156 research outputs found

    Mechanical characterisation of tungsten-1wt.% yttrium oxide as a function of temperature and atmosphere

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    This study evaluates the mechanical behaviour of an Y2O3-dispersed tungsten (W) alloy and compares it to a pure W reference material. Both materials were processed via mechanical alloying (MA) and subsequent hot isostatic pressing (HIP). We performed non-standard three-point bending (TPB) tests in both an oxidising atmosphere and vacuum across a temperature range from 77 K, obtained via immersion in liquid nitrogen, to 1473 K to determine the mechanical strength, yield strength and fracture toughness. This research aims to evaluate how the mechanical behaviour of the alloy is affected by oxides formed within the material at high temperatures, primarily from 873 K, when the materials undergo a massive thermal degradation. The results indicate that the alloy is brittle to a high temperature (1473 K) under both atmospheres and that the mechanical properties degrade significantly above 873 K. We also used Vickers microhardness tests and the dynamic modulus by impulse excitation technique (IET) to determine the elastic modulus at room temperature. Moreover, we performed nanoindentation tests to determine the effect of size on the hardness and elastic modulus; however, no significant differences were found. Additionally, we calculated the relative density of the samples to assess the porosity of the alloy. Finally, we analysed the microstructure and fracture surfaces of the tested materials via field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In this way, the relationship between the macroscopic mechanical properties and micromechanisms of failure could be determined based on the temperature and oxides forme

    Configuración del Paisaje y Conservación de Hábitat Dunares: Las Dunas de Coterillo en la Región de Murcia (España)

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    El paisaje de Coterillo se caracteriza por hábitats que comparten el territorio con especies exóticas-invasoras y otras especies, que se plantaron a principios del siglo XX para fijar las dunas que invadían los estanques salineros. La metodología se ha basado muestreos de campo, análisis bibliográfico y del paisaje de cartografía histórica, del vuelo aéreo de 1957 y del satélite de 2016, para analizar la evolución de los hábitats y de las especies exóticas-invasoras. En la actualidad hay 15 hábitats de interés comunitario, entre los que destacan los prioritarios 1510 Estepas salinas mediterráneas Limonietalia y 2250 Dunas litorales con Juniperus sp, con problemas de conservación por uso recreativo del territorio y competencia con especies exóticas-invasoras. Se analizan las acciones de gestión de la administración para recuperar los hábitats, entre las que destacan el control de especies exóticas-invasoras y ordenación del uso público. La prioridad es la recuperación de los hábitats originarios de dunas, por lo que se recomienda mantener las actuaciones emprendidas por la administración, en particular reforzar la sustitución de las especies arbóreas introducidas, sobre todo Pinus halepensis, por Juniperus turbinata y otras especies de dunas, así como reforzar las actuaciones para erradicar las especies exóticas invasoras.-- The landscape of Coterillo is characterized by habitats that share the territory with exotic-invasive species and other species, which were planted in the early twentieth century to fix the dunes that invaded the salt ponds. The methodology has been based on field samplings, bibliographic and landscape analysis of historical cartography, the 1957 aerial flight and the 2016 satellite, to analyze the evolution of habitats and exotic-invasive species. At present there are 15 habitats of community interest, among which the priority ones are 1510 Mediterranean salt stepas Limonietalia and 2250 coastal dunes with Juniperus sp, with conservation problems due to recreational use of the territory and competition with exotic-invasive species. The management actions of the administration are analyzed to recover the habitats, among which the control of exotic-invasive species and public use management stand out. The priority is the recovery of habitats originating from dunes, which is why it is recommended to maintain the actions undertaken by the administration, in particular to reinforce the substitution of introduced tree species, especially Pinus halepensis, for Juniperus turbinata and other dune species, as well as reinforce actions to eradicate invasive alien species. Keywords: Coterillo; dunes; species; exotic-invasive; managemen

    Quantization on a 2-dimensional phase space with a constant curvature tensor

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    Some properties of the star product of the Weyl type (i.e. associated with the Weyl ordering) are proved. Fedosov construction of the *-product on a 2-dimensional phase spacewith a constant curvature tensor is presented. Eigenvalue equations for momentum p and position q on a 2-dimensional phase space with constant curvature tensors are solved.Comment: 33 pages, LaTeX, Annals of Physics (2003

    Improving the Accuracy of a Two-Stage Algorithm in Evolutionary Product Unit Neural Networks for Classification by Means of Feature Selection

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    This paper introduces a methodology that improves the accuracy of a two-stage algorithm in evolutionary product unit neural networks for classification tasks by means of feature selection. A couple of filters have been taken into consideration to try out the proposal. The experimentation has been carried out on seven data sets from the UCI repository that report test mean accuracy error rates about twenty percent or above with reference classifiers such as C4.5 or 1-NN. The study includes an overall empirical comparison between the models obtained with and without feature selection. Also several classifiers have been tested in order to illustrate the performance of the different filters considered. The results have been contrasted with nonparametric statistical tests and show that our proposal significantly improves the test accuracy of the previous models for the considered data sets. Moreover, the current proposal is much more efficient than a previous methodology developed by us; lastly, the reduction percentage in the number of inputs is above a fifty five, on average.MICYT TIN2007-68084-C02-02MICYT TIN2008-06681-C06-03Junta de Andalucía P08-TIC-374

    Determinación del estado hídrico en viña a través de imágenes RGB y multiespectrales adquiridas por un VANT

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    La teledetección se ha convertido en una herramienta muy utilizada en la agricultura de precisión. La existencia de sensores ligeros, calibrados geométrica y radiométricamente, ha hecho que los vehículos aéreos no tripulados (VANTs) sean una de las plataformas más utilizadas en teledetección por obtener datos de muy alta resolución espacial y temporal. En el marco de la viticultura de precisión, haciendo uso de VANTs para la obtención de imágenes aéreas de la cubierta vegetal que proporcionen información agronómicamente útil para hacer un manejo y una gestión del riego sostenible y eficiente frente a la escasez hídrica existente principalmente en zonas áridas y semiáridas, se llevó a cabo un estudio en un viñedo localizado en Fuente-Álamo (Albacete) durante 2018 y 2019. Para obtener un amplio rango de condiciones de estado hídrico de la vid, varias estrategias de riego fueron aplicadas incluyendo regímenes con diferentes niveles de salinidad del agua, estableciendo diferencias en el estado hídrico de la cepa. Los vuelos se hicieron a lo largo del ciclo fenológico usando sensores convencionales (o RGB -red, green, blue-) y multiespectrales a bordo de un VANT, obteniendo ortoimágenes. Estas ortoimágenes fueron segmentadas para incluir solo la vegetación obteniendo el grado de cobertura verde como un parámetro geométrico representativo del desarrollo vegetal del cultivo. El potencial hídrico de tallo fue medido a mediodía con cámaras de presión, y la integral de estrés hídrico fue calculada a partir de estas medidas de estado hídrico, como una variable representativa del efecto acumulado de la intensidad y duración del estrés hídrico desde el comienzo del ciclo de desarrollo hasta el momento de la medida. Modelos de regresión lineal simple usando índices de vegetación basados en la respuesta espectral de la vegetación y el grado de cobertura verde fueron evaluados para predecir la integral de estrés hídrico. Técnicas de regresión no lineal usando redes neuronales artificiales con bandas de los sensores multiespectral y RGB y el grado de cobertura verde como variables predictoras de la integral de estrés hídrico también fueron empleadas. Ambos modelos mostraron que los datos del rango visible (pese a la menor reflectividad de la vegetación en este rango espectral) fueron más útiles para predecir la integral de estrés hídrico que los datos del rango multiespectral, que consideran la reflectividad en el red-edge y en el infrarrojo cercano, proporcionando mejores resultados los modelos no lineales de redes neuronales artificiales con valores de R2 próximos a 1 y errores relativos de 1.5 % o ligeramente superiores. La mayor resolución espacial, calidad radiométrica, facilidad de uso de la cámara RGB, su menor precio y fácil procesamiento de las imágenes RGB hace que estos sensores, utilizados en menor medida con usos agrícolas, sean una buena opción para usarse en la predicción del estado hídrico en viña

    Evidence for softening of first-order transition in 3D by quenched disorder

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    We study by extensive Monte Carlo simulations the effect of random bond dilution on the phase transition of the three-dimensional 4-state Potts model which is known to exhibit a strong first-order transition in the pure case. The phase diagram in the dilution-temperature plane is determined from the peaks of the susceptibility for sufficiently large system sizes. In the strongly disordered regime, numerical evidence for softening to a second-order transition induced by randomness is given. Here a large-scale finite-size scaling analysis, made difficult due to strong crossover effects presumably caused by the percolation fixed point, is performed.Comment: LaTeX file with Revtex, 4 pages, 4 eps figure

    The Eigenvalue Analysis of the Density Matrix of 4D Spin Glasses Supports Replica Symmetry Breaking

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    We present a general and powerful numerical method useful to study the density matrix of spin models. We apply the method to finite dimensional spin glasses, and we analyze in detail the four dimensional Edwards-Anderson model with Gaussian quenched random couplings. Our results clearly support the existence of replica symmetry breaking in the thermodynamical limit.Comment: 8 pages, 13 postscript figure

    Ultrametricity in 3D Edwards-Anderson spin glasses

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    We perform an accurate test of Ultrametricity in the aging dynamics of the three dimensional Edwards-Anderson spin glass. Our method consists in considering the evolution in parallel of two identical systems constrained to have fixed overlap. This turns out to be a particularly efficient way to study the geometrical relations between configurations at distant large times. Our findings strongly hint towards dynamical ultrametricity in spin glasses, while this is absent in simpler aging systems with domain growth dynamics. A recently developed theory of linear response in glassy systems allows to infer that dynamical ultrametricity implies the same property at the level of equilibrium states.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

    Ising model on 3D random lattices: A Monte Carlo study

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    We report single-cluster Monte Carlo simulations of the Ising model on three-dimensional Poissonian random lattices with up to 128,000 approx. 503 sites which are linked together according to the Voronoi/Delaunay prescription. For each lattice size quenched averages are performed over 96 realizations. By using reweighting techniques and finite-size scaling analyses we investigate the critical properties of the model in the close vicinity of the phase transition point. Our random lattice data provide strong evidence that, for the available system sizes, the resulting effective critical exponents are indistinguishable from recent high-precision estimates obtained in Monte Carlo studies of the Ising model and \phi^4 field theory on three-dimensional regular cubic lattices.Comment: 35 pages, LaTex, 8 tables, 8 postscript figure

    Ingeniería molecular en "Triticum"

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    Se resumen las investigaciones realizadas sobre genética bioquímica de la especie aloploide de Triticum aestivum L. (trigo común). Dichas investigaciones abarcan los siguientes aspectos: a) localización cromosómica de genes que controlan sistemas moleculares; b) formas de interacción entre los genomios integrados en dicha especie; c) transferencia genética extraespecífica y extragenérica desde Aegilops ventricosa, Sécale cereale y Agropyron elongatum a trigo. Se especula sobre las implicaciones evolutivas de los resultados obtenidos y se enumeran las aplicaciones prácticas
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