There exists some inconsistence regarding the true residual stress profiles by hard turning and grinding AISI 52100 steel (62 HRc). This study aims to clarify the pressing issues for five surface types: hard turned fresh, hard turned with a white layer, ground fresh, ground with a white layer, and as-heat-treated. The key findings are: (i) hard turned fresh surfaces produce surface compressive ...

BACKGROUND Wildfires are an increasingly important component of the forces that drive the global carbon (C) cycle and climate change as progressive warming is expected in boreal areas. This study estimated C emissions from the wildfires across the Alaskan Yukon River Basin in 2004. We spatially related the firescars to land cover types and defined the C fractions of aboveground biomass and the ...

Ground-layer adaptive optics (GLAO) promises a significant improvement in image width and energy concentration over atmospheric seeing in a relatively wide field by compensating for low-altitude turbulence only. This approach, which is intermediate between full AO and seeing-limited observations, can benefit many astronomical programs in the visible and near-infrared. We have developed a simple...

Ground layer Adaptive Optics (GLAO) is a new variant of adaptive optics that aims at correcting the seeing over a wide field of view by conjugating the deformable mirror to the boundary layer altitude.The South Pole is expected to be particularly to GLAO due to the absence of high altitude jets and the confinement of 96% of the seeing within a 220 m boundary layer. We present here the compariso...

A new principle for radon protection is currently presented which makes use of a system of horizontal pressurised air ducts located within the lower part of the rigid insulation layer of the ground-floor slab. The function of this system is based on the principles of pressure reduction within the zone below the ground-floor construction. For this purpose a new system of prefabricated lightweigh...

Viscous effect of wing in ground effect in wind tunnel test was investigated numerically. Ground settings in wind tunnel test were simulated by specifying different ground boundary conditions in CFD. It was revealed for fixed-ground based wind tunnel test that: boundary layer developed from the ground deforms effective ground surface and introduces a decreased effective ground clearance; a shar...

texture, one of the important elements in visual arts, is produced in different ways. whereas each painting is a multilayered object, any separate layer can have its own distinct texture. texture can be resulted of inherent nature of artist's depicted materials, such as canvas or support, and it can be, also, produced in the ground or paint layers. in addition, by using of different materi...

[1] Elevated OH and peroxy radical levels have recently been observed in the nocturnal boundary layer (NBL). Despite the possible importance of OH for the gas phase and particulate composition, the source of these ROx radicals at night is currently unclear. To investigate the influence of vertical mixing on nocturnal ROx chemistry, calculations with a one-dimensional chemical transport model we...