Tasks and methods of drawing up “The Program of Modernization of the Power Industry of Russia for the Period through the Year 2020”

The structure of tasks, stages, and methods of drawing up “The Program of Modernization of the Power Industry for the Period through the Year 2020” as part of the state program “Energy Efficiency and Development of the Energy Industry” have been determined.     

Determination of the Viscoelastic Characteristics of Polymer Materials on the Example of Polyacrylonitrile Fibre

Methods are developed for determining viscoelastic characteristics with the results of brief laboratory measurements based on both independent processing of families of relaxation and creep curves and on their combined processing using a new mathematical model and the normalized arc tangent of the logarithm of the reduced time as the relaxation function and the creep function. The expediency of using these methods is demonstrated on the example of polyacrylonitrile fibre. The results of the calculations are confirmed by the experimental data.     

Magnetic inspection of fatigue degradation of a high-carbon pearlitic steel

The effect of high-cycle fatigue loading of U10 steel specimens with a fine-lamellar pearlite structure that were a annealed for a short time on the character of variations of the tangential component of the magnetic induction vector of specimens in a residual-magnetization state has been studied. It was found that fatigue loading up to major fatigue-crack formation leads to an increase in the tangential component of the magnetic induction vector and to nonuniformity of the magnetic induction distribution along the length of a specimen. This is due to the spheroidization of cementite plates, which occurs in U10 steel specimens under a fatigue load. Major fatigue-crack formation is accompanied by the appearance of a clearly pronounced peak in the distribution of the tangential component of the magnetic induction vector. The magnetic measurement technique that was used allows us to record both structural changes and cracks that result from the fatigue degradation of high-carbon-pearlitic steel.     

Data acquisition system of the OKA experiment

A data acquisition system of the OKA experiment on studying rare kaon decays on the U-70 accelerator is described. The basis of the blocked data acquisition system was the high-speed multichannel information system MISS with autonomous controllers that read out the front-end electronics in the sequential data reading mode and buffering data during the accelerator burst. Data stored in the buffer memory are read out and processed at the end of the accelerator burst. The DATE package builds subevents from event fragments and events from subevents via the event building network. The event building network with the star topology is made with 1GbE-interfaces and 24 × 1 Gb E-switch. The GlusterFS cluster file system underlies the distributed storage system.     

Multilayer Glass Quality Improvement during Production

Glass and Ceramics - Selective quality control of manufactured multilayer windshields was conducted. Deviations of curved products from a specified shape were brought to light. Linear regression...     

Energy-Saving Technology of Assorted Glassware Decoration by Plasma Spraying

Glass and Ceramics - An energy-saving technology for decorating assorted glassware by plasma spraying of colored assorted and container glasses was developed. The optimal spraying parameters for...