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Architectural and Material Techniques DATE: 11/03/2016 PAGES READ: 60-87 The book presents the methods behind digital fabrication in a very clear way, the method this chapter is focused on is folding. For most people “folding” seems pretty obvious, it is a term often used in design studios and architectural projects and could be considered a design principle. This chapter gives us the full range of what folding stands for, how it can be used and shows clear examples depending in the material employed. The

Although metallurgy and materials science studies dates back many centuries, its scope and popularity remain very little and novel in India. In a country where millions of mechanical, electrical and computer engineers are bred, very few materials engineers are produced. During my freshmen and sophomore year, I had courses in electronics and mechanical technology which blended and integrated mechanical engineering and electrical & electronics engineering with materials science. I was fascinated

Introduction Usually, the original materials are not suitable for some applications. Therefore, to achieve some goals of material, we need to process the original materials. By the heat treatment, cold works, and chemical processes, material processing can change the properties of the original materials (Materials Processing, n.d.). For example, we do different heat treatments to steels to obtain different hardness types of steels. According to Totten, annealing is the process that we heat the steel

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Flexible nanodielectric materials with a high dielectric constant and low dielectric loss have immense potential applications in the modern electronic and electric industry. The use of high aspect ratio fillers is a promising route for achieving high dielectric constant and low loss materials at a low filler volume fraction. However, the poor filler/matrix interfacial adhesion always imposes difficulties in suppressing the dielectric loss of the composites, thus significantly limiting the potential

Hazardous materials can be important in everyday life when properly handled. However, when improperly handled, they can result in injury, death, and destruction as well as have lingering effects that may last for years to come. To address the risk of an uncontrolled hazardous materials release, there must be a coordinated effort to identify, locate, and quantify the hazardous materials in a particular location (Drexel University Safety & Health, 2001). Typically, industry and government agree that

Extensive research has been taking place in generating bioactive restorative materials with a potential for remineralization. [1] Bioactivity refers to apatite-forming ability [2] while biomineralization is the ability to get anchored to the underlying dentin by the formation of a mineral-rich interfacial layer and a tag-like structure extending from the interfacial layer to the dentinal tubules. [3] Biodentine TM (BD) (Septodont, Saint-Maur-des-Fossιs, Creteil, France) and TheraCal LC TM (Bisco

automotive industry’s use of structural composite materials began in the 1950s. Since those early days, it has been demonstrated that composites are lightweight, fatigue resistant and easily molded to shape. In other words, composite structures are seemingly attractive alternative to metals. Not only are composites used in the field of automotive but in all other fields such as aerospace, construction industry, and the entertainment industry. Composite materials have numerous features that led the automotive

INTRODUCTION Graphene is a two-dimensional material (2D), composed of layers of carbon atoms packed into a honeycomb network, has become a sparkling rising star on the horizon of material science in the last several years. Even though GN is the mother of all graphitic forms, including 0D fullerene, 1D carbon nanotubes (CNT) and 3D graphite, which have been intensively studied for decades, not too much attention was paid to GN before. Graphene, a monolayer of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms arranged

Industrial Studies – Project Manufacturing Processes – Glass-Fiber Composite Materials Truck body 2. What would be the design process? Glass-fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) can be designed in many ways depending upon the requirements, specifications and services. Therefore with variety of tasks, it’s properties like temperature range, electrical insulation, resistance to corrosion and abrasion and flammability also varies. A lot of applications of Glass-fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) need good