Transient pulse test

One way around this problem is to find a nondestructive test that would still give good indication of firing characteristics. This has been done, using the Rosenthal model (seen earlier) as the basis, with transient-pulse testing or electrothermal response. This procedure can be used on 100% of the units fabricated and find individual bad actors to be weeded out as well as to find systematic or lot to lot shifts at the same time. This procedure is based upon the same heat transfer and energy balance equation we saw earlier... 

As shown in Table 4 some changes were noted from the transient pulse. The mp was lowered from 216 to 208° and the 5-sec exp In temp also was lowered from 299 to 268°. None of the other materials tested showed any evidence of any gross radiation damage or of burning, and subsequent tests confirmed this... 

Among the first expts in which the effect of pulsed reactor radiation was attempted on any proplnt was the KIWI—TNT transient excursion test in the NERVA program (Refs 159 192). 

Zhang M., Takahashi M., Morin R. H. and Esaki T. (2000). "Evaluation and application of the transient-pulse technique for determining the hydraulic properties of low permeability rocks -Part 1 Theoretical Evaluation." Geotechnical Testing Journal 23(1) 83-90. 

The common civil engineering seismic testing techniques work on the principles of ultrasonic through transmission (UPV), transient stress wave propagation and reflection (Impact Echo), Ultrasonic Pulse Echo (UPE) and Spectral Analysis of Surface Waves (SASW). 

Tracer tests are extremely difficult to conduct and process so as to give accurate moments. Most errors are associated either with the start of the transient, where undesired pulses in pressure or flow rate accompany the tracer transient, or they arise from the tail, where small drifts in baseline of the instruments used to detect and record tracer transients mean that high-order moments fail to converge satisfactorily. In practice, experimental moments of higher order than second can seldom be used for parameter extraction Sect. 6 is a brief introduction to alternative techniques for estimating parameters. 

The temporal widths of the IR pulses and the time resolution of this spectrometer are tested with the use of a Ge sample that, when exposed to the pump pulses, results in transient IR absorption at 2290 cm. Modeling the risetime of this absorption gives a cross-correlation width (full width at half-maximum, fwhm) of 1.8 ps. 

In this section, we propose that the transit time of transport photocarriers can be obtained by an analysis of transient current in a double layer that consists of a thin chalcogenide nnder test and another material with higher mobility snch as a-Se. Figure 4.19(a) shows the type of carrier transit pulse that is frequently enconntered in the study of amorphous semiconductors. 

Studies on the effect of pulsed nuclear reactor irradiation were conducted on RD-1333 Pb azide (Ref 254). Bulk samples of RD-1333 were exposed to a total dose of 2.0 x 1014 n/cm2 from an unmoderated, unreflected, prompt pulsed reactor in a pulse 40 to 50 psec full-width at half-maximum. Analyses of the Pb azide which included the vacuum stability test, expln temp test, and the detonation velocity test, did not show any changes due to the transient radiation environment... 

With thermal surface impedance testing, heat is injected into the test objects surface from a hot gas pulse. The resulting surface temperature transient is analyzed to determine the bond quality in nearly real time. The surface temperature transients are sensed using an innovative noncontacting, emissivity-independent infrared sensor.27 This method is not adversely affected by surface blemishes or roughness. 

To close this paper, we believe that both the theoretical and experimental aspects of excited-state relaxation in aromatic polymers will continue to be the subject of lively debate in the near future. Thus, the analyses of non-equilibrium transport based upon asymmetric energy-space master equations (43., 53) as well as theoretical models for a description of EET and rotational sampling are challenging many-partlole problems in polymer photo-physios. From an experimental standpoint of view, the time resolution of fluorescence system-configurations requires further Improvement in order to test these concepts. Moreover, site-selective pulse-and-probe techniques should help to reveal transient excited-state distributions, energy relaxation and trapping on sub-ps time scales in forthcoming measurements. 

FIGURE 6.2.8 (See color insert following page 468.) (a) One-cycle OTFT sensors testing pulse program (b) source-drain transient currents at different gate biases (c) color-coded response plot at)/ = -5 V for 70 cycles. (From Torsi, L. and Dodabalapur, A., Anal. Chem., 77, 380A, 2005. With ACS permission.)... 

The hydrated electron represents a ubiquitous entity in irradiated aqueous solutions, and its experimental discovery by pulse radiolysis has raised considerable interest in investigations of electron-transfer reactions in chemistry and radiobiology (i, 47-49). The dynamical component of an excess electron in a polar solution is directly dependent on transient electron-solvent couplings. The excess electron is equivalent to a microprobe that can test the inhomogeneous structures of a reaction area. This elementary charge exhibits several delo-cahzed or localized states in the condensed phase 14, 16, 18, 29). 

The DC pulse response measurements are useful for fast monitoring of contaminant level in the tested media. Figure 1 shows a schematic experimental set-up of the test. The generated electrical charge, as a result of the DC pulse, dissipates in the monitored media at a rate proportional to its impedance and resistance. The rate at which the OCV decays is an indication of the media contamination with the monitored pollutant. The transient time from the application... 

The results of the above tests are indicative of a fairly large leak between sodium and water. An actual leak in a system usually takes some time to develop, beginning as a small crack and growing larger. In such a system the rapid hydraulic transients, producing the rapid reaction, and pressure pulse would not be expected. It is notable that even in the test system used here the pressure build-up at the expansion tank was uniform. 

Silver and his collaborators have also tested their hypothesis by reversing the bias field in the middle of the current transient (Silver et al, 1982a,b, 1983a,b). If the electrons are really traversing the sample, the current should reverse however, no reverse current was observed. Spear and Steemers (1983b) have repeated the experiment independently and in their case showed that a reverse current does exist. Furthermore, they claim that the slow rise time of the bias pulses used by Silver et al (1982b, 1983a,b) and other peculiarities of the experiment made it unlikely that they would, in fact, have been able to observe a reverse current if it did exist. 

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