◾ A Livermore Perspective on the Value of Industrial Use of High-Performance National Laboratories

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 3883
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Sawicki ◽  
Antoine Bassil ◽  
Eugen Brühwiler ◽  
Xavier Chapeleau ◽  
Dominique Leduc

Following the significant improvement in their properties during the last decade, Distributed Fiber Optics sensing (DFOs) techniques are nowadays implemented for industrial use in the context of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). While these techniques have formed an undeniable asset for the health monitoring of concrete structures, their performance should be validated for novel structural materials including Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious composites (UHPFRC). In this study, a full scale UHPFRC beam was instrumented with DFOs, Digital Image Correlation (DIC) and extensometers. The performances of these three measurement techniques in terms of strain measurement as well as crack detection and localization are compared. A method for the measurement of opening and closing of localized fictitious cracks in UHPFRC using the Optical Backscattering Reflectometry (OBR) technique is verified. Moreover, the use of correct combination of DFO sensors allows precise detection of microcracks as well as monitoring of fictitious cracks’ opening. The recommendations regarding use of various SHM methods for UHPFRC structures are given.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-205
Author(s):  
Paweł Tomach

Abstract The paper presents the issues related to the grinding process in the vibration mills with low vibration frequency. These mills are rated among devices with high energy of impacts with much wider potential of industrial use than the classic gravitation mills. In vibratory mills there is an unfavorable decrease in the intensity of the grinding process along with the increase in the chamber diameter, which makes it impossible to achieve high performance of such devices. One of the ways to reduce or eliminate this occurrence is to intensify the load movement inside the chamber – this is the subject of this article. The article shows that in a vibrating mill of periodic action it is possible to increase its technological capabilities by application of an appropriate cylindrical component permanently installed inside the milling chamber. The paper also presents an attempt to increase the technological capabilities of a laboratory continuous vibratory mill.


1991 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 531-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimihiko Sato ◽  
Haruhisa Miyake

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuekui Duan ◽  
Donghun Kim ◽  
Katabathini Narasimharao ◽  
Shaeel Al-Thabaiti ◽  
Michael Tsapatsis

MFI zeolite nanosheet membranes exhibit high separation factor and flux for the separation of ammonia over hydrogen and nitrogen and hold promise for industrial use. These membranes also exhibit high performance for hydrogen separation from hydrocarbons.


2019 ◽  
Vol 968 ◽  
pp. 143-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Gots ◽  
Oles Lastivka ◽  
Oleksandr Tomin ◽  
Olga Kovalchuk

There are shown studies on influence of film-forming components on the corrosion resistance of powder coating. Protective and decorative powder coatings - one of the most promising types of paints and varnishes for industrial use. Their main advantages are: absence of solvents, practically waste-free coating technology (the degree of powder utilization during application is close to 100 relative simplicity and cost-effectiveness of the production process of coating. The study of protective properties of powder coatings is associated with the detection of high performance properties and high corrosion resistance of the material. Although corrosion resistance of powder coating performance continues to improve via the design of more effective film-forming components the nomenclature of which is wide enough.


Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuang Wang ◽  
Qing Sun ◽  
Kang Lei ◽  
Chi Chen ◽  
Lixiao Yao ◽  
...  

Liquid rubber is a common filler introduced to epoxy resin to improve its toughness for electrical insulation and electronic packaging applications. The improvement of toughness by adding liquid rubber to epoxy resin leads to the variation of its dielectric properties and relaxation behaviors and it has not been systematically studied yet. In this paper, four kinds of liquid rubber with different polarity were selected and the corresponding epoxy/liquid rubber composites have been prepared. By analyzing the temperature and frequency dependence of dielectric spectra, we found that a lower relative dielectric constant and dielectric loss of the epoxy/liquid rubber composites could be achieved by reducing the polarity of liquid rubber filler. These results also confirm that the polarity of liquid rubber plays a critical role in determining the α transition relaxation strength of rubber molecules at about −50 °C, as well as the relaxation time of interfacial polarization. In addition, the conductivity of rubber phase with different polarity were investigated by studying the apparent activation energy of interfacial polarization calculated from the Arrhenius plot. This study can provide a theoretical basis for designing high-performance epoxy/liquid rubber composite insulating materials for industrial use.


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