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Based upon a piezoelectric 1-3-composite material, air-bome ultrasonic probes for frequencies up to 2 MHz were developped. These probes are characterized by a bandwidth larger than 50 % as well as a signal-to-noise ratio higher than 100 dB. Applications are the thickness measurement of thin powder layers, the inspection of sandwich structures, the detection of surface near cracks in metals or ceramics by generation/reception of Rayleigh waves and the inspection of plates by Lamb waves. 

A composite material consists of flat, thin metal plates of uniform thickness glued one to another with a thin, epoxy-resin layer (also of uniform thickness) to form a multi-decker-sandwich structure. Young s modulus of the metal is Ej, that of the epoxy resin is E2 (where E2 < Ej) and the volume fraction of metal is Vj. Find the ratio of the maximum composite modulus to the minimum composite modulus in terms of Ej, E2 and V. Which value of gives the largest ratio ... 

The solution that has been adopted by makers of composite soundboards is to fabricate a sandwich structure where a layer of high-quality cardboard is glued between two identical layers of CFRP (Fig. 28.22). The philosophy of this design modification is to replace some CFRP by a much lighter material in those regions that contribute least to the overall stiffness of the section. 

Honeycomb core. Honeycomb core used for aluminum bonded sandwich structure is exclusively aluminum. The core is fabricated by printing offset stripes of adhesive (the node adhesive) on aluminum foil, stacking a large number of these foils and then curing the adhesive in a heated press. The resulting block is called a hobe. Slices are machined from the edge of the hobe and then expanded to... 

Repair. Repairs for damaged bonded structure can be either mechanical or adhesively bonded. Mechanical repairs are metallic doublers on one or both sides of a damaged component, held on by fasteners. The fasteners transfer the load through the doubler around the damaged site and restore part functionality. Although common for metal-to-metal bonded structure, mechanical repair of sandwich structure is rare because of the risk of further delamination. Unless the doubler and fasteners are perfectly sealed, water can travel into the honeycomb core eventually causing freeze-thaw damage and delamination. 

Occasionally a repair is needed that will maintain an aerodynamically smooth surface on exterior surfaces of sandwich structure. In this case an internal doubler is used to hold the filler detail (called a dime-dollar repair for obvious reasons Fig. 24). Damaged trailing edges can be the most difficult to repair because of the difficult geometry (Fig. 25). Repairs of larger areas follow the same general concepts but must be engineered individually to account for specific part shape and load requirements. 

Local repair of bonded structure damage from mechanical sources (bird-strike, equipment impact, etc.) can either be bonded or mechanically fastened patches. In general it is more likely that sandwich structure is repaired using bonded patches because of the limited compression capability of sandwich structure and the risk of introducing water into the honeycomb from penetrating fasteners. 

The stiffness ratios (i.e. stiffness of the foam sandwich beam relative to the original solid beam) are also given in Fig. 2.21. In both cases the values given are independent of the original solid material or its dimensions, so this provides a good design chart. The design of solid/foam sandwich structures is also considered in Chapter 3 in the laminate analysis. 

This type of analysis could also be used for a sandwich structure with solid skins and a foamed core. It is simply a matter of using the appropriate values of E, G 2,Ei,v 2 for the skin and core material. This is illustrated in the following Example. 

At about 159°C it turns pink and adopts the sandwich structure, expected for [M(C5H5)2] compounds, and this is retained in the gaseous phase and in hydrocarbon solutions. Using substituted cyclopentadienyls a variety of analagous sandwich compounds have been prepared and their magnetic properties indicate that the... 

In addition to developing solid RP structures, work has been conducted on sandwich structures such as filament-wound plastic skins with low-density foamed core or a plastic honeycomb core to develop more efficient strength-to-weight structures. Sandwich structures using a syntactic core have been successfully tested so that failures occurred at prescribed high-hydrostatic pressures of 28 MPa (4,000 psi). 

There are different techniques that have been used for over a century to increase the modulus of elasticity of plastics. Orientation or the use of fillers and/or reinforcements such as RPs can modify the plastic. There is also the popular and extensively used approach of using geometrical design shapes that makes the best use of materials to improve stiffness even though it has a low modulus. Structural shapes that are applicable to all materials include shells, sandwich structures, and folded plate structures (Fig. 3-8). These widely used shapes employed include other shapes such as dimple sheet surfaces. They improve the flexural stiffness in one or more directions. 

Solid plastic wall thicknesses for most materials should be targeted to be below 0.2 in. and preferably around 0.125 in. in the interest of avoiding the above pitfalls. In most cases ribbing will provide a satisfactory solution in other cases sandwich structures or reinforced materials may have to be considered. As reviewed elsewhere when presenting the ideal target to meet the best design such as the thinner wall just reviewed, does not mean that a thicker wall can not be processed, etc. The thicker wall can be processed requiring closer process controls (Chapter 8). 

Handbook of industrial materials , 2nd edition, I. Purvis, Elsevier (1992) ISBN 0946395837. A very broad compilation of data for metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, fibers, sandwich structures, and leather. Contents include ... 

The symmetric series provides functional cyclohexadienes, whereas the non-symmetric one serves to build deuterated and/or functional arenes and tentacled compounds. In both series, several oxidation states can be used as precursors and provide different types of activation. The complexes bearing a number of valence, electrons over 18 react primarily by electron-transfer (ET). The ability of the sandwich structure to stabilize several oxidation states [21] also allows us to use them as ET reagents in stoichiometric and catalytic ET processes [18, 21, 22]. The last well-developed type of reactions is the nucleophilic substitution of one or two chlorine atoms in the FeCp+ complexes of mono- and o-dichlorobenzene. This chemistry is at least as rich as with the Cr(CO)3 activating group and more facile since FeCp+ activator is stronger than Cr(CO) 3. 

Reaction of iron atoms with cycloheptatriene to form [Fe( r) -C7H7)-(t7 -C7H9)] was confirmed by another group 15) these workers determined the crystal structure of the species, demonstrating a sandwich structure with the open faces of the two 7j -systems skewed to each other. The temperature-dependent NMR spectrum of this species (16) indicated two types of fiuxional behavior in solution. Evidence for a 1,-2-shift mechanism of the l-5-i7-cycloheptatrienyl moiety in the structure shown. 

Another type of interaction is the association of radical ions with the parent compounds. Recently (118), a theoretical study was reported on the interaction of butadiene ions with butadiene. Assuming a sandwich structure for the complex, the potential curve based on an extended Hiickel calculation for two approaching butadienes (B + B) revealed only repulsion, as expected, while the curves for B + and B + B" interactions exhibit shallow minima (.068 and. 048 eV) at an interplanar distance of about 3.4 A. From CNDO/2 calculations, adopting the parameter set of Wiberg (161), the dimer cation radical, BJ, appears to be. 132 eV more stable than the separate B and B species, whereas the separate B and B species are favored by. 116eV over the dimer anion radical, BJ. This finding is consistent with experimental results formation of the dimer cation radical was proved in a convincing manner (162) while the attempts to detect the dimer anion radical have been unsuccessful. With other hydrocarbons, the reported formation of benzene dimer anion radical (163) represents an exceptional case, while the dimeric cation radical was observed... 

Rieske proteins from complexes contain an insertion of 11 residues between strands (31 and (32 compared to mitochondrial Rieske proteins as well as an extension of 16 residues at the C-terminus. In the N-terminal part, there is an additional short (3 strand (/31 ), as well as a short helix that has no counterpart in the mitochondrial Rieske protein or in NDO. The N-terminus of (3 strand /31 is hydrogen-bonded to strand (310 in (3 sheet 1 as it is in the other Rieske proteins, but the end of strand (31 connects to strand (32 in (3 sheet 2 thus, the sandwich structure of the (3 sheets 1 and 2 is perturbed and a barrellike structure is formed. The core of this barrel is less hydrophobic than the core of the sandwich formed by /3 sheets 1 and 2 in the ISF. 

As a consequence of the molecular orbital interactions, ferrocene adopts an axially symmetrical sandwich structure with two parallel Cp ligands with a distance of 3.32 A (eclipsed conformation) and ten identical Fe-C distances of 2.06 A as well as ten identical C-C distances of 1.43 A [12]. Deviation of the parallel Cp arrangement results in a loss of binding energy owing to a less efficient orbital overlap [8]. All ten C-H bonds are slightly tilted toward the Fe center, as judged from neutron-diffraction studies [13]. 

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