The setting and hardening process of concrete is considered to be the most critical time period during the life of a concrete structure. Previous research has been conducted on an ultrasonic wave reflection method that utilizes a steel plate embedded in the concrete to measure the reflection loss of shear waves at the steel-concrete interface. The reflection loss has been shown to have a linear...

We recently analyzed a new class of laser amplifier based on transverse Bragg reflection. We show that the unique properties of Bragg confinement make it possible through modal loss discrimination to achieve single-transverse-mode operation with transverse modal size that is an order of magnitude larger than in lasers that depend on total internal reflection for transverse confinement.

radar absorbing materials, i.e. magnetite (fe3o4) coated carbon fibers (mccfs) were fabricated by electro-deposition technique. black-colored single spinel phase fe3o4 nanoparticles was easily synthesized by hydrothermal method using reduction of a fe (iii) - triethanolamine complex in an aqueous alkaline solution at 60-80 ◦c. uniform and compact fe3o4 films were fabricated on nitric acid treat...

Background: Similar to the thermoluminescence (TL) spectra, the optical parameters variations can also be used in TL crystals for dosimetry purposes. These optical parameters can include absorption, transmission and reflection coefficients. Materials and Methods: Single crystals of KBr and KCl which have been used in this research were grown from laboratory grade extra pure precursor p...

Let s be a source point and t be a destination point inside an n-vertex simple polygon P . Euclidean shortest paths [Lee and Preparata, Networks, 1984; Guibas et al. , Algorithmica, 1987] and minimum-link paths [Suri, CVGIP, 1986; Ghosh, J. Algorithms, 1991] between s and t inside P have been well studied. Both these kinds of paths are simple and piecewise-convex. However, computing optimal pat...

Abstract Recently, B. A. Kupershmidt have constructed a reflection symmetries of q-Bernoulli polynomials (see [9]). In this paper we give another construction of a q-Bernoulli polynomials, which form Barnes’ multiple Bernoulli polynomials at q = 1, cf. [1, 13, 14]. By using q-Volkenborn integration, we can also investigate the properties of the reflection symmetries of these’ q-Bernoulli polyno...

Atom reflection is studied in the presence of a non-Abelian vector potential proportional to a spin-1/2 operator. The potential is produced by a relatively simple laser configuration for atoms with a tripod level scheme. We show that the atomic motion is described by two different dispersion branches with positive or negative chirality. As a consequence, atom reflection shows unusual features, ...

The aim of the paper is to study the preservation and the reflection of acc and hacc spaces under various kinds of mappings. In particular, we show that acc and hacc are not preserved by perfect mappings and that acc is not reflected by closed (nor perfect) mappings while hacc is reflected by perfect mappings.