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Computed Maximum Pressure (CMP). Value of max pressure computed by means of interior ballistic formulas. It will be developed when a new gun of a particular type is fired under standard conditions with a propelling charge which will give to the projectile its rated muzzle velocity Rated Maximum Pressure (RMP). Value of max pressure specified in the proplnt specifications as the upper limit of avg pressure which may be developed by an acceptable proplnt in the form of propelling charges which will impart the specified muzzle velocity to the specified projectile. Normally about 2000psi.above the computed max pressure, subject to determination at the time of development... 

Since the mean velocity and Reynolds-stress fields are known given the joint velocity PDF /u(V x, t), the right-hand side of this expression is closed. Thus, in theory, a standard Poisson solver could be employed to find (p)(x, t). However, in practice, (U)(x, t) and (u,Uj)(x, t) must be estimated from a finite-sample Lagrangian particle simulation (Pope 2000), and therefore are subject to considerable statistical noise. The spatial derivatives on the right-hand side of (6.61) are consequently even noisier, and therefore are of no practical use when solving for the mean pressure field. The development of numerical methods to overcome this difficulty has been one of the key areas of research in the development of stand-alone transported PDF codes.38... 

The foregoing conclusion is subject to another constraint for gas chromatography a substantial pressure drop is sometimes needed to force the gas phase through the column. In this case the mean pressure, unable to approach zero, should at least be reduced to a minimum, which for true optimization will require vacuum outlet conditions [31]. 

A masked study using male volimteers compared ocular pressure elevations with dexamethasone phosphate 0.1%, fluorometholone alcohol 0.1%, and medrysone 1% applied four times daily for 6 weeks. Figure 12-3 shows the relative ability of these steroids to raise lOP. At the end of 6 weeks of treatment, the mean pressure increases fiar dexamethasone, fluorometholone, and medrysone were 63.1%, 33.8%, and 8.3%, respectively. Additional studies have compared the effects of fluorometholone alcohol suspension 0.25% with dexamethasone sodium phosphate solution 0.1% in steroid-responsive patients. Subjects received the medication in one eye four times daily for up to 6 weeks. Although both drugs elevated lOP, mean pressure increases from baseline in eyes treated with fluorometholone were significantly lower than those in eyes treated with dexamethasone at weeks 2,4, and 6. Further studies are needed to compare the effects of the alcohol and acetate derivatives of fluorometholone on lOP in both nonsteroid and steroid responders. 

Several models account for indentation-induced plastic deformation of the halfspace material. Johnson [32, 34] considered the expansion of an incompressible hemispherical core of material subjected to an internal pressure and has derived an expression relating the mean pressure in the core pm to a combined parameter E/Y cot xfr, where E and Y are elastic modulus and yield stress of the specimen, respectively, and 2xjr is the included angle of a conical indenter. According to... 

Elastic modulus and pulse-wave velocity values collected from the literature. Those values for the PWV marked thus were measured, the others have been calculated from dynamic elasticity measurements ++ measurements for young (<35) and old (>35) subjects respectively. phase difference between wall stress and strain at 2 Hz. is defined in eq (B6.6). The mean pressure was 100 mmHg. 

During measurement of the corneal sensitivity with the Cochet-Bonnet aesthesiometer in both albino and pigmented rabbits the pressure base values for untreated, physiological saline solution treated, or vehicle solution treated animals was approximately 5 g/mm. In Beagle dogs the mean pressure to elicit a blink reflex was higher than in rabbits and reached approximately 9 g/mm. In human volunteers, where the subjective notification of the touch of the filament tip on the cornea was taken as criterion, pressure base values were much lower than in experimental animals, i.e. approximately 1 g/mm. ... 

The Langmuir-Hinshelwood picture is essentially that of Fig. XVIII-14. If the process is unimolecular, the species meanders around on the surface until it receives the activation energy to go over to product(s), which then desorb. If the process is bimolecular, two species diffuse around until a reactive encounter occurs. The reaction will be diffusion controlled if it occurs on every encounter (see Ref. 211) the theory of surface diffusional encounters has been treated (see Ref. 212) the subject may also be approached by means of Monte Carlo/molecular dynamics techniques [213]. In the case of activated bimolecular reactions, however, there will in general be many encounters before the reactive one, and the rate law for the surface reaction is generally written by analogy to the mass action law for solutions. That is, for a bimolecular process, the rate is taken to be proportional to the product of the two surface concentrations. It is interesting, however, that essentially the same rate law is obtained if the adsorption is strictly localized and species react only if they happen to adsorb on adjacent sites (note Ref. 214). (The apparent rate law, that is, the rate law in terms of gas pressures, depends on the form of the adsorption isotherm, as discussed in the next section.)... 

Control of sonochemical reactions is subject to the same limitation that any thermal process has the Boltzmann energy distribution means that the energy per individual molecule wiU vary widely. One does have easy control, however, over the energetics of cavitation through the parameters of acoustic intensity, temperature, ambient gas, and solvent choice. The thermal conductivity of the ambient gas (eg, a variable He/Ar atmosphere) and the overaU solvent vapor pressure provide easy methods for the experimental control of the peak temperatures generated during the cavitational coUapse. 

A more important effect of prestressiag is its effect on the mean stress at the bore of the cylinder when an internal pressure is appHed. It may be seen from Figure 6 that when an initially stress-free cylinder is subjected to an internal pressure, the shear stress at the bore of the cylinder increases from O to A. On the other hand, when a prestressed cylinder of the same dimensions is subjected to the same internal pressure, the shear stress at the bore changes from C to E. Although the range of shear stress is the same ia the two cases (distance OA = CE), the mean shear stress ia the prestressed cylinder, represented by point G, is smaller than that for the initially stress-free cylinder represented by point H. This reduction in the mean shear stress increases the fatigue strength of components subjected to repeated internal pressure. 

The test is carried out by washing down the test enclosures in every direction by means of a standard hose nozzle of 6.3 mm inside diameter, as illustrated in Figure 11.11, held at 3 m from the enclosure with a water pressure equal lo a head of nearly 3 m of water (— 30 kN/iiF), enough to give a delivery rate of 12.5 litres/min. The duration of Ihe lest will be determined at 1 min/m" of the surface area under test, subject lo a minimum of 3 minuies. 

The objective in these gauges is to measure the time-resolved material (particle) velocity in a specimen subjected to shock loading. In many cases, especially at lower impact pressures, the impact shock is unstable and breaks up into two or more shocks, or partially or wholly degrades into a longer risetime stress wave as opposed to a single shock wave. Time-resolved particle velocity gauges are one means by which the actual profile of the propagating wave front can be accurately measured. 

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