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    The effect of defects and notches in quasi-static and fatigue loading of Inconel 718 specimens produced by selective laser melting

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    Additively manufactured components are likely to contain defects deriving from the manufacturing process. They are also likely to be designed with high geometric complexity (including notches), due to very few design-limitations. In order to understand the influence of these two types of geometric features, we here investigate as-built Inconel 718 specimens produced by selective laser melting under quasi-static and cyclic loading. Notched and unnotched specimens are considered, and the main emphasis is set on the influence of the defects and on how they influence the failure locations at different load levels. © 2020 The Author(s

    Notch-Defect Interaction in Additively Manufactured Inconel 718

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    Powder bed fusion based additively manufactured components are known to have poor surface quality, especially when building downward facing surfaces. These surfaces can contain defects, from which fatigue cracks can be initiated. In this work the notched fatigue behaviour of Inconel 718 specimens produced by selective laser melting is investigated. The main focus is set on the interaction between notch geometries and local defects due to the amount of overhang in the notch region. Four different geometries are considered, with different amount of notch acuities and degree of downward facing surfaces. A variation in failure sites, with respect to the notch bisector line, was fond in the specimens, and the position was found to be dependent on the amount of overhang and notch acuity. The fatigue life was found to be dependent on the size of surface defects measured in fracture surfaces. Further, the use of average strain energy density as a failure criteria in additively manufactured metals is discussed

    Static and fatigue behavior of injection molded short-fiber reinforced PPS composites: Fiber content and high temperature effects

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    Two different short glass fiber reinforced PPS composites with different fibers content (30% and 40% in weight) were tested upon static and fatigue loading at room temperature. The material with 40% fiber content was also tested at high temperature (160 °C) both in static and fatigue condition. All the specimens were injection molded directly in standardized dog-bone geometry without further cutting or machining. Static tests at three different displacement rates were performed in order to calculate the main static mechanical properties and to observe the strain-rate sensitivity. Fatigue tests for both materials were performed in load control with 0.1 load ratio. The S-N curves are presented in semi-logarithmic coordinates. Some derived cyclic parameters such as the cyclic mean strain and cyclic modulus were calculated to observe the capability to describe the input test variables effect on the damage mechanism. The fracture location distribution along the specimen longitudinal axis were observed and the transverse cross-sections were analyzed by means of optical microscopy in order to correlate the micro-structure and the mechanical properties. © 2021 Elsevier Lt

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more sophisticated methods

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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