Magnetic relaxation measurements on a series of Y1−xPrxBa2Cu3O7− x=0.13, 0.34, and 0.47 single crystals were performed over a large field and temperature range in order to investigate the characteristics of the vortex matter across the second magnetization peak SMP . The magnitude of the SMP varies nonmonotonically with Pr concentration, i.e., the irreversible magnetization normalized by its va...

Polycrystalline yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) fibers were prepared from commercially available colloidal sols of Y,O, and AlOOH and water-soluble polymers. The fibers were dry spun and all processing was performed in air. Transformation to YAG was complete by =1300"C, and the fibers were mostly dense by 1600°C with a final fired diameter of 120 pm. A bend test was used to characterize mechanica...

mechanism and factors influencing on creep behavior of clay soil have not been understood yet due to its complex structure. in this paper, to investigate the affecting parameters on the creep behavior of the clay soils such as stress level, over consolidated pressure and water pressure, odeometr test are performed in states of single stage, stepwise and overloaded-unloaded and the creep mechani...

creep phenomenon in rock engineering plays a key role in development of underground spaces as they must be stable enough for a long period of time. current research involved designing and manufacturing of a new creep testing machine. the equipment is capable to perform simultaneous light-duty creep tests on more than one cylindrical rock samples at a very low cost.to evaluate the equipment’s pe...

Collagen fibres form cross-helical, cross-ply or quasi-random feltworks in extensible connective tissues; strain-induced reorientation of these networks gives rise to the non-linear mechanical properties of connective tissue at finite strains. Such tissues are also generally viscoelastic (i.e. display time-dependent properties). The hypothesis that time-dependent reorientation of collagen fibre...

materials exhibit significant creep behavior at temperatures above 40% of their absolute melt temperature. lead, tin and their alloys are such materials which experience significant creep behavior in room temperature. one of the most important applications of the tin-lead alloys is soldering electronic circuits in electronic industry, and for lead are isolation walls and wet batteries. room tem...

We theoretically study the creep of the inhomogeneous vortex density profile (the Bean state) in superconductors. The low temperatures experimental phenomenology, previously interpreted in terms of “quantum tunnelling” of vortices, is reproduced by Monte Carlo simulations of a purely “classical” vortex model. We demonstrate that a non-zero creep rate in the limit of vanishing temperature is to ...