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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The development of an automated vibration technique for measuring the mechanical properties of oxide scales at high temperatures

Mendès, Charles January 1993 (has links)
No description available.
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Surface Modifications to Mitigate Refractory Degradation in High-Temperature Black Liquor Gasifiers

Pallay, Krista Joy 03 April 2006 (has links)
Ceria (CeO2), chromia (Cr2O3), yttria-stabilized zirconia (Y2O3-ZrO2), and sodium cerium oxide (Na2CeO3) were used as barrier coatings on Ufala, an alumina-based ceramic refractory, to determine if they were effective at increasing the life of the refractory in a high-temperature black liquor gasification environment. The ceria, chromia, and yttria-stabilized zirconia coatings were applied at atmospheric pressure using a coating applicator at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The sodium cerium oxide coatings in addition to the three other coating types were applied under atmospheric pressure at C3 International Technologies in Alpharetta, GA. The coated refractory, as well as a set of uncoated refractory used for baseline analysis, were tested using molten synthetic smelt at 1000C for 36 hours. Uncoated refractory samples were also tested for 12, 72, 120, and 168 hours in order to make a kinetic reaction rate determination. The refractory were analyzed using gravimetric and dimensional analysis, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy to determine the severity of the physical changes that occurred after exposure to molten smelt. The data gathered from these experiments were not able to conclude that barrier coatings are sufficient to impede corrosion of the Ufala refractory material in molten smelt.
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Micro-décharges en milieu électrolytique aqueux et leur interaction avec les matériaux : le cas du procédé d'oxydation par plasma électrolytique (PEO) / Microdischarges in aqueous electrolytic and their interaction with materials : the case of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO)

Nominé, Alexandre 25 September 2014 (has links)
L’Oxydation par Plasma Electrolytique (PEO) est un procédé de traitement de surface des alliages métalliques légers (Al, Mg, Ti) qui permet de faire croître des couches protectrices d’oxydes épaisses et dures sur ces matériaux. Pour dépasser les limites de l’anodisation, le procédé PEO repose sur la génération de micro-Décharges anodiques résultant du claquage de la couche diélectrique dans un électrolytique aqueux sous l’effet d’une densité de courant ou d’une différence de potentiel élevées (typ. 20 A/dm2 ; 700 V). Les objectifs de ce travail sont d’une part d’étudier les caractéristiques des micro-Décharges (composition chimique, densité et température électronique) et leur comportement macroscopique (conditions d’amorçage, densité surfacique, taille, durée de vie), et d’autre part de corréler ces études aux mécanismes de croissance des couches d’oxydes dans différentes conditions électriques (forme du courant bipolaire pulsé) et de composition d’électrolytes alcalins. Ces études couplées ont permis notamment de mettre en évidence que le passage en régime d’autorégulation (précédemment identifié) s’accompagne de la croissance d’une couche spongieuse, vraisemblablement amorphe, autour et dans les fissures de structures composées d’alumine cristallisée et résultant des claquages diélectriques. De même, la caractérisation de couches traitées PVD + PEO a conduit à améliorer la compréhension de certains mécanismes de claquage intervenant dans le procédé PEO, et en particulier les processus à l’interface couche d’oxydes - substrat. Enfin, une étude spécifique des micro-Décharges cathodiques (inhabituellement observées en PEO) a conduit à proposer des mécanismes de claquage de la couche diélectrique durant cette demi-Période cathodique du courant. Il a en outre été montré que, bien que l’alternance négative du courant soit nécessaire pour améliorer la croissance des couches d’oxydes, les micro-Décharges cathodiques ont un effet néfaste sur celle-Ci. Il est ainsi nécessaire de contrôler la forme d’onde du courant appliqué afin d’éviter la génération de telles décharges / Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) is a surface treatment of light metallic alloys (e.g Al, Mg, Ti) that makes possible to grow thick and hard oxide protective coating on those materials. To overcome the limitations of anodizing the PEO process takes benefit of anodic micro-Discharges resulting from the dielectric breakdown in an aqueous electrolyte under a high applied current density or voltage (typ. 20 A/dm2; 700 V). Therefore this work aims first at studying both the macroscopic parameters (breakdown conditions, surface density, lifetime, size) of such micro-Discharges and their behavior, and second to correlate these studies to the growth mechanisms of the oxide coatings within various electrical (applied current waveform) conditions and alkaline electrolyte composition. These coupled studies allowed us to evidence that the transition from arc regime to soft regime (previously determined) corresponds to the growth of a loose spongy silicon-Rich phase which is likely amorphous, inside and around cracks of the pancake structures issued from the dielectric breakdown and composed of crystalline alumina. Meanwhile, analyses of combined PVD + PEO coatings lead us to improve our understanding of some breakdown mechanisms occurring during the PEO process, with a particular attention to the phenomena at the coating-Substrate interface. Finally, a particular study of cathodic micro-Discharges (unusually observed in PEO) allowed us to propose breakdown mechanisms of the dielectric layer during that negative half-Period of the current. Besides it has been shown that those cathodic micro-Discharges are detrimental to the layer growth though the cathodic half-Period of the current is mandatory to improve the coating growth. It is therefore necessary to manage the current waveform to avoid creating such detrimental discharges
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Reactive sputtering of mixed-valent oxides: a route to tailorable optical absorption

Murphy, Neil Richard 27 May 2015 (has links)
No description available.
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Nano-Coatings on Carbon Structures for Interfacial Modification

Pulikollu, Rajasekhar Venkata January 2005 (has links)
No description available.

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