t-shape profile barriers are one of the most successful barriers among many different profiles. it has been shown that using welled diffusers on the top of t-shaped barriers makes a reactive barrier that shows better performance than that of any other used profile barriers compared with their equivalent absorbent barrier. the contribution of the top surface of reactive t-profile barriers to the...

High rates of erosion (1-15 mm/yr) of fluvial strata have persisted over intervals of 0.2-1.5 m.y. and across areas of 60-2000 km 2 in the Cenozoic foreland basin of northern Pakistan. These rates occur in areas associated with thrust shortening, and they indicate that erosion nearly kept pace with the rates of latest Miocene to Pleistocene uplift. Such high rates of erosion are predicted to pr...

An ultrafine grain surface layer with average crystallite size of 28 nm was produced on annealed mild steel through a wire brushing process. The effects of grain size reduction on the inhibition performance of sodium phosphate were investigated using polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements. The crystal grain size of wire brushed surface was analyzed by X-ray d...

The transfer function is an important parameter describing ultrasonic transducers which are designed to operate in various media. typically high impedance of piezoelectric matched a particular loading medium (gas, liquid, biological medium) by using multicomponent matching layers, have specific impedances and thicknesses accordance with the generally known criteria: Chebyshev, DeSilets or Souqu...

It is shown that thin mushroom layers (high-impedance surfaces realized as regular arrays of small patches at a small distance from a metal surface) can be used as radar-absorbing structures whose performance does not change with the incidence angle for TM-polarized waves. The key role of the vias connectors between the patches and the ground plane is explained, and potential performance demons...

in this paper, the effect of surface area of reaction layers in gas diffusion electrodes on oxygen reduction reaction was investigated. for this purpose, various amounts (0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 1, 1.5 and zero %wt of total loading of reaction layer) of single walled carbon nanotube (swcnt) were inserted in the reaction layer. the performance of gas diffusion electrodes for oxygen reduction re...

The performance of a five-junction (Nb/AlOx/Nb) array is characterized in the frequency range of 780–950 GHz for different wiring and ground layers of the thin-film microstrip lines of the junction tuning inductance and the associated impedance transformer. Three kinds of thin films (i.e., Nb, Al and NbTiN) are taken for this investigation. The individual SIS junctions of the five-junction arra...