abstract this work investigated the electrochemical and aqueous tribological behavior of hot pressed 2205 duplex stainless steel (dss). dss sintered composites of different volume percent (% vol) of partially stabilized zirconia (psz) was developed using powder metallurgy (pm) technique. electrochemical behaviour was studied at room temperature, using open circuit potential and potentiodynamic ...

Simulated annealing with a more complicated set of moves than single-spin flips is applied to the one-dimensional Ising spin glass. The explicit connection between the residual entropy at T = 0 in the simulated annealing and the number of metastable states, found previously for single-spin flips, is shown to be also true for these more complicated moves. This result together with a zero-tempera...

Power density of microprocessors is increasing with every new process generation resulting in higher maximum chip temperatures. The high temperature of the chip greatly affects its reliability, raises the leakage power consumed to unprecedented levels, and makes cooling solutions significantly more expensive. The maximum temperature of a block in a chip depends not only on its own power density...

Skin temperatures and radiant energy were measured on a subject wearing flight clothing, sitting in a tactical aircraft exposed to thermal energy characteristic of thermonuclear weapons. Radiant energy source was 960 lamps at power levels up to 4000 kilowatts. After exposures of increasing severity, subject tolerance was attained in a 3 cal/cm pulse of 3.7 seconds duration. This pulse charred p...

The Crop Growth Monitoring System (CGMS) has been applied for spatial biophysical resource analysis of Borkhar & Meymeh district in Esfahan province, Iran. The potentially suitable area for agriculture in the district has been divided into 128 homogeneous land units in terms of soil (physical characteristics), weather and administrative unit. Crop parameters required in the WOFOST simulatio...

It is difficult to determine the appropriate temperature parameters which control the acceptance probability in Simulated Annealing, which is a typical meta-heuristic method in the optimization methods. In this paper, we propose a new simulated annealing method that determines the maximum temperature adaptively. The proposed method is base on an important temperature where optimum solutions wer...

In this paper, a Temperature Parallel Simulated Annealing with Adaptive Neighborhood (TPSA/AN) for continuous optimization problems is introduced. TPSA/AN is based on the temperature parallel simulated annealing (TPSA), which is suitable for parallel processing, and the SA that Corana developed for continuous optimization problems. The moves in TPSA/AN are adjusted to have equal acceptance rate...