Corrosion of mooring chains is regarded as one main threats to the offshore systems. Localized corrosion even more dangerous than uniform because it may not show significant mass loss but can cause stress concentration and initiate cracks under force, leading accelerated degradation chains. steel in seawater influenced by many factors such local heterogeneities steel, electrochemical microbiolo...

purpose: to describe the biometric changes and their effect on intraocular lens (iol) power calculation after trabeculectomy and to compare the accuracy of four formulas namely srk/ii, srk/t, holladay and hoffer q for iol power calculation in these patients. methods: thirty-four eyes of 31 glaucoma patients who were scheduled for primary trabeculectomy were enrolled. a non-contact biometry devi...

nanostructured alumina thin films were coated on stainless steel by sol-gel dip coating method. in order to prevent crack formation, al2o3 films were kept in a solvent bath immediately after coating to reduce the rate of drying. effects of calcination temperature and withdrawal speed on structural properties were analyzed using xrd and sem. topography and thickness of coatings were analyzed by ...

the effect of chloride ions concentration on the electrochemical behavior of aisi 410 stainless steel in thesimulated concrete pore (0.1 m naoh + 0.1 m koh) solution was investigated by various electrochemicalmethods such as potentiodynamic polarization, mott–schottky analysis and electrochemical impedancespectroscopy (eis). potentiodynamic polarization curves revealed that increasing chloride ...

the correlation between serum steroid hormones, testosterone (t), 17β-estradiol (e2), and progesterone (p) and weight of female fishes, biological characteristics of gonad (e.g. fertilization rate, fluid egg rate, gonadosomatic index , polarization index and oocyte diameter) in 10 female of the migratory population of sterlet (acipenser ruthenus) and 5 female of the migratory population of sibe...

the dependence of some thermodynamic properties of spin-polarized liquid 3he such as velocity of sound, adiabatic index, isentropic compressibility and temperature on the spin polarization has been investigated along different isentropic paths. the lennard-jones potential has been used in our calculations. it has been found that for higher values of entropy, the spin polarization has greater ef...

in this article, we suggested a novel design of polarization splitter based on coupler waveguide on inp substrate at 1.55mm wavelength. photonic crystal structure is consisted of two dimensional (2d) air holes embedded in inp/ingaasp material with an effective refractive index of 3.2634 which is arranged in a hexagonal lattice. the photonic band gap (pbg) of this structure is determined using t...

Polarization is a crucial ingredient of light in both the classical and quantum domains. However, quantum polarization is mainly addressed in terms of the abstract Hilbertspace logic in a finite-dimensional space. This is rather divorced from the usual language used in the classical domain in terms of the Stokes parameters and the Poincaré sphere. Because of this, we think that it is worth deve...

The length and width of insect body are critical parameters for entomological radar species identification. However, the is not measurable in currently. In this study, scattering matrices (SM) 159 specimens were measured using an X-band fully polarimetric laboratory rig a microwave anechoic chamber. relationships between cross-section (RCS) extracted from SM studied. It was found that all these...

This paper presents an element of a 2×2-element array antenna for Inmarsat BGAN/GPS applications. The element is an axial mode printed quadrifilar helical antenna that has been integrated with a compact feed network to provide sequential phase rotation for circular polarization (CP) radiation. The novel integrated lumped-element feed network is designed to provide a balanced RF power to the fou...