Effects of Microstructural Defects on Ion-Irradiated Type-316 Stainless Steel

Microstructure defects play a very important role in the swelling of irradiated stainless steel. This work is a parametric study of the effects of microstructural defects on the swelling of ion-irradiated steel. For simplicity, vacancy loop effects were neglected. Cold working was found to play a complicated role in the swelling behavior. On one hand, it increase the bias to interstitial absorption due to the increase in dislocation density. On the other hand, it decreases the total flux of point defects to voids by the decrease of the point defect concentrations. Grain size has also a strong effect on swelling. It was found that large gain sizes produces higher swelling and vise versa, i.e. the larger the surface of grain boundaries the less the irradiation-produced swelling. Similar effects were found for precipitates.     

Critical ruptures

The fracture of materials is a catastrophic phenomenon of considerable technological and scientific importance. Here, we analysed experiments designed for industrial applications in order to test the concept that, in heterogeneous materials such as fiber composites, rocks, concrete under compression and materials with large distributed residual stresses, rupture is a genuine critical point, i.e., the culmination of a self-organization of damage and cracking characterized by power law signatures. Specifically, we analyse the acoustic emissions recorded during the pressurisation of spherical tanks of kevlar or carbon fibers pre-impregnated in a resin matrix wrapped up around a thin metallic liner (steel or titanium) fabricated and instrumented by Aérospatiale-Matra Inc. These experiments are performed as part of a routine industrial procedure which tests the quality of the tanks prior to shipment. We find that the seven acoustic emission recordings of seven pressure tanks which was brought to rupture exhibit clear acceleration in agreement with a power law “divergence” expected from the critical point theory. In addition, we find strong evidence of log-periodic corrections that quantify the intermittent succession of accelerating bursts and quiescent phases of the acoustic emissions on the approach to rupture. An improved model accounting for the cross-over from the non-critical to the critical region close to the rupture point exhibits interesting predictive potential. Received 6 July 2000     

The Smoluchowski limit for a simple mechanical model

We consider a vertical stick constantly accelerated along thex-axis by a forceF and which elastically collides with point particles of the same mass (atoms). The atoms are initially Poisson distributed and are allowed to have four velocities only. It is shown that under suitable scaling of the system the displacementQ(t) of the stick satisfies a nontrivial CLT:Q(t)=vFt+D ^1/2 W(t) (Smoluchowski equation), where the values ofv andD depend on the fact that one atom may collide several times.     

New results for diffusion in Lorentz lattice gas cellular automata

New calculations to over ten million time steps have revealed a more complex diffusive behavior than previously reported of a point particle on a square and triangular lattice randomly occupied by mirror or rotator scatterers. For the square lattice fully occupied by mirrors where extended closed particle orbits occur, anomalous diffusion was still found. However, for a not fully occupied lattice the superdiffusion, first noticed by Owczarek and Prellberg for a particular concentration, obtains for all concentrations. For the square lattice occupied by rotators and the triangular lattice occupied by mirrors or rotators, an absence of diffusion (trapping) was found for all concentrations, except on critical lines, where anomalous diffusion (extended closed orbits) occurs and hyperscaling holds for all closed orbits withuniversal exponentsd _f =7/4 and =15/7. Only one point on these critical lines can be related to a corresponding percolation problem. The questions arise therefore whether the other critical points can be mapped onto a new percolation-like problem and of the dynamical significance of hyperscaling.     

低熔点微晶封接玻璃的研究

系统地研究了Ｂ２Ｏ３－ＺｎＯ－ＰｂＯ－ＳｉＯ２系统玻璃的组成与性能，给出玻璃配方与其物化性能测试结果，并就晶核剂以及部分成分对低熔点微晶封接玻璃性能的影响进行了讨论，封接玻璃已广泛地用于微光像增强器，激光器，氙灯，湿敏电阻器等金属与金属，金属与玻璃，玻璃与玻璃，玻璃与陶瓷的封接。     

电容温度传感器的实验研究

从液氮温度到水的沸点温度范围内,测量了介质分别为钽,涤纶,陶瓷,玻璃釉和陶瓷独石一体化结构的商用固体电容器的电容量-温度之间的关系.拟合测量结果表明,独石陶瓷电容器在正温度段具有较好的线性响应(-10pF/℃),灵敏度(0.1 ℃)和精确度(标准差为0.016);而涤纶电容器在负温度段的特性较好( 17pF/℃,0.06 ℃和0.01).此外,在约0.5特斯拉的恒定磁场作用下,无论在正或负温度段,上述测得的电容量-温度关系几乎不受影响.因此,本研究对开发抗强电磁场,自加热效应小或导热系数小的低温测温器具有较大的参考价值.     

探究轻质塑料桶在尖端附近的旋转现象

基于轻质塑料桶在尖端放电时旋转方向的不一致现象提出问题,利用酒精灯火焰来显示带电粒子的流动方向,并探究在接地尖端附近粒子运动的异常现象。实验发现,接地端也存在放电现象。     

有限点方法研究

在二维散乱离散点集上研究一类无网格方法——有限点方法(Finite Point Method,简称FPM),建立方法的基础.采用方向微商和方向差商讨论有限点方法,建立各阶各方向微商间的关系式.利用这些关系式,根据被逼近点的邻点数目差异,分别建立数值方向微商的五点公式及少点(两点、三点、四点)公式;研究五点公式的可解性条件与可允许邻点集;获得典型微分算子的数值方向微商公式等.理论分析和数值试验表明,随着邻点数目的增加,相应数值公式的逼近精度随之提高.这类近似公式不仅为在散乱离散点集上构造各类偏微分方程的格式奠定了基础,同时,也可应用于偏微分方程非结构网格计算方法,提高方法的精度.     

磁共振成像谱仪梯度波形分析

梯度是磁共振成像（MRI）的关键环节.通过采集谱仪梯度波形信号并进行分析,提取出各通道波形的特征点,从而有助于快速准确地判断谱仪梯度硬件电路或脉冲序列编写是否存在问题.采用虚拟仪器LabVIEW软件控制高速采集卡DAQ-2005设计实现多路采集系统,对谱仪的梯度输出进行采集.通过对波形数据进行直方图统计、滤波、差分计算等分析,提取出波形的特征点,这些特征点包含时间与幅度信息.使用实验室自主研发的谱仪进行了多次实验,对该方法进行验证,证明了该方法的有效性,也为谱仪研制和脉冲序列开发提供了一种辅助测试方法.