Evaluation of a self-equilibrium cutting strategy for the contour method of residual stress measurement

An assessment of cutting-induced plasticity (CIP) is performed, by finite element (FE) prediction of the plastic strain accumulation along the cut tip when the EDM wire sections the NeT TG4 weld benchmark specimen along two cutting directions. The first direction corresponds to a conventional (C) cutting strategy, whereby the EDM wire cuts through the thickness of the weld specimen and travels in a direction transverse to the weld. The second direction corresponds to a self-equilibrating cutting (SE) strategy, whereby the EDM wire cuts across the transverse direction of the weld specimens and travels through the thickness of the plate. The cutting thus progresses simultaneously through the compression-tension-compression regions of present weld residual stress (WRS) field. This type of cutting strategy is believed to minimize the CIP by minimising residual stress redistribution during cutting, due to stress equilibration across the sectioned material. The simulated cutting procedures are conducted under a range of clamping conditions to assess whether mechanical restraint has a primary or secondary influence on CIP accumulation. Both predictions of CIP and the resultant back-calculated WRS demonstrate that (i) mechanical restraint is the primary variable influencing CIP development, and (ii) under no circumstance does a self-equilibrating cutting strategy perform significantly better than a conventional cutting approach. The reason that self-equilibrating cuts are not effective is illustrated by calculating the Mode I (KI) stress intensity factor (SIF) along the cut tip, and correlating trends in KI to CIP development

Reduction of Dilute Ising Spin Glasses

The recently proposed reduction method for diluted spin glasses is investigated in depth. In particular, the Edwards-Anderson model with \pm J and Gaussian bond disorder on hyper-cubic lattices in d=2, 3, and 4 is studied for a range of bond dilutions. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of using bond dilution to elucidate low-temperature properties of Ising spin glasses, and provide a starting point to enhance the methods used in reduction. Based on that, a greedy heuristic call ``Dominant Bond Reduction'' is introduced and explored.Comment: 10 pages, revtex, final version, find related material at http://www.physics.emory.edu/faculty/boettcher

Importance de l’intéraction entre les cultivars de blé et les souches du Fusarium graminearum dans l’évaluation de la résistance à la fusariose de l’épi

Des expériences factorielles ont été réalisées au champ à deux stations, le campus de l'Université Laval en 1991 et 1992 et la ferme de Saint-Louis-de-Pintendre en 1992 et 1993, pour préciser si le développement de la fusariose de l'épi du blé est influencé par l'interaction entre les cultivars et les souches du Fusarium graminearum. Neuf souches du F. graminearum ont été inoculées à onze cultivars de blé (Triticum aestivum) et un cultivar de triticale (x Triticosecale) représentatifs de la gamme de sensibilité à cette maladie au Québec. L'analyse de la variance combinée a mis en évidence des interactions significatives entre les cultivars, les souches et les environnements. Les interactions cultivars x souches et cultivars x environnements expliquent une faible proportion de la somme des carrés totale et n'entraînent pas de modifications majeures dans le classement moyen de la sensibilité des cultivars. Concernant l'interaction cultivars x souches, le classement moyen de la sensibilité des cultivars, notamment Casavant et Concorde, variait avec les souches. Cette recherche contre pour la première fois que l'importance relative des différentes interactions entre les souches, les cultivars et les environnements est comparable dans l'évaluation de la résistance à la fusariose de l'épi du blé.Factorial experiments were carried out in the field at the campus of Universite Laval in 1991 and 1992, and Saint-Louis-de-Pintendre station in 1992 and 1993. The objective was to specify if wheat scab development caused by Fusarium graminearum is significantly affected by cultivar x strain interactions. Eleven wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars and one triticale (x Triticosecale) cultivar representing the range of sensitivity to this disease in Quebec were inoculated with nine strains of F. graminearum. Significant interactions between cultivars, strains and environments were shown by the results of a combined analysis of variance. Cultivar x strain and cultivar x environment interactions explained a small proportion of the total sum of squares and did not have a strong impact on cultivar average ranking by environment or strain. However, the examination of cultivar x strain interactions revealed that the rank of cultivars such as Casavant and Concorde changed when different strains were compared. This research shows for the first time that all interactions involving cultivars, strains and environments have a similar impact on wheat scab resistance screening

Importance de l’intéraction entre les cultivars de blé et les souches du Fusarium graminearum dans l’évaluation de la résistance à la fusariose de l’épi

Des expériences factorielles ont été réalisées au champ à deux stations, le campus de l'Université Laval en 1991 et 1992 et la ferme de Saint-Louis-de-Pintendre en 1992 et 1993, pour préciser si le développement de la fusariose de l'épi du blé est influencé par l'interaction entre les cultivars et les souches du Fusarium graminearum. Neuf souches du F. graminearum ont été inoculées à onze cultivars de blé (Triticum aestivum) et un cultivar de triticale (x Triticosecale) représentatifs de la gamme de sensibilité à cette maladie au Québec. L'analyse de la variance combinée a mis en évidence des interactions significatives entre les cultivars, les souches et les environnements. Les interactions cultivars x souches et cultivars x environnements expliquent une faible proportion de la somme des carrés totale et n'entraînent pas de modifications majeures dans le classement moyen de la sensibilité des cultivars. Concernant l'interaction cultivars x souches, le classement moyen de la sensibilité des cultivars, notamment Casavant et Concorde, variait avec les souches. Cette recherche contre pour la première fois que l'importance relative des différentes interactions entre les souches, les cultivars et les environnements est comparable dans l'évaluation de la résistance à la fusariose de l'épi du blé.Factorial experiments were carried out in the field at the campus of Universite Laval in 1991 and 1992, and Saint-Louis-de-Pintendre station in 1992 and 1993. The objective was to specify if wheat scab development caused by Fusarium graminearum is significantly affected by cultivar x strain interactions. Eleven wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars and one triticale (x Triticosecale) cultivar representing the range of sensitivity to this disease in Quebec were inoculated with nine strains of F. graminearum. Significant interactions between cultivars, strains and environments were shown by the results of a combined analysis of variance. Cultivar x strain and cultivar x environment interactions explained a small proportion of the total sum of squares and did not have a strong impact on cultivar average ranking by environment or strain. However, the examination of cultivar x strain interactions revealed that the rank of cultivars such as Casavant and Concorde changed when different strains were compared. This research shows for the first time that all interactions involving cultivars, strains and environments have a similar impact on wheat scab resistance screening

Laue Lens Development for Hard X-rays (>60 keV)

Results of reflectivity measurements of mosaic crystal samples of Cu (111) are reported. These tests were performed in the context of a feasibility study of a hard X-ray focusing telescope for space astronomy with energy passband from 60 to 600 keV. The technique envisaged is that of using mosaic crystals in transmission configuration that diffract X-rays for Bragg diffraction (Laue lens). The Laue lens assumed has a spherical shape with focal length $f$. It is made of flat mosaic crystal tiles suitably positioned in the lens. The samples were grown and worked for this project at the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble (France), while the reflectivity tests were performed at the X-ray facility of the Physics Department of the University of Ferrara.Comment: 6 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Scienc

Hobo elements and their deletion-derivative sequences in Drosophila melanogaster and its sibling species D simulans, D mauritiana and D sechellia

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The entropy of randomized network ensembles

Randomized network ensembles are the null models of real networks and are extensivelly used to compare a real system to a null hypothesis. In this paper we study network ensembles with the same degree distribution, the same degree-correlations or the same community structure of any given real network. We characterize these randomized network ensembles by their entropy, i.e. the normalized logarithm of the total number of networks which are part of these ensembles. We estimate the entropy of randomized ensembles starting from a large set of real directed and undirected networks. We propose entropy as an indicator to assess the role of each structural feature in a given real network.We observe that the ensembles with fixed scale-free degree distribution have smaller entropy than the ensembles with homogeneous degree distribution indicating a higher level of order in scale-free networks.Comment: (6 pages,1 figure,2 tables