Cornering coefficient

Cornering coefficient Lateral force divided by the vertical load at a defined slip angle. Stiffer tread compounds would tend to improve the cornering coefficient. 

Buckingham R A and Corner J 1947 Tables of second virial and low-pressure Joule-Thompson coefficients for intermolecular potentials with exponential repulsion Proc. R. Soc. A 189 118... 

Corner J 1948 The second virial coefficient of a gas of non-spherical molecules Proc. R. Soc. A 192 275... 

Factory Mutual provides loss prevention data sheets that explain how to protect buildings from wind damage. Pressure coefficients that define increased uplift at corners and edges adjust the calculated uplift pressures. A laboratory uplift pressure test rates roofing assemblies. An uplift pressure of 2.9 kPa (0.42 psi) must be withstood under FM conditions to meet the Class 1-60 requirements. The FM approval guide is revised aimuaHy (37). 

The process requires the interchange of atoms on the atomic lattice from a state where all sites of one type, e.g. the face centres, are occupied by one species, and the cube corner sites by the other species in a face-centred lattice. Since atomic re-aiTangement cannot occur by dhect place-exchange, vacant sites must play a role in the re-distribution, and die rate of the process is controlled by the self-diffusion coefficients. Experimental measurements of the... 

Fig. 4.5. Schematic of top left corner of the "silicon-impurity" phase diagram. To make things simple, we assume that the liquidus and solidus lines ore straight. The impurity concentration in the solid is then always less than that in the liquid by the factor k (called the distribution coefficient).

Difoggio and Corner [1982] and Wang and Comer [1985] have discovered tunneling diffusion of H and D atoms on the (110) face of tungsten. They saw that the Arrhenius dependence of the diffusion coefficient D sharpy levels-off to the low-temperature limit (D = D ) at 130-140 K (fig. 47) the values of depend but slightly on the mass of the tunneling particle for the D and... 

For a building with sharp corners, Cp is almost independent of the wind speed (i.e., Reynolds number) because the flow separation points normally occur at the sharp edges. This may not be the case for round buildings, w here the position of the separation point can be affected by the wind speed. For the most common case of the building with a rectangular shape, Cp values are normally between 0.6 and 0.8 for the upwind wall, and for the leeward wall 0,6 < C, < —0.4. Figure 7.99 and Table 7.32 show an example of the distribution of surface pressure coefficient values on the typical industrial building envelope. 

A detailed method of determining pressure coefficients is to perform experiments with a wind tunnel facility. Cochran and Cermak compared wind tunnel pressure coefficient measurements with field measures on a test building and found excellent results, with the exception of small areas beneath the vortices near the upwind roof corner for winds approaching at 45 . For infiltration and natural ventilation designs, wind tunnel results should be sufficiently accurate. 

The convective and nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient was the subject of experiments by Grohmann (2005). The measurements were performed in microtubes of 250 and 500 pm in diameter. The nucleate boiling metastable flow regimes were observed. Heat transfer characteristics at the nucleate and convective boiling in micro-channels with different cross-sections were studied by Yen et al. (2006). Two types of micro-channels were tested a circular micro-tube with a 210 pm diameter, and a square micro-channel with a 214 pm hydraulic diameter. The heat transfer coefficient was higher for the square micro-channel because the corners acted as effective nucleation sites. 

To further analyze the relationships within descriptor space we performed a principle component analysis of the whole data matrix. Descriptors have been normalized before the analysis to have a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1. The first two principal components explain 78% of variance within the data. The resultant loadings, which characterize contributions of the original descriptors to these principal components, are shown on Fig. 5.8. On the plot we can see that PSA, Hhed and Uhba are indeed closely grouped together. Calculated octanol-water partition coefficient CLOGP is located in the opposite corner of the property space. This analysis also demonstrates that CLOGP and PSA are the two parameters with... 

Figure 10-8 Orifice discharge coefficient for square-edged orifice and flange, corner, or radius type (From Miller, 1983.)...

Sigma (a) bonds Sigma bonds have the orbital overlap on a line drawn between the two nuclei, simple cubic unit cell The simple cubic unit cell has particles located at the corners of a simple cube, single displacement (replacement) reactions Single displacement reactions are reactions in which atoms of an element replace the atoms of another element in a compound, solid A solid is a state of matter that has both a definite shape and a definite volume, solubility product constant (/ p) The solubility product constant is the equilibrium constant associated with sparingly soluble salts and is the product of the ionic concentrations, each one raised to the power of the coefficient in the balanced chemical equation, solute The solute is the component of the solution that is there in smallest amount, solution A solution is defined as a homogeneous mixture composed of solvent and one or more solutes. 

FIG. 10-16 Coefficient of discharge for square-edged circular orifices with corner taps. [Tuve and Sprenkle, Instruments, 6, 201 (1933).]... 

When = 0.90 this gives x2 = xCd = 3.1(10-4) while Eq. (A14) gives Xj = xHg = 0.9922. This is in agreement with the more exact computer calculations whose results are shown in Fig. 31. The activity coefficients in the metal-rich liquid in equilibrium with a solid solution with = 0.9 and at 673°K obtained from a computer calculation also agree to within 3% with the approximate values listed above. Thus the relative stability of CdTe(s) compared to HgTe(s) is a major factor in the tie-lines converging toward the Hg corner. The smallness of Q2/k5, which is determined in part by the large value of 244 for the activity coefficient of the CdTe liquid species, also enters and is less transparent. 

In order to develop an intuition for the theory of flames it is helpful to be able to obtain analytical solutions to the flame equations. With such solutions, it is possible to show trends in the behavior of flame velocity and the profiles when activation energy, flame temperature, diffusion coefficients, or other parameters are varied. This is possible if one simplifies the kinetics so that an exact solution of the equation is obtained or if an approximate solution to the complete equations is determined. In recent years Boys and Corner (B4), Adams (Al), Wilde (W5), von K rman and Penner (V3), Spalding (S4), Hirschfelder (H2), de Sendagorta (Dl), and Rosen (Rl) have developed methods for approximating the solution to a single reaction flame. The approximations are usually based on the simplification of the set of two equations [(4) and (5)] into one equation by setting all of the diffusion coefficients equal to X/cpp. In this model, Xi becomes a linear function of temperature (the constant enthalpy case), and the following equation is obtained ... 

These tables give "covolumes of propellants with a systematic error of less than 5%. The basis of Corner s theory is the expression of the 2nd virial coefficient of a gas as a simple function of the parameters of the intermolecular field... 

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