In order to overcome existing complicated and costly simultaneous measurement system, an inexpensive and simple measurement system was suggested to measure the temperature field and velocity field at high temperature. The manganese-activated magnesium fluorogermanate (Mg4FGe6:Mn, MFG) which is one of thermographic phosphor with luminescence characteristic of excitation at 385 nm wavelength and ...

Taking daily return of international crude oil spot and futures as sample, this paper analyzed the time varying and asymmetric dependence structure of them by time varying Copula-GARCH model based on sliding window and semi parameter estimation. This paper analyzed the regular changing between dependence structure of crude oil spot and futures and the return fluctuation, and confirmed that ther...

Introduction Auto-ignition of cooking oils causes a significant proportion of household fires [1,2]. In addition, the majority of the 50% of all accidental fires in hotels, restaurants and fast food outlets that start in kitchens involve liquid cooking oil or fat as the primary ignition source [3,4]. The potential risk of loss of life and property damage due to cooking oils fires is high. Cooki...

Most studies neglect the presence of thermal cracking reactions in industrial FCC process. Nevertheless, the present work proposes a new model which modified the 10-lumps kinetic model given by Jacob el al. (1976), through to inclusion a new lump named dry gas represent the results of the thermal reactions. Similarly as in the 10-lumps kinetic model, the proposed 11-lumps kinetic model consider...

An improved welding electrode for producing weld metal having low amount of hydrogen therein so that hydrogen assisted cracking in weld zone is minimised. This is especially beneficial for welding high strength steel having tensile strengths of about 70000 psi or above. The reduction of slag /metal reaction temperature during welding have been found to have additional advantage of reducing the ...

J. Kasińska, Faculty of Mechatronics and Machine Design, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland This paper presents influence of rare earth metals (REM) on the mechanical properties, microstructure and morphology of non metallic inclusions as well as the cracking mechanism of G17CrMo5-5 high temperature cast steel. The research has been performed on successive industrial melts. It was ...

Acoustic emission (AE) is capable of monitoring the cracking activities inside materials. In this study, embedded sensors were employed to monitor the AE behavior of early age concrete. Type 1-3 cement-based piezoelectric composites, which had lower mechanical quality factor and acoustic impedance, were fabricated and used to make sensors. Sensors made of the composites illustrated broadband fr...

Standard asphalt mixtures for road infrastructures consist of natural aggregate and bitumen. A number of research efforts have successfully investigated the possibility of replacing the conventional aggregate skeleton with industrial by-products such as slag originating from steel production process. However, little is known on the effect of steel slag on the mixtures functional performance and...