Dual phase steels with different martensite volume fraction and morphology were tensile tested at a temperature range of 25 to 5500C. Stress-strain curves of all steels showed serration flow at temperatures of 250 and 3500C, and smooth flow at the other temperatures. Both yield and ultimate tensile strengths increased with increasing testing temperature up to about 450<sup...

The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has served as a valuable model/organism for the study of aging and was the first organism possessing a circulatory system to have its genome completely sequenced. However, little is known about the function of the heartlike organ of flies during the aging process. We have developed methods for studying cardiac function in vivo in adult flies. Using 2 diff...

Aggressive technology scaling has inevitably led reliability become a key concern for modern ICs. With commonly existing Process, Voltage, and Temperature (PVT) variations inside a chip, lifetime reliability assurance becomes hardly possible without Dynamic Reliability Management (DRM). In order to maintain a chip’s lifetime reliability specification, we propose a novel DRM framework in this pa...

Even though the high-temperature formability of Al alloys can be enhanced by the strain-induced melt activation (SIMA) process, the mechanical properties of the formed alloys are necessary for estimation. In this research, a modified two-step SIMA (TS-SIMA) process that omits the cold working step of the traditional SIMA process is adopted for the 6066 Al-Mg-Si alloy to obtain globular grains w...

Environmental temperature greatly affects lifespan in a wide variety of animals, but the exact mechanisms underlying this effect are still largely unknown. A moderate temperature decrease from 22°C to 16°C extends the lifespan of the monogonont rotifer Brachionus manjavacas by up to 163%. Thermodynamic effects on metabolism contribute to this increase in longevity, but are not the only cause. W...

permits unrestricted nonommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. Explaining aging in evolutionary terms is relatively simple: while a strong selection pressure for an indi-vidual's survival exists until the per-petuation of his progeny is secured, there cannot be selecti...

The objective was to determine whether aging of sperm caused by incubation at normothermic (38.5 C) or heat shock (40 C) temperatures for 4 h prior to oocyte insemination affects sperm motility, fertilizing ability, competence of the resultant embryo to develop to the blastocyst stage and blastocyst sex ratio. In the first experiment, the percent of sperm that were motile was reduced by aging (...

in this study, the changes in microstructure of hp-nb cast heat resistant steel after 8 years of service at high temperatures were investigated. study of microstructure using optical microscopy (om) and scanning electron microscopy (sem) equipped with an energy dispersive spectrometry (eds) showed that the microstructure of this steel in as-cast condition includes an austenitic matrix, and that...