Currently there is a large growth in the use of thermoplastic composites reinforced with long glass fiber. These composites have the mechanical properties required for structural and automotive applications, because they ...

Motivation of the work was to investigate the synthesis of polyols obtained from air induced oxidation of the commercial soybean oil and use these as precursors in the preparation of polyurethane-urea hybrid coatings. ...

Amorphous metals have been shown to have magnetomechanical properties which are superior to those of any other magnetic materials. This has allowed their usage in a growing number of sensing purposes. The capacity of ...

The use of hard coatings has many applications in the metal-mechanic industry due to the improvement of surface properties such as high hardness and wear and corrosion resistance. One of the most important techniques for ...

This work presents a comparative evaluation of the environmental performance of two materials: a wood panel and a three layers synthetic panel, both used in the production of the load box of semi-trailer for grains ...

In this study nanotubes/epoxy composites were produced in order to evaluate which of the two studied techniques would result in a better degree of dispersion and unentanglement of carbon nanotubes in epoxy resin. The ...

Zirconium nitride (ZrN) nanometric films were deposited onto different substrates, in order to study the surface microstructure and also to investigate the electrochemical behavior to obtain a better composition that ...

The performance of engineering components is closely tied to surface phenomena, because it acts as an interface between the component and the environment that surrounds it. The choice of a suitable material with surface ...