Portland Cement Paste Modified by TiO2 Nanoparticles: A Microstructure Perspective

D Feng, N **e, C Gong, Z Leng, H **ao… - Industrial & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Nanomodified Portland cement paste with a water/cement ratio of 0.4 was prepared with the
addition of TiO2 nanoparticles at 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5% by mass of cement. The flexural …

Selection of methods of surface texture characterisation for reduction of the frequency-based errors in the measurement and data analysis processes

P Podulka - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Processes of surface texture characterisation can be roughly divided into measurement
issues and analysis of the results obtained. Both actions can be fraught with various errors …

Advances in manufacturing analysis: Fractal theory in modern manufacturing

FM Mwema, ET Akinlabi, OP Oladijo, OS Fatoba… - Modern manufacturing …, 2020 - Elsevier
A review of the applications of fractal theory in modern manufacturing is presented in this
chapter. A brief conceptual foundation, typical examples, and methods of computing fractals …

Micromorphology characterization of copper thin films by AFM and fractal analysis

A Arman, Ş Ţălu, C Luna, A Ahmadpourian… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - Springer
In this study, Cu thin films with layer thicknesses of 5, 25, and 50 nm were prepared by DC
magnetron-sputtering method and their three dimensional (3-D) surface topography were …

Atomic force microscopy analysis of surface topography of pure thin aluminum films

FM Mwema, OP Oladijo, TS Sathiaraj… - Materials Research …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Pure aluminium thin films were deposited on stainless and mild steel substrates through rf
magnetron sputtering at rf powers of 150 and 200 W. Surface analysis of the films was …

A new spectral analysis method for determining the joint roughness coefficient of rock joints

C Wang, L Wang, M Karakus - International Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a new spectral analysis method for accurate JRC determination. To do this, we
first propose an average power index Pf to present the amplitude height of a rock joint …

Tensile strength of artificially cemented sandstone generated via microbially induced carbonate precipitation

C Konstantinou, G Biscontin, F Logothetis - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Artificially bio-cemented sands treated with microbially induced calcite precipitation are
weakly cemented rocks representing intermediate materials between locked and carbonate …

[HTML][HTML] Suppression of the high-frequency errors in surface topography measurements based on comparison of various spline filtering methods

P Podulka - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The metrology of so-called “engineering surfaces” is burdened with a substantial risk of both
measurement and data analysis errors. One of the most encouraging issues is the definition …

Depth-dependent hysteresis in adhesive elastic contacts at large surface roughness

W Deng, H Kesari - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Contact force–indentation depth measurements in contact experiments involving compliant
materials, such as polymers and gels, show a hysteresis loop whose size depends on the …

The use of power spectrum density for surface characterization of thin films

FM Mwema, ET Akinlabi, OP Oladijo - 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A step-by-step framework for undertaking PSD characterization of the surface topography of
radio frequency (rf) magnetron sputtered thin Al films is presented in this chapter. The work …