Benchmark Burnishing with Almen Strip for Surface Integrity

Integrity as Moral Ideal and Business Benchmark

The increasing appeal of integrity in business may not only imply an acknowledgment that integrity has in fact all along been in short supply, but also suggest that its moral value has been short-changed into its function to increase profit. It will therefore be necessary to reconstruct the concept of integrity in light of an interpretation that takes up the various strands of meaning and ties ...

Application of Laser-Burnishing Treatment for Improvement of Surface Layer Properties

An integrity measure to benchmark quantum error correcting memories

Rapidly developing experiments acrossmultiple platformsnowaim to realise small quantumcodes, and so demonstrate amemorywithinwhich a logical qubit canbeprotected fromnoise. There is aneed to benchmark the achievements in these diverse systems, and to compare the inherent power of the codes they rely upon.Wedescribe a recently introducedperformancemeasure called integrity, which relates to the p...

The Thermoelastic Surface Strip Source for Laser-generated Ultrasound

The vertical ultrasonic surface displacement generated by a laser-induced, thermoelelastic, rectangular surface strip source is formulated. The main features of this source, ultrasonic rise times comparable to those of the generating light pulse derivatives, and a large amplitude, double-pulsed waveform, are advantageous for ultrasonic spectraland time-domain measurements for nondestructive mat...

Compound Strip Method for Plane Stress

The compound strip method (CSM) for plates is an expansion of the finite strip method (FSM) and was developed to incorporate the effects of the support elements in the analysis of linear elastic plate systems. In this paper the CSM is further expanded to analyze structures such as stiffened plates under loads in the plane of the plate or the so called plane-stress condition. Examples of these t...