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Surface integrity of additive manufacturing parts: a comparison between optical topography measuring techniques
Additive Manufacturing (AM) presents significant industry-specific advantages allowing the creation of complex geometries and internal features that cannot be produced using conventional manufacturing processes. However, a current limitation of AM is the degraded dimensional control and surface integrity of specific surfaces. The parts are constructed through layer-by-layer approach, each layer presenting a characteristic ‘fingerprint’. The functional performance of the final part is influenced by the morphology of the outer surface as well as by the surface quality introduced at intermediate layers. Surface texture metrology therefore can play an enabling role in AM-related manufacture and research. The use of optical topography measurement instrumentation allows for a high level of detail in the acquisition of topographic information. Some of the most commonly used optical measuring instruments are Vertical Scanning Interferometry (CSI), Imaging Confocal Microscopy (CONF), and Focus Variation (FV), each one has benefits and drawbacks in terms of acquisition time and measurement resolution.
AM surfaces overall present complex topographical features, requiring the acquisition of large surface areas and large z-scans which considerably increases the acquisition time. Speed is a key factor in industrial practice, and time optimization is required for quality control and surface analysis before down-stream processes. This paper reports on the measurement and characterisation of the surface texture of metal powder bed fusion AM parts. All measurements were performed in the same SENSOFAR S-NEOX instrument using the commonly used optical technologies (CSI, CONF, and FV) and the latest step in confocal measurement technology called Continuous Confocal (C-CONF). The resolution and acquisition time of each technique is analysed in order to check the suitability of each method to characterize and describe the AM surface microstructures in a time-efficient way
No difference in orbital parameters of RV-detected giant planets between 0.1 and 5 au in single vs multi-stellar systems
Our Keck/NIRC2 imaging survey searches for stellar companions around 144
systems with radial velocity (RV) detected giant planets to determine whether
stellar binaries influence the planets' orbital parameters. This survey, the
largest of its kind to date, finds eight confirmed binary systems and three
confirmed triple systems. These include three new multi-stellar systems (HD
30856, HD 86081, and HD 207832) and three multi-stellar systems with newly
confirmed common proper motion (HD 43691, HD 116029, and HD 164509). We combine
these systems with seven RV planet-hosting multi-stellar systems from the
literature in order to test for differences in the properties of planets with
semimajor axes ranging between 0.1-5 au in single vs multi-stellar systems. We
find no evidence that the presence or absence of stellar companions alters the
distribution of planet properties in these systems. Although the observed
stellar companions might influence the orbits of more distant planetary
companions in these systems, our RV observations currently provide only weak
constraints on the masses and orbital properties of planets beyond 5 au. In
order to aid future efforts to characterize long period RV companions in these
systems, we publish our contrast curves for all 144 targets. Using four years
of astrometry for six hierarchical triple star systems hosting giant planets,
we fit the orbits of the stellar companions in order to characterize the
orbital architecture in these systems. We find that the orbital plane of the
secondary and tertiary companions are inconsistent with an edge-on orbit in
four out of six cases.Comment: 34 pages, 10 figures, 16 tables, including 4 tables in machine
readable format and 7 tables with online supplemental dat
Intelligent sampling for the measurement of structured surfaces
Uniform sampling in metrology has known drawbacks such as coherent spectral aliasing and a lack of efficiency in terms of measuring time and data storage. The requirement for intelligent sampling strategies has been outlined over recent years, particularly where the measurement of structured surfaces is concerned. Most of the present research on intelligent sampling has focused on dimensional metrology using coordinate-measuring machines with little reported on the area of surface metrology. In the research reported here, potential intelligent sampling strategies for surface topography measurement of structured surfaces are investigated by using numerical simulation and experimental verification. The methods include the jittered uniform method, low-discrepancy pattern sampling and several adaptive methods which originate from computer graphics, coordinate metrology and previous research by the authors. By combining the use of advanced reconstruction methods and feature-based characterization techniques, the measurement performance of the sampling methods is studied using case studies. The advantages, stability and feasibility of these techniques for practical measurements are discussed
Reconstruction of three-dimensional porous media using generative adversarial neural networks
To evaluate the variability of multi-phase flow properties of porous media at
the pore scale, it is necessary to acquire a number of representative samples
of the void-solid structure. While modern x-ray computer tomography has made it
possible to extract three-dimensional images of the pore space, assessment of
the variability in the inherent material properties is often experimentally not
feasible. We present a novel method to reconstruct the solid-void structure of
porous media by applying a generative neural network that allows an implicit
description of the probability distribution represented by three-dimensional
image datasets. We show, by using an adversarial learning approach for neural
networks, that this method of unsupervised learning is able to generate
representative samples of porous media that honor their statistics. We
successfully compare measures of pore morphology, such as the Euler
characteristic, two-point statistics and directional single-phase permeability
of synthetic realizations with the calculated properties of a bead pack, Berea
sandstone, and Ketton limestone. Results show that GANs can be used to
reconstruct high-resolution three-dimensional images of porous media at
different scales that are representative of the morphology of the images used
to train the neural network. The fully convolutional nature of the trained
neural network allows the generation of large samples while maintaining
computational efficiency. Compared to classical stochastic methods of image
reconstruction, the implicit representation of the learned data distribution
can be stored and reused to generate multiple realizations of the pore
structure very rapidly.Comment: 21 pages, 20 figure
Obliquity Constraints on an Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Companion
We place the first constraints on the obliquity of a planetary-mass companion outside of the solar system. Our target is the directly imaged system 2MASS J01225093–2439505 (2M0122), which consists of a 120 Myr 0.4 M⊙ star hosting a 12–27 M_J companion at 50 au. We constrain all three of the system's angular-momentum vectors: how the companion spin axis, the stellar spin axis, and the orbit normal are inclined relative to our line of sight. To accomplish this, we measure projected rotation rates (v sin i) for both the star and the companion using new near-infrared high-resolution spectra with NIRSPEC at Keck Observatory. We combine these with a new stellar photometric rotation period from TESS and a published companion rotation period from Hubble Space Telescope to obtain spin-axis inclinations for both objects. We also fitted multiple epochs of astrometry, including a new observation with NIRC2/Keck, to measure 2M0122b's orbital inclination. The three line-of-sight inclinations place limits on the true de-projected companion obliquity and stellar obliquity. We find that while the stellar obliquity marginally prefers alignment, the companion obliquity tentatively favors misalignment. We evaluate possible origin scenarios. While collisions, secular spin–orbit resonances, and Kozai–Lidov oscillations are unlikely, formation by gravitational instability in a gravito-turbulent disk—the scenario favored for brown dwarf companions to stars—appears promising
Pipe network model for scaling of dynamic interfaces in porous media
We present a numerical study on the dynamics of imbibition fronts in porous
media using a pipe network model. This model quantitatively reproduces the
anomalous scaling behavior found in imbibition experiments [Phys. Rev. E {\bf
52}, 5166 (1995)]. Using simple scaling arguments, we derive a new identity
among the scaling exponents in agreement with the experimental results.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Macroscopic Equations of Motion for Two Phase Flow in Porous Media
The established macroscopic equations of motion for two phase immiscible
displacement in porous media are known to be physically incomplete because they
do not contain the surface tension and surface areas governing capillary
phenomena. Therefore a more general system of macroscopic equations is derived
here which incorporates the spatiotemporal variation of interfacial energies.
These equations are based on the theory of mixtures in macroscopic continuum
mechanics. They include wetting phenomena through surface tensions instead of
the traditional use of capillary pressure functions. Relative permeabilities
can be identified in this approach which exhibit a complex dependence on the
state variables. A capillary pressure function can be identified in equilibrium
which shows the qualitative saturation dependence known from experiment. In
addition the new equations allow to describe the spatiotemporal changes of
residual saturations during immiscible displacement.Comment: 15 pages, Phys. Rev. E (1998), in prin
Searching for Scatterers: High-Contrast Imaging of Young Stars Hosting Wide-Separation Planetary-Mass Companions
We have conducted an angular differential imaging survey with NIRC2 at Keck in search of close-in substellar companions to a sample of seven systems with confirmed planetary-mass companions (PMCs) on wide orbits (>50 au). These wide-separation PMCs pose significant challenges to all three possible formation mechanisms: core accretion plus scattering, disk instability, and turbulent fragmentation. We explore the possibility that these companions formed closer in and were scattered out to their present-day locations by searching for other massive bodies at smaller separations. The typical sensitivity for this survey is ΔK ~ 12.5 at 1". We identify eight candidate companions, whose masses would reach as low as one Jupiter mass if gravitationally bound. From our multi-epoch astrometry we determine that seven of these are conclusively background objects, while the eighth near DH Tau is ambiguous and requires additional monitoring. We rule out the presence of >7 M_(Jup) bodies in these systems down to 15–50 au that could be responsible for scattering. This result combined with the totality of evidence suggests that dynamical scattering is unlikely to have produced this population of PMCs. We detect orbital motion from the companions ROXs 42B b and ROXs 12 b, and from this determine 95% upper limits on the companions' eccentricities of 0.58 and 0.83 respectively. Finally, we find that the 95% upper limit on the occurrence rate of additional planets with masses between 5 and 15 M_(Jup) outside of 40 au in systems with PMCs is 54%
Broken symmetry and the variation of critical properties in the phase behaviour of supramolecular rhombus tilings
The degree of randomness, or partial order, present in two-dimensional
supramolecular arrays of isophthalate tetracarboxylic acids is shown to vary
due to subtle chemical changes such as the choice of solvent or small
differences in molecular dimensions. This variation may be quantified using an
order parameter and reveals a novel phase behaviour including random tiling
with varying critical properties as well as ordered phases dominated by either
parallel or non-parallel alignment of neighbouring molecules, consistent with
long-standing theoretical studies. The balance between order and randomness is
driven by small differences in the intermolecular interaction energies, which
we show, using numerical simulations, can be related to the measured order
parameter. Significant variations occur even when the energy difference is much
less than the thermal energy highlighting the delicate balance between entropic
and energetic effects in complex self-assembly processes
Nonequilibrium dynamics of fully frustrated Ising models at T=0
We consider two fully frustrated Ising models: the antiferromagnetic
triangular model in a field of strength, , as well as the Villain
model on the square lattice. After a quench from a disordered initial state to
T=0 we study the nonequilibrium dynamics of both models by Monte Carlo
simulations. In a finite system of linear size, , we define and measure
sample dependent "first passage time", , which is the number of Monte
Carlo steps until the energy is relaxed to the ground-state value. The
distribution of , in particular its mean value, , is shown to
obey the scaling relation, , for both models.
Scaling of the autocorrelation function of the antiferromagnetic triangular
model is shown to involve logarithmic corrections, both at H=0 and at the
field-induced Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, however the autocorrelation
exponent is found to be dependent.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
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