Hygrothermal effects on mechanical behavior of graphite/epoxy laminates beyond initial failure

An investigation was conducted to determine the critical load levels and associated cracking beyond which a multidirectional laminate can be considered as structurally failed. Graphite/epoxy laminates were loaded to different strain levels up to ultimate failure. Transverse matrix cracking was monitored by acoustic and optical methods. Residual stiffness and strength that were parallel and perpendicular to the cracks were determined and related to the environmental/loading history. Results indicate that cracking density in the transverse layers has no major effect on laminate residual properties as long as the angle ply layers retain their structural integrity. Exposure to hot water revealed that cracking had only a small effect on absorption and reduced swelling when these specimens were compared with uncracked specimens. Cracked, moist specimens showed a moderate reduction in strength when compared with their uncracked counterparts. Within the range of environmental/loading conditions of the present study, it is concluded that the transverse cracking process is not crucial in its effect on the structural performance of multidirectional composite laminates

Asymptotic safety, hypergeometric functions, and the Higgs mass in spectral action models

We study the renormalization group flow for the Higgs self coupling in the presence of gravitational correction terms. We show that the resulting equation is equivalent to a singular linear ODE, which has explicit solutions in terms of hypergeometric functions. We discuss the implications of this model with gravitational corrections on the Higgs mass estimates in particle physics models based on the spectral action functional.Comment: 25 pages, LaTeX, 8 PDF figure

Corn Response to Foliar-Applied Zinc Fertilizers

This study was conducted to determine corn response to three foliar-applied zinc sources. The study was conducted on dryland corn in Manhattan, KS, during the 2014 growing season. Yields were low as a result of very low precipitation during pollination and grain fill. There was no yield response to foliar-applied Zn; however, grain analysis show significant increases in grain Zn concentration from foliar-applied Zn. Foliar-applied Zn products are effective for increasing Zn uptake in corn. Additional studies need to be conducted to determine the yield response

Edge helicons and repulsion of fundamental edge magnetoplasmons in the quantum Hall regime

A quasi-microscopic treatment of edge magnetoplasmons (EMP) is presented for very low temperatures and confining potentials smooth on the scale of the magnetic length $\ell_{0}$ but sufficiently steep at the edges such that Landau level (LL) flattening can be discarded. The profile of the unperturbed electron density is sharp and the dissipation taken into account comes only from electron intra-edge and intra-LL transitions due to scattering by acoustic phonons. For wide channels and filling factors $\nu =1$ and 2, there exist independent EMP modes spatially symmetric and antisymmetric with respect to the edge. Some of these modes, named edge helicons, can propagate nearly undamped even when the dissipation is strong. Their density profile changes qualitatively during propagation and is given by a rotation of a complex vector function. For $\nu >2,$ the Coulomb coupling between the LLs leads to a repulsion of the uncoupled fundamental LL modes: the new modes have very different group velocities and are nearly undamped. The theory accounts well for the experimentally observed plateau structure of the delay times as well as for the EMP's period and decay rates.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure

Biennial wormwood (Artemisia biennis) competition with soybean (Glycine max)

Biennial wormwood has become a serious weed of several crops in the northern Great Plains of the United States and Prairie Provinces of Canada. Greenhouse replacement series experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of watering regime (stressed and non-stressed) and nitrogen rate (50, 100, 150, and 200 mg kg-1 of soil) on competition between soybean and biennial wormwood. Soybean height was reduced after 9 weeks of competition with biennial wormwood compared with soybean grown in monoculture, whereas biennial wormwood plants were taller when grown with soybean than in monoculture. The change in plant height indicated that biennial wormwood height was increased due to interspecific competition, whereas soybean height was reduced. When moisture was limited, the relative yield of biennial wormwood was greater than that of soybean, indicating that biennial wormwood was more aggressive than soybean. Soybean growth was unaffected by an increase in nitrogen rate, whereas biennial wormwood fresh weight was 30% greater when the nitrogen rate was increased from 50 to 200 mg kg-1. Biennial wormwood aggressivity tended to increase as the nitrogen rate was increased from 50 to 200 mg kg-1. Overall results suggest that the negative impact of biennial wormwood competition with soybeans under field conditions may increase when soil moisture is limited and nitrogen fertility is increased.L'armoise bisannuelle est devenue une importante mauvaise herbe pour plusieurs cultures dans le nord des Grandes Plaines des États-Unis et dans les provinces des Prairies au Canada. Des expériences avec des séries de remplacement ont été menées en serre afin d'étudier les effets du régime d'alimentation en eau (stressant et non stressant) et de la quantité d'azote (50, 100, 150 et 200 mg kg-1 de sol) sur la compétition entre le soja et l'armoise bisannuelle. Après 9 semaines de compétition avec l'armoise bisannuelle, la taille du soja était inférieure à celle du soja en monoculture alors que l'armoise bisannuelle était plus grande en présence de soja qu'en monoculture. Les différences dans la taille des plantes montrent que la compétition interspécifique a fait augmenter celle de l'armoise bisannuelle et diminuer celle du soja. Lorsque l'eau était un facteur limitatif, le rendement relatif de l'armoise bisannuelle était plus élevé que celui du soja, ce qui montre que l'armoise bisannuelle était plus agressive que le soja. L'augmentation de la quantité d'azote n'a pas affecté la croissance du soja. Cependant, le poids de matière fraîche de l'armoise bisannuelle était 30 % plus élevé lorsque la quantité d'azote est passée de 50 à 200 mg kg-1. L'agressivité de l'armoise bisannuelle a eu tendance à augmenter lorsque la quantité d'azote est passée de 50 à 200 mg kg-1. Globalement, les résultats montrent que les impacts négatifs de la compétition entre l'armoise bisannuelle et le soja, dans des conditions naturelles, peuvent s'accroître lorsque l'eau manque et que la quantité d'azote disponible augmente

Neurospora crassa chromosome walks

Chromosome walks have been executed for all seven chromosomes of N. crassa, but the amount of coverage varies greatly, from less than 3% (LG V) to about 25% (LG VII). Overall, about 10% of the genome has been covered by chromosome walks (Table 1). All chromosome walks are shown with respect to the position on the chromosome, oriented from the left telomere to the right. The standard nomenclature for these genomic libraries is followed: pSV50 (Vollmer and Yanofsky 1986 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83:4869-4873), pMOcosX (Orbach 1994 Gene 150:159-162), EMBL3 (Yeadon and Catcheside 1995 Curr. Genet. 28:155-163), pCRD103 (Davis et al. 1994 Genetics 136:1297-1306), CBM1 (Cabibbo et al. 1991 Fungal Genet. Newsl. 38:68-70), CBM2 (Ballario et al. 1996 EMBO J. 15:1650-1657) and yeast artificial chromosome (YAC; Centola et al. 1994 Fungal Genet. Newsl. 41:23-33). For precise map positions of the cited alleles, refer to Perkins et al.(1982 Microbiol. Rev. 46:426-570) and Perkins (1992 Fungal Genet. Newsl. 39:61-70)

Momentum Distribution Critical Exponents for 1D Hubbard model in a Magnetic Field

Critical exponents at and for the momentum distribution function are studied for one-dimensional Hubbard model in the presence of magnetic field, using conformal field theory (CFT) approach. Exponents at and are reproduced. Results at is in contrast to earlier numerical prediction of 1, while at , the exponent is 49/8. The singularities at and appears to be weak and gradually degenerating into a smooth curve

Minimizers with discontinuous velocities for the electromagnetic variational method

The electromagnetic two-body problem has \emph{neutral differential delay} equations of motion that, for generic boundary data, can have solutions with \emph{discontinuous} derivatives. If one wants to use these neutral differential delay equations with \emph{arbitrary} boundary data, solutions with discontinuous derivatives must be expected and allowed. Surprisingly, Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics has a boundary value variational method for which minimizer trajectories with discontinuous derivatives are also expected, as we show here. The variational method defines continuous trajectories with piecewise defined velocities and accelerations, and electromagnetic fields defined \emph{by} the Euler-Lagrange equations \emph{% on} trajectory points. Here we use the piecewise defined minimizers with the Li{\'{e}}nard-Wierchert formulas to define generalized electromagnetic fields almost everywhere (but on sets of points of zero measure where the advanced/retarded velocities and/or accelerations are discontinuous). Along with this generalization we formulate the \emph{generalized absorber hypothesis} that the far fields vanish asymptotically \emph{almost everywhere%} and show that localized orbits with far fields vanishing almost everywhere \emph{must} have discontinuous velocities on sewing chains of breaking points. We give the general solution for localized orbits with vanishing far fields by solving a (linear) neutral differential delay equation for these far fields. We discuss the physics of orbits with discontinuous derivatives stressing the differences to the variational methods of classical mechanics and the existence of a spinorial four-current associated with the generalized variational electrodynamics.Comment: corrected minor typo: piecewise differentiable on closed instead of open interval

Study and development of acoustic treatment for jet engine tailpipes

A study and development program was accomplished to attenuate turbine noise generated in the JT3D turbofan engine. Analytical studies were used to design an acoustic liner for the tailpipe. Engine ground tests defined the tailpipe environmental factors and laboratory tests were used to support the analytical studies. Furnace-brazed, stainless steel, perforated sheet acoustic liners were designed, fabricated, installed, and ground tested in the tailpipe of a JT3D engine. Test results showed the turbine tones were suppressed below the level of the jet exhaust for most far field polar angles