Long-Term Active Corrosion Protection of Damaged Coated-AA2024-T3 by Embedded Electrospun Inhibiting Nanonetworks

In this work, a new concept is introduced for active corrosion protection at damaged sites aiming at overcoming existing limitations of currently proposed strategies based on dispersed inhibitor-loaded nanocontainers in coatings. The underlying principle is based on the formation of low-density and/or humidity responsive interconnected paths...

Cluster Expansions for Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Multicomponent Alloys

Cluster expansions have proven a very useful tool to model thermodynamics and kinetics of substitutional alloys in metallic, ionic, and even covalently bonded systems. Cluster expansions are usually obtained with the structure inversion method in which the energies, or other relevant property, of a set of structures are used to obtain expansion...

Cold cracking in DC-cast high strength aluminum alloy ingots: An intrinsic problem intensified by casting process parameters

For almost half a century the catastrophic failure of direct chill (DC) cast high strength aluminum alloys has been challenging the production of sound ingots. To overcome this problem, a criterion is required that can assist the researchers in predicting the critical conditions which facilitate the catastrophic failure of the ingots. This could...

Cold cracking development in AA7050 DC-cast billets under various casting conditions