The influence of shear bands on final structure and magnetic properties of 3% Si non-oriented silicon steel

The presence of shear bands in the deformed material before final annealing is very important for Goss and Cube textures formation in silicon steel [S.C. Paolinelli, M.A. Cunha, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 255 (2003) pp. 379. [1]; J.T. Park, J.A. Szpunar, Acta Mater., 51 (2003) 3037. [2]]. The increase of the hot-band grain size can increase the number of shear bands, which favor the nucleation of these orientations. In this work, the effect of the hot band grain size variation, promoted by varying the hot rolling finishing temperature, on final structure and magnetic properties was investigated for 3% Si alloy. It was found that the increase of the hot-band grain size increases the occurrence of shear bands and promotes an increase of η fiber fraction and a reduction of γ fiber fraction, improving the magnetic induction. On the other hand, the final grain size is reduced when the hot-band grain size is larger than 190 μm, deteriorating the core loss values in spite of the texture benefits. The reduction of final grain size was explained by the increase of the number of nuclei at the beginning of the recrystallization caused by the increase of shear bands in the deformed material.     

Effect of radiofrequency on the sheath-plasma resonance in a low-density plasma

Summary Bohm's theory on plasma probes has been modified, by taking into account the effect of the applied RF voltage on the ion saturation current, for explaining the experimentally detected behaviour of the plasma sheath resonance frequency in a low-temperature and low-density plasma

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Riassunto La teoria di Bohm sulle sonde nei plasmi è stata modificata, tenendo conto dell'effetto dovuto alla tensione RF applicata sulla corrente ionica di saturazione. Si spiega cosi l'andamento della frequenza di risonanza plasma-guaina ionica, rilevato sperimentalmente, in un plasma a bassa temperatura e bassa densità.

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Резюме Предлагается модификация теории Бома для плазменных зондов, которая учитывает влияние приложенного радиочастотного напряжения на ионный ток насыщения. Предложенная модификация позволяет объяснить экспериментально обнаруженное поведение резонансной частоты плазменной оболочки при низкой температуре и при низкой плотности плазмы.

     

Mathematical programming methods for the optimal design of turbine blade shapes

This paper describes some optimization techniques for the design of turbine blade profiles with a vibration constraint. The vibration characteristics were modelled by a Timoshenko beam with idealized boundary conditions permitting the system dynamics to be simulated by differential equations. Elliptical cross-sectional shapes were assumed, resulting in an optimization problem in a finite number of variables. The methods used were (1) a direct handling of the differential equations describing the system, in which penalty function transformations were used, and (2) a finite difference discretization with the system equations replaced by finite difference approximations. In the latter formulation the vibrational frequencies are the eigenvalues of the system while in the former case they are regarded as control parameters.This paper includes a numerical study of these methods and their implementation together with a discussion of results.     

Single-ion approach to the susceptibility of an intermediate valence compound paramagnetic Imse

The magnetic properties of an intermediate valence compound are discussed within a single-ion framework. The effects of configuration mixing, crystalline electric fields, and external magnetic fields are included in the hamiltonian. The method incorporates in one single consistent approach both coherent (quantum) and incoherent (thermal) fluctuations. Numerical evaluation of the susceptibility and field dependent magnetization with parameters appropriate for TmSe yields results in good agreement with experiment.     

Mössbauer study of small amounts of iron in graphite,around the diamond-graphite pressure-temperature stability region

An exploratory Mössbauer spectroscopy study of the Fe-C system in the C rich region, prepared by high pressure-high temperature treatment near the graphite-diamond stability line, was made. The results obtained for the different processing conditions give no evidence of Fe intercalation in graphite. The presence of some water in the cell produced hydrated Fe complexes, which can explain the deleterious effect of water or hydrogen in the high pressure diamond synthesis.     

Perfect fluid spacetimes admitting curvature collineations

Some basic concepts about curvature collineations are reviewed and the existing results on this topic are applied to the case of perfect fluids, giving a characterization of those amongst them which admit proper curvature collineations.     

Classical physics and Penrose's thesis

We expose and discussPenrose's thesis: Nature produces harnessable noncomputable processes, but none at the classical level. We then suggest a partial counterexample to it, based on aGedanken experiment about an undecidable family of integrable Hamiltonian systems that could lead to a sort of idealized solution to the Halting problem for Turing machines.1. Partially supported by a Fulbright/CNP_q-Brazil grant. Permanent address after November 5, 1990: Center for the Study of Mathematical Theories of Communication, IDEA/School of Communications, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Av. Pasteur 250, 22290 Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil.     

Mössbauer study of spin-glass Fe x Zn1−x F2 system

⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer effect measurements in the diluted Ising antiferromagnet Fe _x Zn_1?x F₂ withx=0.25 andx=0.57 at temperatures between 4.2 and 55 K, are reported. DC suceptibility measurements show a spin-glass (SG) phase at low temperatures forx≤0.31. Our Mössbauer spectra show a phase transition to a SG state with antiferromagnetic order (AFSG) forx=0.25 and only antiferromagnetic order forx=0.57.