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Twinning and grain subdivision during dynamic deformation of a Mg AZ31 sheet alloy at room temperature
The microstructural evolution of an AZ31 rolled sheet during dynamic deformation at strain rates of ∼103 s−1 has been investigated by electron backscatter diffraction, X-ray and neutron diffraction. The influence of orientation on the predominant deformation mechanisms and on the recovery processes taking place during deformation has been systematically examined. The results have been compared with those corresponding to the same alloy tested quasi-statically under equivalent conditions. It has been found that strain rate enhances the activation of extension twinning dramatically, while contraction and secondary twinning are not significantly influenced. The polarity of extension twinning is even reversed in some grains under selected testing conditions. Significant grain subdivision by the formation of geometrically necessary boundaries (GNBs) takes place during both quasi-static and dynamic deformation of this AZ31 alloy. It is remarkable that GNBs of high misorientations form even at the highest strain rates. The phenomenon of recovery has been found to be orientation dependen
E-prints and Journal Articles in Astronomy: a Productive Co-existence
Are the e-prints (electronic preprints) from the arXiv repository being used
instead of the journal articles? In this paper we show that the e-prints have
not undermined the usage of journal papers in the astrophysics community. As
soon as the journal article is published, the astronomical community prefers to
read the journal article and the use of e-prints through the NASA Astrophysics
Data System drops to zero. This suggests that the majority of astronomers have
access to institutional subscriptions and that they choose to read the journal
article when given the choice. Within the NASA Astrophysics Data System they
are given this choice, because the e-print and the journal article are treated
equally, since both are just one click away. In other words, the e-prints have
not undermined journal use in the astrophysics community and thus currently do
not pose a financial threat to the publishers. We present readership data for
the arXiv category "astro-ph" and the 4 core journals in astronomy
(Astrophysical Journal, Astronomical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society and Astronomy & Astrophysics). Furthermore, we show that
the half-life (the point where the use of an article drops to half the use of a
newly published article) for an e-print is shorter than for a journal paper.
The ADS is funded by NASA Grant NNG06GG68G. arXiv receives funding from NSF
award #0404553Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Learned Publishin
Finding Your Literature Match -- A Recommender System
The universe of potentially interesting, searchable literature is expanding
continuously. Besides the normal expansion, there is an additional influx of
literature because of interdisciplinary boundaries becoming more and more
diffuse. Hence, the need for accurate, efficient and intelligent search tools
is bigger than ever. Even with a sophisticated search engine, looking for
information can still result in overwhelming results. An overload of
information has the intrinsic danger of scaring visitors away, and any
organization, for-profit or not-for-profit, in the business of providing
scholarly information wants to capture and keep the attention of its target
audience. Publishers and search engine engineers alike will benefit from a
service that is able to provide visitors with recommendations that closely meet
their interests. Providing visitors with special deals, new options and
highlights may be interesting to a certain degree, but what makes more sense
(especially from a commercial point of view) than to let visitors do most of
the work by the mere action of making choices? Hiring psychics is not an
option, so a technological solution is needed to recommend items that a visitor
is likely to be looking for. In this presentation we will introduce such a
solution and argue that it is practically feasible to incorporate this approach
into a useful addition to any information retrieval system with enough usage.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of the colloquium Future Professional
Communication in Astronomy II, 13-14 April 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 11
pages, 4 figures
P-T-t path for the Archean Pikwitonei Granulite Domain and Cross Lake Subprovince, Manitoba, Canada
The rationale was outlined for constructing pressure-temperature-time (P-T-t) paths by using U-Pb dating of garnet produced in thermobarometrically sensitive reactions. In an example from the Pikwitonei granulites of the Northwestern Superior Province of the Canadian Shield, garnets were formed at 2744-2742 Ma, 2700-2689 Ma, and 2605-2590 Ma, the latter events coinciding with times recorded by U-Pb zircon systems. Garnet grew during metamorphism at 6.5 kbar, 630 to 750 C and later at 7.2 to 7.5 kbar, 800 C; the later metamorphism apparently did not exceed the U-Pb closure temperature. The resultant P-T-t path is counterclockwise, with late isobaric cooling, interpreted to result from magmatic heating at an Andean margin
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