A review on hot stamping

Large-Scale Fabrication of Boron Nitride Nanosheets and Their Utilization in Polymeric Composites with Improved Thermal and Mechanical Properties

Propulsion system development requires new, more affordable manufacturing techniques and technologies in a constrained budget environment, while future in-space applications will require in-space manufacturing and assembly of parts and systems. Marshall is advancing cuttingedge commercial capabilities in additive and digital manufacturing and applying them to aerospace challenges. The Center is developing the standards by which new manufacturing processes and parts will be tested and qualified. Rapidly evolving digital tools, such as additive manufacturing, are the leading edge of a revolution in the design and manufacture of space systems that enables rapid prototyping and reduces production times. Marshall has unique expertise in leveraging new digital tools, 3D printing, and other advanced manufacturing technologies and applying them to propulsion systems design and other aerospace materials to meet NASA mission and industry needs. Marshall is helping establish the standards and qualifications “from art to part” for the use of these advanced techniques and the parts produced using them in aerospace or elsewhere in the U.S. industrial base.

Additive manufacturing

Drug nanocrystals in the commercial pharmaceutical development process

Enhancing lubricant properties by nanoparticle additives

Effect of Surface Engineered Tool Steel and Lubrication on Aluminium Transfer at High Temperature

Influence of retained austenite on rolling-sliding wear resistance of austempered silicon alloyed steel

Due to new environmental regulations, Pb-free engine bearing materials are becoming more common and there is a need for studying their tribological performance. Under severe operating conditions, failure due to seizure can occur in engine bearings. In this work, seizure behaviour of different multi-layered engine bearing materials has been studied by using a block-on-ring test setup under dry condition. These materials included Al–Sn-based lining with no overlay, bronze lining with polyamide-imide-based overlay containing MoS2 and graphite, bronze lining with two overlays of Al–Sn-based and polyamide-imide-based material, bronze-based lining with Sn-based overlay and bismuth (Bi)-containing bronze with Sn-based overlay. The tests were performed by gradually increasing the load at a specific time interval and in a stepwise manner and at a constant speed under unidirectional dry sliding conditions. The test materials, counter surfaces and the wear debris were analysed using SEM with a view to understand the...

Seizure behaviour of Pb-free engine bearing materials under dry condition:

Abstract Around 1,000 peer-reviewed papers were selected from 3,450 articles published during 2020–2021, and reviewed as the representative advances in tribology research worldwide. The survey highlights the development in lubrication, wear and surface engineering, biotribology, high temperature tribology, and computational tribology, providing a show window of the achievements of recent fundamental and application researches in the field of tribology. 

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A review of advances in tribology in 2020–2021

Since abrasion is a common cause of seal failures, understanding the mechanisms of abrasion of an elastomer in the presence of lubricants is of importance in sealing applications. In this research a block on ring configuration was used to study the influence of lubrication on the two body abrasion of several commonly used sealing elastomers (two acrylonitrile butadiene rubbers, an acrylic rubber and a fluoro rubber). The friction force and the abrasive wear of the samples were measured and the worn surfaces and wear particles were investigated using an optical microscope. The tear strength of the elastomers before and after immersion in monoester oil as well as the oil absorption has been measured. Both scratches (parallel to the direction of sliding) and ridges (perpendicular to the direction of sliding) were observed on the worn surfaces of nitrile rubbers but the surfaces of acrylic and fluoro rubber were characterised by scratches only. The worn surfaces of nitrile rubbers were defined with mo...

Braham Prakash

Papers

Effect of Surface Engineered Tool Steel and Lubrication on Aluminium Transfer at High Temperature

Influence of retained austenite on rolling-sliding wear resistance of austempered silicon alloyed steel

Seizure behaviour of Pb-free engine bearing materials under dry condition:

A review of advances in tribology in 2020–2021

Two body abrasive wear and frictional characteristics of sealing elastomers under unidirectional lubricated sliding conditions