Modelling of dimensional stability of fiber reinforced composite materials

Various methods of predicting the expansion and diffusion properties of composite laminates are reviewed. The prediction equations for continuous fiber composites can be applied to SMC composites as the effective fiber aspect ratio in the latter is large enough. The effect of hygrothermal expansion on the dimensional stability of composite laminates was demonstrated through the warping of unsymmetric graphite/epoxy laminates. The warping is very sensitive to the size of the panel, and to the moisture content which is in turn sensitive to the relative humidity in the environment. Thus, any long term creep test must be carried out in a humidity-controlled environment. Environmental effects in SMC composites and bulk polyester were studied under seven different environments. The SMC composites chosen are SMC-R25, SMC-R40, and SMC-R65

Field dependence of gaseous ion mobility: Test of approximate formulas

The accuracies of three approximate formulas were tested by comparison with special cases for which accurate results could be found. The Wannier free flight theory was found to be superior, and can be extended to yield a formula without further adjustable constants that gives an exact result at low electric fields and good results at medium and high fields. It is applicable for any ion neutral force law and mass ratio

Launch Operations: Prelaunch Activities

Prelaunch activities, countdown and launch for Nimbus 3 satellite

CP violating asymmetry in H±→W±h1H^\pm\to W^\pm h_1 decays

The CP violating asymmetry from the decay rates $H^\pm\to W^\pm h_1$ of charged Higgs bosons into the lightest neutral Higgs boson and a $W^\pm$ boson is calculated and discussed in the complex MSSM. The contributions from all complex phases are considered, especially from the top-squark trilinear coupling, which induces a large contribution to the CP asymmetry.Comment: 19 pages, 10 figures, version published in JHE

Automated calculations for massive fermion production with aITALC

The package aITALC has been developed for the automated calculation of radiative corrections to two-fermion production at $e^+ e^-$ colliders. The package uses Diana, Qgraf, Form, Fortran, FF, LoopTools, and further unix/linux tools. Numerical results are presented for $e^+e^- \to e^+e^-, mu^+mu^-, b \bar{s}, t \bar{c}$.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of "Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory 2004", Zinnowitz, Usedom Island, Germany, April 2004. 5 pages, latex, espcrc2, 5 figures, 1 tabl

This before That: Causal Precedence in the Biomedical Domain

Causal precedence between biochemical interactions is crucial in the biomedical domain, because it transforms collections of individual interactions, e.g., bindings and phosphorylations, into the causal mechanisms needed to inform meaningful search and inference. Here, we analyze causal precedence in the biomedical domain as distinct from open-domain, temporal precedence. First, we describe a novel, hand-annotated text corpus of causal precedence in the biomedical domain. Second, we use this corpus to investigate a battery of models of precedence, covering rule-based, feature-based, and latent representation models. The highest-performing individual model achieved a micro F1 of 43 points, approaching the best performers on the simpler temporal-only precedence tasks. Feature-based and latent representation models each outperform the rule-based models, but their performance is complementary to one another. We apply a sieve-based architecture to capitalize on this lack of overlap, achieving a micro F1 score of 46 points.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP 2016

Wash-Out in N_2-dominated leptogenesis

We study the wash-out of a cosmological baryon asymmetry produced via leptogenesis by subsequent interactions. Therefore we focus on a scenario in which a lepton asymmetry is established in the out-of-equilibrium decays of the next-to-lightest right-handed neutrino. We apply the full classical Boltzmann equations without the assumption of kinetic equilibrium and including all quantum statistical factors to calculate the wash-out of the lepton asymmetry by interactions of the lightest right-handed state. We include scattering processes with top quarks in our analysis. This is of particular interest since the wash-out is enhanced by scatterings and the use of mode equations with quantum statistical distribution functions. In this way we provide a restriction on the parameter space for this scenarios.Comment: 26 pages, 4 figures, profound revision, exposition is now in flavor notation, one plot and discussion added, numerical error corrected, three plots changed, text polished, main results remain unchanged, reference added,matches published versio

Automated use of DIANA for two-fermion production at colliders

We describe packages for the calculation of radiative corrections to two-fermion production at colliders. The packages use DIANA, and also QGRAF, FORM, Fortran, and further unix/linux tools. The one-loop calculations in the Standard Model are highly automatized with the package aITALC. Further, the automatic determination of all the matrix elements for two-loop corrections to massive Bhabha scattering in QED and the classification of their topologies and prototypes is done with DIANA. A generalization to the Standard Model is straightforward.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of ACAT03, Dec 2003, KEK, Japa