With high costs of testing and rating a structural system for
fire resistance, the utilization of computer simulations that
approximate the integrity of structural subsystems could conceivably
reduce development costs. Before an analysis of a light-frame wood
system can occur, information on the components of the substructure
must be known....
Thermoelectric materials are playing an increasingly significant role in the global effort to develop sustainable energy technologies. Consequently, the demand for materials with greater thermoelectric efficiency has stimulated the development of state-of-the-art interstitially doped skutterudite-based materials. However, since intermetallics are often embrittled by interstitial substitution, optimal skutterudite-based device design, manufacture,...
The teliospore of Tilletia caries germinates to produce a promycelium
with a whorl of primary sporidia at its tip. The time between
emergence of the promycelium and the development of primary sporidia
averaged 2.3 h. Fusion between compatible sporidia occurred within
an additional 3.8 h. Primary sporidia appeared to be...
This investigation represents a previously unreported method
of measurement of internal friction in single crystals of silicon. The
method consists of exciting a rectangular reed of silicon of uniform
cross section into forced vibration at its resonant frequency. The end
of the reed is silver plated and eddy currents induced...
Investigations of the effect of cold working on the
internal friction of copper have become numerous in the last
few years due to the discovery that part of the internal
friction is due to the motion of dislocations in the metal.
Most of the investigations so far have been done...
