– We report the results of an experimental investigation of segregation in a binary mixture of dry particles subjected to horizontal oscillatory excitation. The thin layer of particles was driven by the stick-slip frictional interaction with the surface of a horizontal tray. As the packing fraction of the mixture was increased, the evolution of distinct phases was observed. We identified them a...

We present the results of an experimental study of patterned segregation in a horizontally shaken shallow layer of a binary mixture of dry particles. As the compacity, C, of the mixture was increased, the evolution of three distinct phases was observed. We classify them as binary gas, segregation liquid and segregation crystal phases using macroscopic and microscopic measures. The binary gas to...

This paper addresses the internal heat integration to the pressure-swing distillation process used in the separation of binary azeotrope mixture. A general procedure is suggested and illustrated through the separation of an binary mixture, which forms pressure-sensitive minimum-boiling azeotropes. Comparisons are made between the conventional and the internally heat integration processes. It is...

Humidity influences the tribological performance of the head-disk interface in magnetic data storage devices. In this work a quartz crystal microbalance was used to measure the uptake of water on amorphous hydrogenated carbon (a-CHx) films at room temperature and pressures of water corresponding to relative humidities of 25%: These experiments have used a-CHx films of varying thickness with and...

We test the application of Kobayashi–McMillan theory for the solutes ortho-, metaand para-dichlorobenzene in a binary mixture of 6OCB/8OCB in which both high temperature nematic and low temperature reentrant nematic phases exist. Proton NMR spectra of these solutes are analyzed to give two independent order parameters from which the solute smectic potential can be parametrized. The derived smec...

2014 In critical wetting phenomena, the situation of a heavier liquid residing on top of lighter liquid is observed. The consequences of the Rayleigh-Taylor mode of instability in the semicritical wetting layer in a binary liquid mixture are investigated. We also report experimental observations in support of our theory, in the critical binary liquid mixture cyclohexane + acetonitrile. J. Physi...

1. A multivariate continuous model In this section, we provide the following concrete example that satisfies all the assumptions of Theorems 3 and 5 in our manuscript. Let yik be the response at time k for the i th subject from N(μik = β0 + xikβ1, 1), k = 1, . . . , T = 3, i = 1, . . . , n = 50. Let yi = (yi1, · · · , yiT ) . The true value of (β0, β1) is (1, -1). Covariates xik’s are iid rando...

The same relationship holds for the interfacial tension o-i at the consolute critical point (the critical point for phase separation) of a binary fluid mixture. Up to now no rigorous theory links the interfacial tension to properties of the bulk system. However, a phenomenological approach which should be valid in the vicinity of the critical point has been developed by Fisk and Widom. 2 Accord...

Article history: Received 15 August 2010 Received in revised form 3 December 2010 Accepted 3 December 2010 Available online 4 December 2010 In this paper, we present machining tests by turning En-31 steel alloy with tungsten carbide inserts using soluble oil-water mixture lubricant under different machining conditions. Firstorder and second-order cutting force prediction models were developed b...

Background: Cervical cancer is a pervasive yet preventable killer. Although routine screening exams are available to aid in the early detection of cervical cancer, women often avoid getting their routine annual screening exams. One explanation of this could be due to the discomfort of speculum exams. One way to minimize the discomfort of the speculum exam is to use gel-lubricant. However, there...