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Structural behaviour of aeronautical tungsten carbide/carbon-coated titanium ball screws under space thermal-vacuum conditions
No full textIn view of the pressing need for improvements in space mechanisms and tribology research work, a thermal high-vacuum mechanism test facility has been constructed at Rome 'La Sapienza' University. The purpose of this facility is to provide fundamental data on the performance of mechanical components and materials in high vacuum in order to test the validity of space mechanism designs. The facility also makes it possible to examine the behaviour of both mechanisms and materials under combined environmental factors, such as ultraviolet radiation, atomic oxygen and temperature. This paper reports on the behaviour of titanium recirculating ball screws provided by Umbra Cuscinetti SpA (Foligno, Italy) under thermal-vacuum conditions. It is to be noted that these ball screws - well known in the aeronautical field - may be particularly attractive as a new generation of space mechanisms. A solid multilayer film of tungsten carbide/carbon (WC/C) was deposited on screw surfaces as a lubricant and was then compared with the case of no lubrication, which presently appears promising for many mechanisms. In order to compare experimental results, traditional stainless steel mechanisms were also tested and analysed. The requisites imposed by the space environment, as well as by contact mechanical stresses, have given useful information on a preliminary geometrical configuration and choice of materials, both of which are presented in this paper. Thermal-vacuum effects on overall ball screw efficiency and on ball screw coating friction and wear are also reported and commented on herein as well as numerical contact simulations of crack mechanisms. © 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A variable stiffness plasticity dual boundary element formulation for fracture mechanics
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A variable stiffness dual boundary element method for mixed-mode elastoplastic crack problems
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Modellazione probabilistica del processo di accrescimento della frattura in una lega beta di titatio.
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