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The ability to scale up the abc deformation approach to form SMC structure in a large-scale Ti-64 billets was demonstrated via prototype production. The billets (150 mm in diameter and 200 mm in length) solution treated at 1010°C for 0.5 hr followed water cooling were subjected to near-isothermal multi-step forging comprising of specific combination of multiple upset/drawing operations [3] at the thermo-mechanical conditions provided formation of submicron-sized microstructure. 

The polymerisation of styrene in miniemnlsions stabilised with anionic sodium dodecyl sulphate or nonionic Lntensol AT50 results in stable polymer dispersions with particle diameters between 30 and 480 nm and narrow particle size distributions. Steady-state mini-emulsification results in a system with critical stability , i.e. the droplet size is the prodnct of a rate equation of fission by ultrasound and fusion by collisions, and the mini-droplets are as small as possible for the timescales involved. The droplet growth by monomer exchange, or the T1 mechanism, is effectively suppressed by addition of a very hydrophobic material, whereas droplet growth by collisions, or the T2 mechanism, is subject to the critical conditions. The growth of the critically stabilised miniemulsion droplets is usually slower than the polymerisation time therefore, in ideal cases, a 1 1 copy of droplets to particles is obtained, and the critically stabilised state is frozen. 6 refs. 

Ozone chamber testing of materials deformed by alternating load has - for various reasons - never become established in practice to the same degree as testing under static mechanical conditions. It is simpler, more focused, and easier to subject rubber products to practical testing by mounting them in a vehicle or in an appropriate mechanical apparatus than to subject rubber specimens to the dynamic ozone chamber test in the testing chamber [232]. 

Consider the state J]o the system "cracked body - loading". Assume that under fixed crack sizes this state is a stable equilibrium. Together with the undisturbed state Xo consider a set of close neighboring, disturbed states X The neighboring states satisfy the following conditions time, the given surface and body forces, and given displacements are not subjected to variation in the whole body, except perhaps in the vicinities of crack-tips, all equations of equilibrium and compatibility are satisfied, as well as all constitutive equations the only mechanical parameters subjected to variation are the crack parameters. 

The SPATE technique is based on measurement of the thermoelastic effect. Within the elastic range, a body subjected to tensile or compressive stresses experiences a reversible conversion between mechanical and thermal energy. Provided adiabatic conditions are maintained, the relationship between the reversible temperature change and the corresponding change in the sum of the principal stresses is linear and indipendent of the load frequency. 

In what is called BO MD, the nuclear wavepacket is simulated by a swarm of trajectories. We emphasize here that this does not necessarily mean that the nuclei are being treated classically. The difference is in the chosen initial conditions. A fully classical treatment takes the initial positions and momenta from a classical ensemble. The use of quantum mechanical distributions instead leads to a seraiclassical simulation. The important topic of choosing initial conditions is the subject of Section II.C. 

Anilines react with ct-haloacetophenones to give 2-arylindoles. In a typical procedure an W-phenacylaniline is heated with a tw o-fold excess of the aniline hydrobromide to 200-250°C[1]. The mechanism of the reaction was the subject of considerable investigation in the 1940s[2]. A crucial aspect of the reaction seems to be the formation of an imine of the acetophenone which can isomerize to an aldimine intermediate. This intermediate apparently undergoes cyclization more rapidly (path bl -> b2) than its precursor (Scheme 7.3). Only with very reactive rings, e.g, 3,5-dimethoxyaniline, has the alternative cydiz-ation (path al a2) to a 3-arylindole been observed and then only under modified reaction conditions[3],... 

An important aspect of the mechanical properties of fibers concerns their response to time dependent deformations. Fibers are frequently subjected to conditions of loading and unloading at various frequencies and strains, and it is important to know their response to these dynamic conditions. In this connection the fatigue properties of textile fibers are of particular importance, and have been studied extensively in cycHc tension (23). The results have been interpreted in terms of molecular processes. The mechanical and other properties of fibers have been reviewed extensively (20,24—27). 

Two main operational variables that differentiate the flotation of finely dispersed coUoids and precipitates in water treatment from the flotation of minerals is the need for quiescent pulp conditions (low turbulence) and the need for very fine bubble sizes in the former. This is accompHshed by the use of electroflotation and dissolved air flotation instead of mechanically generated bubbles which is common in mineral flotation practice. Electroflotation is a technique where fine gas bubbles (hydrogen and oxygen) are generated in the pulp by the appHcation of electricity to electrodes. These very fine bubbles are more suited to the flotation of very fine particles encountered in water treatment. Its industrial usage is not widespread. Dissolved air flotation is similar to vacuum flotation. Air-saturated slurries are subjected to vacuum for the generation of bubbles. The process finds limited appHcation in water treatment and in paper pulp effluent purification. The need to mn it batchwise renders it less versatile. 

Fabrics composed of synthetic polymer fibers are frequendy subjected to heat-setting operations. Because of the thermoplastic nature of these fibers, eg, polyester, nylon, polyolefins, and triacetate, it is possible to set such fabrics iato desired configurations. These heat treatments iavolve recrystaUization mechanisms at the molecular level, and thus are permanent unless the fabrics are exposed to thermal conditions more severe than those used ia the heat-setting process. 

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