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Orientador: Amauri Garcia / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T17:48:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_JorgeAyrtonda_M.pdf: 5941604 bytes, checksum: 9ec8b76ce4cbb57c06994f1a8307f767 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / A análise térmica é amplamente utilizada como método de controle de processos metalúrgicos e na investigação da composição química de ferros fundidos na prática de fundição. Um meio confiável de avaliação da composição de ferros fundidos é disponibilizado pela técnica do Carbono Equivalente, que é baseada na mudança de inclinação da curva de resfriamento na temperatura liquidus durante o resfriamento de uma amostra de ferro fundido a partir do estado líquido. O presente trabalho é focado no desenvolvimento de um novo sensor para análise térmica, um sensor de imersão, que objetiva contribuir com determinações mais confiáveis de composição durante as operações de fundição. Foram desenvolvidos experimentos em diferentes empresas de fundição, utilizando-se tanto o sensor de imersão quanto o tradicional sensor tipo cápsula, normalmente utilizado na prática de fundição. As comparações de composições químicas, medidas por essas duas técnicas e medidas fornecidas por análise de espectrometria de emissão óptica, demonstram que geralmente o sensor de imersão fornece resultados mais confiáveis. Uma análise térmica realizada durante o resfriamento de ferro fundido em um dispositivo unidirecional com uma coquilha, e utilizando um conjunto de termopares, permitiu também a determinação quantitativa de variáveis térmicas de solidificação, tais como: coeficientes transitórios de transferência de calor metal/molde e molde/ambiente e taxa de resfriamento à frente da isoterma liquidus / Abstract: Thermal analysis is a widely used method for metallurgical process control and investigation of alloy composition of cast irons in foundry practice. A reliable means of rapidly evaluating the composition of cast irons is available by the Carbon-Equivalent technique, which is based on the change in thermal arrest temperature of the liquidus as the sample of molten cast iron freezes. The present work focuses on the development of a new sensor for thermal analysis, a dip-sensor, wich aims to contribute to more reliable determination of alloy composition during casting operation. Experiments were carried-out in different foundries by using both the dipsensor and the traditional capsule-sensor, which is normally used in foundry practice. The comparison of alloy compositions measured by these two techniques with analysis performed by Arc/Spark spectrometry has shown that generally the dip-sensor provides more reliable results. Thermal analysis conducted during cooling of molten cast iron in a unidirectional chill apparatus, by using a set of thermocouples, has also permitted the quantitative determination of solidification thermal variables, such as: transient metal/mold and mold/ambient heat transfer coefficients and tip cooling rates / Mestrado / Materiais e Processos de Fabricação / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

The first part of the present Phd thesis is devoted to transport investigations in disordered quantum systems. We aim at quantitatively determining transport parameters like conductivity, mean free path, etc., for simple models of spatially disordered and/or percolated quantum systems in the limit of high temperatures and low fillings using linear response theory. We find the transport behavior for some models to be in accord with a Boltzmann equation, i.e., long mean free paths, exponentially decaying currents although there are no band-structures to start from, while this does not apply to other models even though they are also almost completely delocalized. The second part of the present PhD thesis addresses the issue of initial state independence (ISI) in closed quantum system. The relevance of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) for the emergence of ISI equilibration is to some extent addressed. To this end, we investigate the Heisenberg spin-ladder and check the validity of the ETH for the energy difference operator by examining the scaling behavior of the corresponding ETH-fluctuations, which we compute using an innovative numerical method based on typicality related arguments. While, the ETH turns out to hold for the generic non-integrable models and may therefore serve as the key mechanism for ISI for this cases, it does not hold for the integrable Heisenberg-chain. However, close analysis on the dynamic of substantially out-of-equilibrium initial states indicates the occurrence of ISI equillibration in the thermodynamic limit regardless of whether the ETH is violated. Thus, we introduce a new parameter $v$, which we propose as an alternative of the ETH to indicate ISI equillibration in cases, in which the ETH does not strictly apply.