Very fine-grained Ni and Cu films were formed using pulsed laser deposition on fised silica substrates. The grain sizes in the films were characterized by electron microscopy, and the mechanical properties were determined by ultra-low load indentation, with iinite-element modeling used to separate the properties of the layers from those of the substrate. Some Ni films were also examined after a...

We study the effects of dust grain size on the spectral energy distribution (SED) of spherical circumstellar envelopes. Based on the self-similarity relations of dusty SEDs derived by Ivezić & Elitzur (1997), we expect an approximate invariance of the IR SED for models with different grain sizes. Approximate invariance follows from the fact that differently sized grains have similar optical pro...

The pinning effect of small incoherent particles on grain growth in two-dimensional polycrystalline systems has been simulated using a phase field model. Simulations were performed for different sizes and area fractions of the second-phase particles and for two types of initial microstructure and different initial grain sizes. The grain size distribution and the number of particles located at g...

The author has shown that measured shear wave speed dispersion and attenuation in water-saturated silica sand can be predicted by using a gap stiffness model incorporated into the Biot model (the BIMGS model) [Kimura, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 134, 144-155 (2013)]. In this study, the grain-size dependence of shear wave speed dispersion and attenuation in four kinds of water-saturated silica sands wit...

in this study, the effect of grain size on nitrogen diffusion into ck45 has been investigated. in order to obtain different grain sizes, samples were annealed and normalized at various temperatures and durations.the grain size was determined with clemex vision software. then, the specimens were exposed to dc plasma nitriding treatment and again analyzed by optical microscope ,scanning electron ...

| We explore the eeciency of a class of stream-oriented dataaow architectures as a function of the grain-size, for a given set of applications. We believe the grain-size is a key parameter in balancing exibility and eeciency of this class of architectures. We apply a clustering approach on a well-deened set of applications to determine a set of weakly programmable processing elements of diieren...

Ultrafine-grained (UFG) nanostructured materials having grain sizes of tens and hundreds of nanometers recently have aroused interest among researchers in the materials science field. With respect to their mechanical properties, one would hope to be able to obtain the extremely strong states that can be expected in the case of strong grain refinement according to the Hall-Petch relationship (Gl...

The dependence of acoustic backscatter variations on sediment grain-size distribution is examined using a combined analysis of 95 kHz side-scan data and approx. 300 grab samples from the New Jersey margin. We show that, under well-controlled circumstances, an unprecedented degree of correlation can be obtained between backscatter intensity and mean grain size. However, backscatter is disproport...