Creep behaviour of as received, aged and cold worked INCONEL 617 at 850 °C and 950 °C

The effect of initial microstructure on alloy 617 creep behaviour has been investigated at 850 °C and 950 °C. The solution treated material shows non-classical creep behaviour at both temperatures with a strain rate drop at the beginning of the tests followed by a creep rate increase to a plateau before the onset of the tertiary creep. The intragranular secondary carbides which precipitate early at test temperature are responsible of the strong initial hardening effect by pinning the dislocations. This effect is overpassed during the thermo mechanical ageing of the alloy which induces growth of these carbides. Prior 1000 h thermal ageing at the temperature test totally removes the strain rate drop and reduces the lifetime. The intragranular microstructure has evolved thanks to the prior thermal ageing before the creep tests. Microstructural examinations also show the presence of grain boundary migration and recrystallization in the material during creep tests of the as received and aged materials. Preliminary cold work treatment highly reduces the strain rate of Inconel 617 and enhances the lifetime at 850 °C while the opposite is observed at 950 °C

An Analytical Expression for the Hubble diagram of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts

A recent paper by Harmut Traunm\"uller shows that the most adequate equation to interpret the observations on magnitude and redshift from 892 type 1a supernovae would be mu = 5 log[(1+z) ln(1+z)] + const. We discuss this result which is exacly the one we have obtained few years ago when postulating a relation between the speed of light and the expansion of the universe. We also compare our analytical result to the conclusion of Marosi who studied 280 supernovae and gamma-ray bursts in the range 0.1014 < z < 8.1. The difference between his results and ours is at worst of 0.3 %.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur

Spectral discretizations of the Darcy's equations with non standard boundary conditions

This paper is devoted to the approximation of anonstandard Darcy problem, which modelizes the flow in porous media, byspectral methods: the pressure is assigned on a part of the boundary.We propose two variational formulations, as well as three spectraldiscretizations. The second discretization improves the approximation of thedivergence-free condition, but the error estimate on the pressure is notoptimal, while the third one leads to optimal error estimate with adivergence-free discrete solution, which is important for someapplications. Next, their numerical analysis is performed in detailand we present some numerical experiments which confirm the interestof the third discretization

Simultaneous growth of two cancer cell lines evidences variability in growth rates

Cancer cells co-cultured in vitro reveal unexpected differential growth rates that classical exponential growth models cannot account for. Two non-interacting cell lines were grown in the same culture, and counts of each species were recorded at periodic times. The relative growth of population ratios was found to depend on the initial proportion, in contradiction with the traditional exponential growth model. The proposed explanation is the variability of growth rates for clones inside the same cell line. This leads to a log-quadratic growth model that provides both a theoretical explanation to the phenomenon that was observed, and a better fit to our growth data

Prevention of chronic renal failure in the adult

peer reviewedChronic renal failure is an unrecognised disease, with an insidious and rather silent development, for which the general practitioners are too often passive. This review would like to insist on the detection of people at risk or with early abnormalities, on the optimal guidelines to slowdown the evolution to more severe and irreversible stages, on the prevention of uremic and cardiovascular complications and on the preparation to end stage renal treatments

Conversion Numérique-Analogique sélective d'un signal passe-bande soumis à des interférences

National audienceCet article propose une méthode qui permet une conversion numérique-analogique sélective d’un processus aléatoire passe-bande soumis à des interférences. Cette méthode permet d’effectuer simultanément la conversion numérique-analogique du signal et le rejet de l’interférence à partir des échantillons du processus observé : aucun démodulation préalable du processus passe-bande n’est nécessaire et le filtrage est effectué dans le domaine temporel grâce à l’expression explicite des coefficients du filtre. La méthode se base sur l’utilisation d’un schéma d’échantillonnage périodique non uniforme appelé PNS2 (pour Periodic Nonuniform Sampling d’ordre 2) qui utilise deux séquences d’échantillonnage périodique entrelacées. Des formules appropriées sont établies afin de reconstruire le signal, permettant également de supprimer l’interférence grâce à un filtrage sélectif. L’observation sur une fenêtre de taille infinie (nombre infini d’échantillons) mène à une reconstruction exacte. Cependant, dans les applications, la conversion numérique-analogique est généralement pratiquée en temps réel à l’aide d’une fenêtre d’observation glissante et de taille finie (nombre fini d’échantillons). Ainsi les formules de reconstruction doivent avoir un taux de convergence élevé. Cet article propose donc des formules avec différents taux de convergence grâce à l’utilisation de filtres avec des fonctions de tranfert de régularité croissante. Des simulations se basant sur la variation de différents paramètres expérimentaux nous ont permis de tester la méthode

Endogenous Timing in a Mixed Duopoly with Managerial Delegation: A Quadratic Cost Case

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