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In this paper, the cold simultaneous toothing of spur gears has been investigated. This method can be described as a press-rolling process. The influence of gear geometry such as teeth number and the deformation mechanism was investigated by 3D finite-element analysis using forge® software in terms of teeth forming and forming loads evolution. Based on these simulations, the experimental investigations were carried out to obtain a spur gear form with the good quality, using several billet dimensions. The experimental trials and simulations conducted for the spur gear (z = 23 teeth and m = 1.5 mm) showed premises to continuous flow lines formation at the base of the teeth. The maximum pressing force results from the numerical simulation agree with the experimental maximum force recorded.

The paper presents the structural and magnetic properties of a new non-magnetic biaxially textured substrate based on Ni 100-x V x solid-solution for YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-y tape fabrication. The effective atomic magnetic moment monotonously decreases with the vanadium concentration, causing a corresponding decrease of Curie temperature. The Curie temperature reaches the zero value at about 11.5. % of vanadium. The texturing studies revealed that (100)[001] cube texture can be easily developed up to x=11 at. %, by a cold rolling process followed by a recrystallization thermal treatment. The X-ray ω and ϕ scans have demonstrated that the samples have a good out-of-plane and in-plane texture for the whole solubility range, with FWHM of 7° and 11°, respectively. The correlation between the magnetic and structural anisotropy was also studied.

In this paper, we analyze the structural distortions observed by transmission electron microscopy in thin epitaxial SrRuO3 layers used as bottom electrodes in multiferroic coatings onto SrTiO3 substrates for future multiferroic devices. Regardless of the nature and architecture of the multilayer oxides deposited on the top of the SrRuO3 thin films, selected area electron diffraction patterns systematically revealed the presence of faint diffraction spots appearing in forbidden positions for the SrRuO3 orthorhombic structure. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) combined with Geometric Phase Analysis (GPA) evidenced the origin of these forbidden diffraction spots in the presence of structurally disordered nanometric domains in the SrRuO3 bottom layers, resulting from a strain-driven phase transformation. The local high compressive strain (−4% ÷ −5%) measured by GPA in the HRTEM images induces a local orthorhombic to monoclinic phase transition by a cooperative rotation of the RuO6 octahedra. A further confirmation of the origin of the forbidden diffraction spots comes from the simulated diffraction patterns obtained from a monoclinic disordered SrRuO3 structure.