Mohammad Reza Aboutalebi

Bio: Mohammad Reza Aboutalebi is an academic researcher from Iran University of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Combustion & Strain rate. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 105 publications receiving 1032 citations. Previous affiliations of Mohammad Reza Aboutalebi include Islamic Azad University.

Finite element simulation of residual stress and failure mechanism in plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings using actual microstructure as the representative volume

Abstract: The residual stress and failure mode of thermal barrier coating (TBC) containing metallic bond coat (BC) and ceramic top coat (TC) with and without thermally grown oxide (TGO) were predicted using a micromechanical-based finite element method (FEM). Actual microstructures of the TBC taken by a scanning electron microscope (SEM) were utilized as the representative volume elements (RVEs) in the computational model. Failure mode of the representative volume was numerically simulated as thermal stress localization during thermal cycle. Computations were done on the representative volume to quantitatively assess the effects of thermal and mechanical properties of the TBC constituents as well as the presence of TGO on the macroscopic mechanical response of the TBC. Comparisons of computed results with experiments verified that, the computational method can successfully predict residual stress and crack initiation mode of the studied thermal barrier coatings. Moreover, based on the computed results, both shear and normal failure mode occur in the thermal barrier coating which is in good agreement with experimental findings.

I and i

Abstract: There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality. Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

Face-selective electrostatic control of hydrothermal zinc oxide nanowire synthesis

Abstract: Rational control over the morphology and the functional properties of inorganic nanostructures has been a long-standing goal in the development of bottom-up device fabrication processes. We report that the geometry of hydrothermally grown zinc oxide nanowires can be tuned from platelets to needles, covering more than three orders of magnitude in aspect ratio (~0.1-100). We introduce a classical thermodynamics-based model to explain the underlying growth inhibition mechanism by means of the competitive and face-selective electrostatic adsorption of non-zinc complex ions at alkaline conditions. The performance of these nanowires rivals that of vapour-phase-grown nanostructures, and their low-temperature synthesis (<60 °C) is favourable to the integration and in situ fabrication of complex and polymer-supported devices. We illustrate this capability by fabricating an all-inorganic light-emitting diode in a polymeric microfluidic manifold. Our findings indicate that electrostatic interactions in aqueous crystal growth may be systematically manipulated to synthesize nanostructures and devices with enhanced structural control.