Background: Surgical mortality data are collected routinely in high-income countries, yet virtually no low-or middle-income countries have outcome surveillance in place. The aim was prospectively to collect worldwide mortality data following emergency abdominal surgery, comparing findings across countries with a low, middle or high Human Development Index (HDI).Methods: This was a prospective, multicentre, cohort study. Self-selected hospitals performing emergency surgery submitted prespecified data for consecutive patients from at least one 2-week interval during July to December 2014. Postoperative mortality was analysed by hierarchical multivariable logistic regression.
Fluxing and tinning processes are usually used to improve the adhesion of the Al bearing layer on steel substrate. Commonly after grinding the surface of the steel substrate, it is briefly immersed in flux solution followed by coating steel surface with either pure Sn (in a process known as tinning process) to promote adhesion between the bearing alloys and the steel. The current work is designated to investigate the influence of tinning material for carbon steel substrate using simultaneous fluxing and tinning mixture technique. The influence of three different tinning materials on the interface structure and shear strength of cast Al-Sn bearing alloy/steel bimetal composite is evaluated for compound casting technique. Sn pure, Sn-3Cu alloy and Sn-7.5Sb-3Cu powder alloys mixed individually with flux are used as tinning materials. It was found that using of different tinning materials have a significant effect on the bonding of interface area and the shear strength of interface as well. The shear strength of the bimetal fabricated using tinning mixture contains Sn+3% Cu with flux significantly increases by 59% compared to that fabricated using tinning mixture contains pure Sn. This increment is mainly due to the improvements of the interface bond structure and lower percentage of tin oxides. Such kind of phenomena can be explained in the fact that Cu minimizes the possibility of Sn oxidation during tinning process and during preheating of tinned steel substrate before casting of Al12Sn4Si1Cu bearing alloy as well.
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