At microscale, the large ratio between mean grain size of the material and specimen dimension cause an increasing influence of single grain forming behaviour on the overall forming process. Thus the forming behaviour of these parts can no longer be regarded as to be homogeneous. This leads to a change in the material behaviour resulting in a large scatter of forming results, e.g. varying cup he...

In this paper, we present a method for overlapping communications on parallel computers for pipelined algorithms. We rst introduce a general theoretical model which leads to a generic computation scheme for the optimal packet size. Then, we use the OPIUM 3 library, which provides an easy-to-use and eecient way to compute, in the general case, this optimal packet size, on the column LU factoriza...

Recent studies have shown that nanotwinned copper (NT Cu) exhibits a combination of high strength and moderate ductility. However, most engineering and structural applications would also require materials to have superior fracture toughness and prolonged subcritical fatigue crack growth life. The current study investigates the effect of twin density on the crack initiation toughness and stable ...

This paper compares the predictive performance of different geostatistical kriging algorithms for intertidal surface sediment facies mapping using grain size data. Indicator kriging, which maps facies types from conditional probabilities of predefined facies types, is first considered. In the second approach, grain size fractions are first predicted using cokriging and the facies types are then...

To describe flow or transport phenomena in porous media, relations between aquifer hydraulic conductivity and effective porosity can prove useful, avoiding the need to perform expensive and time consuming measurements. The practical applications generally require the determination of this parameter at field scale, while most of the empirical and semiempirical formulas, based on grain size analy...

Locality and storage management considerations for fork-join parallelism lead to the loss of the important List Scheduling property. The worst case performance of the constrained scheduling policies, called PaH and ToS, is very bad: (nearly) all parallelism is lost. “Practical” performance, however, differs radically from worst case performance. The PaH and ToS policies perform on average withi...

Geological data from measurement of sediment granulation over a 24 hour period in a lake formed by the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska was applied to synthesis parameters. The parameters measured include time, grain size and grain frequency. Several mapping strategies were employed to generate different types of additive and granular synthesis sound materials: 1) time to event grouping, sediment gr...

[1] We report on laboratory experiments designed to illuminate grain-scale deformation mechanisms within fault gouge. We vary particle size distribution, grain and surface roughness, and gouge layer thickness to better understand how grain sliding, rolling, dilation, and compaction affect the strength and stability of granular fault gouge. The experiments employed the double direct shear testin...

Introduction: In the search for life on Mars, investigating fluvial deposits will be a high priority for future landers. Although there is abundant evidence that fluvial processes worked with great intensity in the past (e.g., outflow channels, valley networks, and modified impact craters), aeolian processes dominate under the current environmental conditions. In fact there is evidence that ext...

a field experiment was conducted at the seed and plant improvement institute research field station in karaj, iran, during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 growing seasons to estimate genetic progress and the variation in penological and agronomic characteristics in 13 irrigated facultative/winter bread wheat (triticum aestivum l.) cultivars released in iran between 1943 and 2011. trends of temporal var...