Application of China-Brazil Earth resources satellite in China

The launch and successful operation of Chinese Brazil Earth resources satellite (CBERS-1) in China has accelerated the application of space technology in China. These applications include agriculture, forestry, water conservation. land resources, city planning, environment protection and natural hazards monitoring and so oil. The result of these applications provides a scientific basis for government decision making and has created great economic and social benefits in Chinese national economy construction. In this paper we present examples and provide auxiliary documentation of additional applications of the data from Earth resource monitoring, (C) 2009 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Enhanced tensile ductility and strength of electrodeposited ultrafine-grained nickel with a desired bimodal microstructure

This work aims to use surfactant-assisted direct current electrodeposition technique to prepare four types of bimodal nickel, under different current densities. Bimodal Ni is obtained with different grain size and spatial distribution of CG and UFG areas showing a big disparity in mechanical properties. As a result of small population of coarse-grained surrounded by quite a lot of ultrafine-grained forming a unique shell-and-core bimodal structure, bimodal one present the best comprehensive mechanical properties with an ultrahigh tensile strength (similar to 847 MPa) and a considerable plastic strain (similar to 16.7%). Deformation initial, bimodal structures display more positive strain hardening to meaningful strains than unimodal structure of UFG and CG. Particularly bimodal one work-hardening rate is the highest thanks to its structure (UFG occupy 76.7% in total number fraction) and the distribution of growth twins. Growth twins in this article are referred to Sigma 3(111) coherent twins playing an important role in improving high strength, enhancing uniform plastic deformation ability