The magnitude of secondary relaxation and heat capacity of a variety of glasses decrease on physical ageing. The decrease suggests a collapse of localized high-volume, highentropy regions in its structure. Densification on ageing affects the kinetic, vibrational and electronic properties of a glass differently than does densification on compression. Tunneling centres responsible for the low-tem...

this research has been conducted to investigate the influence of steam temperature and densification percentage on withdrawal strength of nail and screw joints as well as flexural strength in compressed wood of eastern cottonwood (populus deltoeides). for this purpose 15 healthy standing trees of eastern cottonwood were selected from dr. bahramnia forest located in shasht-kola (gorgan). the fla...

-The densification of a porous intermetallic alloy (Ti-14wt%AI-21wt%Nb) during the final stage of densification has been investigated under various states of stress and compared with the predictions of current models for densification by power-law creep. The experiments generally confirm the model predictions that the densification rate is a sensitive function of the stress state. Experimentall...

In this paper, we address the problem of optimal relay placement in a cellular network assuming network densification, with the aim of maximizing cell capacity. In our model, a fraction of radio resources is dedicated to the base-station (BS)/relay nodes (RN) communication. In the remaining resources, BS and RN transmit simultaneously to users. During this phase, the network is densified in the...

The effective shear and bulk viscosity, as well as dynamic viscosity, describe the rheological properties of the ceramic body during the liquid phase sintering process. The rheological parameters depend on the physical and thermo-mechanical characteristics of the material such as relative density, temperature, grain size, diffusion coefficient, and activation energy. Thermal behavior of the cer...

The rapid increase in data traffic demand has overloaded existing cellular networks. Planned upgrades in the communication architecture (e.g. LTE), while helpful, are not expected to suffice to keep up with demand. As a result, extensive densification through small cells, caching content closer to or even at the device, and device-to-device (D2D) communications are seen as necessary components ...

At present, operators address the explosive growth of mobile data demand by densification of the cellular network so as to reduce the transmitter-receiver distance and to achieve higher spectral efficiency. Due to such network densification and the intense proliferation of wireless devices, modern wireless networks are interference-limited, which motivates the use of interference mitigation and...

The densification of zinc powders by uniaxial hot pressing is investigated under both isothermal and thermal cycling conditions. Thermal cycling results in enhanced densification kinetics as compared to isothermal compaction at the upper cycle temperature. Using mechanistic models of initial-stage powder densification, the experimental data are analyzed to reveal the creep stress-exponent and a...

In this paper we demonstrate the rate gains achieved by two-tier heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) with varying degrees of coordination between macrocell and microcell base stations (BSs). We show that without the presence of coordination, network densification does not provide any gain in the sum rate and rapidly decreases the mean per-user signalto-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR)...

The kinetics of hot-pressing for undoped and donor-doped BaTiO3 of high purity have been studied at 1050~ and at 2.3 to 27.6 MPa in an oxidizing atmosphere. The stress exponent and grain size exponent of the densification rate are indicative of control of densification by a grain boundary diffusion mechanism. The activation enthalpy (,~ 400 kJ mo1-1 ) for the densification process has been meas...