PURPOSE Mega-voltage cone-beam CT (MVCBCT) imaging can be used to monitor changes in neck flexion and calculate the true spinal cord dose during radiotherapy. To sum the dose over multiple fractions and compare with the planned dose requires deformable image registration. This study investigates the accuracy of deformable registration of the spine in kilovoltage CT (kVCT) to MVCBCT images for h...

many efforts have been made to model the the hot deformation (dynamic recrystallization) flow curves of different materials. phenomenological constitutive models, physical-based constitutive models and artificial neural network (ann) models are the main methods used for this purpose. however, there is no report on the modeling of warm deformation (dynamic spheroidization) flow curves of any kin...

We show that a quantum wire device with spin splitting can work as an active spin polarizer. Hot electrons in one ‘spin’ subband (e.g. ‘spin-up’) may pass such a device with weak electron pair scattering, while electrons in the opposite subband (‘spindown’) may have high conversion probability into the ‘spin-up’ subband, resulting in spin polarization of a hot electron beam. Under different cir...

In the present work, the isothermal compression tests of Al–0.62Mg–0.73Si aluminum alloy were carried out by using the Gleeble-1500D thermo-simulation machine. The samples were tested in the temperature range of 410–510°C and strain rate range of 0.001–1 s−1. Based on the obtained stress–strain curves, the hot deformation behavior was presented. The constitutive relationship of Al–0.62Mg–0.73Si...

equal channel angular rolling (ecar) process is one of the methods that have been used to makeultra-fine materials by imposing severe plastic deformation. after repeating the process severaltimes, a large effective strain is applied to the sample that can cause decreasing the grain size andimproving the mechanical and physical properties of the metal. in this study, thermal conductivityof the s...

Article history: Received 2 January 2015 Received in revised form 22 October 2015 Accepted 23 October 2015 Available online 27 October 2015 The hot deformation behaviour of Inconel alloy IN718 was studied in the temperature range of 950–1100 °C and at strain rates of 0.01 and 1 s with a view to understand the microstructural evolution as a function of strain rate and temperature. For this purpo...