Freezing of 4He and its liquid-solid interface from density functional theory

We show that, at high densities, fully variational solutions of solidlike types can be obtained from a density functional formalism originally designed for liquid 4He . Motivated by this finding, we propose an extension of the method that accurately describes the solid phase and the freezing transition of liquid 4He at zero temperature. The density profile of the interface between liquid and the (0001) surface of the 4He crystal is also investigated, and its surface energy evaluated. The interfacial tension is found to be in semiquantitative agreement with experiments and with other microscopic calculations. This opens the possibility to use unbiased density functional (DF) methods to study highly nonhomogeneous systems, like 4He interacting with strongly attractive impurities and/or substrates, or the nucleation of the solid phase in the metastable liquid.

MgO/Ag(001) interface structure and STM images from first principles

The interface of MgO/Ag(001) has been studied with density functional theory applied to slabs. We have found that regular MgO films show a small adhesion to the silver substrate, the binding can be increased in off-stoichiometric regimes, either by the presence of O vacancies at the oxide film or by a small excess of O atoms at the interface between the ceramic to the metal. By means of theoretical methods, the scanning tunneling microscopy signatures of these films is also analyzed in some detail. For defect free deposits containing 1 or 2 ML and at low voltages, tunnelling takes place from the surface Ag substrate, and at large positive voltages Mg atoms are imaged. If defects, oxygen vacancies, are present on the surface of the oxide they introduce much easier channels for tunnelling resulting in big protrusions and controlling the shape of the image, the extra O stored at the interface can also be detected for very thin films.

Influence of Interface Surface Geometries In The Tensile Characteristics Of Friction Welded Joints From Aluminium Alloys

Friction welding is a solid state joining process that produces coalescence in materials, using the heat developed between surfaces through a combination of mechanical induced rubbing motion and applied load. In rotary friction welding technique heat is generated by the conversion of mechanical energy into thermal energy at the interface of the work pieces during rotation under pressure. Traditionally friction welding is carried out on a dedicated machine because of its adaptability to mass production. In the present work, steps were made to modify a conventional lathe to rotary friction welding set up to obtain friction welding with different interface surface geometries at two different speeds and to carry out tensile characteristic studies. The surface geometries welded include flat-flat, flat-tapered, tapered-tapered, concave-convex and convex-convex. A comparison of maximum load, breaking load and percentage elongation of different welded geometries has been realized through this project. The maximum load and breaking load were found to be highest for weld formed between rotating flat and stationary tapered at 500RPM and the values were 19.219kN and 14.28 kN respectively. The percentage elongation was found to be highest for weld formed between rotating flat and stationary flat at 500RPM and the value was 21.4%. Hence from the studies it is cleared that process parameter like “interfacing surface geometries” of weld specimens have strong influence on tensile characteristics of friction welded joints

A crack on the interface of piezo-electric bodies

Singularities of elastic and electric fields are investigated at the tip of a crack on the interface of two anisotropic piezo-electric media under various boundary conditions on the crack surfaces. The Griffith formulae are obtained for increments of energy functionals due to growth of the crack and the notion of the energy release matrix is introduced. Normalization conditions for bases of singular solution are proposed to adapt them to the energy, stress, and deformation fracture criteria. Connections between these bases are determined and additional properties of the deformation basis related to the notion of electric surface enthalpy are established.

Interface issues in the ESCHER visual database editor

Presentation at the 1997 Dagstuhl Seminar "Evaluation of Multimedia Information Retrieval", Norbert Fuhr, Keith van Rijsbergen, Alan F. Smeaton (eds.), Dagstuhl Seminar Report 175, 14.04. - 18.04.97 (9716). - Abstract: This presentation will introduce ESCHER, a database editor which supports visualization in non-standard applications in engineering, science, tourism and the entertainment industry. It was originally based on the extended nested relational data model and is currently extended to include object-relational properties like inheritance, object types, integrity constraints and methods. It serves as a research platform into areas such as multimedia and visual information systems, QBE-like queries, computer-supported concurrent work (CSCW) and novel storage techniques. In its role as a Visual Information System, a database editor must support browsing and navigation. ESCHER provides this access to data by means of so called fingers. They generalize the cursor paradigm in graphical and text editors. On the graphical display, a finger is reflected by a colored area which corresponds to the object a finger is currently pointing at. In a table more than one finger may point to objects, one of which is the active finger and is used for navigating through the table. The talk will mostly concentrate on giving examples for this type of navigation and will discuss some of the architectural needs for fast object traversal and display. ESCHER is available as public domain software from our ftp site in Kassel. The portable C source can be easily compiled for any machine running UNIX and OSF/Motif, in particular our working environments IBM RS/6000 and Intel-based LINUX systems. A porting to Tcl/Tk is under way.

Formación de formadores : módulo, bases didácticas de la formación.

La Asociación AMUSAL elabora y edita una colección de libros de gestión y dirección de empresas de la que forma parte este módulo formativo, subvencionado por el Instituto de Fomento de la Región de Murcia (INFO) y el Fondo Social Europeo (FSE)

Formación de formadores : módulo, bases psicopedagógicas de la formación.

La Asociación AMUSAL elabora y edita una colección de libros de gestión y dirección de empresas de la que forma parte este módulo formativo, subvencionado por el Instituto de Fomento de la Región de Murcia (INFO) y el Fondo Social Europeo (FSE)

Aplicaciones informáticas de gestión : módulo Microsoft Office.

La Asociación de Empresas de Economía Social de la Región de Murcia (AMUSAL) dedicada a la formación de trabajadores activos y desempleados elabora materiales didácticos propios para sus actuaciones formativas que son permanentemente puestas al día previa valoración de las necesidades de las empresas asociadas en al ámbito de la gestión y dirección empresarial. En este caso se trata de un módulo formativo (MS-Office) del área de aplicaciones informáticas.

Aplicaciones informáticas de oficina : módulo introducción a la informática y sistemas operativos.

La Asociación de Empresas de Economía Social de la Región de Murcia (AMUSAL) dedicada a la formación de trabajadores activos y desempleados elabora materiales didácticos propios para sus actuaciones formativas que son permanentemente puestos al día previa valoración de las necesidades de las empresas asociadas, en el ámbito de la gestión y dirección empresarial. En este caso se trata del módulo formativo : introducción a la informática y sistemas operativos del área de aplicaciones informáticas.

Técnico de formación : módulo de evaluación de la formación.

Módulo formativo para la especialidad de Técnico de Formación, elaborado y editado por la Asociación de Empresas de Economía Social de la Región de Murcia (AMUSAL) para mejorar los procesos formativos de llevados a cabo por la Asociación para sus socios. Los temas tratados son: Evaluación del aprendizaje, validez y fiabilidad, evaluación de conocimientos, evaluación de prácticas, evaluación de acciones formativas, el seguimiento formativo e instrumentos de evalución.

Formador ocupacional : programación del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Módulo.

Módulo formativo para la especialidad de Formador Ocupacional elaborado y editado por la Asociación de Empresas de Economía Social de la Región de Murcia para mejorar los procesos formativos llevados a cabo por la Asociación para sus socios. Los temas tratados son: Formación en la empresa, el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje en la formación de adultos, el análisis de puestos de trabajo y la programación educativa.

Módulo 0 : primer curso de Educación Infantil (Grupo B) : año académico 2008-09.

Publicación realizada al amparo de los Proyectos de Innovación Educativa tipo A-2, en el contexto de la Convergencia Europea (R-232/2008, de 22 de abril de la Universidad de Murcia), financiados por la Universidad de Murcia y por la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia.

2õ curso de maestro de educación infantil de adaptación al EEES, módulo inicial : guía del alumno, curso 2008-2009.

Publicación realizada al amparo de los Proyectos de Innovación Educativa tipo A-2, en el contexto de la Convergencia Europea (R-232/2008, de 22 de abril 2008 de la Universidad de Murcia), financiados por la Universidad de Murcia y por la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia.

Pi: A Parallel Architecture Interface for Multi-Model Execution

This thesis defines Pi, a parallel architecture interface that separates model and machine issues, allowing them to be addressed independently. This provides greater flexibility for both the model and machine builder. Pi addresses a set of common parallel model requirements including low latency communication, fast task switching, low cost synchronization, efficient storage management, the ability to exploit locality, and efficient support for sequential code. Since Pi provides generic parallel operations, it can efficiently support many parallel programming models including hybrids of existing models. Pi also forms a basis of comparison for architectural components.