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Optimising LSP conditions and modelling the geometric effects on residual stress
No full textcompressive stresses close to the surface of a metal component. The method is particularly useful in the surface treatments of highly-stressed alloys used in the aerospace industry. LSP typically produces compressive zones over 1.5-2.0mm deep, in comparison to about 0.25mm produced by conventional shot peening. The laser parameters can be relatively easily controlled, allowing the process to be tailored to specific design requirements. Additionally, the flexibility of the process allows peening of complex geometries (e.g. leading edges of aero-engine blades). However, a comprehensive analytical or numerical method for predicting the residual stress (RS) distributions generated by LSP is lacking. Consequently, the method is not being exploited as effectively as it might be and in some situations (e.g. in complex geometries) the process has failed to give the expected benefits.The current study forms part of a wider programme of work involving a number of industrial and academic collaborators and the study developed a comprehensive understanding of the LSP process through interpretation of experimental and model results. The experimental work involves measuring and understanding how laser process parameters, specimen geometry and material properties affect the RS fields caused by LSP. X-ray and neutron diffraction techniques have been used to measure RS profiles in Ti-6Al-4V and aluminium alloys (Al2024 and Al7050), all of which are widely used in the aerospace industry for a range of LSP parameters. The experimental results are used to determine the optimal peening conditions and also to quantify the fatigue performance of specimens with a wide range of geometries.A more physically-based eigenstrain (i.e. misfit strain) model which considered the plastic strains introduced by the process has been developed to determine the RS field generated by LSP [1]. Due to propagation of the shock wave generated by a laser shock, the top layers of the specimen experience plastic deformation, and on relaxation the deformed material is loaded in compression by the undeformed material which surrounds this region. Thus, the plastic deformation caused by the shock wave generates the RS field, and also once the plastic deformations are fully stabilised the response of the workpiece is elastic. In the present model, the effect of the LSP pulse is first modelled as a dynamic pressure load in an explicit FE model in order to determine the stabilised plastic strain distribution, which is then incorporated into a static FE model as an eigenstrain. The elastic response of the static FE model gives the RS distribution generated by the original laser pulse.The eigenstrain analysis has a number of advantages. Firstly, once the eigenstrains have been determined, thecomplete RS distribution can be reconstructed through a single elastic analysis, and hence, the solution can bedetermined at a manageable computational cost. The formulation of the solution this way ensures strain compatibility, global stress equilibrium, and matches the boundary conditions. The results have shown that the LSP process parameters can be directly linked to the underlying eigenstrain distribution, and also, a given laser setting produces similar eigenstrain distributions in workpieces (of a given material) of different geometries. Therefore, it is possible to undertake a rapid assessment of the RS field caused in new or complex geometries, and also, the effect of multiple LSP shots simply by installing the appropriate eigenstrain distributions at the correct locations within the component
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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