The supposed thesis considers problem of heating of composite material for outdoor application. Basement of thesis is analysis of submitted sample of composite material. Measured values of composite material were compared and evaluated and than acceptable samples were choosen for next application. Part of thesis is creation of measuring software for analysis of sample. Other part of thesis is realization of equipment of control unit for heating of composite material. Control unit makes it possible to regulate heating and to set up parameters from computer.

The efficiency of parallel tempering Monte Carlo is studied for a two-dimensional Ising system of length L with N=L^2 spins. An external field is used to introduce a difference in free energy between the two low temperature states. It is found that the number of replicas R_opt that optimizes the parallel tempering algorithm scales as the square root of the system size N. For two symmetric low temperature states, the time needed for equilibration is observed to grow as L^2.18. If a significant difference in free energy is present between the two states, this changes to L^1.02. It is therefore established that parallel tempering is sped up by a factor of roughly L if an asymmetry is introduced between the low temperature states. This confirms previously made predictions for the efficiency of parallel tempering. These findings should be especially relevant when using parallel tempering for systems like spin glasses, where no information about the degeneracy of low temperature states is available prior to the simulation.

We are entering an exciting era, rich in the availability of data via sources such as the Internet, satellites, particle colliders, telecommunication networks, computer simulations, and the like. The confluence of increasing computational resources, volumes of data, and variety of statistical procedures has brought us to a modern enlightenment. Within the next century, these tools will combine to reveal unforeseeable insights into the social and natural sciences. Perhaps the largest headwind we now face is our collectively slow-moving imagination. Like a car on an open road, learning is limited by its own rate. Historically, slow information dissemination and the unavailability of experimental resources limited our learning. To that point, any methodological contribution that helps in the conversion of data into knowledge will accelerate us along this open road. Furthermore, if that contribution is accessible to others, the speedup in knowledge discovery scales exponentially. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a broad class of powerful algorithms, typically used for Bayesian inference. Despite their variety and versatility, these algorithms rarely become mainstream workhorses because they can be difficult to implement. The humble goal of this work is to bring to the table a few more highly versatile and robust, yet easily-tuned algorithms. Specifically, we introduce weighted particle tempering, a parallelizable MCMC procedure that is adaptable to large computational resources. We also explore and develop a highly practical implementation of reversible jump, the most generalized form of MetropolisHastings. Finally, we combine these two algorithms into reversible jump weighted particle tempering, and apply it on a model and dataset that was partially collected by the author and his collaborators, halfway around the world. It is our hope that by introducing, developing, and exhibiting these algorithms, we can make a reasonable contribution to the ever-growing body of MCMC research. / Ph. D.

The influence of temper condition on the tensile and compressive stress-strain behavior for six boron-aluminum laminates was investigated. In addition to monotonic tension and compression tests, tension-tension, compression-compression, and tension-compression tests were conducted to study the effects of cyclic loading. The laminates studied were [0], [90], [±45]_S, [0/±45/0]_S, [0/±45]_S, and [±45/0]_S, and the temper conditions were "as received" or F, T6 and T6N which was T6 followed by cryogenic exposure. It is shown that the T6 heat treatment increases the yield stress in both tension and compression. Tensile strength results are a function of the laminate configuration; unidirectional laminates were affected considerably more than other laminates with some strength values increasing and others decreasing. In general, cryogenic exposure of laminates with 0° plies increased the tensile yield stress and reduced the compressive yield stress, but other laminates were not significantly affected. Results from the cyclic tests show that the linear range of material behavior was increased by cyclic loading to a maximum value for all laminates and temper conditions. Typically, a maximum linear range was established which remained constant except in those cases where material degradation was indicated. Only those laminates with ±45° plies exhibited significant material degradation. / Master of Science

Heat treatment influences structure and characteristics of treatmented material. Good heat treatment of steels for bearings ensures hardness of matrix 60 - 65 HRC, whereas structure has be formed by tempered fine needle-shaped martensite with definite part of residual austenite. Carbides should be evenly dispersed, they mustn´t create carbide network and carbide lines. Quality of steels for bearings is also influenced by volume and morphology of inclusions in the matrix. In this diploma thesis various conditions of heat treatment were to be set up with the aim of choose the optimal ones. These ensures perfect martensite transformation and full hardening of all component. Quenching from 760 °C – 770 °C was quite unsatisfactory. At this temperature resulting structure was ferritic-perlitic, because martensite transformation did not pass. Too long hold on hardening temperature also had unfavourable influence on resulting structure and characteristics. In this case, structure was created by very coarse needle-shaped martensite. Coarsening of martensite needle locally exceeded maximum allowed level. In the structure there was also possible to watch partly soluted globular carbides. Optimal heat treatment is quenching from 850 °C – 870 °C followed by tempering at 220 °C. Resulting structure quite agree with above-mentioned needs. This heat treatment can be recommended for technical practise.

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Understanding the effects of the process parameters on the distribution behaviour of antimony between metal and slag in the iron blast furnace is critical to develop a universal method of controlling temper embrittlement in commercially pure low alloy steels.

A central problem in the bioinformatics is to find the binding sites for regulatory motifs. This is a challenging problem that leads us to a platform to apply a variety of data mining methods. In the efforts described here, a combined motif discovery method that uses mutual information and Gibbs sampling was developed. A new scoring schema was introduced with mutual information and joint information content involved. Simulated tempering was embedded into classic Gibbs sampling to avoid local optima. This method was applied to the 18 pieces DNA sequences containing CRP binding sites validated by Stormo and the results were compared with Bioprospector. Based on the results, the new scoring schema can get over the defect that the basic model PWM only contains single positioin information. Simulated tempering proved to be an adaptive adjustment of the search strategy and showed a much increased resistance to local optima.

[pt] Os aços de alta resistência e baixa liga (ARBL) pertencem a uma classe de aços que desperta o interesse de pesquisadores da área metal-mecânica. A pesquisa teve como objetivos estudar a influência dos tratamentos térmicos de têmpera e revenido sobre as propriedades do aço SAE 4140 e avaliar o comportamento do aço SAE 4140 quando submetido ao revenido na faixa de temperatura característica da fragilização. Inicialmente, o material foi tratado termicamente sob diferentes condições de têmpera e revenido. Após a usinagem dos corpos de prova, foram realizados ensaios de tração e energia ao impacto, bem como caracterizações microestruturais e fractográficas. Os resultados mostraram que as propriedades mecânicas do aço SAE 4140 foram influenciadas pelos parâmetros de revenido, em particular temperatura, além do tempo de permanência no forno antes do resfriamento. / [en] The high strength and low alloy steels (HSLA) belong to a class of steels in which researchers of the metal-mechanic area have particular interest. The aim of this work is to verify the influence of quenching and tempering heat treatments on the properties of the SAE 4140 steel as well as to evaluate its behaviour when subjected to tempering in a temperature range associated with the material´s embrittlement. At first, the material was heat treated according with different quenching and tempering conditions. In the sequence, specimens machined from the treated material were subjected to tensile and impact energy tests and characterized by microstructural and fractographic analysis. The results showed that the mechanical properties of the material were influenced by the tempering parameters, specially temperature and time of treatment as well as the permanence time of the specimens in the furnace before cooling.

nicialmente descreve-se o Sistema Cu-A1 e as fases que ocorrem do lado rico em cobre; em seguida faz-se uma revisão sobre as reações de decomposição da fase ? de alta temperatura no resfriamento e sobre as reações de decomposição da martensita ?\'? no revenido. Faz-se também a revisão de alguns conceitos teóricos sobre interfaces e estabilidade das microestruturas. Estudou-se, na parte experimental, a decomposição isotérmica (revenido) da martensita ?\'? de duas ligas hipoeutetóides em temperaturas que correspondem aos campos ? + ?? (520 ºC) e ? + ? (650 ºC) do diagrama Cu-A1. Realizaram-se ainda experiências de solubilização no campo ? + ? a 576 ºC da estrutura ? + ?? obtida pelo revenido por 90 minutos a 520 ºC. No revenido a 520 ºC da martensita ?\'? de ambas as ligas observou-se inicialmente a precipitação de alotriomorfos de fase ? em contornos de grão, a reversão parcial da martensita para fase ?? , e transformação in situ da martensita em fase ? supersaturada, que gradualmente passa a fase ? de equilíbrio. Com tempos maiores, observou-se a decomposição da fase ?? em ?? e? . A fase ? tem a forma de plaquetas que mantém planos de hábito herdados da martensita. A fase ?? precipita como glóbulos que coalescem sem formar contornos de grão, formando lamelas de interface lisas entre as plaquetas de ? . A estrutura ? + ?? não coalesce nem esferoidiza para os tempos estudados, o que pode ser explicado pela existência de interfaces ? / ?? , e ? / ?? de baixa energia. Para se estudar a existência de interfaces de baixa energia entre a fase ? da transformação in situ e a fase ? da reversão da martensita, realizou-se a decomposição da martensita no campo ? + ? .Observou-se que a fase ? resultante de transformação in situ mantém os planos de hábito da martensita; as plaquetas de fase ? coalescem sem esferoidizar, mantendo interfaces retas com a fase ? e os mesmos planos de hábito que a martensita obtida pelo resfriamento da fase ? de reversão. Cada grão de ? original dá origem a apenas um grão de ? , com a mesma orientação cristalográfica. Para estudar a existência de interfaces de baixa energia entre as fases ?? e ?? e de ambas com fase ? , realizou-se a solubilização no campo ? + ? da estrutura ? + ?? obtida por revenido. Verificou-se que a fase ? precipita no interior da fase ?? na forma de glóbulos, que depois crescem dissolvendo parcialmente a fase ? . As interfaces ? / ? mantém-se planas e as plaquetas de ? mantém os planos de hábito herdados da martensita. Cada antigo grão de ? dá origem a um grão de ? com a mesma orientação. Discutiu-se os resultados sob o ponto de vista da relação entre morfologia e a natureza das interfaces. Concluiu-se que os resultados podem ser explicados pela existência de interfaces ? / ?? , ? / ?? e ? / ? de baixa energia em algumas direções e interfaces ?? / ?? e ?? / ? em todas as direções. Discutiu-se ainda a origem de relações de orientação entre os reticulados que correspondem a interfaces de baixa energia. / The Cu-Al system, in the copper-rich side, is described. The reactions that occur during decomposition of the high temperature ? phase, as well as the decomposition of the ?\'? martensite during tempering, are reviewed. Some theoretical concepts about interfaces and microstructural stability are also reviewed. In the experimental part of this dissertation, the isothermal decomposition (tempering) of the ?\'? martensite is studied in two hipoeutectoid alloys, at temperature in the ? + ?? field (520 ºC) and in the ? + ? field (650 ºC) of the Cu-Al equilibrium diagram. Experiments on the solubilization of the ? + ?? structure obtained by tempering, in the ? + ? field of the equilibrium diagram at 576 ºC, are also made. During tempering at 520 ºC of the ?\'? martensite, for both alloys, it was initially observed the precipitation of ? phase alotriomorphs in grain boundaries, the partial reversion of the martensite ?? phase, and the transformation \"in situ\" of the martensite to supersaturated ? phase, which gradually becomes equilibrium ? phase. Later it was observed the decomposition of the ?? phase to ?? and ? phases. The \"in situ\" formed ? phase is plate-like, and maintain the habit plane of the martensite. The ?? phase precipitates as globules, which coalesce without leaving grain boundaries, forming lamellas between ? plates, with smoth inbterfaces. The ? + ?? structure neither coarsen nor spheroidizes for the studied periods of times. The results can be explained by the existence of low energy ? / ?? and ? / ?? interfaces. Experiments on the decomposition of the martensite in the ? + ? field were made to check the existence of low energy interfaces between the \"in situ\" transformed ? phase and the ? phase from the martensite reversion. It was observed that ? phase plates maintain the martensite habit planes. The plates coarsen without spheroidizing, but maintaining straight interfaces with the ? phase, and with the same habit plane of the martensite that results from the quenching of the ? phase from the reversion. Each ? grain originates only one new ? grain, with the same crystallographic orientation. Experiments on the solubilization in the ? + ? field of the ? + ?? structures obtained by tempering were made in order to study the existence of low energy interfaces between the ?? and ?? phases, and between both and the ? phase. It was observed that the ? phase precipitates inside the ?? as globules which later grow, dissolving partially the ? phase. The ? / ? interfaces stay straight and the ? plates maintain their habit planes. Each original ? grain originates one new ? grain with the same orientation. The results were discussed by relating the morphologies to the nature of the interfaces. It was concluded that the results could be explained by the existence of low energy ? / ?? , ? / ?? and ? / ? interfaces on some directions, and ?? / ?? and ?? / ? interfaces in all directions. The origins of the lattices orientation relationships that gives low energy interfaces are discussed.