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Preliminary weight and costs of sandwich panels to distribute concentrated loads
Minimum mass honeycomb sandwich panels were sized for transmitting a concentrated load to a uniform reaction through various distances. The form skin gages were fully stressed with a finite element computer code. The panel general stability was evaluated with a buckling computer code labeled STAGS-B. Two skin materials were considered; aluminum and graphite-epoxy. The core was constant thickness aluminum honeycomb. Various panel sizes and load levels were considered. The computer generated data were generalized to allow preliminary least mass panel designs for a wide range of panel sizes and load intensities. An assessment of panel fabrication cost was also conducted. Various comparisons between panel mass, panel size, panel loading, and panel cost are presented in both tabular and graphical form
Lunar penetrometer Patent
Development and characteristics of pentrometer for measuring physical properties of lunar surfac
Analytical Rescaling of Polymer Dynamics from Mesoscale Simulations
We present a theoretical approach to scale the artificially fast dynamics of
simulated coarse-grained polymer liquids down to its realistic value. As
coarse-graining affects entropy and dissipation, two factors enter the
rescaling: inclusion of intramolecular vibrational degrees of freedom, and
rescaling of the friction coefficient. Because our approach is analytical, it
is general and transferable. Translational and rotational diffusion of
unentangled and entangled polyethylene melts, predicted from mesoscale
simulations of coarse-grained polymer melts using our rescaling procedure, are
in quantitative agreement with united atom simulations and with experiments.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 table
Services diagnostic and needs assessment study
Liberalisation of trade in services and associated domestic reforms is fundamental to the realisation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). However, this requires real (âon the groundâ) liberalisation, not simply âon paperâ liberalisation in the form of commitments under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS), a sideshow in services liberalisation. The decision by leaders to form an AEC covering also the free flow of services has put the emphasis very much on ensuring each ASEAN Member State (AMS) removes restrictions affecting trade in services (including related foreign investment) and implement related reforms.
However, the diagnostic analysis presented in this Services Diagnostic and Needs Assessment Study (SDNAS), including in the in-country reports, suggests this is not happening, or at least is going very slowly, especially when set against the adopted start date for the AEC of 2015. Hence, key and effective technical assistance and capacity building is needed to advance âon the groundâ liberalisation of services and related reforms. The in-country fieldwork and other analysis undertaken in the SDNAS helped identify constraints and provided a list of potential technical assistance and capacity building projects to help address them, both from a primarily cross-cutting but also a sectoral perspective.
The SDNAS has also adopted an economic framework based on the fundamental benefits of unilateral liberalisation and a strategic structured approach, to identify key areas (âumbrellasâ) needing technical assistance and capacity building activities, such as strengthening the evidence base, promoting transparency, developing strategies and planning, and raising understanding and awareness. Key activity clusters were also identified within these three âumbrellasâ, such as policy analysis, services policy visions, and organisations for dialogues, respectively.
Individual priority technical assistance and capacity building project proposals within these clusters were determined using a cost-benefit analytical approach.
The SNDAS importantly recommends the need to re-balance much of the technical assistance and capacity building activities away from being directed at servicing the AFAS trade negotiations and focusing on âon-paperâ liberalisation towards efforts to build transparency and fundamental support for services trade liberalisation and related reforms in AMS. This is what is required to achieve the necessary âon-the-groundâ changes to achieve the AEC. This is consistent with international experience that significant âon-the-groundâ services liberalisation and related reforms requires unilateral efforts, and that trade negotiations have generally failed to deliver such changes.
With this in mind, the SNDAS has developed and recommended a number of detailed proposed technical assistance and capacity building project templates
Multiscale Modeling of Binary Polymer Mixtures: Scale Bridging in the Athermal and Thermal Regime
Obtaining a rigorous and reliable method for linking computer simulations of
polymer blends and composites at different length scales of interest is a
highly desirable goal in soft matter physics. In this paper a multiscale
modeling procedure is presented for the efficient calculation of the static
structural properties of binary homopolymer blends. The procedure combines
computer simulations of polymer chains on two different length scales, using a
united atom representation for the finer structure and a highly coarse-grained
approach on the meso-scale, where chains are represented as soft colloidal
particles interacting through an effective potential. A method for combining
the structural information by inverse mapping is discussed, allowing for the
efficient calculation of partial correlation functions, which are compared with
results from full united atom simulations. The structure of several polymer
mixtures is obtained in an efficient manner for several mixtures in the
homogeneous region of the phase diagram. The method is then extended to
incorporate thermal fluctuations through an effective chi parameter. Since the
approach is analytical, it is fully transferable to numerous systems.Comment: in press, 13 pages, 7 figures, 6 table
Hydrogen-induced reversible spin-reorientation transition and magnetic stripe domain phase in bilayer Co on Ru(0001)
Imaging the change in the magnetization vector in real time by spin-polarized
low-energy electron microscopy, we observed a hydrogen-induced, reversible
spin-reorientation transition in a cobalt bilayer on Ru(0001). Initially,
hydrogen sorption reduces the size of out-of-plane magnetic domains and leads
to the formation of a magnetic stripe domain pattern, which can be understood
as a consequence of reducing the out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy. Further
hydrogen sorption induces a transition to an in-plane easy-axis. Desorbing the
hydrogen by heating the film to 400 K recovers the original out-of-plane
magnetization. By means of ab-initio calculations we determine that the origin
of the transition is the local effect of the hybridization of the hydrogen
orbital and the orbitals of the Co atoms bonded to the absorbed hydrogen.Comment: 5 figure
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