Dispersion of photoelastic constants in doped KDP crystals

The photoelastic behaviour ofkdp crystals with additives like borax,adp, nickel phosphate, manganese phosphate and sodium dihydrogen orthophosphate has been studied as a variable birefringent compensator. The dispersion of the stress birefringence with wavelength was studied for a single orientation.     

Linear electrooptic effect in doped KDP crystals

The dispersion of half wave voltages with wave length and temperature of potassium dihydrogen ortho phosphate (KDP) crystals with additives and dopants like borax, nickel phosphate, manganese phosphate, sodium dihydrogen orthophosphate and potassium arsenate were determined. The refractive index for all the above crystals were found by the modified Rayleigh’s refractometer method. The linear electrooptic coefficients were calculated at various wavelengths of light. The variation of half wave voltage was also studied as a function of concentration of the dopant.     

Thermal degradation of poly(vinyl chloride) in presence of additives part III. Studies in molecular weight distribution

The changes in molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of PVC degraded in presence of maleic anhydride, benzoquinone and anthraquinone were studied by gel permeation chromatography. Chain scission and crosslinking reactions were indicated on the basis of M?_n and M?_w of degraded samples. Crosslinking was predominant when degradation was carried out in presence of anthraquinone.     

Combustion synthesis of Ni3Al and Ni3Al-matrix composites

The self-propagating mode of combustion synthesis (SHS) of Ni₃Al starting from compacts of stoichiometrically mixed Ni and Al powders readily forms fully reacted structures with about 3 to 5 pct porosity, if green density of the compacts is greater than about 75 pct of theoretical. SHS-produced Ni₃Al matrix composites with up to 2 wt pct A1₂O₃ whiskers also have relatively low porosity levels. Porosity increases rapidly with lower green densities, higher Al₂O₃, or SiC whisker contents, and the degree of reaction completeness diminishes. The SiC whiskers undergo reaction with the matrix, while Al₂O₃ whiskers are nonreactive. All of these observations correlate well with temperature measurements made during the course of the reaction. The SHS mode can be achieved with agglomerated particle size ratioD _Al/D _Ni ≥ 1, larger than the limit established from studies of the thermal explosion mode of combustion synthesisD _Al/D _Ni ≃ 0.3. This paper is based on a presentation made in the symposium “Reaction Synthesis of Materials” presented during the TMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 17–21, 1991, under the auspices of the TMS Powder Metallurgy Committee.     

Heat and mass transfer in fruits and vegetables and measurement of thermal diffusivity

An experimental apparatus was designed to verify the method of measurement of thermal diffusivity of food produce proposed by the authors in an earlier paper [1]. Also, measurements were done for the time-temperature variation during transient cooling of food produce, and the temperature variation has been calculated by many methods available in the literature. It has been found that the calculation procedure proposed by the authors earlier [2] yielded consistently improved results.     

Middleware Technologies for Smart Wireless Sensor Networks towards Internet of Things: A Comparative Review

Wireless Personal Communications - Internet of Things (IoT) offers complex networks of connected devices, which are used to serve in the real-time environment. Interestingly, Wireless Sensor...     

Distributed algorithms for multicast path setup in data networks

Establishing a multicast tree in a point-to-point network of switch nodes, such as a wide-area asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network, can be modeled as the NP-complete Steiner problem in networks. In this paper, we introduce and evaluate two distributed algorithms for finding multicast trees in point-to-point data networks. These algorithms are based on the centralized Steiner heuristics, the shortest path heuristic (SPH) and the Kruskal-based shortest path heuristic (K-SPH), and have the advantage that only the multicast members and nodes in the neighborhood of the multicast tree need to participate in the execution of the algorithm. We compare our algorithms by simulation against a baseline algorithm, the pruned minimum spanning-tree heuristic that is the basis of many previously published algorithms for finding multicast trees. Our results show that the competitiveness (the ratio of the sum of the heuristic tree's edge weights to that of the best solution found) of both of our algorithms was, on the average, 25% better in comparison to that of the pruned spanning-tree approach. In addition, the competitiveness of our algorithms was, in almost all cases, within 10% of the best solution found by any of the Steiner heuristics considered, including both centralized and distributed algorithms. Limiting the execution of the algorithm to a subset of the nodes in the network results in an increase in convergence time over the pruned spanning-tree approach, but this overhead can be reduced by careful implementation     

LabVIEW嵌入式技术：嵌入式设计需求的迁移

很多因素导致设计的复杂性增加，而且这种增长趋势还在继续。10年前，一个嵌入式系统平均只有100000行代码。到2001年，这个数字超过了100万，到今天，甚至远远超过500万。由于硅芯片变得越来越经济高效，开发人员正在转向32位微处理器单元（MPU）。市场研究公司Venture Development Corporation（VDC）的一项调查显示，在今后两年将有61％的被调查者采用32位MPU，因为硬件成本不再是决定性的因素。此外，嵌入式设计的需求在很多不同的应用领域都在增长。例如，多媒体正在促进更多面向数字信号处理系统的应用；汽车通信系统需要高性能的处理能力；工业机器和传感器需要嵌入式控制，这些需求使工程师和科学家，或领域专家，或非典型DSP开发人员，寻求不同的方法来对嵌入式系统编程。随着这些不断增长的复杂性，传统的嵌入式系统的开发方法已经不能满足需求。例如，基于文本的面向对象的设计工具不能提供有效的建模方法，尤其是在有时间和并行性要求的时候。