金属泡沫材料研究

金属泡沫或金属多孔材料是８０年代后期国际上迅速发展起来的一种物理功能与结构一体化的新型工程材料，它所具备的多种优异物理性能特别是阻尼性能已引起广泛关注，并在消声，减震，分离工程，催化载体，屏蔽防护，吸能缓冲等一些高技术领域获得了广泛应用。文章着重介绍了铸造发泡法制造铝泡沫材料的技术难点。     

Inclusion of temperature dependent shell corrections in Landau theory for hot rotating nuclei

Landau theory used for studying hot rotating nuclei usually uses zero temperature Strutinsky smoothed total energy for the temperature dependent shell corrections. This is replaced in this work by the temperature dependent Strutinsky smoothed free energy. Our results show that this replacement has only marginal effect for temperatures greater than 1 MeV but plays significant role at lower temperatures.     

Light-induced unconventional Landau levels of ultracold fermions in a trilayer honeycomb lattice

The spectrum of cold fermionic atoms is studied in a trilayer honeycomb optical lattice subjected to a perpendicular effective magnetic field,which is created with optical means. In the low energy approximation,the spectrum shows unconventional Landau levels,which are proportional to the 3/2 power of integer numbers. The zoro modes exist and the quasiparticles are chiral. It is also proposed to identify the unconventional Landau levels via probing the dynamic structure factor of the system with Bragg spectr...     

Characteristic Hypersurfaces in a Relativistic Superfluid Theory

By discussing the Cauchy problem, we determine the covariant equation of the characteristic hypersurfaces in a relativistic superfluid theory.     

Damping,Thermal, and Mechanical Properties of Polycaprolactone-Based PU/EP Graft IPNs: Effects of Composition and Isocyanate Index

A series of polycaprolactone (PCL)-based polyurethane (PU)/epoxy resin (EP) graft interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs) were prepared and their damping propertiesand thermal stability, as well as mechanical properties, were systematically studied in terms of composition and the values of the PU isocyanate index (R). The morphologies of the PU/EP IPNs were observed by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and atomic force microscope (AFM) characterization and the relationship between the morphologies and the properties is also discussed. The damping properties and thermal stability measurements revealed that the formation of PU/EP IPNs could significantly improve not only the damping properties but also the thermal stability. Meanwhile, the mechanical tests showed that the tensile strengths of the IPNs decreased, while their impact strengths increased with increasing PU content. The value of the PU isocyanate index also had significant impacts on the properties of the IPNs when the PU to EP ratio was fixed, which could be an effective means for manipulating the fabrication of PU/EP IPNs. From the results obtained, the PCL-based PU/EP IPNs hold promise for use in structural damping materials.     

Rigorous spectral representation of relativistic random phase approximation for finite nuclei

By using the rigorous spectral representation of relativistic random phase approximation, the low-lying excitation of finite nuclei and its longitudinal response function for quasielastic electron scattering are calculated in the σ-ω model of quantum hadrodynamics. It is shown that the reproduction of the correct order of the 1- and 3- excitation states of 16O is due to the contribution of the exchange vertex. There is no significant influence of the retardation effect on the low-lying excitation states. In contrast, the retardation effect plays an important role in the electron scattering process of nuclei. The theoretical longitudinal responses of 12C and 40Ca, including the contributions of the exchange vertex and the retardation effect, are suppressed and reproduce the experimental data better than the results excluding them.     

Sweep Tests on Vibrating Systems with Power-Law Damping

The non-stationary response in vibrating systems with power-law damping, subjected to sweep tests is considered. Using the method of averaging, it is shown that the bifurcation delay persists in all forms of power-law damping, viz., Coulomb, orifice and cubic damping models. Experimental investigations on a soft type of isolator confirm the existence of delay in the jump phenomenon. These results also indicate that the softening nature of non-linearity can be profitably employed in the design of isolators and vehicle suspensions.     

Relativistic Hypernuclei: Old Problems and New Prospects

The first experiments with relativistic hypernuclei (Bowen; Khorozov and Lukstins) were done many years ago. They demonstrated not only that such extremely difficult experiments are manageable but also their great advantage, a possibility of observing and studying independently the production and weak decay of hypernuclei: the points of the production and decay of relativistic hypernuclei are separated by tens of centimeters instead of some microns in classical experiments. At the same time these first experiments revealed a huge problem with selection of the proper trigger.Recently we proposed to explore a unique feature of the ⁹Be nucleus: after removing a neutron from its ground state several groups of alpha-particles appear from different excited states of a residual nucleus ⁸Be. Detection of the correlated pair of -particles produced in a vacuum volume at a distance of some 40 cm from target is an unambiguous signal of nonmesonic decay of hypernucleus ¹⁰ Be(++n+n) or ¹⁰ Be(++n+p). In this particular case it is possible to take exclusive decay rates (on different excited states of ⁸Be^*). This open a way for a phenomenological analysis of matrix elements of the four-baryon weak interaction.The experiment is approved for new accelerator Nuclotron at JINR, Dubna.     

Comparative studies of quasi-relativistic density functional methods for the description of lanthanide and actinide complexes

We present a comparative Density Functional Theory (DFT) study based on two different implementations of relativistic effects within the Kohn-Sham (KS) approach, to describe the metal-ligand interaction in I(3)M-L complexes (L = NH(3), NCCH(3), CO and M = La, Nd, U). In the first model, the scalar corrections were included by a quasi-relativistic approach (QR) via the so-called ZORA or Pauli Hamiltonians, while in the second, these effects are taken into account in a quasi-Relativistic Effective Core Potential (RECP). These relativistic approaches were used in conjunction with various gradient corrected (GGA) or hybrid (SCH) functionals. The structural parameters obtained from geometry optimizations have been compared to experimental structural trends, and rationalized by a KS orbital analysis. Both approaches provide similar results for mainly ionic metal-ligand bonds (e.g., for the sigma-donor ligand L = NH(3)). For the pi-acceptor ligands (NCCH(3), CO), the QR approach is in agreement with experimental trends and consistent with the presence of a backbonding interaction between U(III) and the neutral ligand, which does not exist in the lanthanide homologues. The GGA/RECP methods also reproduce this phenomenon, while the SCH/RECP scheme fails to describe this interaction. The role of the RECP, of its size, and of additional polarization functions has also been examined. Finally, the failure of the SCH/RECP approach was interpreted as a consequence of a bad estimation of frontier orbital energy levels in the uranium and ligand species.