The fatigue crack growth rate in L-72 Al-alloy plate specimens with cold worked holes

A fatigue crack growth rate study has been carried out on L-72 aluminium alloy plate specimens with and without cold worked holes. The cold worked specimens showed significantly increased fatigue life compared to unworked specimens. Computer software is developed to evaluate the stress intensity factor for non-uniform stress distributions using Green's function approach. The exponents for the Paris equation in the stable crack growth region for cold worked and unworked specimens are 1.26 and 3.15 respectively. The reduction in exponent value indicates the retardation in crack growth rate. An SEM study indicates more plastic deformation at the edge of the hole for unworked samples as compared to the worked samples during the crack initiation period.

Growth kinetics and immune response of chimeric foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype `O' produced through replication competent mini genome of serotype Asia 1, 63/72, in BHK cell lines

Regular vaccinations with potent vaccine, in endemic countries and vaccination to live in non-endemic countries are the methods available to control foot-and-mouth disease. Selection of candidate vaccine strain is not only cumbersome but the candidate should grow well for high potency vaccine preparation. Alternative strategy is to generate an infectious cDNA of a cell culture-adapted virus and use the replicon for development of tailor-made vaccines. We produced a chimeric `O' virus in the backbone of Asia 1 and studied its characteristics. The chimeric virus showed high infectivity titre (>10(10)) in BHK 21 cell lines, revealed small plague morphology and there was no cross reactivity with antiserum against Asia I. The virus multiplies rapidly and reaches peak at 12 h post infection. The vaccine prepared with this virus elicited high antibody titres.

Letras, Nº 72, 2015

Contenido: Ponencias. Escrituras del viaje en la Edad Media hispánica: Viajeros de tierras extrañas : esposos sobrenaturales en la leyenda del Caballero del Cisne en La gran conquista de Ultramar / María Eugenia Alcatena -- Utopía : relato de un viaje desde el medioevo al renacimiento / Pablo A. Blanco González -- El Libro de Alexandre : un repositorio de saber geográfico / Penélope Marcela Fernández Izaguirre -- Peregrinación a la cibdat de gygantes : configuración del imaginario geográfico bíblico en La fazienda de Ultramar / Melisa Laura Marti -- Estudios de literatura española medieval: La configuración heroica del personaje de Enalviello en la Crónica de la población de Ávila / Manuel Abeledo -- "Et avié una viña rica, de mejor non nos cala" : la representación del palacio de Poro y la viña áurea en el Libro de Alexandre, diálogos intertextuales y funciones literarias / Gerardo Altamirano Meza -- Algunas cuestiones textuales en torno al Liber Mariae de Juan Gil de Zamora (ca. 1241-1318) / Olga Soledad Bohdziewicz -- Literatura hispanorromance primigenia : la glosa conoajutorio del Codex Aemilianensis 60 / María Gimena del Río Riande -- Más sobre Ayala narrador en la crónica de Enrique III / Jorge N. Ferro -- La construcción de Alfonso XI como héroe épico en el Poema de Alfonso Onceno : el caso del asesinato de don Juan el tuerto / Erica Janin -- "Y vino a consentir, aunque no por su voluntad, que tuviese sus ayuntamientos libidinosos con ella" : sobre los raptos femeninos ejecutados por animales en la literatura española / Lucía Orsanic -- Acerca del Troço de la corónica del rey don Enrique el doliente del manuscrito BNM 1530 / Pablo Enrique Saracino -- Los nombres de la ley : identidad y autoridad en lafazaña castellana / Maximiliano A. Soler Bistué -- Teología mística de Gonzalo de Berceo / Aquilino Suárez Pallasá -- El Viejo, el Amor y la Hermosa como texto espectacular / Lillian vonder Walde Moheno -- Reescritura de refranes sobre la apariencia y realidad el El Criticón de Baltasar Gracián / Verónica Marcela Zalba -- Reseñas

Water levels in artesian and nonartesian aquifers of Florida, 1971-72

The Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Geology, is publishing as its Information Circular No. 85 the report entitled, "Water Levels in Artesian and Non-Artesian Aquifers of Florida, 1971-72," by Henry G. Healy, of the U. S. Geological Survey. In order to prevent future shortages developing from increasing demands, the present supplies of ground water must be properly appraised before they can be effectively utilized. Records of trends and fluctuations of ground water have long formed a basis for such an appraisal. (105 page document)

Cruise Report 72-S-3: Bottomfish

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Cruise Report 72-S-1: Big Game Fisheries Investigations

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Cruise Report 72-S-4: Big Game Fish Investigations

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Cruise Report 72-S-5: Inshore fisheries habitat evaluation and monitoring

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Cruise Report 72-S-6: Shellfish investigations

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Cruise Report 72-S-7: Crab

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Cruise Report 72-S-9: Bottomfish

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Cruise Report 72-S-8: Crab

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Mellum Island (southern North Sea): dynamic processes and sedimentary structures. I. Southern tidal flat, transition zone and high-surface.[p.72 (Blasensand) only][Translation from: Senckenbergiana Maritima 11, 59-113, 1979]

This partial translation of a longer article describes the phenomenon of ”Blasensand”. Blasensand is formed when sedimentation of dried out sand is suddenly flooded from above. A more detailed explanation of Blasensand is given in this translated part of the paper.

Experimental study study of antiproton-proton annihilation into a pair of charged Pi-Mesons or K-Mesons for incident antiproton mementa in the range from 0.72 GeV/c to 2.62 GeV/c

The cross sections for the two antiproton-proton annihilation-in-flight modes,

ˉp + p → π⁺ + π^-

ˉp + p → k⁺ + k^-

were measured for fifteen laboratory antiproton beam momenta ranging from 0.72 to 2.62 GeV/c. No magnets were used to determine the charges in the final state. As a result, the angular distributions were obtained in the form [dσ/dΩ (Θ_C.M.) + dσ/dΩ (π – Θ_C.M.)] for 45 ≲ Θ_C.M. ≲ 135°.

A hodoscope-counter system was used to discriminate against events with final states having more than two particles and antiproton-proton elastic scattering events. One spark chamber was used to record the track of each of the two charged final particles. A total of about 40,000 pictures were taken. The events were analyzed by measuring the laboratory angle of the track in each chamber. The value of the square of the mass of the final particles was calculated for each event assuming the reaction

ˉp + p → a pair of particles with equal masses.

About 20,000 events were found to be either annihilation into π ^±-pair or k ^±-pair events. The two different charged meson pair modes were also distinctly separated.

The average differential cross section of ˉp + p → π⁺ + π^- varied from ~ 25 µb/sr at antiproton beam momentum 0.72 GeV/c (total energy in center-of-mass system, √s = 2.0 GeV) to ~ 2 µb/sr at beam momentum 2.62 GeV/c (√s = 2.64 GeV). The most striking feature in the angular distribution was a peak at Θ_C.M. = 90° (cos Θ_C.M. = 0) which increased with √s and reached a maximum at √s ~ 2.1 GeV (beam momentum ~ 1.1 GeV/c). Then it diminished and seemed to disappear completely at √s ~ 2.5 GeV (beam momentum ~ 2.13 GeV/c). A valley in the angular distribution occurred at cos Θ_C.M. ≈ 0.4. The differential cross section then increased as cos Θ_C.M. approached 1.

The average differential cross section for ˉp + p → k⁺ + k^- was about one third of that of the π^±-pair mode throughout the energy range of this experiment. At the lower energies, the angular distribution, unlike that of the π^±-pair mode, was quite isotropic. However, a peak at Θ_C.M. = 90° seemed to develop at √s ~ 2.37 GeV (antiproton beam momentum ~ 1.82 GeV/c). No observable change was seen at that energy in the π^±-pair cross section.

The possible connection of these features with the observed meson resonances at 2.2 GeV and 2.38 GeV, and its implications, were discussed.