Determination of heat transfer coefficient for hot stamping process

© 2015 The Authors.The selection of the heat transfer coefficient is one of the most important factors that determine the reliability of FE simulation results of a hot stamping process, in which the formed component is held within cold dies until fully quenched. The quenching process could take up to 10. seconds. In order to maximise the production rate, the optimised quenching parameters should be identified to achieve the highest possible quenching rate and to reduce the quenching time. For this purpose, a novel-testing rig for the Gleeble 3800 thermo- mechanical simulator was designed and manufactured, with an advanced control system for temperature and contact pressure. The effect of contact pressure on the heat transfer coefficient was studied. The findings of this research will provide useful guidelines for the selection of the heat transfer coefficient in simulations of hot stamping processes and useful information for the design of hot stamping processes

Lorentz Symmetry and the Internal Structure of the Nucleon

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Single-Electron Traps: A Quantitative Comparison of Theory and Experiment

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The box diagram in Yukawa theory

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Quark Orbital-Angular-Momentum Distribution in the Nucleon

We introduce gauge-invariant quark and gluon angular momentum distributions after making a generalization of the angular momentum density operators. From the quark angular momentum distribution, we define the gauge-invariant and leading-twist quark {\it orbital} angular momentum distribution $L_q(x)$. The latter can be extracted from data on the polarized and unpolarized quark distributions and the off-forward distribution $E(x)$ in the forward limit. We comment upon the evolution equations obeyed by this as well as other orbital distributions considered in the literature.Comment: 8 pages, latex, no figures, minor corrections mad

The General Theory of Quantum Field Mixing

We present a general theory of mixing for an arbitrary number of fields with integer or half-integer spin. The time dynamics of the interacting fields is solved and the Fock space for interacting fields is explicitly constructed. The unitary inequivalence of the Fock space of base (unmixed) eigenstates and the physical mixed eigenstates is shown by a straightforward algebraic method for any number of flavors in boson or fermion statistics. The oscillation formulas based on the nonperturbative vacuum are derived in a unified general formulation and then applied to both two and three flavor cases. Especially, the mixing of spin-1 (vector) mesons and the CKM mixing phenomena in the Standard Model are discussed emphasizing the nonperturbative vacuum effect in quantum field theory