Applications of electronic speckle interferometry (ESI) techniques for spacecraft structural components

Laser-based electronic speckle interferometry (ESI) techniques, viz., electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) and electronic speckle shearographic interferometry (ESSI) are used for testing of spacecraft structural components. The combined ESPI and ESSI system developed in house was successfully used for the non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of honeycomb sandwich panels and propellant tanks of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Debonds between face sheet and the honeycomb core were identified using (i) thermal and (ii) dual vacuum stressing methods. On-line NDE of the propellant tanks under internal pressure loading for identification of the minute cracks and thickness reduction areas were successfully implemented by ESI.     

Development of measuring magnetic Compton profiles by grazing incidence geometry

A novel technique of measuring a magnetic Compton profile using the grazing angle geometry against a sample surface (Grazing Incidence Magnetic Compton Profile) has been successively developed. Measurements of a magnetic moment and a magnetic Compton profile are possible for a Fe 200 nm film on a thick glass substrate. The estimated thinnest limit for measurements is 100 nm for a Fe film.     

Rheological behaviour and shear thickening exhibited by aqueous CTAB micellar solutions

In this experimental work we carefully investigate the rheological behaviour and in particular the shear thickening exhibited by aqueous micellar solutions of CTAB with NaSal as added counterion. We are particularly interested in the evolution of the critical shear rate (at which shear thickening occurs) versus C _D , the surfactant concentration. We show that , at fixed salt concentration C _S , increases with C _D following a power law evolution with a positive exponent of + 5.8. On the other hand we show that if the ratio C _D / C _S is fixed, decreases with C _D with a negative exponent of -2.0. Nevertheless investigations of the zero shear viscosity indicate that in all situations (implying variation of the surfactant concentration C _D , or the salt concentration C _S or the temperature) is a decreasing function of the length of the micelles. All these evolutions are compatible with a gelation mechanism which could possibly be associated with entanglement effects of large interacting flowing structures. Received: 3 March 1998 / Revised: 16 June 1998 / Accepted: 3 July 1998     

STS investigations of temperature dependence of Au(1 1 1) surface state energy position

High temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy (HT-STS) was used to investigate the electronic structure of Au(1 1 1) at different temperatures in the energy range 0-1 eV below the Fermi level. We concentrated on the influence of temperature on the Shockley surface state (SS) appearing on noble metals surface due to a surface projected bulk bang gap in [1 1 1] direction. The influence of temperature on the projected band gap edge (BE) was also investigated. The experiment was carried out in the temperature range 294-580 K. As the result of the experiment a delicate shift of the SS and the BE in direction of the Fermi level was reported.     

Normalization and noise-reduction algorithm for fringe patterns

This paper presents a fringe pattern normalization and noise-reduction algorithm. Locally the background noise is suppressed, the modulation normalized and the noise smoothed. An expression to calculate the cosine-only term is formulated. It is related to the directional derivatives of the intensity fringes. Two-dimensional Fourier series are used to calculate the parameters needed for the algorithm. Experimental work is presented using diffraction and ESPI images. The programming is relatively simple and involves mainly local convolutions. The processing time using a 2 GHz computer to normalize an image of 256 × 256 pixels is approximately one second.     

锁相电子散斑系统

电子散斑干涉计量在变形量检测¹、无损探伤、振动分析^(2,3)等领域具有广泛的应用前景,目前它之所以未能实用化,最重要的原因就是该系统对环境的要求过高,特别是物体的振动和空气的扰动对测量结果影响很大,甚至会导致测量失败,因而国内外学者在不断寻找解决此问题的锁相技术。本文提出了一种简易的切实可行的锁相方法-光学锁相法,消除了物体的振动和空气扰动对电子散斑测量的影响。     

多晶顺磁共振谱的拟合

对电子自旋1/2≤S<3.5,核自旋1/2≤I<4.5和配体少于10个的顺磁体系的多晶EPR谱的拟合进行研究。在VAX-11/785计算机上用FORTRAN语言建立EPR谱模拟程序包,计算了多个例子,获得较为满意的结果。     

环己硅烷类液晶化合物的量子化学研究

运用AM1和PM3两种SCF-MO方法，通过能量梯度全优化计算，给出20种环己硅烷类（苯基乙烷系）液晶化合物的稳定几何构型、电子结构和基本性质．联系有机电子结构理论进行了细致的讨论．     

若干中性配体对Mo—Fe—S簇合物自兜的影响

通过电子吸收光谱的变化研究了一些含N和含P中性配体对MoS_4~(2-)-nFeCl_2-DMF体系形成立方烷型Mo-Fe-S簇合物的可能影响。     

(NiV13O38)7-的电子结构和催化性质的探讨

使用SCC－DV－Xα方法研究了高钒杂多化合物（NiV13O38）7-的电子结构，并探讨了它的催化性质·结果表明，（NiV13O38）7-是一种比Keggin结构更强的催化剂。分析了该阴离子中的键的强弱关系，认为配位数越少的氧与V形成的键越强．并分析了前线轨道HOMO，LUMO的组成，从而得出它的催化活性中心是Ni，V、一配位端氧，二、三配位桥氧，五配位中心氧的结论。