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Fracture Toughness of Silicate Glasses: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Understanding, predicting and eventually improving the resistance to fracture
of silicate materials is of primary importance to design new glasses that would
be tougher, while retaining their transparency. However, the atomic mechanism
of the fracture in amorphous silicate materials is still a topic of debate. In
particular, there is some controversy about the existence of ductility at the
nano-scale during the crack propagation. Here, we present simulations of the
fracture of three archetypical silicate glasses using molecular dynamics. We
show that the methodology that is used provide realistic values of fracture
energy and toughness. In addition, the simulations clearly suggest that
silicate glasses can show different degrees of ductility, depending on their
composition.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1410.291
Disentangling The Effects Of The Employee Benefits On Employee Productivity
This study aimed to investigate the effects of employee benefits on employee productivity. There are conflicting views, positive and negative, with regard to the effect of employee benefits on employee productivity. Overall, we found that employee benefits have a positive impact on employee productivity through the embodied effect (direct effect). Specifically, according to a workplace panel survey in Korea conducted between 2005 and 2009, an increase of one unit in employee benefits leads to an increase of employee productivity by about 7.9%. In addition, we found that such effect is stronger in the manufacturing industry than in the non-manufacturing industry. Although there is no difference in the effect of benefits between large firms and small and medium-sized firms, the labor-embodied effect is stronger in large firms, and the capital-embodied effect is salient in small and medium-sized firms
Continuous and Semi-Continuous Operations of Chemical-Looping Combustion in an Annular Fluidized Bed Reactor with Solids Circulation
Chemical-looping combustion (CLC) of methane was carried out in an annular shape fluidized bed reactor with double circulations. Combustion efficiency of the continuous and semi-continuous operations with NiO and Fe2O3 supported on bentonite were determined. Combustion efficiencies of the semi-continuous operations with NiO/bentonite and Fe2O3/bentonite are over 99 % in both cases, and those of the continuous operations are around 97 % and 72 %, respectively. The chemical reactivity of NiO is higher than Fe2O3 in the CLC process. The concentration of CO in flue gas was below 1% and no H2 emission was detected
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Fluidization XIII: New Paradigm in Fluidization Engineering May 16-21, 2010 Hotel Hyundai, Gyeong-ju, Kore
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