Thermal runaway instability induced by material softening due to shear heating represents a potential mechanism for mechanical failure of viscoelastic solids. In this work we present a model based on a continuum formulation of a viscoelastic material with Arrhenius dependence of viscosity on temperature and investigate the behavior of the thermal runaway phenomenon by analytical and numerical m...

nanocrystalline titanium (iv) oxide paste has been deposited on fluorine doped tin oxide glass substrate by the blade method. the deposited film was subjected to thermal treatment to obtain an electrode foe a photo-electrochemical cell. the electrode was sensitized with prophyrin dye which was a local dye extracted from carica papaya leaves. avaspec 2.1 spectrophotometer was used to obtain the ...

Automatic Generation Control (AGC); Boiler dynamics; Generation Rate Constraint (GRC); Governor dead band; Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller; Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm Abstract This paper presents the design and performance analysis of Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm based Proportional–Integral (PI) and Proportional–Integral–Derivative (PID) controllers for Aut...

The temperature dependences of the electron heat capacity and the electron-phonon coupling factor are investigated for Au based on the electron density of states obtained from ab initio electronic structure calculations. Thermal excitation of d band electrons leads to a significant (up to an order of magnitude) increase in the electronphonon coupling factor and makes a considerable contribution...

1. Heart rate variability is modulated by multiple control systems, including autonomic and hormonal systems. Long-term variability, i.e. the very low-frequency band of the power spectra, has been postulated to reflect thermoregulatory vasomotor control, based upon thermal entrainment experiments. However, the relationship between thermoregulatory responses (vasoconstriction and shivering) and ...

Tunable frequency is highly sought-after task of researcher, because of the potential for applications in selecting frequency, absorber, imaging and biomedical diagnosis. Here, we report the original observation of thermal frequency shift of dielectric relaxation in La/Nd doped BiFeO3 (BFO) in X-band from 300 to 673 K. It exhibits an unexpected result: the relaxation shifts to lower frequency w...

The luminescence associated with an absorption band at about 3.0 eV in chalcogen-doped TlCl has been observed. The temperature and pressure coefficients of the positions of the absorption and emission peaks have been found to have "anomalous" negative signs. The temperature coefficient of the absorption peak is dominated by the effect of thermal expansion, the band shifting toward the blue as t...

Filled skutterudites R(x)Co4Sb12 are excellent n-type thermoelectric materials owing to their high electronic mobility and high effective mass, combined with low thermal conductivity associated with the addition of filler atoms into the void site. The favourable electronic band structure in n-type CoSb3 is typically attributed to threefold degeneracy at the conduction band minimum accompanied b...