Solvent effects on hydrogen bond formation

Enthalpies of solution have been used to calculate transfer enthalpies for phenol, pyridine, and DMSO between the solvent cyclohexane and the solvents CCl₄, benzene, and CHCl₃. By use of model compounds, enthalpies due to interactions with phenol, pyridine, and DMSO have been determined. These enthalpies are used to calculate the effect of solvation relative to cyclohexane on hydrogen bonded complexes in CCl₄ and benzene solvents. Correlations with enthalpies due to interactions and frequency shifts for the hydroxyl stretch in these solvents have also been made.     

Bornes quasi-inferieures et bornes superieures de la pression de ruine des coques de revolution par la methode des elements finis et par la programmation non-lineaire

This work is concerned with rigid-plastic limit analysis of shells of revolution subject to rotationally symmetric loadings. These shells, of arbitrary shape, are discretized into a series of finite elements, each being a conical shell. The von Mises condition, valid for sandwich shells, is used to compare the results obtained with existing values. After assembling the finite elements, the limit analysis program is reduced to a simple application of the non-linear programming technique where both the sequential unconstrained minimization technique (SUMT) and feasible conjugate direction (FCD) are utilized respectively for statically admissible and kinematically admissible approaches. Therefore, upper bounds and lower bounds of the collapse loads are found for some sample problems : conical, spherical, ellipsoidal, torispherical shells etc. These numerical results are illustrated and compared with existing ones described in the literature.     

Études calorimétriques en milieu solvant organique: II Enthalpies de dissolution et de dilution du boranate de lithium (LiBH4) et de l'alanate de lithium (LiAlH4) dans le tétrahydrofuranne

The enthalpies of dissolution and dilution of LiBH₄ and LiAlH₄ in THF have been determined.Dissolutions are exothermic. The endothermic dilution of LiAlH₄ suggests for this compound, either a dissociation or an association equilibrium.     

Mixed-mode failure of composite laminates with cracks

The behavior of quasi-isotropic graphite/epoxy laminates with cracks subjected to various biaxial-stress fields was studied experimentally. This was accomplished by uniaxial tensile loading of specimens with cracks of various orientations with the loading axis. It was found that the critical stress-intensity factor, based on a projected crack length increased by a characteristic damage dimension, is nearly constant with stress biaxiality and initial crack length. Paper was presented at V International Congress on Experimental Mechanics held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on June 10–15, 1984.     

Measurement of frequency differences between visible laser lines up to 170GHz using metal-insulator-metal point contact diodes

Frequency differences of up to 170 GHz between a cw dye laser and a krypton laser at 568 nm were measured by mixing laser and microware radiation with a metalinsulator-metal point contact diode. Beat signals are well above noise and there is still great potential for improvement when better microwave oscillators are used. From the measurements reported it follows that the diode can be used for determining still higher frequency differences of visible laser radiation.     

The Condensation of Cyclic Aminoketones,Cyclohexanone and Cyclohexane-1,4-dione with some Phenolic Ethers in Polyphosphoric Acid

The title condensations gave respectively: gem-bisarylated cyclic amines 3a–k or monoarylated unsaturated cyclic amines 4a–g , 1,3-bisarylated cyclohexadienes 6a , 6b , the condensed bicyclo [2,2,2]-octane 8 . In addition the aromatic ketone 9 gave the fluorenone 10 on treatment with polyphosphoric acid (PPA).     

Time resolved simultaneous detection of 14NO and 15NO via mid-infrared cavity leak-out spectroscopy

We present a ring-down absorption spectrometer based on a continuous-wave CO laser in the mid-infrared spectral region near lambda = 5 microm. Using a linear ring-down cavity (length: 0.5 m) with high reflective mirrors (R = 99.988 %), we observed a noise-equivalent absorption coefficient of 3 x 10(-10) cm(-1)Hz(-1/2). This corresponds to a noise-equivalent concentration of 800 parts per trillion (ppt) for (14)NO and 40 ppt for (15)NO in 1 s averaging time. We achieve a time resolution of 1 s which allows time resolved simultaneous detection of the two N isotopes. The delta(15)N value was obtained with a precision of +/-1.2 per thousand in a sample with a NO fraction of 11 ppm. The simultaneous detection enables the use of (15)NO as a tracer molecule for endogenous biomedical processes.