The radial distribution of track density on a solid-state nuclear track detector inside a diffusion chamber is a function of the fraction f of Po decay before deposition. In the present work, procedures are proposed to determine f experimentally by determining the track density distribution on an LR115 detector in a diffusion chamber. First, a relatively tall diffusion chamber, with a height of...

The effect of pre-gamma irradiation on track density, bulk etch rate and light absorbance in CR-39 was investigated. CR-39 detectors were irradiated with gamma doses over a range of 0 to 280 kGy (0 to 28 Mrad). The detectors were overlaid with 0.77 mm of polyethylene and exposed to a known fluence of 252Cf spontaneous fission neutrons. All detectors were then etched in 6.25N sodium hydroxide so...

background: radon, thoron and their progenies are the most important contributions to human exposure from natural sources. radon exists in soil gas, building materials, indoor atmosphere etc. among all the natural sources of radiation dose to human beings, inhalation of radon contributes a lot. the work presented here emphasizes the long term measurements of radon, thoron and their progeny conc...

High energetic ions can lead to the formation of long columnar defects along the ion trajectories, so called “ion tracks”. In amorphous metals, overlapping tracks produce macroscopic anisotropic growth phenomena [1]. Characterization and imaging of single ion tracks in these materials is challenging and has been successful only in a few cases using chemical etching [2], scanning probe [3] and t...

the constitutive relationships of the rubber materials that act as the main spring of a hydraulic engine mount are nonlinear. in addition to material induced nonlinearity, further nonlinearities may be introduced by mount geometry, turbulent fluid behavior, temperature, boundary conditions, decoupler action, and hysteretic behavior. in this research all influence the behavior of the system only...