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Creep fatigue life assessment of a pipe intersection with dissimilar material joint by linear matching method
As the energy demand increases the power industry has to enhance both efficiency and environmental sustainability of power plants by increasing the operating temperature. The accurate creep fatigue life assessment is important for the safe operation and design of current and future power plant stations. This paper proposes a practical creep fatigue life assessment case of study by the Linear Matching Method (LMM) framework. The LMM for extended Direct Steady Cycle Analysis (eDSCA) has been adopted to calculate the creep fatigue responses due to the cyclic loading under high temperature conditions. A pipe intersection with dissimilar material joint, subjected to high cycling temperature and constant pressure steam, is used as an example. The closed end condition is considered at both ends of main and branch pipes. The impact of the material mismatch, transitional thermal load, and creep dwell on the failure mechanism and location within the intersection is investigated. All the results demonstrate the capability of the method, and how a direct method is able to support engineers in the assessment and design of high temperature component in a complex loading scenario
Quark Condensates in Nuclear Matter in the Global Color Symmetry Model of QCD
With the global color symmetry model being extended to finite chemical
potential, we study the density dependence of the local and nonlocal scalar
quark condensates in nuclear matter. The calculated results indicate that the
quark condensates increase smoothly with the increasing of nuclear matter
density before the critical value (about 12) is reached. It also
manifests that the chiral symmetry is restored suddenly as the density of
nuclear matter reaches its critical value. Meanwhile, the nonlocal quark
condensate in nuclear matter changes nonmonotonously against the space-time
distance among the quarks.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure
The edge engineering of topological Bi(111) bilayer
A topological insulator is a novel quantum state, characterized by
symmetry-protected non-trivial edge/surface states. Our first-principle
simulations show the significant effects of the chemical decoration on edge
states of topological Bi(111) bilayer nanoribbon, which remove the trivial edge
state and recover the Dirac linear dispersion of topological edge state. By
comparing the edge states with and without chemical decoration, the Bi(111)
bilayer nanoribbon offers a simple system for assessing conductance fluctuation
of edge states. The chemical decoration can also modify the penetration depth
and the spin texture of edge states. A low-energy effective model is proposed
to explain the distinctive spin texture of Bi(111) bilayer nanoribbon, which
breaks the spin-momentum orthogonality along the armchair edge.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Reevaluation of the density dependence of nucleon radius and mass in the global color symmetry model of QCD
With the global color symmetry model (GCM) at finite chemical potential, the
density dependence of the bag constant, the total energy and the radius of a
nucleon in nuclear matter is investigated. A relation between the nuclear
matter density and the chemical potential with the action of QCD being taken
into account is obtained. A maximal nuclear matter density for the existence of
the bag with three quarks confined within is given. The calculated results
indicate that, before the maximal density is reached, the bag constant and the
total energy of a nucleon decrease, and the radius of a nucleon increases
slowly, with the increasing of the nuclear matter density. As the maximal
nuclear matter density is reached, the mass of the nucleon vanishes and the
radius becomes infinite suddenly. It manifests that a phase transition from
nucleons to quarks takes place.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figure
Transport discovery of emerging robust helical surface states in systems
We study the possibility of realizing robust helical surface states in
systems. We find that the combination of anisotropy and finite-size
confinement leads to the emergence of robust helical edge states in both 2D and
3D systems. By investigating an anisotropic Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model
in a finite sample, we demonstrate that the transport manifestation of the
surface states is robust against non-magnetic disorder, resembling that of a
phase. Notably, the effective energy gap for the robust helical
states can be efficiently engineered, allowing for potential applications as
valley filters and valley valves. The realization of emerging robust helical
surface states in realistic material is also discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. on Nov. 25. 201
Tris(5,6-dimethyl-1H-benzimidazole-κN 3)(pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylato-κ3 O 2,N,O 6)nickel(II)
The title mononuclear complex, [Ni(C7H3NO4)(C9H10N2)3], shows a central NiII atom which is coordinated by two carboxylate O atoms and the N atom from a pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate ligand and by three N atoms from different 5,6-dimethyl-1H-benzimidazole ligands in a distorted octahedral geometry. The crystal structure shows intermolecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds
Tris(1H-benzimidazole-κN 3)(pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylato-κ3 O 2,N,O 6)nickel(II)
In the title complex, [Ni(C7H3NO4)(C7H6N2)3], the NiII ion is coordinated by two carboxylate O atoms and the N atom from a pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate ligand and by three N atoms from three benzimidazole ligands to form a slightly distorted octahedral geometry. In the crystal, molecules are linked by N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds to form a three-dimensional network
One-dimensional quantum channel in a graphene line defect
Using a tight-binding model, we study a line defect in graphene where a bulk
energy gap is opened by sublattice symmetry breaking. It is found that
sublattice symmetry breaking may induce many configurations that correspond to
different band spectra. In particular, a gapless state is observed for a
configuration which hold a mirror symmetry with respect to the line defect. We
find that this gapless state originates from the line defect and is independent
of the width of the graphene ribbon, the location of the line defect, and the
potentials in the edges of the ribbon. In particular, the gapless state can be
controlled by the gate voltage embedded below the line defect. Finally, this
result is supported with conductance calculations. This study shows how a
quantum channel could be constructed using a line defect, and how the quantum
channel can be controlled by tuning the gate voltage embedded below the line
defect.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figure
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