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Some approaches to corrosion fatigue assessment for structural components of heat-and-power engineering equipment
Some approaches for assessment of corrosion fatigue of materials and structural
components for power engineering equipment are presented. Here, the main attention was
paid for so-called “non-traditional” damages which are not predicted by normative
instructions and which are occurred as result of long time of exploitation or as result of
different reflections of operating regimes of equipment. Methods for strength and durability
assessment of materials and structural elements are stated on the fracture mechanics basis.
Expert assessment of technical state of heat-and-power engineering equipment is considered
with taken into account of the actual data of metal properties and operating conditions of
equipment
Feasibility of a Small, Rapid Optical-to-IR Response, Next Generation Gamma Ray Burst Mission
We present motivations for and study feasibility of a small, rapid optical to
IR response gamma ray burst (GRB) space observatory. By analyzing existing GRB
data, we give realistic detection rates for X-ray and optical/IR instruments of
modest size under actual flight conditions. Given new capabilities of fast
optical/IR response (about 1 s to target) and simultaneous multi-band imaging,
such an observatory can have a reasonable event rate, likely leading to new
science. Requiring a Swift-like orbit, duty cycle, and observing constraints, a
Swift-BAT scaled down to 190 square cm of detector area would still detect and
locate about 27 GRB per yr. for a trigger threshold of 6.5 sigma. About 23
percent of X-ray located GRB would be detected optically for a 10 cm diameter
instrument (about 6 per yr. for the 6.5 sigma X-ray trigger).Comment: Elaborated text version of a poster presented at 2012 Malaga/Marbella
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Three natural mechanical systems on Stiefel varieties
We consider integrable generalizations of the spherical pendulum system to
the Stiefel variety for a certain metric. For the case
of V(n,2) an alternative integrable model of the pendulum is presented.
We also describe a system on the Stiefel variety with a four-degree
potential. The latter has invariant relations on which provide the
complete integrability of the flow reduced on the oriented Grassmannian variety
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