Indentation is a new method for estimating residual stress. The plastic behavior of the materials under study can affect indentation parameters and, thus, influences the results of residual stress measurement. In this paper, the effect of yield stress and work-hardening exponent on the accuracy of residual stress measurements in steels and aluminums was studied. Results showed that, for m...

The thermotolerance effect of heat hardening (also called short-term acclimation), knockdown resistance to high temperature (KRHT) with and without heat hardening and chill-coma recovery (CCR) are important phenotypes of thermal adaptation in insects and other organisms. Drosophila melanogaster from Denmark and Australia were previously selected for low and high KRHT, respectively. These flies ...

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In CT, the nonlinear attenuation characteristics of polychromatic X-rays cause beam hardening artifacts in the reconstructed images. Statistical algorithms can effectively correct beam hardening artifacts while providing the benefit of noise reduction. In practice, a big challenge for CT is the difficulty at acquiring accurate energy spectrum information, which hinders the efficiency of beam ha...

In this paper, we present two new primitives to Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) languages that are needed for systematic hardening of security concerns. These primitives are called exportParameter and importParameter and are used to pass parameters between two pointcuts. They allow to analyze a program’s call graph in order to determine how to change function signatures for the passing of par...

Quantification of precipitation hardening is a challenging subject as it demands combined knowledge of precipitation strengthening mechanism and precipitate growth/coarsening kinetics. Having not seen many attempts on developing new theories in recent years, the authors are aware of the fact that many existing concepts and developed theories are sometimes even neglected or misused. This article...

The cold compaction of an aggregate of powder is treated from the viewpoint of crystal plasticity theory. The contacts between particles are treated as compaction planes which yield under both normal and shear straining. The hardening of each plane represents both geometric and material hardening at the contacts between particles; the macroscopic tangent stiffness can be written in terms of the...

In this paper, we propose an iterative beam hardening correction method that is applicable for the case with multiple materials. By assuming that the materials composing scanned object are known and that they are distinguishable by their linear attenuation coefficients at some given energy, the beam hardening correction problem is converted into a nonlinear system problem, which is then solved ...

This investigation provides a mechanistic background to mechanical property extractions performed from single-crystal microhardness measurements. The analysis concerns both spherical and sharp (pyramidal) indentations. We show that the uniaxial stress–strain curves inferred from hardness measurements in single crystalline units of material are coincidental with those attained under true uniaxia...