scholarly journals Dislocation behaviors in nanotwinned diamond

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. eaat8195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwei Xiao ◽  
Huizhen Yang ◽  
Xiaozhi Wu ◽  
Fatima Younus ◽  
Peng Li ◽  
...  

Experimental results (Huang et al.) indicated that nanotwinned diamond (nt-diamond) has unprecedented hardness, whose physical mechanism has remained elusive. In this report, we categorize interaction modes between dislocations and twin planes in nt-diamond and calculate the associated reaction heat, activation energies, and barrier strength using molecular dynamics. On the basis of the Sachs model, twin thickness dependence of nt-diamond hardness is evaluated, which is in good agreement with the experimental data. We show that two factors contribute to the unusually high hardness of nt-diamond: high lattice frictional stress by the nature of carbon bonding in diamond and high athermal stress due to the Hall-Petch effect. Both factors stem from the low activation volumes and high activation energy for dislocation nucleation and propagation in diamond twin planes. This work provides new insights into hardening mechanisms in nt-diamond and will be helpful for developing new superhard materials in the future.

2011 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
pp. 230-233
Author(s):  
Guang Shen Xu ◽  
Jing Gong

There is more reaction heat of layer curing during fabrication process, so the integral SL System has shrinkage deformation. To improve the building accuracy of integral SL System, the deformation of integral SL is analyzed, a little deflection temperature stress bending differential equation, which describe the relationship of deformation with other parameters in integral SL System, is established with elastic mechanics. The relationship of distortion deformation with layer thickness, contract rate of resin, temperature difference and locations is obtained through the equation. The deformation of a bridge model is simulated with ANSYS software in different building condition. In the simulation process, curing units are activated layer by layer with the method of elements birth and death. The simulation results are in good agreement with the equation. The research results lay a foundation for building high accuracy objects with integral SL System.


1961 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 619-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Edström ◽  
Jerzy Kawiak

A method for the quantitative determination of DNA in the 50 to 500 µµg. range is presented. Cells or cell nuclei are isolated individually from fixed tissue by means of micromanipulation. The tissue units in question are extracted in an oil chamber with deoxyribonuclease solution. The extracts are evaporated to dryness and redissolved to lens-shaped drops, the DNA contents of which are determined by a photographic-photometric procedure in ultraviolet light. Determinations on calf thymocytes and rat spermatids show a relatively good agreement with biochemical data. The present method tends, however, to give some. what higher values than those reported earlier. The coefficient of variation for analytical values from test material is about ± 10 per cent. The method has been applied to cells from the axolotl, adults as well as tadpoles. Germ cells (spermatids and spermatocytes) do not show any evidence of a biological variation in DNA content. Cells from proliferating tissues give an increased spread of the DNA values. It could be shown, for epithelial cells, that there are at least two factors determining the DNA content of these cells. One is the fact that the cells are investigated at different phases of the mitotic cycle; the other is the fact that the DNA synthesis cycle occupies different ranges for different cells.


Author(s):  
V. Yu. Rubtsov ◽  
O. I. Shevchenko ◽  
V. V. Kurochkin ◽  
A. S. Oparin

During the high hardness grinding balls production the following to the process parameters is the key requirement. The temperature and the deformation uniformity are main parameters at the high hardness grinding balls rolling. Reduction forces can be estimated by modeling, but in this case, they were determined analytically, based on the distribution of the real specific reduction force over the observed temperature fields on the surface of the ball. Revealed a significant increase in the temperature of ball during the cross-helical rolling from equator to the poles from 880 °С to 940 °С. Established temperature increase (up to 60 °C) was observed in the area of the roll flange penetration into the workpiece, where significant deformations occur. Maximum average power of rolling generated on the top of the roll flanges has been determined, which reaches 350 MPa and decreases linearly with the distance from the top of the flange of the deformation tool and is practically reduced to zero on the equator of the ball. It was shown that linear nature of the change of the specific power of rolling is in good agreement with the linear dependence of the mill roll flange growth when it is introduced into the workpiece.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (24) ◽  
pp. 7907
Author(s):  
Yousef Darvishi ◽  
Seyed Reza Hassan-Beygi ◽  
Payam Zarafshan ◽  
Khadijeh Hooshyari ◽  
Urszula Malaga-Toboła ◽  
...  

The present study sought to analyze a novel type of polymer membrane fuel cell to be used in vehicles. The performance of the fuel cell was evaluated by modeling the types of production–consumption heat in the anode and cathode (including half-reaction heat, activation heat, and absorption/desorption heat) and waterflood conditions. The meshing of flow channels was carried out by square cells and the governing equations were numerically discretized in the steady mode using the finite difference method followed by solving in MATLAB software. Based on the simulation results, the anodic absorption/desorption heat, anodic half-reaction heat, and cathodic activation heat are positive while the cathodic absorption/desorption heat and cathodic half-reaction heat show negative values. All heat values exhibit a decremental trend over the flow channel. Considering the effect of relative humidity, the relative humidity of the cathode showed no significant change while the anode relative humidity decreased along the flow channel. The velocity at the membrane layer was considerably lower, due to the smaller permeability coefficient of this layer compared to the gas diffusion and reactants (cathode) layers.


1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 941-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Mintz ◽  
Donald J. Le Roy

The primary reaction in sodium diffusion flames, Na + RX = NaX + R, has been investigated as a possible source of free radicals for kinetic studies. A number of different alkyl halides were investigated as possible radical sources. Optimum conditions were found to minimize wall reactions and hydrogen abstraction from the halide, the two factors which invalidated previous work using this method. Rate constants were derived from product analyses by the numerical solution of simultaneous non-linear differential equations based on a spherical model involving diffusion. Values were obtained for the two modes of decomposition of n-C3H7, the abstraction of primary and secondary H atoms from C3H8 by CH3, and the addition of CH3 to C2H4. These are in reasonably good agreement with values determined by more conventional methods.


2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 527-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Yang ◽  
Bin Tang ◽  
Tao Gao

AbstractThe mechanical, dynamical and thermodynamic properties of Al-3wt%Mg have been investigated using the first-principles method. The calculated structural parameter is in good agreement with previous works. Results for the elastic modulus, stress-strain relationships, ideal tensile and shear strengths are presented. Al-3wt%Mg is found to have larger moduli and higher strengths than Al, which is consistent with its exploitation in Al precipitate-hardening mechanisms. The partial density of states (PDOS) show that the partly covalent-like bonding through Al p-Mg s hybridization is the origin of excellent mechanical properties of Al-3wt%Mg. The phonon dispersion curves indicate that Al-3wt%Mg is dynamically stable at ambient pressure and 0 K. Furthermore, the Helmholtz free energy ΔF, the entropy S, the constant-volume specific heat CV and the phonon contribution to the internal energy ΔE are predicted using the phonon density of states. We expect that our work can provide useful guidance to help with the performance of Al-3wt%Mg.


Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 2968
Author(s):  
Xiaolei Ren ◽  
Shaoli Wang ◽  
Peiling Yang ◽  
Yuan Tao ◽  
Haorui Chen

Farmland in southern China is prone to flooding and waterlogging alternation after short-term heavy rainfall. Single drainage form cannot meet the requirements of the farmland flooding and waterlogging removal. Drainage measures and layout forms should be explored to alleviate flooding and waterlogging threat and improve crop yield. So, based on an indoor sand tank experiment, this paper presents a combined drainage form: conventional subsurface drainage as an auxiliary drainage measure and is alternatively combined with open ditch (OD), filter drainage (FD), conventional (CD) and improved subsurface drainage (ID), respectively, under equal and unequal drain depth. The performance of different combined drainage forms and the effect of auxiliary drainage measures are discussed for stable ponding and receding water. During the experiment, two factors—drainage measure and drain depth—are considered. The results indicate that compared with the conventional subsurface drainage alone, the flow rates of the open-ditch, thin-improved, and thick-improved subsurface drainage combined with conventional subsurface drainage can be increased by 22.4–32.3%, 10.6–16.2%, and 29.8–32%, respectively, under equal drain depth in stable ponding water. Among the four combined drainage forms, the flow rate of shallow–deep combination is 8.1–17.1% higher than that of the shallow–shallow combination. Compared with a single drainage form, the flow rates of the combined drainage have the same change characteristics over time. Additionally, the use of auxiliary, conventional, subsurface drainage can improve the flooding and waterlogging removal efficiency in farmland. For the combined drainage forms, the contribution degree of the open-ditch and thin-improved subsurface drainage is 51.3–56.7%, while the thick-improved subsurface drainage is approximately 61.0%, under equal drain depth conditions in the flooding removal process. Moreover, open-ditch and thick-improved subsurface drainage combined with conventional subsurface drainage have significant advantages in flooding and waterlogging removal, which were 11.5–38.1% and 37.1–48.6% faster than conventional subsurface drainage in flooding removal time, 14.3–157.1% and 14.3–44.4% faster than conventional subsurface drainage in the waterlogging removal time. The synergistic application of shallow–deep and medium–medium combinations can be carried out by exploiting the advantages of each drainage measure. The experimental flow rate observation is in good agreement with the theoretically calculated value, with a relative error of less than 5%. These research findings could provide technical support for the increased application of combined drainage forms in areas prone to flooding and waterlogging.


2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-hu Liu ◽  
Han-Xiong Huang ◽  
Zhan-Song Yin

This paper deals with various cases for PET (polyethylene terephthalate) in two-stage stretch blow molding process with a transparent mold and a digital camcorder. The simulations were carried out by POLYFLOW software with K-BKZ viscoelastic model. The predicted wall thickness distributions of the formed bottle were found to be in good agreement with those of experimental measurements. Under same reheating treatment, the two factors, both of the stretch rate and the time sequence of the rod movement and the gas blow, show more great influence on the thickness distributions of final bottle than blow pressure. Besides the three cases of the preform free blow, and the air pressure applied after/before the stretching rod touched the bottom of the mold cavity, the interaction of the two factors may cause another phenomenon, which is the stretching rod touches off the preform bottom after the rod pulls it for a moment. The phenomenon easily makes for an eccentricity of the bottle bottom.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Wiklund ◽  
Iuliana Toma-Dasu ◽  
Bengt K. Lind

This present paper presents an analytical description and numerical simulations of the influence of macroscopic intercell dose variations and intercell sensitivity variations on the probability of controlling the tumour. Computer simulations of tumour control probability accounting for heterogeneity in dose and radiation sensitivity were performed. An analytical expression for tumor control probability accounting for heterogeneity in sensitivity was also proposed and validated against simulations. The results show good agreement between numerical simulations and the calculated TCP using the proposed analytical expression for the case of a heterogeneous dose and sensitivity distributions. When the intratumour variations of dose and sensitivity are taken into account, the total dose required for achieving the same level of control as for the case of homogeneous distribution is only slightly higher, the influence of the variations in the two factors taken into account being additive. The results of this study show that the interplay between cell or tumour variation in the sensitivity to radiation and the inherent heterogeneity in dose distribution is highly complex and therefore should be taken into account when predicting the outcome of a given treatment in terms of tumor control probability.


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