132 research outputs found
STR-934: FATIGUE RESPONSE OF UHPC AS A CLOSURE STRIP MATERIAL IN PREFABRICATED BRIDGE APPLICATIONS
Replacement of concrete bridge decks can be an expensive process. In order to decrease costs and time of construction, precast deck panels can be used with closure strips cast in place between the panels. In order to ensure that these connections can withstand the rigors of a bridge’s life cycle, fatigue testing was completed on a specimen consisting of two precast concrete panels reinforced with GFRP and connected using a UHPC closure strip. These panels were subjected to 2,000,000 cycles of fatigue loading at three locations and subject to static failure loading at one location following fatigue loads. It was found that under fatigue loading the panels were able to maintain structural integrity while deflection values increased linearly following the initial cracking phase. At ultimate load, the panel failed in punching shear at levels less than those specified by bridge code. This is primarily due to the failure location adjacent to the closure strip failing on three punching shear planes and one plane along the interface between the UHPC
A liquid helium target system for a measurement of parity violation in neutron spin rotation
A liquid helium target system was designed and built to perform a precision
measurement of the parity-violating neutron spin rotation in helium due to the
nucleon-nucleon weak interaction. The measurement employed a beam of low energy
neutrons that passed through a crossed neutron polarizer--analyzer pair with
the liquid helium target system located between them. Changes between the
target states generated differences in the beam transmission through the
polarizer--analyzer pair. The amount of parity-violating spin rotation was
determined from the measured beam transmission asymmetries. The expected
parity-violating spin rotation of order rad placed severe constraints
on the target design. In particular, isolation of the parity-odd component of
the spin rotation from a much larger background rotation caused by magnetic
fields required that a nonmagnetic cryostat and target system be supported
inside the magnetic shielding, while allowing nonmagnetic motion of liquid
helium between separated target chambers. This paper provides a detailed
description of the design, function, and performance of the liquid helium
target system.Comment: V2: 29 pages, 14 figues, submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B. Revised
to address reviewer comment
Designing a Magnetic Measurement Data Acquisition and Control System with Reuse in Mind: A Rotating Coil System Example
Accelerator magnet test facilities frequently need to measure different
magnets on differently equipped test stands and with different instrumentation.
Designing a modular and highly reusable system that combines flexibility
built-in at the architectural level as well as on the component level addresses
this need. Specification of the backbone of the system, with the interfaces and
dataflow for software components and core hardware modules, serves as a basis
for building such a system. The design process and implementation of an
extensible magnetic measurement data acquisition and control system are
described, including techniques for maximizing the reuse of software. The
discussion is supported by showing the application of this methodology to
constructing two dissimilar systems for rotating coil measurements, both based
on the same architecture and sharing core hardware modules and many software
components. The first system is for production testing 10 m long
cryo-assemblies containing two MQXFA quadrupole magnets for the high-luminosity
upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider and the second for testing IQC
conventional quadrupole magnets in support of the accelerator system at
Fermilab
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Strength and shape of the magnetic field of the Fermilab main injector dipoles
Measurements of 230 6-meter and 136 4-meter dipoles constructed for the Fermilab Main Injector were carried out as part of the magnet production effort. An automated measurement system provided data on magnetic field strength and shape using several partially redundant systems. Results of these measurements are available for each individual magnet for use in accelerator modelling. In this report we will summarise the results on all of the magnets to characterise the properties which will govern accelerator operation
Angiogenic Factors Stimulate Growth of Adult Neural Stem Cells
The ability to grow a uniform cell type from the adult central nervous system (CNS) is valuable for developing cell therapies and new strategies for drug discovery. The adult mammalian brain is a source of neural stem cells (NSC) found in both neurogenic and non-neurogenic zones but difficulties in culturing these hinders their use as research tools.Here we show that NSCs can be efficiently grown in adherent cell cultures when angiogenic signals are included in the medium. These signals include both anti-angiogenic factors (the soluble form of the Notch receptor ligand, Dll4) and pro-angiogenic factors (the Tie-2 receptor ligand, Angiopoietin 2). These treatments support the self renewal state of cultured NSCs and expression of the transcription factor Hes3, which also identifies the cancer stem cell population in human tumors. In an organotypic slice model, angiogenic factors maintain vascular structure and increase the density of dopamine neuron processes.We demonstrate new properties of adult NSCs and a method to generate efficient adult NSC cultures from various central nervous system areas. These findings will help establish cellular models relevant to cancer and regeneration
Scientific Preparations for Lunar Exploration with the European Lunar Lander
This paper discusses the scientific objectives for the ESA Lunar Lander
Mission, which emphasise human exploration preparatory science and introduces
the model scientific payload considered as part of the on-going mission
studies, in advance of a formal instrument selection.Comment: Accepted for Publication in Planetary and Space Science 51 pages, 8
figures, 1 tabl
Poly(dimethylsiloxane)-Stabilized Polymer Particles from Radical Dispersion Polymerization in Nonpolar Solvent: Influence of Stabilizer Properties and Monomer Type
Particles used in electrophoretic display applications (EPD) must possess a number of specific properties ranging from stability in a nonaqueous solvent, high reflectivity, low polydispersity, and high charge density to name but a few. The manufacture of such particles is best carried out in the solvent of choice for the EPD. This opens up new interests in the study of nonaqueous dispersion polymerization methods, which deliver polymer particles suspended in low dielectric constant solvents. We explore in this article the use of a poly(dimethylsiloxane) macromonomer for the stabilization of poly(methyl methacrylate) polymer particles in dodecane, a typical solvent of choice for EPDs. The use of this stabilizer is significant for this method as it is directly soluble in the reaction medium as opposed to traditionally used poly(12-hydroxystearic acid)-based stabilizers. Additionally, the present study serves as a baseline for subsequent work, where nonaqueous dispersion polymerization will be used to create polymer particles encapsulating liquid droplets and solid pigment particles. In this article, the influence of the macromonomer molecular weight and concentration on the properties of the synthesized particles is studied. In addition, we investigate the possibility of synthesizing polymer particles from other monomers both as a comonomer for methyl methacrylate and as the only monomer in the process. The influence of macromonomer concentration is also studied throughout all experiments
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