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Among several candidates for nanoenergetic materials and systems, nanoscale reactive multilayer foils (NRMF) or bimetallic nano-laminates are highly promising candidates. They provide the highly desirable pyrotechnical properties of high energy density and reaction sensitivity as well as flexible tunability. They could be useful in various fields of explosive and propellant..... More

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We developed a multi-scale modeling framework using the thermodynamic UW1 database of the Fe-Mn-Ni-Si quaternary system. To obtain input data for the phase-field model, such as mobility and interfacial energy data, we used DICTRA software and the TC-PRISMA package with the commercial TCFE8 and MOBFE3 databases. Using the developed framework,..... More

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A model based on Irwin's approach to elastic-plastic deformation was applied to predict the tensile ductility of a sintered iron. The evaluation of this model using experimental results for porous sintered iron showed that tensile ductility depends not only on the pore volume fraction, but also the pore size and..... More

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The reliability of printed circuit boards (PCB) has emerged as a critical concern as the size of solder bump decreases and current density to solder bump increases by fine pitch formation. The main failure mode of solder bumps is open-circuits due to void formation as intermetallic compounds (IMC) grow, mainly..... More