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Monitoring Low-Cycle Fatigue Material-Degradation by Ultrasonic Methods
Any system consisting of structural material often undergoes fatigue, which is caused by dynamic load cycle. As a structural system, nuclear power plant is very likely to have low-cycle fatigue at many of its components. Taking into account the importance of monitoring low-cycle fatigue on structural components to prevent them from getting failure, the authors have conducted a work to monitor material degradation caused by low-cycle fatigue by using ultrasonic method. An alloy of Cu-40Zn was used as a test specimen. Ultrasonic water immersion procedure was employed in this ultrasonic test. The probe used is a focusing type and has frequency as high as 15 MHz. The specimen area tested is in the middle part divided into 14 points × 23 points. The results, which were frequency spectrums, were analyzed using two parameters: frequency spectrum peak intensity and attenuation function gradient. The analysis indicates that peak intensity increases at the beginning of load cycle and then decreases. Meanwhile, gradient of attenuation function is lower at the beginning of fatigue process, and then consistently gets higher. It concludes that low-fatigue material degradation can be monitored by using ultrasonic method.Received: 20 November 2009; Revised: 31 August 2010; Accepted: 31 August 201
Monitoring Low-Cycle Fatigue Material-Degradation by Ultrasonic Methods
Any system consisting of structural material often undergoes fatigue, which is caused by dynamic load cycle. As a structural system, nuclear power plant is very likely to have low-cycle fatigue at many of its components. Taking into account the importance of monitoring low-cycle fatigue on structural components to prevent them from getting failure, the authors have conducted a work to monitor material degradation caused by low-cycle fatigue by using ultrasonic method. An alloy of Cu-40Zn was used as a test specimen. Ultrasonic water immersion procedure was employed in this ultrasonic test. The probe used is a focusing type and has frequency as high as 15 MHz. The specimen area tested is in the middle part divided into 14 points × 23 points. The results, which were frequency spectrums, were analyzed using two parameters: frequency spectrum peak intensity and attenuation function gradient. The analysis indicates that peak intensity increases at the beginning of load cycle and then decreases. Meanwhile, gradient of attenuation function is lower at the beginning of fatigue process, and then consistently gets higher. It concludes that low-fatigue material degradation can be monitored by using ultrasonic method.Received: 20 November 2009; Revised: 31 August 2010; Accepted: 31 August 201
Spin Gaps in a Frustrated Heisenberg model for CaVO
I report results of a density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) study of a
model for the two dimensional spin-gapped system CaVO. This study
represents the first time that DMRG has been used to study a two dimensional
system on large lattices, in this case as large as , allowing
extrapolation to the thermodynamic limit. I present a substantial improvement
to the DMRG algorithms which makes these calculations feasible.Comment: 10 pages, with 4 Postscript figure
Magnetic Susceptibility for
We examine experimental magnetic susceptibility for
CaVO by fitting with fitting function .
The function is a power series of 1/T and the lowest order
term is fixed as , where is the Curie constant as determined by the
experimental -value (g=1.96). Fitting parameters are , and
expansion coefficients except for the first one in .
We determine and as 0.73 and 0 for an
experimental sample. We interpret as the volume fraction of
CaVO in the sample and as the susceptibility for the
pure CaVO. The result of means that the sample includes
nonmagnetic components. This interpretation consists with the result of a
perturbation theory and a neutron scattering experiment.Comment: 4pages, 4figure
Impurity Effect on Spin Ladder System
Effects of nonmagnetic impurity doping in a spin ladder system with a spin
gap are investigated by the exact diagonalization as well as by the variational
Monte Carlo calculations. Substantial changes in macroscopic properties such as
enhancements in spin correlations and magnetic susceptibilities are observed in
the low impurity concentration region, which are caused by the increase of
low-energy states. These results suggest that small but finite amount of
nonmagnetic impurity doping relevantly causes the reduction or the vanishment
of the spin gap. This qualitatively explains the experimental result of
Zn-doped SrCuO where small doping induces gapless nature. We
propose a possible scenario for this drastic change as a quantum phase
transition in a spin gapped ladder system due to spinon doping effects.Comment: 14 pages LaTeX including 5 PS figure
Structure and magnetic properties of Co/CoO and Co/Si core-shell cluster assemblies prepared via gas-phase
Plasma-gas condensation cluster deposition systems have been introduced and applied for preparation of Co/CoO and Co/Si clusters assemblies. In Co/CoO cluster assemblies prepared by the single source PGC system with introduction of O-2 gas into the deposition chamber, fee Co cores are covered with NaCl type CoO shells, showing marked enhancement of unidirectional and uniaxial magnetic anisotropy and a clear cross-over phenomenon in the magnetic relaxation from the high temperature thermal regime to the low temperature quantum tunneling regime. In Co/Si cluster assemblies prepared by the double source PGC system, fee Co cores are also covered with amorphous Si rich shells, showing rather small magnetic coercivity. Since Co/CoO and Co/Si core-shell clusters are stable in ambient atmosphere, they will be used as building blocks for novel nano-structure-controlled materials. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Convergent expansions for properties of the Heisenberg model for CaVO
We have carried out a wide range of calculations for the Heisenberg
model with nearest- and second-neighbor interactions on a two-dimensional
lattice which describes the geometry of the vanadium ions in the spin-gap
system CaVO. The methods used were convergent high-order perturbation
expansions (``Ising'' and ``Plaquette'' expansions at , as well as
high-temperature expansions) for quantities such as the uniform susceptibility,
sublattice magnetization, and triplet elementary excitation spectrum.
Comparison with the data for CaVO indicates that its magnetic
properties are well described by nearest-neighbor exchange of about 200K in
conjunction with second-neighbor exchange of about 100K.Comment: Uses REVTEX macros. Four pages in two-column format, five postscript
figures. Files packaged using uufile
Meta-Plaquette Expansion for the Triplet Excitation Spectrum in CaVO
We study antiferromagnetic, Heisenberg models with nearest and second
neighbor interactions on the one-fifth depleted square lattice which describes
the spin degrees of freedom in the spin-gap system CaVO. The
meta-plaquette expansion for the triplet excitation spectrum is extended to
fifth order, and the results are compared with experimental data on
CaVO. We attempt to locate the phase boundary between magnetically
ordered and gapped phases.Comment: 4 figure
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