脉冲电流处理过程中的相变和再结晶细化晶粒(英文)

在室温下对铸态TiAl合金和冷轧TA15合金进行高密度脉冲电流处理。应用光学金相显微镜和透射电子显微镜研究脉冲电流处理前、后试样的显微组织。实验结果表明:通过脉冲电流处理可以细化铸态TiAl基合金的晶粒,从约1000μm的原始粗大层片组织,经脉冲电流处理后可以得到尺寸为3050μm细小、均匀的晶粒。对于冷轧TA15合金,脉冲电流处理后发生了完全的再结晶,晶粒组织由原始的α板条晶粒转变为细小的α等轴晶粒。研究结果表明,脉冲电流处理是一种有效的细化晶粒方法;由于不需要热机处理所要求的挤压等变形工序和高温加热、真空保护等条件,简化了工艺过程。     

The laminar burning velocity of flames propagating in mixtures of hydrocarbons and air measured with the heat flux method

The heat flux method for stabilizing flat adiabatic flames and measuring adiabatic burning velocities is reviewed. The latest improvements of the burner construction and analysis of the measurements are presented and a reliable error estimate is deduced. A consistent and reliable set of burning velocities has been measured for a range of fuels: new results for the adiabatic burning velocities of mixtures of methane, ethane, propane, n-butane, and isobutane with air are presented, including error bars of 95% confidence intervals. The influence of variations of initial temperature on the burning velocity of mixtures of methane and air has also been studied. The results are compared with other measurements using the heat flux, counterflow, and combustion vessel methods. It seems that results for the burning velocity using different methods converge toward each other. For stoichiometric flames of methane and air this value seems to be close to 36 cm/s, while the differences between the results of different techniques do not vary by more than roughly 1 cm/s.     

声光调QCO_2激光器的理论计算和实验研究

采用谐振腔内插入声光调制器的方法进行了小型CO2激光器的调Q实验,并根据影响激光器输出的诸多因素,利用调Q脉冲激光器速率方程对该激光器输出的主要技术参数进行了理论计算,据此提出了声光调QCO2激光器优化设计的途径和方法。设计制成的声光调QCO2激光器获得峰值功率超过4000 W,激光脉冲宽度为180 ns,与理论计算基本一致。激光器脉冲重复频率调节范围1 Hz~100 kHz。理论分析和实验结果均证明,调Q晶体中超声场的渡越时间并不会影响输出激光的脉冲宽度,因此无需在腔内插入光学透镜进行光束直径的压缩变换;渡越时间的影响只是体现在延长了激光脉冲的建立时间上;激光器的最佳工作频率在1 kHz左右,这与CO2分子0001能级大约1 ms的辐射寿命相匹配,当频率超过1 kHz时,激光的脉冲宽度随着频率的增加而开始加宽。激光器通过光栅选线的设计方式实现了9.2~10.8μm的全波段波长调谐,测得激光输出谱线超过60条。     

Salt appetite is enhanced by one prior episode of sodium depletion in the rat.

A single sodium depletion enhances the salt appetite that is expressed after a second and subsequent sodium depletions. The enhanced salt intake, as measured by a decrease in latency to drink and an increase in volume of 3% NaCl ingested, is not accounted for by an increased sodium loss. The enhanced salt intake occurs even when the interval between first and second depletion is as long as 4 months. The enhanced salt appetite does not depend on the drinking of salt after the animal's first sodium depletion and is specific for strong 0.52 M NaCl but not for 0.52 M KCl. Moreover, it can be produced without sodium depletion by the actions of the hormones aldosterone and angiotensin on the brain. These results suggest that angiotensin and aldosterone, which are released in response to sodium depletion, (a) increase renal sodium conservation, (b) evoke a salt appetite to restore the lost sodium, and (c) produce enduring changes in the brain that prepare it for more rapid and more vigorous expression of salt appetite in response to future sodium depletions. Thus the neural mechanisms that govern salt appetite are not only activated by the hormones of sodium conservation but appear also to be organized by them for a lifelong increase in avidity for salty substances. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Isothermal solidification of Cu/Sn diffusion couples to form thin-solder joints

Isothermal solidification of conventional Cu/Sn diffusional couples was performed to form thin (30 μm) joints consisting of Cu-Sn intermetallics. During initial stages of isothermal solidification, both Cu₆Sn₅ and Cu₃Sn phases grow, even though the former is the dominant. After consumption of all available Sn, the Cu₃Sn phase grows reactively at the expense of Cu and Cu₆Sn₅. Finally, we obtain solder joints that consist of only Cu₃Sn. Indentation fracture-toughness measurements show that Cu₃Sn is superior to Cu₆Sn₅. Furthermore, indentations of Cu₃Sn exhibit the presence of shear bands, which are not observed in Cu₆Sn₅, implying that the former is more ductile than the latter. Ductile intermetallic-based joints formed by isothermal solidification are promising candidates to form thin (as thin as 5–10 μm or less) solder joints, as they are thermally and thermodynamically stable compared to conventional solder joints. Excess copper in the interconnect provides ductility to the interconnect.     

Time to clinical stability in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: implications for practice guidelines

CONTEXT: Many groups have developed guidelines to shorten hospital length of stay in pneumonia in order to decrease costs, but the length of time until a patient hospitalized with pneumonia becomes clinically stable has not been established. OBJECTIVE: To describe the time to resolution of abnormalities in vital signs, ability to eat, and mental status in patients with community-acquired pneumonia and assess clinical outcomes after achieving stability. DESIGN: Prospective, multicenter, observational cohort study. SETTING: Three university and 1 community teaching hospital in Boston, Mass, Pittsburgh, Pa, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. PATIENTS: Six hundred eighty-six adults hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Time to resolution of vital signs, ability to eat, mental status, hospital length of stay, and admission to an intensive care, coronary care, or telemetry unit. RESULTS: The median time to stability was 2 days for heart rate (< or =100 beats/min) and systolic blood pressure (> or =90 mm Hg), and 3 days for respiratory rate (< or =24 breaths/min), oxygen saturation (> or =90%), and temperature (< or =37.2 degrees C [99 degrees F]). The median time to overall clinical stability was 3 days for the most lenient definition of stability and 7 days for the most conservative definition. Patients with more severe cases of pneumonia at presentation took longer to reach stability. Once stability was achieved, clinical deterioration requiring intensive care, coronary care, or telemetry monitoring occurred in 1% of cases or fewer. Between 65% to 86% of patients stayed in the hospital more than 1 day after reaching stability, and fewer than 29% to 46% were converted to oral antibiotics within 1 day of stability, depending on the definition of stability. CONCLUSIONS: Our estimates of time to stability in pneumonia and explicit criteria for defining stability can provide an evidence-based estimate of optimal length of stay, and outline a clinically sensible approach to improving the efficiency of inpatient management.     

Conservative management of penetrating and blunt Type III renal injuries

This study examines whether, while controlling for local economic conditions, job design and other organizational factors affect facility aide turnover rates in a sample of 250 nursing homes from 10 states. Facility characteristics were largely based on administrator and director of nursing interviews conducted in 1993 as part of the Health Care Financing Administration's evaluation of the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) implementation. Aide turnover was significantly reduced by involvement in interdisciplinary care plan meetings. Turnover rates were higher in for-profit homes. Aide involvement in assessments, aide training and workload, case mix severity, payor source mix, and facility size were not significantly related to aide turnover.     

MICROBRIDGE TESTING OF YOUNG''''S MODULUS AND RESIDUAL STRESS OF NICKEL FILM ELECTROPLATED ON SILICON WAFER

Microbridge testing is used to measure the Young's modulus and residual stresses ofmetallic films. Nickel film microbridges with widths of several hundred microns arefabricated by Microelectromechanical Systems. In order to measure the mechanicalproperties of nickel film microbridges, special shaft structure is designed to solve theproblem of getting the load--deflection curves of metal film microbridge by Nanoin--denter XP system with normal Berkovich probe. Theoretical analysis of the micro--bridge load--deflection curve is proposed to evaluate the Young's modulus and residualstress of the films simultaneously. The calculated results based on the experimentalmeasurements show that the average Young's modulus and residual stress are around190GPa and 175MPa respectively, while the Young's modulus measured by Nano-hardness method on nickel film with silicon substrate is 186.8±7.34GPa.     

十字叠层板横向剪切刚度的计算方法

本文研究了十字叠层板横向剪切刚度系数的计算方法.指出前人采用的横向剪应力为抛物线分布的假设不够准确,使C_ii的计算值产生误差.本文首先推导了横向剪应力沿厚度分布的计算公式,然后用幂级数拟合了近似权函数,用权函数法和能量法对两种铺层结构的碳/环氧十字叠层板的C_ii进行了计算.对比了两种方法的结果,并与文献[1]的方法作了对比.结果表明,对于对称层板本文权函数法与文献[1]的结果基本一致;而对于非对称叠层板,二者差别明显.能量法结果与权函数法对比,前者更精确.     

软X射线多层膜光栅

详细介绍了软X射线多层膜光栅的国内外发展概况和广阔的应用领域，全面分析了它的制作工艺，并指出制作多层膜光栅的关键技术及解决方案。