The thermal diffusivity of Teflon, sodium chloride, quartz, and silica glass was measured at 40øC to pressures of 35, 18, 30, and 36 kbar, respectively. A transient line source method was modified for use in a piston-cylinder high-pressure c ll. Pressure gradients were determined by experiments with bismuth foils. The pressure dependence of the thermal diffusivity at 40øC for the substances stu...

The melting temperatures have been determined for a wide range of substances as a function of pressure. In the present work, Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene) was investigated up to 30 kb and the decomposition temperatures, and the melting temperatures of silver chloride and iodine were determined up to 30 kb and 20 kb, respectively. General Technique. -The pressure was generated with a piston-c...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the results of application of 2 types of superelastic nitinol prostheses. STUDY DESIGN Temporal bones study with planned data collection. SETTING Tertiary referral center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Malleostapedotomy was performed in 15 human temporal bones implanting 3 different prostheses: manually crimping polytetrafluoroethylene (MC-PTFE) pisto...

The paper describes the identification of the variable critical gain and natural frequency of the pneumatic cylinder using the self-excited oscillations method. The pneumatic drives are characterized by the low stiffness of the pneumatic cylinder which depends on the piston position and determines the natural frequency of the cylinder. The variety of the stiffness in dependence on the piston po...

The fungal class I hydrophobin SC3 self-assembles into an amphipathic membrane at hydrophilic-hydrophobic interfaces such as the water-air and water-Teflon interface. During self-assembly, the water-soluble state of SC3 proceeds via the intermediate alpha-helical state to the stable end form called the beta-sheet state. Self-assembly of the hydrophobin at the Teflon surface is arrested in the a...

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Clinical and surgical records of 91 patients (29 men, 62 women; mean age 48 years; range 18 to 82 years) with otosclerosis were reviewed following stapedotomy with the small fenestra technique without interposition. The same Teflon-platinum piston was used in all the patients. Audiometric tests were performed within a week before the operation, 5 to 7 days (early evaluatio...

An opposed hydraulic free piston engine is under design at the Tianjin University in China because of the advantages of this engine compared to the conventional engine. The main challenges presented by such engines are the control of the piston motion and synchronization. This study investigates the fundamental control context and control method of the opposed hydraulic free piston engine using...

We calculate the scalar Casimir energy and Casimir force for a R×N Kaluza-Klein piston setup in which the extra dimensional space N contains a non-commutative 2sphere, SFZ . The cases to be studied are T d × SFZ and SFZ respectively as extra dimensional spaces, with T d the d dimensional commutative torus. The validity of the results and the regularization that the piston setup offers are exami...