Härteprofile als Hinweis auf verschiedene Festigkeitssysteme im Holz

1. Sandblasting of hardwood and softwood cross-sections reveals unexpected hardness profiles, which may provide an extension to the conventional division of wood into annual rings, earlywood and latewood or zones of growth.
2. Hard wooden parts which occur in cross-sections and which presumably contribute towards its strength, can also be traced in longitudinal cuts in the form of ridges.
3. It is assumed that tree species build up different mechanical systems which can be varied during wood formation as the need arises.

     

Sondermetalle und ihre Anwendung im Chemieapparatebau

Refractory Metals and their Application in the Chemical Process Industry Special metals, such as titanium, zirconium and tantalum, are being used increasingly for chemical plant. The exceptional resistance of special metals to many corrosive chemicals - they show it even at high temperatures and pressures - arises not from natural immunity but from the formation of a protective oxide passive layer on the metal surface. Special metals are well suited for welding. Their reactions with gases of the atmosphere must be taken into account though. Welding is therefore possible only under inert gas or a high vacuum. Similarly, alloying with iron-based materials during welding must be avoided under all circumstances. It should be taken into consideration that the melting point of tantalum, for example, is about twice as high as that of steel. Tantalum and niobium are machined with high-speed cutting steels; the cutting speed and cutting angle are similar to those used for stainless steels. In detail, the outstanding properties of special metals in chemical plant are as follows:

• — the stability of titanium under oxidizing conditions
• — the stability of zirconium under reducing and alkaline conditions
• — the resistance of molybdenum to hydrofluoric acid and fluoride
• — the stability of tantalum under oxidizing and reducing conditions.

In pure mineral acids the passive behaviour generally improves in the order titanium - zirconium - tantalum. Except where molybdenum is concerned, the medium should not contain fluoride. The material with the widest range of applications is tantalum. The addition of niobium as an alloying element leads to favourably priced but similarly resistant materials whose prospects of becoming established in the chemical industry and playing a part similar in importance to that of tantalum itself are good.     

Erosion of unfilled elastomers by solid particle impact

The response has been studied of eight unfilled elastomers (four natural rubber compounds, epoxidized natural rubber ENR50, butyl rubber, polybutadiene and polyurethane) to erosion by 150 m silica sand at an impact velocity of 48 m sec^–1. All were tested at an impact angle of 30°, close to the impact conditions occurring in pipe bends, while two were also tested at 90°. Wide variations in erosion rate were observed between different rubbers. These differences did not correlate systematically with the nature of the base elastomer, glass transition temperature or mechanical properties such as hardness, tensile strength or ultimate tensile elongation, nor with resistance to abrasive wear. Good correlation was, however, found with rebound resilience. A high resilience tended to imply high erosion resistance, The erosion rate was found empirically to be proportional to the quantity (1 - fractional resilience) raised to the power 1.4. Different surface morphologies were found in specimens of high and low resilience after erosion at 30°. Finely spaced transverse ridges formed on high-resilience rubbers, whereas surface features on low-resilience rubbers showed no directionality. Preliminary conclusions are drawn about possible mechanisms of material removal.     

Study on diffusion welding SiCp/ZL101 with Cu interlayer

Through the vacuum diffusion welding SiCp/ZL101 aluminum with Cu interlayer,the effect of welding parame-ter and the thickness of Cu on the welded joint property was investigated,and the optimal welding parameters were putforward at the same time.The microstructure of joint was analyzed by means of optical-microscope,scanning electron mi-croscope in order to study the relationship between the macro-properties of joint and the microstructure.The results showthat diffusion welding with Cu interlayer could be used for welding aluminum matrix composites SiCp/ZL101 successfully.     

铁路军事运输柔性捆绑加固器设计

为进一步提高军事装备铁路运输捆绑加固效率和运输安全性,针对现有加固器材存在的问题,从加固器适应性、可靠性和便利性等3个方面,分析铁路军事运输柔性捆绑加固器的设计需求;提出柔性织带和棘轮收紧器结构设计方案及其功能;论证铁路军事运输柔性捆绑加固器的技战术指标.