A steady-state creep law for rocksalt, describing the two parallel mechanisms of dislocation creep and fluid-enhanced grain-boundary diffusion creep, has been used in numerical models of salt diapirism, to study the effective viscosity of rocksalt. Typical models included a 3-km-thick sedimentary layer on top of 1 km of rocksalt. The grain size of the salt has been varied between 0.5 and 3 cm a...

To study the variation of the mechanical behavior of binary aluminum copper alloys with respect to their microstructure, a numerical simulation of their granular structure was carried out. The microstructures are created by a repeated inclusion of some predefined basic grain shapes into a representative volume element until reaching a given volume percentage of the α-phase. Depending on the gra...

We consider three different non–overlapping germ–grain models, two of which are constructed in a similar fashion. These two models are generalisations of Matérn’s hard–core models. In both cases we start with a homogeneous Poisson process and use the points as centres of convex sets, grains, of the same shape. The process is thinned so that no grains overlap. Two different thinning schemes resu...

We present spectropolarimetry of the solid CO feature at 4.67 m along the line of sight to Elias 16, a field star background to the Taurus Dark Cloud. A clear increase in polarization is observed across the feature with the peak of polarization shifted in wavelength relative to the peak of absorption. This shows that dust grains in dense, cold environments (temperatures ~20K or less) can align...

Thermal stability and the kinetics of the grain growth of nano-crystalline Mg-6Al-1Zn-1Si alloy prepared via mechanical alloying (MA) were investigated. It started with elemental powders, using a variety of analytical techniques including differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray diffraction method (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive spectrometry (E...

The temperature dependence of the exchange bias (HE) near the FeF 2 Néel temperature (; 78.4 K! was correlated with structural measurements in FeF2-Fe bilayers. Low-angle x-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy show that samples with larger height fluctuations have larger lateral grain sizes. Samples with larger lateral grain sizes exhibit a surface critical exponent (bS;0.8) while sample...

In this work the synthesization process of nanocrstallite Nd:KTP powders by modified Pechini method was studied. The results of XRD studies indicate that KTP nanocrystallites doped by Nd has orthorhombic phase. The structural and lattice modes of the synthesized nanocrystallite products were investigated by using Micro Raman back scattering and FT-IR transmission spectroscopies. SEM imaging tec...