New Developments in Understanding Harper–Dorn, Five-Power Law Creep and Power-Law Breakdown

Power-law creep in near-equiatomic nickel–titanium alloys

The compressive creep behavior of nickel-rich B2–NiTi (with 50–140 lm grain size) was studied over the stress range 3–11 MPa and the temperature range 950–1100 C. The stress exponent (n = 2.7) and activation energy (Q = 155 kJ mol ) are compared with a literature review of NiTi creep studies performed over lower temperature and/or higher stresses. Possible explanations for discrepancies between...

Densification of Porous Materials by Power-law Creep

-The densification of a porous intermetallic alloy (Ti-14wt%AI-21wt%Nb) during the final stage of densification has been investigated under various states of stress and compared with the predictions of current models for densification by power-law creep. The experiments generally confirm the model predictions that the densification rate is a sensitive function of the stress state. Experimentall...

Law and Power

Power Law and Entropy

Shannon[1] and Yavuz[2] estimated the entropy of real documents. This note drives an upper bound of entropy from the power law. Let D be a set of documents and f r(w) be the number of occurrences of a word w in the document. Given an interger k, we denote by F (k) the number of words whose frequency is k, i.e., F (k) = ♯{w ∈ D | f r(w) = k}. The entropy of the document set D is defined by E(D) ...

Law and State Power:

The struggle for power has been a persistent phenomenon throughout history, involving the rulers, general public, and various other interest groups. As one of these groups, the legal community has been in a unique position to regulate the relationship between the ruler and the public because of its dual responsibilities to provide services to the public and to impose constraints on the rulers. ...