Reactive materials, such as thermite-like metal-metal oxide mixtures, intermetallic mixtures and combustible metals are being studied as candidates for binary energetic materials. During the past decade, there are several studies to use these reactive materials to design dual functional structuralenergetic materials. Most of the earlier studies resulted in low strength, low density structural e...

in the present work, the integral equations method is used to calculate transport properties of polar fluids. for this goal, we use the stockmayer potential and examine theoretically the thermal conductivity of several refrigerant mixtures such as r125+r134a, r125+r32, r125+r152a, r134a+r32, r152a+r32, r134a+r143a, and r125+r143a. we solve numerically the ornstein-zernike (oz) equation using th...

air cooled blast furnace slag is a by product made of gradually air cooled molten blast furnace slag, and is often stored in stockpiles near the iron mills and usually occupy a wide area around the iron mills. from this perspective the further use of these materials can have its own merits. air cooled blast furnace slag can be used in asphalt mixtures because of their proper frictional properti...

Linear mixtures of materials in a scene often occur because the resolution of a sensor is relatively coarse, resulting in pixels containing patches of different materials within them. This phenomenon causes nonoverlapping areal mixing and can be modeled by a linear mixture model. More complex phenomena, such as the multiple scattering in mixtures of vegetation, soils, granular, and microscopic ...

Wisconsin Department of Transport (WisDOT) permits use of Grade A-FA (70% cement plus 30% Class C fly ash) concrete mixtures for pavement construction. This paper discusses a laboratory investigation performed to study the effects of the cementitious materials such as portland cement, ASTM Class C fly ash, ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS), blends of cement and fly ash, and cement pl...

Presolar grains are considered to have traces in their birth before the solar system formation in their isotopic and elemental features. Most of silicon carbide type X (SiC X) and low density graphite grains show the excesses of 12C and 28Si. These isotopic features suggest that SiC X and low density graphite are originating from supernovae. On the other hand, elemental signatures of the grains...

This perspective article provides an assessment of the state-of-the-art in the molecular-resolution analysis of complex organic materials. These materials can be divided into biomolecules in complex mixtures (which are amenable to successful separation into unambiguously defined molecular fractions) and complex nonrepetitive materials (which cannot be purified in the conventional sense because ...

This paper reviews the roles of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) as a small fish model in the field of aquatic toxicology. The species has been (and is) extensively used both for regulatory testing and research, especially in North America. For example, tests with the fathead minnow, ranging from 48-h lethality through partial and full life-cycle assays, are routinely used for regulator...