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All melting range alloys are subject to the risk of material-, design- and welding process-specific hot cracking during liquid to solid phase transition. The present study was focused specifically on the influence of additional external loads, e.g. resulting from component welding fabrication, on weld pool near displacements and on the associated structural hot cracking behaviour. Respective experimental investigations were conducted using the controlled tensile weldability test enabling defined additional tensile load imposition during welding. Depending on external loading, the local weld pool near transverse displacements dy and transverse displacement rates dy/dt were determined in situ during welding with the help of the digital image correlation technique. The measurements allowed time and spatially resolved identification of hot crack critical transverse displacements and displacement rates.
The properties of the encapsulant are critical to the long-term performance of photovoltaic (PV) modules under the influence of sunlight including UV, elevated temperature, humidity and diffusion of oxygen. Encapsulation process represents a bout 40% of the whole PV module cost. The introduction of new non-EVA encapsulant material type "Low-Cost, High-Performance" should provide a solution to outdoor yellowing degradation problems. The emerging encapsulant materials exhibit a good compatibility with emerging PV solar cells for long term durability. This new generation of encapsulant materials has the advantage to improve e the PV module performances and long term durability for specific climate like desert regions. This scientific contribution presents an overview of the different encapsulant materials currently on the market, the general requirements of the emerging encapsulant materials and characterizations techniques for degradation, diagnostic and reliability lifetime estimation in the framework of Algerian renewable energy strategy.