An investigation on machinability assessment of Al-6XN and AISI 316 alloys: an assessment study of machining

This work presents machinability assessment of AL-6XN super austenitic stainless steel alloy. Cutting forces, surface roughness, work hardening tendency and tool wear were analyzed. The assessment was conducted based on a comparison between the AL-6XN alloy and the well-known alloy in the machining field AISI 316. Finite element analysis (FEA) study was also conducted and used in this assessment. Experimental results showed maximum increase of 70% and 57% in the feed and normal forces of the AL-6XN alloy, respectively. Maximum increase in the work hardening tendency of 59% was recorded for the AL-6XN alloy while only 29% was recorded for the 316 alloy. The roughness analysis recorded an increase of 186% for the AL-6XN alloy compared to the 316 alloy. Tool wear analysis revealed the build-up edge formation, severe chipping, flank and crater wear (CW) during cutting AL-6XN alloy whereas small chipping, flank and CW were noticed during cutting 316 alloy. FEA study showed when the AL-6XN alloy machined using 65 and 94?m/min cutting speeds, the increases (compared to the 316 alloy) were: 12% and 8% in plastic strain; 20% and 20% in stresses; 48% and 100% in residual tensile stresses; 22% and 92% in residual compressive stresses, respectively.     

Bit allocation strategy based on Psychovisual threshold in image compression

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Image compression leads to minimize the storage-requirement of an image by reducing the size of the image. This paper presents a bit allocation strategy based on...     

Influence of toxic metals on the repression of carbonaceous oxygen demand

Toxic metals like lead, bismuth, mercury and zinc-aranyl have been found to repress the carbonaceous oxygen demand. The biological seed was developed from trade waste of Glaxo Laboratories. Three concentrations: 5, 10 and 15 mg 1⁻¹ of the metals were used to observe repression of carbonaceous oxygen demand of amino acid, methionine, used as substrate. Rate constants, ratios of (t/y)^1.3 and COD: BOD were computed.     

Base-transit-time model considering field dependent mobility for BJTs operating at high-level injection

An analytical model for the base transit time /spl tau//sub b/ for an exponentially doped base is developed assuming a small change in electron concentration in the base of a bipolar junction transistor at high injection from its low injection value. The model is valid in all levels of injection before the onset of the Kirk effect. In this analysis, bandgap-narrowing effect, high-injection effect, and carrier velocity saturation at the base edge of the base-collector junction, and also doping and field dependence of mobility, are incorporated. The base transit time calculated analytically is compared with simulation and numerical results, and also with experimental data in order to demonstrate the validity of the assumptions made in deriving the expression. The base transit time is found to be different if the field dependent mobility is considered.     

Miniaturized implantable pressure and oxygen sensors based on polydimethylsiloxane thin films

We demonstrate the application of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) thin films in highly sensitive pressure and oxygen sensors, designed for pressure and oxygen content measurements within the heart and blood vessels. PDMS thin film displacement as a result of pressure changes was transduced by a capacitive detection technique to produce quantitative measurement of absolute pressures. Oxygen measurements were obtained by transducing the current change between a Pt and an Ag/AgCl electrode on a glass substrate, with KCl soaked filter paper as the electrolytic media that is separated from the oxygen carrying fluid by a thin PDMS membrane. The best sensitivity for the pressure sensor was ~ 0.1 nA/KPa, with a noise limited resolution of ~ 0.09 KPa. For the oxygen sensor, the best sensitivity was ~ 2.75 µA for 1% change in oxygen content of the surrounding media, with a noise limited resolution of ~ 6.18 ppm oxygen. These experimental results agree with theoretical modeling predictions, and suggest that the semi-permeable and biocompatible PDMS can be successfully adopted as the contacting membrane in an integrated sensor design to quantify pressure and oxygen content in blood.     

Stagnation zone during the turning of Duplex SAF 2205 stainless steels alloy

Duplex stainless alloys are extremely sensitive to cutting speed for strain hardening during machining. Tool wear for these materials is dominated by the adhesion wear because of formation of built-up edge (BUE) that upsurges the flank wear considerably. In addition, flute damage is a significant problem during drilling of those alloys. To address this issue, this paper investigates the mechanism of BUE creation in stagnation region of duplex SAF 2205 alloys during material removal by turning process. The investigation of chip root through SEM and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) revealed build-up of ferritic bands at the stagnation zone. Higher capacity of austenite phase to deform plastically is accountable for the ferrite build-up. This was detected as a possible activating mechanism of built-up edge. The flow pattern of austenite phase designates faster deforming compare to that of ferrite phases.     

Availability analysis under multiple link failures in WDM networks with shared-link connections

In optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks, different protection schemes have been proposed in the literature, namely, dedicated protection and shared protection. Shared protection techniques significantly reduce the required spare capacity by providing the same level of availability as dedicated protection. However, current mission critical applications (which heavily depend on the availability of communication resources) require connection availability in the order of 99.999% or higher, which corresponds to a downtime of almost 5 min a year on the average. Therefore, in order to satisfy a connection serviceavailability requirement defined by the users Service Level Agreement in a cost-effective and resource-efficient way, network operators need a systematic mechanism to evaluate the network availability under multiple failure scenario to ensure that current network configuration can meet the required availability degree; otherwise, a network upgrade is required. Unfortunately, under multiple failure scenario, traditional availability analysis techniques based on reliability block diagrams are not suitable for survivable networks with shared spare capacity. Therefore, a new concept is proposed to facilitate the calculations of network availability. In this paper, we propose an analytical model for evaluating the availability of a WDM network with shared-link connections under multiple link failures. The analytical model is also verified using Monte Carlo simulation. The proposed model significantly contributes to the related areas by providing network operators with a quantitative tool to evaluate the system availability and, thus, the expected survivability degree of WDM optical networks with shared connections under multiple link failures.