraft engine components. These materials are desirable due to their high strength, resistance to creep, corrosive environment, and high temperature. It has been well documented that material fatigue is characterized by material microstructure, type of loading, and other …
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Micro PIXE analyses of Furnace and Converter Mattes for the determination of trace element distribution and concentrations
… were done at the nuclear microprobe chamber of Material Research Group in iThemba LABS. Samples consisted of slow cooled furnace and converter mattes which were prepared at Mintek. The samples were first analysed using SEM/EDX techniques to characterise the phases present, XRD was also performed …
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Revisiting Jung's Psychology of Religion in Light of the Relational Turn and the Resurgence of Religion in Organised Forms
… case. The method chosen is the psychoanalytic research circle: on the basis of the clinical material, research aims are provided and thereafter theoretically substantiated. The analytical process demonstrated a three-phased structure consisting of dissolution, reintegration and a middle phase …
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Imaging Nanoscale Spin Textures with Scanning Diamond Quantum Microscopy
Magnetic materials play a key role in the advancement of modern technology, from data storage mediums and giant magnetoresistance read heads for information processing, to medical applications like drug delivery and magnetic resonance imaging. Their research and development have progressed towards …
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Hydrogen production from aluminum-water reactions subject to high pressure and temperature conditions
… a highly abundant and extremely energy dense material. Research has discovered methods of treating aluminum with liquid metal, enabling the aluminum to produce large amounts of hydrogen when oxidized by liquid water. When this fuel reacts with water, it produces hydrogen, heat, and aluminum …
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