Melting Point Of Metals In Relation Io Electron Charge Density

The concept of spatial criterion of the electron charge concentration is applied to determine the metal melting point. Based on the model proposed for bcc metals, a model for hcp metals and general form for others has been developed. To calculate the melting point, only structural data and atomic number are required. The obtained results show good consistency with the experimental data for metals with atomic number Z < 70.

Effect of Al on Zn-Al Filler Metal Wettability on Pure Copper Surface

Zn-Al filler metal wettability tests were performed. With the match of CsF-AlF3 flux, Zn-Al filler metal wettability is poor on pure copper surface. The Cu-Al-Zn intermetallic compound interface layer exits between Zn-Al filler metal and Cu base metal. When Al content is low in Zn-Al filler metal, the filler metal wettability is poor and the filler metal melting point is low. In the wettability test course, the time is long in which Cu base metal interacts with liquid Zn-Al filler metal. And the Cu-Al-Zn intermetallic compound interface layer grows thick between filler metal and base metal. With the increase of Al content in Zn-Al filler metal, the interaction strengthens between Zn-Al filler metal and Cu base metal. In the wettability test course, the time beocome short in which Cu base metal interacts with liquid Zn-Al filler metal. The Cu-Al-Zn intermetallic compound interface layer gets thin between filler metal and base metal. Meanwhile, Zn-Al filler metal wettability improves on pure copper surface. But the improvement is not remarkable. Its wettablility is still poor on pure copper surface.

Functional Steel Hardness and Wear Improving on a Basis of Phenomena of Grain Boundaries Phase Transition

Based on the phenomena the grain boundaries first-order phase transition in range 0.55 – 0.86 of metal melting point with formation of two-dimensional liquid was elaborated the technology of coatings by synthesis of nitrides using of gaseous nitrogen. It was studied the steel elements for forcing-lift of diesel after nitriding. The creation of a concentration gradient of summary nitrogen (from 1.9 up to 0.5 % at) in a layer of alloy up to 3 mm from a surface results in forming graded coatings with step changes of properties. The mechanical behavior of new tools with high surface resistance to wear are defined of the combination of high hardness (800-1000 Hv[GPa]) of surface coatings (enriched of a nanosize nitrides) with high impact toughness of transitional to matrix layer. The tools life times improved more then 1.5 – 2.5 times.

Atomistic Simulations of the Mechanical Response of Copper/Polybutadiene Joints under Stress

Metal/polymer system joints are widely encountered nowadays in microscopic structures such as displays and microchips. In several critical cases they undergo thermal and mechanical loading, with contact failure due to fracture as a possible consequence. Because of their variety in nature and composition metal/polymer joints have become major challenges for experimental, theoretical, and numerical studies. Here we report on results of molecular dynamics simulations carried out to study the mechanical response of a metal/polymer joint, in this case the Cu/polybutadiene model system. The behavior of Cu and the cross-linked polybutadiene are modeled, respectively, by the Embedded Atom Method (EAM) and the Universal Force Field (UFF). Loading is applied under compression. Different potentials are used to describe the interactions in the metal/polymer interface, which allows us to qualitatively analyze possible mechanisms of failure in these joints, below the metal melting point and above the polymer glass transition temperatures.

Theoretical Investigation of Metal Coating Deposition on Optical Fibers by Freezing Technique. The Model of the Process

Metal-coated fibers are irreplaceable in a multiplicity of uses owing to high hermeticity of the coating and its chemical and thermal stability. At present, the most widespread technique for the metal coating application onto a fiber is a so-called freezing technique, which consists in pulling a silica fiber through a layer of a metal's melt directly in the fiber drawing process. If the fiber temperature is lower than the metal melting point, a certain amount of the melt is frozen on the fiber surface in the form of coating. For this to occur, it is necessary that the duration of the fiber-melt contact did not exceed the time during which the fiber heats up to the metal's melting point; otherwise, the frozen metal will melt again. Because silica glass is poorly wetted with a majority of liquid metals, the coating in the latter case is likely to become discontinuous.

Technique for making hollow central airway casts

We have developed a method for producing rigid hollow casts of the central airways. Woods metal (melting point 70 degrees C) was poured into the airways at the trachea of an excised canine lung air-dried at a transpulmonary pressure of 30 cmH2O. The tissue was dissolved and removed, and the resulting negative cast was carefully trimmed leaving only airways with a diameter of 2 mm or greater. The cast was then electroplated with copper that provided a rigid jacket encasing the Woods metal. Heating this structure to 100 degrees C liquefied the Woods metal allowing the majority of it to flow out. Residual amounts were readily removed by a high-pressure steam hose attached to the trachea. Comparisons were made between airway diameters from in vivo radiographic bronchograms (DB) and direct measurements of the resulting trimmed Woods metal cast (DC). Linear regression analysis of these data indicated a high degree of correlation (DC = 0.98 DB + 0.03, r = 0.99). We concluded that this technique produces positive casts which provide a good representative model of the central airways.