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Service Parts Inventory Control with Lateral Transshipment that Takes Time
In equipment-intensive industries such as truck manufacturing, electronics manufacturing, photo copiers, and airliners, service parts are often slow moving items for which, in some cases, the transshipment time is not negligible. However, this aspect is hardly considered in the existing spare parts literature. We assess the effect of non-negligible lateral transshipment time on various aspects of spare parts inventory control. Furthermore, we introduce customer-oriented service levels by taking the uncommitted pipeline stocks into account. A case study in the dredging industry shows that lateral transshipment may lead to lower system performance, which supports the results from some recent studies. Furthermore, we find that considerable savings can be obtained when we include the uncommitted pipeline stocks in both base stock allocation and lateral transshipment decisions.inventory control;METRIC;customer-oriented service level;lateral transshipment
Diffusion and electron emission properties of duplex refractory metal thermionic emitters
Diffusion and electron emission properties of duplex refractory metal thermionic emitter
Development of chemically vapor deposited rhenium emitters of (0001) preferred crystal orientation
Rhenium thermionic emitters were prepared by the pyrolysis of rhenium chlorides formed by the chlorination of rhenium pellets. The impurity contents, microstructures, degrees of (0001) preferred crystal orientation, and vacuum electron work functions of these emitters were determined as a function of deposition parameters, such as substrate temperature, rhenium pellet temperature and chlorine flow rate. A correlation between vacuum electron work function and degree of (0001) preferred crystal orientation was established. Conditions for depositing porosity-free rhenium emitters of high vacuum electron work functions were defined. Finally, three cylindrical rhenium emitters were prepared under the optimum deposition conditions
The puzzles in and decays: possible implications for R-parity violating supersymmetry
Recent experiments suggest that certain data of decays
are inconsistent with the standard model expectations. We try to explain the
discrepancies with R-parity violating suppersymmetry. By employing the QCD
factorization approach, we study these decays in the minimal supersymmetric
standard model with R-parity violation. We show that R-parity violation can
resolve the discrepancies in both and decays, and
find that in some regions of parameter spaces all these requirements, including
the CP averaged branching ratios and the direct CP asymmetries, can be
satisfied. Furthermore, we have derived stringent bounds on relevant R-parity
violating couplings from the latest experimental data, and some of these
constraints are stronger than the existing bounds.Comment: 24 pages, 6 figures and 5 tables. Text revised. Final version to
appear in PR
Antiferromagnetic Alignment and Relaxation Rate of Gd Spins in the High Temperature Superconductor GdBa_2Cu_3O_(7-delta)
The complex surface impedance of a number of GdBaCuO
single crystals has been measured at 10, 15 and 21 GHz using a cavity
perturbation technique. At low temperatures a marked increase in the effective
penetration depth and surface resistance is observed associated with the
paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic alignment of the Gd spins. The effective
penetration depth has a sharp change in slope at the N\'eel temperature, ,
and the surface resistance peaks at a frequency dependent temperature below 3K.
The observed temperature and frequency dependence can be described by a model
which assumes a negligibly small interaction between the Gd spins and the
electrons in the superconducting state, with a frequency dependent magnetic
susceptibility and a Gd spin relaxation time being a strong function
of temperature. Above , has a component varying as , while below it increases .Comment: 4 Pages, 4 Figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
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Computer Generation of Metal Components by Simultaneous Deposition of Mould, Cores and Part
A new solid freeforming method based on co-delivery of mould powder materials and part
powder materials using vibration-controlled, dry powder valves is presented in this paper. Thin
layers of stainless steel powder are delivered to the forming area according to the cross-section of
the CAD file to produce the component. Mould powder which has low sinterability is delivered to
the non-forming areas of the same layer. All powders are delivered by computer-controlled,
acoustic powder valves. The flow rate and switching of the valves provides the composition and
shape control during fabrication. The stacked layers of loose powder are then sintered in a
conventional furnace. The mould materials are removed after sintering. This method avoids the
high thermal stress problem in selective laser sintering, avoids high capitalisation, makes use of
conventional furnaces and allows for the incorporation of three dimensional function gradients.
Test pieces including step wedge and Spierpinski’s cube were fabricated. Advantages, limitations
and problems are discussed.Mechanical Engineerin
Surface roughness and interfacial slip boundary condition for quartz crystal microbalances
The response of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is considered using a wave equation for the substrate and the Navier-Stokes equations for a finite liquid layer under a slip boundary condition. It is shown that when the slip length to shear wave penetration depth is small, the first order effect of slip is only present in the frequency response. Importantly, in this approximation the frequency response satisfies an additivity relation with a net response equal to a Kanazawa liquid term plus an additional Sauerbrey "rigid" liquid mass. For the slip length to result in an enhanced frequency decrease compared to a no-slip boundary condition, it is shown that the slip length must be negative so that the slip plane is located on the liquid side of the interface. It is argued that the physical application of such a negative slip length could be to the liquid phase response of a QCM with a completely wetted rough surface. Effectively, the model recovers the starting assumption of additivity used in the trapped mass model for the liquid phase response of a QCM having a rough surface. When applying the slip boundary condition to the rough surface problem, slip is not at a molecular level, but is a formal hydrodynamic boundary condition which relates the response of the QCM to that expected from a QCM with a smooth surface. Finally, possible interpretations of the results in terms of acoustic reflectivity are developed and the potential limitations of the additivity result should vapour trapping occur are discussed
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