Sinterização de aço inoxidável reforçado com partículas nanométricas dispersas de carbeto de nióbio - NbC

Metal powder sintering appears to be promising option to achieve new physical and mechanical properties combining raw material with new processing improvements. It interest over many years and continue to gain wide industrial application. Stainless steel is a widely accepted material because high corrosion resistance. However stainless steels have poor sinterability and poor wear resistance due to their low hardness. Metal matrix composite (MMC) combining soft metallic matrix reinforced with carbides or oxides has attracted considerable attention for researchers to improve density and hardness in the bulk material. This thesis focuses on processing 316L stainless steel by addition of 3% wt niobium carbide to control grain growth and improve densification and hardness. The starting powder were water atomized stainless steel manufactured for Höganäs (D 50 = 95.0 μm) and NbC produced in the UFRN and supplied by Aesar Alpha Johnson Matthey Company with medium crystallite size 16.39 nm and 80.35 nm respectively. Samples with addition up to 3% of each NbC were mixed and mechanically milled by 3 routes. The route1 (R1) milled in planetary by 2 hours. The routes 2 (R2) and 3 (R3) milled in a conventional mill by 24 and 48 hours. Each milled samples and pure sample were cold compacted uniaxially in a cylindrical steel die (Ø 5 .0 mm) at 700 MPa, carried out in a vacuum furnace, heated at 1290°C, heating rate 20°C stand by 30 and 60 minutes. The samples containing NbC present higher densities and hardness than those without reinforcement. The results show that nanosized NbC particles precipitate on grain boundary. Thus, promote densification eliminating pores, control grain growth and increase the hardness values

Síntese, estudo cinético e análise microestrutural do sistema cério-níquel obtido pelo método pechini

The cerium oxide has a high potential for use in removing pollutants after combustion, removal of organic matter in waste water and the fuel-cell technology. The nickel oxide is an attractive material due to its excellent chemical stability and their optical properties, electrical and magnetic. In this work, CeO2-NiO- systems on molars reasons 1:1(I), 1:2(II) e 1:3(III) metal-citric acid were synthesized using the Pechini method. We used techniques of TG / DTG and ATD to monitor the degradation process of organic matter to the formation of the oxide. By thermogravimetric analysis and applying the dynamic method proposed by Coats-Redfern, it was possible to study the reactions of thermal decomposition in order to propose the possible mechanism by which the reaction takes place, as well as the determination of kinetic parameters as activation energy, Ea, pre-exponential factor and parameters of activation. It was observed that both variables exert a significant influence on the formation of complex polymeric precursor. The model that best fitted the experimental data in the dynamic mode was R3, which consists of nuclear growth, which formed the nuclei grow to a continuous reaction interface, it proposes a spherical symmetry (order 2 / 3). The values of enthalpy of activation of the system showed that the reaction in the state of transition is exothermic. The variables of composition, together with the variable temperature of calcination were studied by different techniques such as XRD, IV and SEM. Also a study was conducted microstructure by the Rietveld method, the calculation routine was developed to run the package program FullProf Suite, and analyzed by pseudo-Voigt function. It was found that the molar ratio of variable metal-citric acid in the system CeO2-NiO (I), (II), (III) has strong influence on the microstructural properties, size of crystallites and microstrain network, and can be used to control these properties

Efeito do glifosate sobre a nodulação da soja cv. BRS-Valiosa RR.

A soja resistente ao glifosate (RR) é uma tecnologia que vem acrescentar mais uma ferramenta ao manejo de plantas daninhas para essa cultura, que possui a maior área plantada no país. Estudos buscando informações para o uso correto da soja transgênica na região de Campinas/SP são importantes devido ao uso cada vez mais freqüente desta prática agrícola em todo o Estado e no Brasil. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar esta tecnologia na nodulação da soja cv. Valiosa RR em condições de casa de vegetação. Os tratamentos utilizados foram aplicações isoladas de Roundup Ready a 1,5, 2,0 e 3,0 L.ha-1; aplicações seqüenciais de Roundup Ready a 1,5/1,5; 2,0/1,5 e 2,0/1,5/1,5 L.ha-1, além de uma testemunha absoluta. O número e as biomassas fresca e seca dos nódulos foram determinados nos estádios R3 e R5. Apesar de terem sido observadas reduções em alguns dos parâmetros avaliados, estas foram não significativas.

Pyramided lines of "carioca" common bean and their reaction to Pseudocercospora griseola.

The present work aimed to characterize lines produced by the Breeding Program of Common Bean (PMGF) of the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), called ?Ruda R3? and ?Pérola R1?, in reaction to different races of P. griseola.

Los modos de pensamiento analítico y sintético en el estudio del concepto de espacio vectorial

Ante el interés creciente por álgebra lineal y las dificultades que aún continúan presentando los estudiantes en el aprendizaje de los objetos abstractos de esta disciplina, el presente trabajo pretende apoyarse en el marco de la geometría sintética para introducir los espacios analíticos R1, R2 y R3 y poder sólo después realizar las generalizaciones pertinentes a Rn. Un análisis histórico permite comprender ciertas dificultades de los estudiantes y a la vez proporciona elementos para construir secuencias de actividades con miras a introducir los conceptos de álgebra lineal de tal manera que los estudiantes perciban la necesidad del formalismo, presentando todos los sentidos posibles de los conceptos en sus diferentes modos de representación, en particular conectarlo con sus conocimientos anteriores sobre los sistemas de ecuaciones lineales y la geometría. Esta investigación se desarrollará con estudiantes de primer año universitario, cuando llevan por primera vez álgebra lineal y el concepto de espacio vectorial es enseñado formalmente como una definición muy amplia que involucra varios conceptos previos.

Existence of Homoclinic Solutions for Nonlinear Second-Order Problems

In this work, we consider the second-order discontinuous equation in the real line, u′′(t)−ku(t)=f(t,u(t),u′(t)),a.e.t∈R, with k>0 and f:R3→R an L1 -Carathéodory function. The existence of homoclinic solutions in presence of not necessarily ordered lower and upper solutions is proved, without periodicity assumptions or asymptotic conditions. Some applications to Duffing-like equations are presented in last section.