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  • Titanium - Applications
    Article - 4 Mar 2002
    The excellent properties possessed by titanium make it a highly useful material. Applications in aerospace (e.g. engines and structures)and industrial applications are covered, as are emerging...
  • Buckytubes - History and Development
    Article - 27 Feb 2002
    Buckytubes are a type of fullerene or perfect carbon structure. The discovery, evolution and structure of single and multiwall buckytubes are considered. Advantages over other materials including...
  • Titanium - Introduction to Corrosion
    Article - 14 Feb 2002
    Corrosion resistance is one of titanium's most attractive features. Reasons and mechanisms for this are explained.
  • Combining Platinum and Fuel Cells
    Article - 11 Feb 2002
    Fuel cells are at the cutting edge of alternative fuel technology. So far, technology in the automotive industry includes platinum catalysts, and a substitute is not available even today.
  • Titanium Alloys - Classifications
    Article - 30 Jan 2002
    Titanium alloys can be classified either by structure or strength. The main structures are alpha, beta and alpha-beta, which are described. Different strength classifications also exist, and this is...
  • Stainless Steel - Cleaning, Care and Maintenance
    Article - 11 Jan 2002
    Stainless steels are generally low in maintenance, although some are required to maximize corrosion resistance and removal of surface contamination.
  • Friction Stir Welding
    Article - 7 Jan 2002
    Friction stir welding is a recent modification on friction welding. It is suited to aluminium, magnesium and other metals and can join dissimilar materials. Advantages over fusion welding are, no...
  • Micro-Impact Testing of Coatings
    Article - 30 Nov 2001
    Micro-impact testing is a repetitive technique for evaluating coating adhesion, toughness and resistance to erosive wear. It is able to simulate actual wear conditions more closely than other...
  • Concrete Reinforced with Fibre Reinforced Plastic
    Article - 27 Nov 2001
    Fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) concrete provides an alternative to steel reinforced concrete. It overcomes corrosion problems, possesses high strength and low stiffness and cracks in the matrix are...
  • The Applications of Nanomaterials
    Article - 23 Nov 2001
    Materials with grain sizes in the order of a billionth of a meter are called nanomaterials, or nanocrystalline materials, which can be used for a range of structural and non-structural applications.

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