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Abstract: Thermal fatigue is a stochastic process often showing considerable scatter even in controlled environments. Due to complexity of thermal fatigue, there is no a complete analytical solution for predicting the effect of this property on the life of various components, subjected to severe thermal fluctuations. Among these components, one can mention car cylinder, cylinder head and pi...

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In thermal cracking plants, it is desired to apply an optimal temperature profile along the reactor to minimize the operation cost. In this article a simulator is developed by the use of a mathematical model, which describes the static operation of a naphtha thermal cracking pilot plant. The model is used to predict the steady state profiles of the gas temperature and product yields. Using ...

Marco Zoli School of Science and Technology CNISM University of Camerino, I-62032 Camerino, Italy [email protected] Abstract The thermodynamical stability of DNA minicircles is investigated by means of path integral techniques. Hydrogen bonds between base pairs on complementary strands can be broken by thermal fluctuations and temporary fluctuational openings along the double helix are essen...

Urea effect on conformation and thermal stabilities in nucleohistone and NaCl-treated partially dehistonized nucleohistones has been studied by circular dichroism (CD) and thermal denaturation. Urea imposes a CD change at 278mm of DNA base pairs in native and NaCl-treated nucleohistones which can be decomposed into two parts: a decrease in Deltaepsilon(278) for histone-free base pairs and an in...