Effect of High-Temperature Structure and Diffusion on Grain-Boundary Diffusion Creep in fcc Metals

Molecular dynamics simulations of high-energy twist and tilt bicrystals of fcc palladium reveal a universal, liquid-like, isotropic high-temperature diffusion mechanism, characterized by a rather low self-diffusion activation energy that is independent of the boundary type or misorientation. Medium-energy grain boundaries exhibit the same behavior at the highest temperatures; however, at lower temperatures the diffusion mechanism becomes anisotropic, with a higher, misorientation-dependent activation energy. Our simulations demonstrate that the lower activation energy at elevated temperatures is caused by a structural transition, from a solid boundary structure at low temperatures to a liquid-like structure at high temperatures. We demonstrate that the existence of such a transition has important consequences for diffusion creep in nanocrystalline fcc metals. In particular, our simulations reveal that in the absence of grain growth, nanocrystalline microstructures containing only high-energy grain boundaries exhibit steady-state diffusion creep with a creep rate that agrees quantitatively with that given by the Coble-creep formula. Remarkably, the activation energy for the high-temperature creep rate is the same as that characterizing the universal high-temperature diffusion in high-energy energy bicrystalline grain boundaries.     

Quantum Logic and Non-Commutative Geometry

We propose a general scheme for the “logic” of elementary propositions of physical systems, encompassing both classical and quantum cases, in the framework given by Non-Commutative Geometry. It involves Baire^*-algebras, the non-commutative version of measurable functions, arising as envelope of the C ^*-algebras identifying the topology of the (non-commutative) phase space. We outline some consequences of this proposal in different physical systems. This approach in particular avoids some problematic features appearing in the definition of physical states in the standard (W ^*-)algebraic approach to classical mechanics.     

Luminescence characteristics of Eu2+ activated Ca2SiO4 Sr2SiO4 and Ba2SiO4 phosphorsfor white LEDs

<正>This paper investigates the luminescence characteristics of Eu²⁺ activated Ca₂SiO₄,Sr₂SiO₄ and Ba₂SiO₄ phosphors. Two emission bands are assigned to the f-d transitions of Eu²⁺ ions doped into two different cation sites in host lattices,and show different emission colour variation caused by substituting M²⁺ cations for smaller cations.This behaviour is discussed in terms of two competing factors of the crystal field strength and covalence.These phosphors with maximum excitation of around 370 nm can be applied as a colour-tunable phosphor for light-emitting diodes（LEDs） based on ultraviolet chip/phosphor technology.     

Study of cerebrovascular reserve capacity by magnetic resonance perfusion weighted imaging and photoacoustic imaging

The aim of this work was to assess the feasibility of photoacoustic imaging (PAI) and MR imaging for evaluating the cerebrovascular reserve capacity (CVRC) in animal models. Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats and spontaneous hypertensive rats (SHR) were used for MRI. BALB/c mice were used for PAI. MR perfusion weighted imaging (PWI) was performed on a 1.5-T whole-body MR system before and after oral administration of acetazolamide (ACZ). The region of interest (ROI) was chosen in the bilateral frontal lobe for measuring regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF), regional cerebral blood volume (rCBV) and mean transit time (MTT). The vessel diameters of the superficial layer of the cortex were measured by PAI in the resting and ACZ-activated mice. The results showed that there was a statistical difference between the resting and ACZ-activated animals in vessel diameter, rCBV and rCBF values. The increments in rCBV and rCBF of WKY rats between resting and ACZ test states were significantly higher than that of SHR. The pathological findings of small arterial walls and lumen of the brain were also different between WKY and SHR rats. The diameters of blood vessels in the superficial layer of the brain measured by PAI were enlarged after the ACZ tolerance test. This result was also observed in the MRI CBV map, where the signal of the vessel in the superficial layer of the cortex became redder after the ACZ stimulation, suggesting the increase of blood flow. It can be concluded that MR PWI and PAI combined with the ACZ test might be useful in evaluating the CVRC and revealing the pathologic changes in cerebral vessels.     

Hydrogen Bonding Character Between the Glycine and BF4-

在B3LYP/6-31+G^*水平上研究BF₄^-与甘氨酸间氢键作用特征,并在B3LYP/6-311++G^**水平上计算单点能. 对二聚物几何结构、能量、氢键成键特征进行分析. 分子中的原子拓扑分析表明氢键成键原子间存在(3,-1)关键点,电子密度和Laplacian量落在氢键范围内. 进一步对氢键形成导致H原子净电荷、偶极矩、能量及体积的改变进行系统分析.     

Small-scale fracture toughness of ceramic thin films: the effects of specimen geometry,ion beam notching and high temperature on chromium nitride toughness evaluation

For the implementation of thin ceramic hard coatings into intensive application environments, the fracture toughness is a particularly important material design parameter. Characterisation of the fracture toughness of small-scale specimens has been a topic of great debate, due to size effects, plasticity, residual stress effects and the influence of ion penetration from the sample fabrication process. In this work, several different small-scale fracture toughness geometries (single-beam cantilever, double-beam cantilever and micro-pillar splitting) were compared, fabricated from a thin physical vapour-deposited ceramic film using a focused ion beam source, and then the effect of the gallium-milled notch on mode I toughness quantification investigated. It was found that notching using a focused gallium source influences small-scale toughness measurements and can lead to an overestimation of the fracture toughness values for chromium nitride (CrN) thin films. The effects of gallium ion irradiation were further studied by performing the first small-scale high-temperature toughness measurements within the scanning electron microscope, with the consequence that annealing at high temperatures allows for diffusion of the gallium to grain boundaries promoting embrittlement in small-scale CrN samples. This work highlights the sensitivity of some materials to gallium ion penetration effects, and the profound effect that it can have on fracture toughness evaluation.     

Comparison of time dependent fracture in viscoelastic and ductile solids

Effects of two parameters on enhancement of the time-dependent fracture manifested by a slow stable crack propagation that precedes catastrophic failure in ductile materials have been studied. One of these parameters is related to the material ductility (ρ) and the other describes the geometry (roughness) of crack surface and is measured by the degree of fractality represented by the fractal exponent α, or — equivalently — by the Hausdorff fractal dimension D for a self-similar crack. These studies of early stages of ductile fracture are preceded by a brief summary of modeling the phenomenon of delayed fracture in polymeric materials, sometimes referred to as “creep rupture”. Despite different physical mechanisms involved in the preliminary stable crack extension and despite different mathematical representations, a remarkable similarity of the end results pertaining to the two phenomena of slow crack growth that occur either in viscoelastic or ductile media has been demonstrated.     

Eu~(3+)作探针研究铋铕共掺硼硅酸盐玻璃光学特性

利用高温烧结法制备了铕/铋铕共掺硼硅酸盐玻璃系列样品,测量了样品的激发光谱、发射光谱和声子边带谱,利用Eu3+离子作为探针进一步研究了敏化剂Bi3+的掺入对Eu3+发光的影响.结果表明:本文制作的玻璃样品的电子-声子耦合系数比以往报道过的硼铅等玻璃材料的值都要小,但在硼硅酸盐玻璃中掺入Bi3+会使Eu3+的无辐射跃迁概率增加;Bi3+对Eu3+有敏化作用,Bi3+的掺入使材料的共价性增强,对称性降低,这又使得Eu3+的发光整体变强.所以,在硼硅酸盐玻璃体系中,Eu3+发光的增强不仅仅是由于Bi3+对Eu3+的能量传递,而是以上各因素综合作用的结果.     

Intermediate-temperature embrittlement of Cu bicrystals with dispersed Fe particles

The temperature dependence of deformation and fracture behavior of orientation-controlled Cu bicrystals with dispersed Fe precipitate particles was investigated. Deformation and fracture behavior at an intermediatetemperature range showed clear aging-time dependency: With increase in aging time, grain-boundary fracture became more pronounced, although fracture strain remained practically the same. The grain-boundary character and strain rate also affected the mechanical properties: With increase in the misorientation angle between the two crystals and with decrease in strain rate, grain-boundary fracture started to occur more easily at lower temperatures associated with clearer intermediate-temperature embrittlement. These experimental results were analyzed by incorporating various phenomena such as grain-boundary sliding, dynamic precipitation, growth of grain-boundary particles, and stress relaxation induced by interfacial diffusion between grain-boundary particles and the Cu matrix.     

Viscoelastic Models for Passive Arterial Wall Dynamics

This paper compares two models predicting elastic and viscoelastic properties of large arteries. Models compared include a Kelvin (standard linear) model and an extended 2-term exponential linear viscoelastic model. Models were validated against in-vitro data from the ovine thoracic descending aorta and the carotid artery. Measurements of blood pressure data were used as an input to predict vessel cross-sectional area. Material properties were predicted by estimating a set of model parameters that minimize the difference between computed and measured values of the cross-sectional area. The model comparison was carried out using generalized analysis of variance type statistical tests. For the thoracic descending aorta, results suggest that the extended 2-term exponential model does not improve the ability to predict the observed cross-sectional area data, while for the carotid artery the extended model does statistically provide an improved fit to the data. This is in agreement with the fact that the aorta displays more complex nonlinear viscoelastic dynamics, while the stiffer carotid artery mainly displays simpler linear viscoelastic dynamics.     

线偏振周期量级脉冲中H-强场光解离的不对称性

用数值求解含时薛定谔方程的方法研究了线偏振周期量级激光场中氢负离子光解离的不对称性．通过计算随载波-包络(CE)相位变化的光电子不对称参数,证实光电子分布的不对称性存在于氢负离子光解离过程中．在相同条件下,氢负离子最大不对称参数与氢原子的相等,而与之相应的CE相位却不相同,从而呈现出CE相位的移动．通过比较氢原子和无外场电子发现这种相位的移动敏锐受到库仑场的影响．进一步计算了在这些特殊CE相位上的瞬时电离率直观地呈现出周期量级脉冲光解离的不对称性.     

The colour wheels of art, perception, science and physiology

Colour is not the domain of any one discipline be it art, philosophy, psychology or science. Each discipline has its own colour wheel and this presentation examines the origins and philosophies behind the colour circles of Art, Perception, Science and Physiology (after image) with reference to Aristotle, Robert Boyle, Leonardo da Vinci, Goethe, Ewald Hering and Albert Munsell.The paper analyses and discusses the differences between the four colour wheels using the Natural Colour System® notation as the reference for hue (the position of colours within each of the colour wheels). Examination of the colour wheels shows the dominance of blue in the wheels of art, science and physiology particularly at the expense of green.This paper does not consider the three-dimensionality of colour space its goal was to review the hue of a colour with regard to its position on the respective colour wheels.     

Magnetic resonance imaging of the abdominal aorta and iliac vessels using combined 3-D gadolinium-enhanced MRA and gadolinium-enhanced fat-suppressed spoiled gradient echo sequences.

This study evaluates a combined protocol consisting of breath hold immediate post gadolinium 3-D gradient echo MR angiography and blood pool phase gadolinium-enhanced breath hold 2-D fat-suppressed spoiled gradient echo (SGE) sequences in the examination of diseases of the abdominal aorta and iliac vessels. Thirty-two patients with suspected disease of the abdominal aorta, major aortic branches, or iliac vessels underwent MR angiographic study from January 1996 to January 1997. Examinations were performed on a 1.5 T MR imager using 2-D axial SGE, coronal 3-D fast imaging in steady state precession (3-D FISP) following bolus administration of 40 mL of gadolinium, and axial and coronal blood pool phase gadolinium-enhanced fat-suppressed SGE. Post-processed data, including 3-D reconstructions using maximum intensity projection (MIP), targeted MIP, and multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) were evaluated. MR findings in all patients were correlated as follows: surgery (13 patients), angiography (11 patients), contrast enhanced CT (3 patients), non-contrast enhanced CT (1 patient), color doppler US (2 patients), and previous MR study (2 patients). MR findings correlated closely with findings at surgery or other imaging studies in 31 of 32 patients. One patient had renal artery occlusion that was misinterpreted as mild stenosis. The following vascular diseases were present: aneurysm disease [10 patients: aortic aneurysm (8 patients), inflammatory aneurysm (2 patients)], thoracoabdominal aortic dissection (2 patients), arteriovenous fistula (1 patient), stenoses and/or occlusion of the abdominal aorta, major aortic branches and iliac vessels [12 patients: stenoses and/or occlusion of the abdominal aorta with stenoses of the iliac vessels (9 patients), renal artery stenosis (2 patients), occlusion of the abdominal aorta (1 patient)], and occluded artery to pancreatic transplant artery (1 patient). Five patients had normal studies. The 3-D FISP technique accurately defined the luminal contours of vessels, allowing precise depiction of vessel stenosis (i.e., renal artery stenosis or common iliac artery stenosis) and clear demonstration of relationship of aortic branch vessels (i.e., renal arteries) to underlying aortic pathology (i.e., aortic aneurysm or dissection). Blood pool phase gadolinium-enhanced fat-suppressed SGE images were useful in the evaluation of the external surface of vessel walls, and providing accurate measurement of aneurysm diameter and other associated vascular entities (i.e., inflammatory aneurysm, left-sided IVC). Targeted MIP or MPR reconstruction were important for assessing stenoses of medium sized vessels such as renal arteries and branches of the iliac arteries, and for identifying accessory arteries. The combination of immediate post gadolinium 3-D FISP and blood pool phase gadolinium-enhanced fat-suppressed SGE is useful in the evaluation of the abdominal aorta, major aortic branches and iliac vessels. Immediate post gadolinium 3-D FISP images provides diagnostically useful information regarding vessel luminal contour, while blood pool phase gadolinium-enhanced fat-suppressed SGE provides ancillary information on the vessel wall and surrounding tissue.     

In situ synchrotron radiation topography of NaCI during high temperature creep

High temperature plastic deformation is associated with large changes in the microstructure of single crystals. To observe this microstructure during the creep test, we have performed X-ray reflection topography, taking advantage of the high intensity of the synchrotron radiation. A special creep machine was designed which permits in situ observation.

Creep tests and microstructural observations were performed on NaCl single crystals compressed along <100> at about 600°C. As soon as the deformation started, subgrains appeared within the crystal, independent of the initial microstructure. Migration of the subboundaries during transient creep is followed by stabilization during steady state creep where a well developed subgrain structure keeps constant while new appearing subboundaries migrate. Misorientation between sub-grains increases progressively although more slowly in the steady state creep. A correlation between the microstructure evolution and the changes in the creep curves has been attempted.     

Resonances in the Rigged Hilbert Space and Lax-Phillips Scattering Theory

The rigged Hilbert space formalism of quantum mechanics provides a framework in which one can identify resonance states and obtain the typical exponential decay law. However, there remain questions of the interpretation and extraction of physical information through the calculation of expectation values of observables. The Lax-Phillips scattering theory provides a mathematical construction in which resonances are assigned with states in a Hilbert space, thus no such difficulties arise. The original Lax-Phillips structure is inapplicable within standard nonrelativistic quantum theory. Through the powerful theory of H ^p spaces certain relations between the two theories are uncovered, which suggest that a search for a unifying framework might prove useful.     

高温高压下金刚石单晶生长过程的声发射动态特征

采用声发射技术对高温高压下人造金刚石单晶的生长过程进行了动态检测。结合合成压块的断口形貌,对金刚石单晶生长过程对应的主要声发射参数进行了分析。结果表明,声发射信号的能量计数、振铃计数、幅度和上升时间等特征参数能客观反映金刚石单晶在高温高压下的动态生长规律,为研究金刚石单晶的生长机制提供了重要的实验依据。     

On the durable critic load in creep buckling of viscoelastic laminated plates and circular cylindrical shells

Based on the first order shear deformation theory and classic buckling theory, the paper investigates the creep buckling behavior of viscoelastic laminated plates and laminated circular cylindrical shells. The analysis and elaboration of both instantaneous elastic critic load and durable critic load are emphasized. The buckling load in phase domain is obtained from governing equations by applying Laplace transform, and the instantaneous elastic critic load and durable critic load are determined according to the extreme value theorem for inverse Laplace transform. It is shown that viscoelastic approach and quasi-elastic approach yield identical solutions for these two types of critic load respectively. A transverse disturbance model is developed to give the same mechanics significance of durable critic load as that of elastic critic load. Two types of critic loads of boron/epoxy composite laminated plates and circular cylindrical shells are discussed in detail individually, and the influencing factors to induce creep buckling are revealed by examining the viscoelasticity incorporated in transverse shear deformation and in-plane flexibility.     

A generalised model of hydrogen diffusion in metals with multiple trap types

Continuum modelling of hydrogen diffusion in metals, which accounts for both trapping and an imposed force field, is revisited. A generalised model of hydrogen diffusion and trapping is developed as a continuous interpretation of the discrete random-walk theory. A system of nonlinear equations describing the phenomenon of diffusion with multiple types of traps is derived without the assumption of a local equilibrium among hydrogen populations in dissimilar positions. Lattice-trap interchange kinetics can degenerate into local equilibrium as a limit case. Moreover, certain terms in general equations may be negligible in specific situations. By removing these terms, known particularised models of hydrogen diffusion and trapping are recovered. Determining the terms, which are disregarded in reduced models, enables a straightforward assessment of the applicability of these models. The advantages and limitations of particularised models applied to hydrogen embrittlement analyses are discussed.     

UV, 1H NMR Studies and a Semiempirical Mo Calculations of Some Substituted Phenylthiomethyl Benzoic Acid Derivatives

The effect of substituents on the spectral behavior of some arylthiomethyl benzoic acid derivatives, the corresponding sulfoxides and sulfones were studied. The chemical shifts of ortho hydrogen of benzyl moieties gave linear correlations with Hammett constants for acid sulfides and concave curves for sulfide esters. The effect of substituents on the conformation of sulfides were discussed.     

Classical systems can be contextual too: Analogue of the Mermin–Peres square

Contextuality lays at the heart of quantum mechanics. In the prevailing opinion it is considered as a signature of “quantumness” that classical theories lack. However, this assertion is only partially justified. Although contextuality is certainly true of quantum mechanics, it cannot be taken by itself as discriminating against classical theories. Here we consider a representative example of contextual behaviour, the so-called Mermin–Peres square, and present a discrete toy model of a bipartite system which reproduces the pattern of quantum predictions that leads to contradiction with the assumption of non-contextuality. This illustrates that quantum-like contextual effects have their analogues within classical models with epistemic constraints such as limited information gain and measurement disturbance.