Anomalous refractive indices of the amplifying medium in a waveguide CO2 laser

The relative changes in refractive index of the amplifying medium in a waveguide CO2 laser have been measured as a function of the inlet and outlet pressures, discharge current, gas flow rate, and intracavity power using an interferometric technique. The experiments have been made for two gas mixing ratios over a wide range of the inlet pressure. Saturated phenomena of the refractive index have been observed for increasing inlet pressure. The output power and the variation in impedance of the amplifying medium have been simultaneously measured. The dependence of the refractive index on the inlet pressure in the absence of the discharge, the electron density, and the estimation of errors in measurements are discussed.     

On the recognition of printed characters of any font and size

We describe the current state of a system that recognizes printed text of various fonts and sizes for the Roman alphabet. The system combines several techniques in order to improve the overall recognition rate. Thinning and shape extraction are performed directly on a graph of the run-length encoding of a binary image. The resulting strokes and other shapes are mapped, using a shape-clustering approach, into binary features which are then fed into a statistical Bayesian classifier. Large-scale trials have shown better than 97 percent top choice correct performance on mixtures of six dissimilar fonts, and over 99 percent on most single fonts, over a range of point sizes. Certain remaining confusion classes are disambiguated through contour analysis, and characters suspected of being merged are broken and reclassified. Finally, layout and linguistic context are applied. The results are illustrated by sample pages.     

Localizing overlapping parts by searching the interpretation tree

This paper discusses how local measurements of positions and surface normals may be used to identify and locate overlapping objects. The objects are modeled as polyhedra (or polygons) having up to six degrees of positional freedom relative to the sensors. The approach operates by examining all hypotheses about pairings between sensed data and object surfaces and efficiently discarding inconsistent ones by using local constraints on: distances between faces, angles between face normals, and angles (relative to the surface normals) of vectors between sensed points. The method described here is an extension of a method for recognition and localization of nonoverlapping parts previously described in [18] and [15].     

用氩气和氯气吹洗的方法从Al—Mg合金中除去钠

用5■公斤批量熔体研究了从Al—Mg合金中除钠,使之降到1ppm水平。采用了不同的方法:用叶轮机械搅拌;叶轮搅拌+MgCl_2盐覆盖;叶轮搅拌+惰性气体(氩气)吹洗,同时用盐覆盖或不用盐覆盖;叶轮搅拌,惰性气体+2％Cl_2吹洗。叶轮有一个单一的气体入口与空心轴相通。本试验给出了Na-时间关系曲线,它是用Na+1/2Cl_2=NaCl反应的化学计算法简单确定的。其理由是气泡熔体的接触面积足够大。在各个试验中发现镁都没有明显的去掉。如果接触面积不够大,除钠应该是由熔体中质量迁移起支配作用。文中也处理了这种情况的动力学。根据各种实验室的试验确定了顶部表面的质量迁移系数。在除去溶解氧的水模型试验中,测定了叶轮不同转速和气体不同流量下的接触面积。这些结果与带有多孔装置的化学工程系统有比较好的一致性。然而,不知道这些结果能否满意地推广到工业规模的装置上。     

AN EXPERIMENTAL-NUMERICAL METHOD FOR MEASURING CRACK PROPAGATING VELOCITIES UNDER STRESS WAVE LOADING

An experimental-numerical method for measuring dynamic crack propagating velocities under stress wave loading is established in this paper. The experiments of the three-point bend specimen are done on the improved Hopkinson bar. Deflection of loading point, dynamic load and instantaneous crack length are measured, then crack propagating velocities are calculated. Experiments on 40Cr steel show that the results given by this method have a good agreement with that obtained by the resistance fracture gage method. Therefore this method is feasible for measuring crack propagating velocities under high loading rate and will have wide application.     

三水铝石与一水软铝石的自行析出

当把浓铝土矿矿浆加热到160℃时,一水软铝石即析出,并在溶出阶段的热交换器器壁上结疤。在赤泥分离状态下,三小铝石便析出在不含一水软铝石的赤泥里。只有一水软铝石存在于赤泥中,始能析出。在赤泥中含有各种矿物时,针铁矿会对三水铝石的析出显示出最大的种子作用。钙的各种化合物都能控制三水铝石的析出,但不能控制一水软铝石的析出。     

Use of electron microscopy on microstructure characterization of high chromium cast irons

The physical metallurgy underlying the development of cast microstructures in abrasion resistant high chromium cast irons, and their structural modification by thermal treatments is relatively complex. Structural characterisation via electron microscopy therefore has a key role to play in furthering our understanding of the phase transformations that control the microstructures and hence the service performances of these irons as wear parts. This paper shows how both scanning and especially transmission electron microscopy can provide valuable information on the nature of eutectic and secondary carbides and on the matrix structures in these irons. Particular attention is given to current characterisation research on conventionally cast 30%Cr irons that are used for applications involving corrosive wear e.g. slurry pumps and on a semi-solid cast 27%Cr iron that has a potential for applications in industry.