Characterization and development of an evolutionary yield function for the superconducting niobium sheet

AbstractSuperconducting radio frequency (SRF) niobium cavities are widely used in high-energy physics to accelerate particle beams in particle accelerators. The performance of SRF cavities is affected by the microstructure and purity of the niobium sheet, surface quality, geometry, etc. Following optimum strain paths in the forming of these cavities can significantly control these parameters. To select these strain paths, however, information about the mechanical behavior, microstructure, and formability of the niobium sheet is required. Due to the lack of information, first an extensive experimental study was carried out to characterize the formability of the niobium sheet, followed by examining the suitability of Hill’s anisotropic yield function to model its plastic behavior. Results from this study showed that, due to intrinsic behavior, it is necessary to evolve the anisotropic coefficients of Hill’s yield function in order to properly model the plastic behavior of the niobium sheet. The accuracy of the newly developed evolutionary yield function was verified by applying it to the modeling of the hydrostatic bulging of the niobium sheet

Investigation on nonlinear-optical properties of palm oil/silver nanoparticles.

The study carried out using continuous wave diode pumped solid state laser with wavelength of 405 nm and power of 50 mW. The strong spatial selfphase modulation patterns were observed that suggest the palm oil/Ag-NPs have a relatively large nonlinear refractive index. The obtained values of nonlinear refractive index were increased with the increase of volume fractions. The observed experimental patterns were also theoretically modeled which are in good agreement with experimental results

Preparation of silver nanoparticles in virgin coconut oil using laser ablation

Laser ablation of a silver plate immersed in virgin coconut oil was carried out for fabrication of silver nanoparticles. A Nd:YAG laser at wavelengths of 1064 nm was used for ablation of the plate at different times. The virgin coconut oil allowed formation of nanoparticles with well-dispersed, uniform particle diameters that were stable for a reasonable length of time. The particle sizes and volume fraction of nanoparticles inside the solutions obtained at 15, 30, 45 min ablation times were 4.84, 5.18, 6.33 nm and 1.0 × 10−8, 1.6 × 10−8, 2.4 × 10−8, respectively. The presented method for preparation of silver nanoparticles in virgin coconut oil is environmentally friendly and may be considered a green method

Silver nanoparticle fabrication by laser ablation in polyvinyl alcohol solutions

A laser ablation technique is applied for synthesis of silver nanoparticles in different concentrations of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution. The ablation of high pure silver plate in the solution is carried out by a nanosecond Q-switched Nd:YAG pulsed laser. X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy are implemented to explore the particles sizes. The effects of PVA concentrations on the absorbance of the silver nanoparticles are studied as well, by using a UV-vis spectrophotometer. The preparation process is carried out for deionized water as a reference sample. The comparison of the obtained results with the reference sample shows that the formation efficiency of nanoparticles in PVA is much higher and the sizes of particles are also smaller

Investigation of spatial self-phase modulation of silver nanoparticles in clay suspension

We have investigated the spatial self-phase modulation (SSPM) phenomena in a clay suspension containing silver nanoparticles. Silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) were synthesized in the space of lamellar structure of montmorillonite (MMT) by using chemical reducing agent. The UV–vis spectra of the obtained Ag-NPs showed that the intensity surface plasmon resonance (SPR) peaks increase with increasing in concentration of AgNO3. The results from Ag-NPs UV–vis spectra were in good agreement with the structure studies performed by TEM. The SSPM phenomena manifestation of the non-linear optical property appeared only when MMT suspension filled with Ag-NPs as shown in the existence of far-field pattern. This property increased with the increase of Ag-NPs concentration and limited to small range

Fabrication of Silver Nanoparticles Dispersed in Palm Oil Using Laser Ablation

In this study we used a laser ablation technique for preparation of silver nanoparticles. The fabrication process was carried out by ablation of a silver plate immersed in palm oil. A pulsed Nd:YAG laser at a wavelength of 1064 nm was used for ablation of the plate at different times. The palm coconut oil allowed formation of nanoparticles with very small and uniform particle size, which are dispersed very homogeneously within the solution. The obtained particle sizes for 15 and 30 minute ablation times were 2.5 and 2 nm, respectively. Stability study shows that all of the samples remained stable for a reasonable period of time

Zagros Team Research Proposal

Zagros team is consisted of a group of interested students in Robocup soccer simulation. Team started work in October 2006 by designing and developing a new 3D soccer simulation agent structure from the scratch. During a 6 month period of hard work and research many goals were achieved. By announcing new Robocup rules for simulation league, team immediately started work on humanoids and so far has completed the research and development outline for the upcoming competitions. Apart from the members' interest in the field, and their previous experiences, an adaptive learning approach for optimizing biped robot walk model has been chosen as the title of some of the members' B.S. thesis. In this paper a rough draft of team's planned research approach and previous achievements is described. Previous Works Team started working on soccer simulation as newcomers under the name of Zagros since October 2006, but members were involved in Robocup community individually far before the above date. To ease the primary task of development and debugging and also better observing and analyzing agents' behavior, a Linux-based trainer and a complete windows online debugger, capable of sending and receiving commands to and from agents and simulation server, were written. Problems with synchronizing agents with spades information were solved by means of an event based structure for updating the agents' world model. A modified version of Kalman filter was implemented in order to get an accurate estimation of position and vision noise reduction. Average agent localization noise of about 4 centimeters was achieved in a complete match which is the most accurate result among competitors as far as published papers demonstrate. By announcing the new simulation league rules, members changed their research and development focus to humanoid model, bringing all the experience and achievements to the new domain

Preparation of silver nanoparticles in virgin coconut oil using laser ablation

Reza Zamiri1, B Z Azmi1,2, Amir Reza Sadrolhosseini1, Hossein Abbastabar Ahangar3, A W Zaidan1, M A Mahdi41Department of Physics, 2Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Laboratory, 3Department of Chemistry, 4Wireless and Photonics Networks Research Center, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaAbstract: Laser ablation of a silver plate immersed in virgin coconut oil was carried out for fabrication of silver nanoparticles. A Nd:YAG laser at wavelengths of 1064 nm was used for ablation of the plate at different times. The virgin coconut oil allowed formation of nanoparticles with well-dispersed, uniform particle diameters that were stable for a reasonable length of time. The particle sizes and volume fraction of nanoparticles inside the solutions obtained at 15, 30, 45 min ablation times were 4.84, 5.18, 6.33 nm and 1.0 × 10-8, 1.6 × 10-8, 2.4 × 10-8, respectively. The presented method for preparation of silver nanoparticles in virgin coconut oil is environmentally friendly and may be considered a green method.Keywords: silver nanoparticles, laser ablation, virgin coconut oi