Model based online diagnosis of unbalance and transverse fatigue crack in rotor systems

A model based technique for online identification of malfunctions in rotor systems is discussed. Presence of fault changes the dynamic behavior of the system. This change is taken into account by equivalent loads acting on the undamaged system model. Equivalent loads are fictitious forces and moments acting on the undamaged system model, which generate a dynamic behavior identical to that of the real damaged system. The mathematical representation of equivalent loads is referred to as Fault Model. The work focuses on developing a fault model for a transverse fatigue crack in shaft and testing it through simulated studies. The basic principle of the technique is validated for unbalance identification, through numerical simulations as well as by experiments on a real rotor system.     

Application of ultrafine-dispersed diamonds in electroplating

The results obtained upon the electrochemical deposition of composite coatings containing ultrafine-dispersed diamonds produced by detonation synthesis are generalized. The main advantages of such coatings over the well-known composite electrochemical coatings are revealed.     

Electron Metal-Dielectric Phase Transitions in Semiconductors under Pressure

The effect of uniform pressure on the character of metal-dielectric transitions in compensated weakly- and highly doped semiconductors (WHDCS) is considered. The influence of hybridization of resonance quasilocalized impurity states with band continuum states on the transition is shown. Minimum metallic conductivities in p-CdSnAs₂ are determined for Mott and Anderson transitions. Special features of the metal-dielectric transformation in weakly-doped narrow- and high energy-gap semiconductors are discussed for the case of hydrogen-like impurities. Anderson localization in WHDCS is also considered. Phase diagrams are presented.     

Heavy metal ion uptake properties of polystyrene-supported chelating polymer resins

Metal ion uptake properties of polystyrene-supported chelating polymer resins functionalized with (i) glycine, (ii) hydroxy benzoic acid, (iii) Schiff base and (iv) diethanol amine have been investigated. The effects of pH, time and initial concentration on the uptake of metal ions have been studied. The uptake of metal ion depends on pH. The resins are more selective at pH 10 for Pb(II) and Hg(II), whereas at pH 6 they are found to be Cd(II) and Cr(VI) selective. Metal ion uptake properties of resins follow Freundlich’s equation. The resins are recyclable and are therefore employed for the removal of heavy metal pollutants from industrial waste water.     

Kinetics of a photoinduced NH tautomerism of free-base porphyrins in crystalline matrices at low temperatures: Computer simulations and experiment

Photoinduced NH tautomerism, along with the reaction pathways of phototautomerization in tetrabenzoporphin and porphin free bases in n-octane polycrystalline matrices at 77 K, is studied by simulation of kinetic processes and their experimental observation. The simulation of the processes is performed by the numerical solution of the system of kinetic equations describing the populations of electronic levels and transitions between them. Kinetic dependences are obtained by measuring the perturbation of stationary fluorescence of one component of the 0-0 doublet origin upon pulsed selective photoexcitation of the other component. For two tautomeric forms related by the reversibility of the photochemical reaction, under the assumption of synchronism of the NH rearrangement, (i) analytical solutions governing the reaction rate are found, (ii) a method of measuring the rate constants of the proton rearrangement is suggested and the constants themselves are estimated, and (iii) direct evidence of the participation of T ₁ levels in the photochemical reaction is obtained. With the aid of numerical simulations, the specific features of kinetic manifestation of an asynchronous mechanism of the photoinduced NH rearrangement are studied.     

Imaginary entanglement as a cost of unitarity

The contradiction between the fidelity necessary to determine the entanglement of states and the noise accompanying high-precision measurements is discussed. The unitary nonequivalence of quantum field representations in different regions of space leads to an additional noise, analogously to the Unruh effect. The cause of this noise is eliminated by rejecting the assumption of statistical independence of single-particle states of the quantum field. The smearing of one-particle states eliminates the reasons for the appearance of the Unruh noise and, simultaneously, leads to imaginary entanglement due to overlapping of these states.     

On the Development of Fundamentally New Organic Reagents

Based on an analysis of the processes of intramolecular signal transfer (the ordered motion of a quasiparticle, vibron) and structural isomerization, it was pointed out that, in principle, reagents of a new type can be developed with analytical effects fundamentally different from usual ones. The type of analytical response can vary depending on the molecular structure and intramolecular processes induced. General principles of the molecular design of systems of this kind are discussed.     

On the Bol Loops

In the present paper, the Bol loops and related groups are studied. We suggest a universal way to construct a Bol loop and find criteria for simplicity and finiteness of such loops.