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On the Interface Between LENS® Deposited Stainless Steel 304L Repair Geometry and Cast or Machined Components
Laser Engineered Net Shaping™ (LENS®) is being evaluated for use as a metal component
repair/modification process. A component of the evaluation is to better understand the characteristics of
the interface between LENS deposited material and the substrate on which it is deposited. A processing
and metallurgical evaluation was made on LENS processed material fabricated for component
qualification tests. A process parameter evaluation was used to determine optimum build parameters
and these parameters were used in the fabrication of tensile test specimens to study the characteristics of
the interface between LENS deposited material and several types of substrates. Analyses of the
interface included mechanical properties, microstructure, and metallurgical integrity. Test samples
were determined for a variety of geometric configurations associated with interfaces between LENS
deposited material and both wrought base material or previously deposited LENS material. Thirteen
different interface configurations were fabricated for evaluation representing a spectrum of deposition
conditions from complete part build, to hybrid substrate-LENS builds, to repair builds for damaged or
re-designed housings. Good mechanical properties and full density were observed for all configurations.
When tested to failure, fracture occurred by ductile microvoid coalescence. The repair and hybrid
interfaces showed the same metallurgical integrity as, and had properties similar to, monolithic LENS
deposits.Mechanical Engineerin
Energy Conversion Alternatives Study (ECAS), General Electric Phase 1. Volume 2: Advanced energy conversion systems. Part 3: Direct energy conversion cycles
For abstract, see N76-23680
The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in cancer.
Degradation by the 26S proteasome of specific proteins that have been targeted by the ubiquitin pathway is the major intracellular non-lysosomal proteolytic mechanism and is involved in a broad range of processes, such as cell cycle progression, antigen presentation and control of gene expression. Recent work, reviewed here, has shown that this pathway is often the target of cancer-related deregulation and can underlie processes, such as oncogenic transformation, tumour progression, escape from immune surveillance and drug resistance
Effects of Scale-Free Disorder on the Anderson Metal-Insulator Transition
We investigate the three-dimensional Anderson model of localization via a
modified transfer-matrix method in the presence of scale-free diagonal disorder
characterized by a disorder correlation function decaying asymptotically
as . We study the dependence of the localization-length exponent
on the correlation-strength exponent . % For fixed disorder ,
there is a critical , such that for ,
and for , remains that of the
uncorrelated system in accordance with the extended Harris criterion. At the
band center, is independent of but equal to that of the
uncorrelated system. The physical mechanisms leading to this different behavior
are discussed.Comment: submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Spin ice in a field: quasi-phases and pseudo-transitions
Thermodynamics of the short-range model of spin ice magnets in a field is
considered in the Bethe - Peierls approximation. The results obtained for
[111], [100] and [011] fields agrees reasonably well with the existing
Monte-Carlo simulations and some experiments. In this approximation all
extremely sharp field-induced anomalies are described by the analytical
functions of temperature and applied field. In spite of the absence of true
phase transitions the analysis of the entropy and specific heat reliefs over
H-T plane allows to discern the "pseudo-phases" with specific character of spin
fluctuations and define the lines of more or less sharp "pseudo-transitions"
between them.Comment: 18 pages, 16 figure
Storage of light in atomic vapor
We report an experiment in which a light pulse is decelerated and trapped in
a vapor of Rb atoms, stored for a controlled period of time, and then released
on demand. We accomplish this storage of light by dynamically reducing the
group velocity of the light pulse to zero, so that the coherent excitation of
the light is reversibly mapped into a collective Zeeman (spin) coherence of the
Rb vapor
Critical Behaviour of 3D Systems with Long-Range Correlated Quenched Defects
A field-theoretic description of the critical behaviour of systems with
quenched defects obeying a power law correlations for
large separations is given. Directly for three-dimensional systems
and different values of correlation parameter a
renormalization analysis of scaling function in the two-loop approximation is
carried out, and the fixed points corresponding to stability of the various
types of critical behaviour are identified. The obtained results essentially
differ from results evaluated by double - expansion. The
critical exponents in the two-loop approximation are calculated with the use of
the Pade-Borel summation technique.Comment: Submitted to J. Phys. A, Letter to Editor 9 pages, 4 figure
The Causal Boundary of spacetimes revisited
We present a new development of the causal boundary of spacetimes, originally
introduced by Geroch, Kronheimer and Penrose. Given a strongly causal spacetime
(or, more generally, a chronological set), we reconsider the GKP ideas to
construct a family of completions with a chronology and topology extending the
original ones. Many of these completions present undesirable features, like
those appeared in previous approaches by other authors. However, we show that
all these deficiencies are due to the attachment of an ``excessively big''
boundary. In fact, a notion of ``completion with minimal boundary'' is then
introduced in our family such that, when we restrict to these minimal
completions, which always exist, all previous objections disappear. The optimal
character of our construction is illustrated by a number of satisfactory
properties and examples.Comment: 37 pages, 10 figures; Definition 6.1 slightly modified; multiple
minor changes; one figure added and another replace
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