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Novelda Stone: widely used within the Spanish architectural heritage

Novelda Stone is a calcareous rock, of the biocalcarenite type. It is extracted from the «Vinalopó Medio» area (Alicante, eastern Spain). Novelda stone is known as construction material from the 13th century. From final of the 19th century until the present time, it has been used in Madrid, Valencia and Alicante. In t…

Ornamental sandstones used in Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca: petrographic and chemical characterization of the quarry materials

Petrographic and chemical study of the Ciudad Rodrigo (province of Salamanca, Spain) sandstones reveals the existence of several types of stone (Red, Brown, Striped, Nodular and White). To some extent all of them have been used in the construction of the historical part of this city. The proximity of the quarries to t…

An analytical comparison of two commercial consolidating products applied to eocene sandstones from 16th and 19th century monuments in San Sehastián, northern Spain

The conservation of buildings in the Basque Country made of Eocene sandstone is somewhat problematical, because this type of rock is relatively unstable. This instability is due to the variable content of carbonate cement (0-28%) and the presence of K-feldspar grains (1-13%) which appear to have been dissolved by both…

Modeling Mechanical Properties Of Knitted Fabric Composites - Part I: Overview And Geometric Description

Modeling Mechanical Properties of Knitted Fabric Composites - Part III: Applications

Fractomechanical Properties of As-Cast and Austempered SG Cast Iron Between -40 °C and +20 °C

The spheroidal graphite (SG) cast iron fractomechanical response varies with the test temperature and with the microstructure parameters. In the present paper, we analyze this variation performing fractomechanical tests in a temperature range from -40°C to +20°C, doing also Charpy and tensile tests for material charac…

Modeling Mechanical Properties of Knitted Fabric Composites-Part II: Theoretical Description

Determination of iron sulphides in roofing slates from the north west of Spain

The most important production of roofing slates in the world is quarried from the Ordovician formations of the Truchas Syncline, which have the largest amount of working quarries. Roofing slates, sometimes, have crystallized iron sulphides such as pyrite, pyrrhotite and other minerals. These iron sulphides oxidise and…

Kinetic study of a grinding system in a cuban cement factory

A kinetic study realized in a moulding system in a cement factory ("Palmarito de Cauto" Santiago de Cuba) is presented. This objective of this study is the production of a pozzolonic cement PZ-250 with an addition until 40% of pozzolan. The present paper confirms the satisfactory predictions and permits to recommend t…

Effect of a Shot Peening Pre Treatment on the Fatigue Behaviour of Hard Chromium on Electroless Nickel Interlayer Coated AISI 4340 Aeronautical Steel

Multiple layer systems of coatings are considered to have larger resistance to crack propagation in comparison to coatings with simple layer. With regard to fatigue, it is possible to improve the resistance of a component with the application of shot peening treatment, whose compressive residual stresses delay or elim…

Determination of CTOD C in Fibre Metal Laminates by ASTM and Schwalbe Methods

Fibre Metal Laminates (FMLs) have arisen as a demand of the aeronautical industry to use thin sheets with high resistance to fatigue crack growth, high damage tolerance, corrosion resistance and high specific strength. Considering these requirements, FMLs are an advantageous choice when compared to metal alloys curren…

Editorial

Corrigendum: F. García-Garmilla, I. Rodríguez Maribona, M. Cano, M. Zalbide, J. A. Ibáñez-Gómez, E. Osa-Chans, S. Garín (2002), Materiales de Construcción, Vol 52, No 266: 12

Erratum

Calculo de Parámetros Electrónicos Para el Grafito Bernal

Using ab-initio calculation, we have computed different electronic parameters associated with the transport coefficients of graphite Bernal. Software CRYSTAL¹ was used with a Pople standard STO- 21G* basis set. Different hamiltonians were tested, choosing a restricted Hartree-Fock one, because it generated the best qu…

Estimation of the Plain High-Cycle Fatigue Propagation Resistance in Steels

In this work a method to estimate the high cyclic fatigue propagation life of steel specimens under constant loading is presented. This method is based in experimental evidence that the fatigue limit represents the threshold stress for the propagation of nucleated cracks, so that both the fatigue limit and the fatigue…

Experimental and Numerical Investigation Into Metallocene Polymer Melt Flow in Film Blowing Dies

A frequent problem in the production of metallocene linear low-density polyethylene (mLLDPE) films is the occur-rence of flow instabilities, e.g. sharkskin, or degradation of material, which limit the production rate and decrease the product quality. If such problems arise, the question is what causes these phenomena…

Rheological Interpretation of the Slump Test

We examine the validity of the slump test for predicting the yield stress of polymeric suspensions and mineral suspensions. First we propose a modification of this test: in order to make measurements on fluids with high yield stress (of the order of several hundreds of Pascal) we add a mass at the sample top. From det…

The Inlet Engine Valves Grinding Using Different Types of Cutting Fluids and Grinding Wheels

In this paper an experimental research is presented in which different types of cutting fluids (a cutting oil and three different types of soluble oils) and grinding wheels (alumina and vitrified CBN) were tested in the inlet engine valves grinding. As evaluation parameters the workpiece residual stress and the grindi…