Simultaneously estimating the thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of a poorly conducting solid material using single surface measurements.

This paper presents a new experimental method that simultaneously obtains the thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of a solid. This technique uses a new surface probe with a resistance heater, two thermocouples, and a heat flux sensor. In this method, part of the top of the sample is heated, and two regions on this surface (one heated and the other not) are used to estimate the thermal properties of the material.

Surface parameters of as-built additive manufactured metal for intraosseous dental implants.

Statement Of Problem: To improve osseointegration, current machined implants are submitted to different surface treatments such as airborne-particle abrasion and acid etching. Although additive manufacturing has allowed the fabrication of implants with custom design, porosity, and roughness, whether good osseointegration can be achieved without subsequent surface treatments is still unclear.

Purpose: The purpose of this in vitro study was to investigate the feasibility of using additive manufacturing technology for dental implants without the use of subsequent surface treatments.

Breast tumor localization using skin surface temperatures from a 2D anatomic model without knowledge of the thermophysical properties.

Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer among women after nonmelanoma skin cancer. Use of mammography, the main method to diagnose the disease, has several limitations in parts of the population. The primary goal of this work was to detect and localize the geometric centers of mammary tumors using only superficial temperatures of the breast skin.

Machine Learning and Infrared Thermography for Fiber Orientation Assessment on Randomly-Oriented Strands Parts.

The use of fiber reinforced materials such as randomly-oriented strands has grown in recent years, especially for manufacturing of aerospace composite structures. This growth is mainly due to their advantageous properties: they are lighter and more resistant to corrosion when compared to metals and are more easily shaped than continuous fiber composites. The resistance and stiffness of these materials are directly related to their fiber orientation.