Authigenic smoky quartz from the Famennian limestones at Łagów in the Holy Cross Mts

Inside smoky and black crystals of quartz from joint fractures in bituminous Famennian limestones at Łag6w in the Holy Cross. Mts, there occur inclusions containing variable amount of bituminous matter and aqueous solution of salts and gas. The occurrence of bitumen gives quartz its colour. The average temperatures of smoky quartz crystallization were c. 70oC, and of black quartz - c. 160-190OC. The veinlets of brown-black calcite, containing analogous inclusions, crystallized under similar conditions which revealed ., both minerals being connected with aqueous solutions containing dispersed droplets of bituminous matter

An Efficient Framework for Analysis of Wire-Grid Shielding Structures over a Broad Frequency Range

A computationally efficient MoM-based framework for broadband electromagnetic simulation of wire-grid shielding structures is presented in the paper. Broadband capability of the approach is attained through supporting MoM by an adaptive frequency sweep combined with rational interpolation of the observable implemented via Stoer-Bulirsch algorithm. The performance increase is gained by employing CUDA-enabled CPU+GPU co-processing. For large-size problems exceeding the amount of memory available on the GPU device, a hybrid out-of-GPU memory LU decomposition algorithm is employed. The demonstration examples are provided to illustrate the the accuracy and high efficiency of the approach

Assessment of the perceived safety culture in the petrochemical industry in Japan : a cross-sectional study

This study assessed the perceived safety culture among five petrochemical production companies in Japan. Current effects of the perceived safety culture on employee safety motivation and performance were also examined. A total of 883 workers from the five petrochemical companies, which were located in the Chugoku region of Japan, provided valid responses to the survey distributed by email. Structural equation modeling was used to evaluate the personnel safety culture in these industries. The endogenous variables considered in this study included petrochemical safety culture, personnel error behavior and personnel attitudes toward violation behaviors. Petrochemical personnel safety motivation was a mediating variable. This study’s findings highlight the importance of the perceived safety culture as a significant component of the organizational culture that influences employee behaviors and safety attitudes. This study further verifies the significant impact of the perceived safety culture in this industry sector on improving petrochemical personnel safety motivation and performance. Future research should explore the differences between the subcultures that have formed under larger safety cultures within similar high-risk industries, such as construction, aviation, manufacturing and mining

Geochemistry and growth morphology of alkali feldspar crystals from an IAB iron meteorite : insight into possible hypotheses of their crystallization

Alkali feldspar crystals have been recognized in the troilite-graphite nodules of the Morasko IAB iron meteorite. Their chemical, microtextural and structural properties were studied using electron microprobe analysis (EMPA), laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Raman spectroscopy. The feldspars occur as perthitic or antiperthitic intergrowths, whereas the albite lamellae are perfectly twinned. The structural properties reveal intergrown phases with fairly disordered patterns. The electron microprobe analyses demonstrate that the intergrown phases are mainly rich in sodium or potassium, resulting in compositions that are close to those of albite or orthoclase. The compositions, calculated on the basis of a segmented perthite-antiperthite image, showed that the Or-to-Ab proportions in the homogenized crystals were almost 0.3:0.7, thus indicating that the anorthoclase crystallized under high-temperature conditions. Two hypotheses of crystal formation could account for these characteristics: crystallization from a melt or from a metasomatic solution. Relics with evidence of metasomatic replacement of former minerals were not found. Accordingly, this work focuses on arguments that support the other hypothesis. Large ion lithophile elements (LILEs, e.g., Ba, Sr, Rb, LREE, Pb, and Ga) were used to track the origin of the crystals. Their concentrations indicate crystallization from a parent melt strongly depleted in LILEs. Alkali feldspar is commonly a product of a highly differentiated melt. However, highly differentiated melts are typically enriched in LILEs, which here is not the case. The melt that crystallized the feldspar cannot be related to impact-induced partial melting of the chondritic material alone. The derived melt probably was contaminated by silica-rich target material during interaction between the IAB projectile and the target material and was accompanied by metal and sulphide melts that were both immiscible with a silicate melt

Application of Ethernet Powerlink for communication in a Linux RTAI open CNC control system

In computerized numerical control (CNC) systems, the communication bus between the controller and axis servo drives must offer high bandwidth, noise immunity, and time determinism. More and more CNC systems use real-time Ethernet protocols such as Ethernet Powerlink (EPL). Many modern controllers are closed costly hardware-based solutions. In this paper, the implementation of EPL communication bus in a PC-based CNC system is presented. The CNC system includes a PC, a software CNC controller running under Linux Real-Time Application Interface real-time operating system and servo drives communicating via EPL. The EPL stack was implemented as a real-time kernel module. Due to software-only implementation, this system is a cost-effective solution for a broad range of applications in machine control. All software systems are based on GNU General Public License or Berkeley Software Distribution licenses. Necessary modifications to the EPL stack, Linux configurations, computer basic input/output system, and motherboard configurations were presented. Experimental results of EPL communication cycle jitter on three different PCs were presented. The results confirm good performance of the presented system

Układ sterowania CNC bazujący na komputerze PC z magistralą EtherCAT

W artykule przedstawiono układ sterowania numerycznego maszyn zbudowany na bazie komputera PC, komunikujący się z serwonapędami i układami wejścia/wyjścia sterującymi wyposażeniem maszyny poprzez magistralę komunikacyjną EtherCAT. W komputerze zaimplementowano system operacyjny czasu rzeczywistego Linux RTAI wraz ze zmodyfikowanym oprogramowaniem sterującym LinuxCNC. Opracowano programowy moduł komunikacyjny magistrali EtherCAT i zintegrowano go z oprogramowaniem LinuxCNC. Opracowany moduł EtherCAT umożliwia komunikację z serwonapędami zgodnie ze standardem CiA 402 oraz modułami wejść/wyjść zgodnie ze standardem CiA 401. Opracowany układ sterowania cechuje się prostą budową i łatwym montażem. Pozwala na bardzo szybką dwukierunkową komunikację z napędami i układami wejścia/wyjścia. Jest układem elastycznym, który można łatwo zaimplementować do sterowania maszynami wieloosiowymi o różnej konfiguracji

Application of Least Squares with Conditional Equations Method for Railway Track Inventory Using GNSS Observations

Satellite geodetic networks are commonly used in surveying tasks, but they can also be used in mobile surveys. Mobile satellite surveys can be used for trackage inventory, diagnostics and design. The combination of modern technological solutions with the adaptation of research methods known in other fields of science offers an opportunity to acquire highly accurate solutions for railway track inventory. This article presents the effects of work carried out using a mobile surveying platform on which Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers were mounted. The satellite observations (surveys) obtained were aligned using one of the methods known from classical land surveying. The records obtained during the surveying campaign on a 246th km railway track section were subjected to alignment. This article provides a description of the surveying campaign necessary to obtain measurement data and a theoretical description of the method employed to align observation results as well as their visualisation. Document type: Articl