Diversos tipos de defeitos superficiais estão presentes em barras laminadas (e produtos longos) e a presença destes defeitos pode ser muito prejudicial ao desempenho de peças, principalmente, quando se trata de aços para aplicação na cadeia automotiva, onde os níveis de exigência durante o forjamento da peça e durante a sua aplicação são extremamente elevados. Neste trabalho buscou-se determinar as condições operacionais mais apropriadas para a melhoria da qualidade superficial do produto laminado bruto com conseqüente redução de refugo e retrabalho ao longo de toda a cadeia de produção. O objetivo do trabalho é mostrar os defeitos de superficiais de dobra e escama como conseqüência de condições operacionais inapropriadas. Para isto aplicou-se uma metodologia que envolve a análise dos principais pontos de geração de defeitos, possibilitando um levantamento das causas. Com as ações propostas, buscou-se tornar o processo mais estável. Obtiveram-se melhorias significativas na qualidade superficial do material com acentuada redução no refugo por qualidade de aço produzido. / Several types of defects are present in rolled bars and their effects can be very harmful to the performance of mechanical parts, especially in the case of steels for application in the automotive industry, where quality requirements during forging and during its application are high. In this study we sought to determine the most appropriate operating conditions for the reduction of scrap caused by defects that originate in the rolling process, the analyzed defects were the so called overlap of rolling, scales and risks. For this a methodology that involved the analysis of the main points of generation of defects, allowing a survey of the causes was applied. With the proposed actions it was aimed at making the process more stable. This led to a significant improvement in surface quality of the material with marked reduction in scrap for each kind of steel.

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The aim of the thesis was to identify and hence investigate the physical properties of liquid crystals that influence their potential as components of biosensor devices. Silicon surfaces presenting photolithographically fabricated arrays of 50nm thick gold spots were used as the model for a biosensor that detects the surface binding of a biological analyte. The spots ranged in diameter from 2μm to 16μm and their spatial separation varied between 5μm to 40μm. A Self Assembled Monolayer (SAM) of the thiol 3-mercaoptopropionic acid was used to control the surface chemistry of the gold. The responses of the nematic liquid crystals 5CB, E7, ZLI 1695, ZLI 1132 and MDA 01-2012 to were measured by optical microscopy. The spots were seen to induce a tilted planar alignment in the liquid crystals in their nematic phase for spot diameters down to 4μm and for all separations. Anchoring transitions between different tilt angles were observed between spots for some arrays. This was linked to a change in anchoring energy at the gold, possibly stemming from the angle of gold deposition. When heated through the nematic to isotropic phase transition cross defects were observed to nucleate on the gold spots for all spot sizes above 4μm. On cooling through the transition grid patterns of defects were observed to nucleate pinned between the spots for arrays of spots with length scales between 10μm and 20μm. The birefringence and elastic constants K11 and K33 of the liquid crystals were measured for temperatures up to their nematic to isotropic transition points. The birefringences of the liquid crystals at the transition were found to range between 0.003 and 0.007. The device thickness was varied between 7μm and 40μm. Values for the elastic constants were found to range between 1pN and 4pN. The intensity of monochromatic light (670nm) reflected from the arrays as the liquid crystals were cooled through the phase transition was found to increase for smaller values of the elastic constants and found to be highest where the grid of defects on the array was observed most clearly. The effect on the intensity of the birefringence and cell thickness was shown to be small compared to the effect of elasticity. Two possible biosensor designs are proposed. The first would identify the presence of a biological analyte at a surface by the change in alignment of a liquid crystal. This type of sensor would be optimised by carefully controlling the anchoring energy of the liquid crystal at the surface to minimise the quantity of surface binding required to induce an anchoring transition. The second would detect the presence at a patterned surface of an analyte by the defects that form over the pattern as the liquid crystal changes between the nematic to isotropic phases. This type of sensor would be optimised by choosing a liquid crystal with small elastic constants at the phase transition and by designing a patterned surface with length scales between 10microns and 20microns.

Diversos tipos de defeitos superficiais estão presentes em barras laminadas (e produtos longos) e a presença destes defeitos pode ser muito prejudicial ao desempenho de peças, principalmente, quando se trata de aços para aplicação na cadeia automotiva, onde os níveis de exigência durante o forjamento da peça e durante a sua aplicação são extremamente elevados. Neste trabalho buscou-se determinar as condições operacionais mais apropriadas para a melhoria da qualidade superficial do produto laminado bruto com conseqüente redução de refugo e retrabalho ao longo de toda a cadeia de produção. O objetivo do trabalho é mostrar os defeitos de superficiais de dobra e escama como conseqüência de condições operacionais inapropriadas. Para isto aplicou-se uma metodologia que envolve a análise dos principais pontos de geração de defeitos, possibilitando um levantamento das causas. Com as ações propostas, buscou-se tornar o processo mais estável. Obtiveram-se melhorias significativas na qualidade superficial do material com acentuada redução no refugo por qualidade de aço produzido. / Several types of defects are present in rolled bars and their effects can be very harmful to the performance of mechanical parts, especially in the case of steels for application in the automotive industry, where quality requirements during forging and during its application are high. In this study we sought to determine the most appropriate operating conditions for the reduction of scrap caused by defects that originate in the rolling process, the analyzed defects were the so called overlap of rolling, scales and risks. For this a methodology that involved the analysis of the main points of generation of defects, allowing a survey of the causes was applied. With the proposed actions it was aimed at making the process more stable. This led to a significant improvement in surface quality of the material with marked reduction in scrap for each kind of steel.

abstract: As the photovoltaic (PV) power plants age in the field, the PV modules degrade and generate visible and invisible defects. A defect and statistical degradation rate analysis of photovoltaic (PV) power plants is presented in two-part thesis. The first part of the thesis deals with the defect analysis and the second part of the thesis deals with the statistical degradation rate analysis. In the first part, a detailed analysis on the performance or financial risk related to each defect found in multiple PV power plants across various climatic regions of the USA is presented by assigning a risk priority number (RPN). The RPN for all the defects in each PV plant is determined based on two databases: degradation rate database; defect rate database. In this analysis it is determined that the RPN for each plant is dictated by the technology type (crystalline silicon or thin-film), climate and age. The PV modules aging between 3 and 19 years in four different climates of hot-dry, hot-humid, cold-dry and temperate are investigated in this study. In the second part, a statistical degradation analysis is performed to determine if the degradation rates are linear or not in the power plants exposed in a hot-dry climate for the crystalline silicon technologies. This linearity degradation analysis is performed using the data obtained through two methods: current-voltage method; metered kWh method. For the current-voltage method, the annual power degradation data of hundreds of individual modules in six crystalline silicon power plants of different ages is used. For the metered kWh method, a residual plot analysis using Winters’ statistical method is performed for two crystalline silicon plants of different ages. The metered kWh data typically consists of the signal and noise components. Smoothers remove the noise component from the data by taking the average of the current and the previous observations. Once this is done, a residual plot analysis of the error component is performed to determine the noise was successfully separated from the data by proving the noise is random. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Engineering 2016

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Os defeitos superficiais são os maiores problemas de qualidade em barras laminadas a quente, representando inúmeros transtornos durante o processo produtivo, pois dependendo de suas características geram elevada rejeição durante o processo de inspeção. Elevada rejeição significa retrabalho e possível sucateamento. Dentre as diversas causas para a ocorrência de defeitos superficiais, estão os defeitos nos tarugos, a temperatura de laminação, conseqüência da temperatura de reaquecimento e ritmo de laminação e a remoção de carepa após o reaquecimento. Definiu-se o aço SAE 1043 para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho devido aos níveis de rejeição superficial e elevados volumes de produção, o que gera grande impacto na produção das linhas de inspeção. Os resultados obtidos a partir dos testes realizados demonstram que a temperatura de laminação até determinado limite não tem influência na rejeição superficial, mas que abaixo deste gera elevado índice de rejeição. O uso do descarepador tem grande influencia nos níveis de defeitos superficiais, e o controle de seus parâmetros principais é fundamental. O condicionamento superficial dos tarugos é o parâmetro que mais apresentou influência positiva sobre a rejeição superficial, demonstrando que defeitos pré-existentes na matéria-prima têm grande impacto no produto final da laminação. / Surface defects are major quality problems in hot rolled bars, representing numerous disturbances during the production process, as depending on their characteristics generate high rejection during the inspection process. High rejection means rework and scrap. Among the various causes for the occurrence of surface defects are defects in the billets, rolling temperature, a consequence of the reheating temperature and rate of roll and removal of scale after reheating. The steel SAE 1043 used in this work was selected due to its level of surface defects and high production volumes, which generates large impact on production inspection process. The results show that the rolling temperature of up to a certain limit does not influence the surface defects, but below this generates a high rate of rejection. The use of descaling has a large influence on the levels of surface defects, and control of its main parameters is essential. The surface conditioning of billets is the parameter that showed a positive influence on the reduction of surface defects, demonstrating that pre-existing defects in materials has large impact on the final rolled product.

La phase surstœchiométrique de dioxyde d’uranium (UO2+x) est stable sur une large gamme de températures et compositions. Ces variations de composition ainsi que la présence éventuelle de dopants ou d’impuretés induisent une modification de la concentration en défauts anioniques et électroniques. Ainsi nombre de propriétés du matériau sont modifiées par ces changements de composition et particulièrement les propriétés de transport atomique. Tout d’abord, un modèle de défauts ponctuels a été développé permettant d’évaluer l'évolution des concentrations de défauts électroniques et oxygène en fonction de la température, de la pression partielle d’oxygène d’équilibre et de la concentration en impuretés. Les constantes physiques du modèle et notamment les constantes d’équilibre correspondant à la formation des défauts ont été déterminées à partir de données de thermogravimétrie et de conductivité électrique de la littérature. Ce travail nous a ensuite permis d’interpréter nos mesures de conductivité, de diffusion chimique et d’autodiffusion de l’oxygène. D’un point de vue quantitatif, l’analyse des résultats expérimentaux permet d’évaluer le coefficient de diffusion de l’interstitiel d’oxygène mais aussi son énergie de formation, ainsi que celle du di-interstitiel. La présence de défauts d’oxygène agrégés semble induire une diminution du coefficient d’autodiffusion et de la diffusion chimique. De plus, la caractérisation par spectroscopie d’absorption de rayons X a permis de mettre en évidence la présence du même défaut sur toute la gamme de stœchiométrie étudiée, appuyant ainsi l’approche proposée pour établir le modèle. / The hyperstoichiometric uranium dioxide (UO2+x) is stable over a wide range of temperature and compositions. Such variations of composition and the eventual presence of doping elements or impurities lead to a variation of anionic and electronic defect concentrations. Moreover, many properties of this material are affected by its composition modifications, in particular their atomic transport properties. Firstly we developed a point defect model to evaluate the dependence of the electronic and oxygen defect concentrations upon temperature, equilibrium oxygen partial pressure and impurity content. The physical constants of the model, in particular the equilibrium constants of the defect formation reactions were determined from deviation from stoichiometry and electrical conductivity measurements of literature. This work enabled us to interpret our measures of conductivity, oxygen chemical and self- diffusion coefficients. From a quantitative standpoint, the analysis of our experimental results allows to evaluate the oxygen interstitial diffusion coefficient but also its formation energy. Moreover, an estimate of oxygen di-interstitial formation energy is also provided. Presence of oxygen clusters leads oxygen self- and chemical diffusion to decrease. X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy characterization shows the presence of the same defect in the entire deviation from stoichiometry studied, confirming the approach used to develop the model.

Motivados por trabalhos anteriores que analisaram diferentes comportamentos entre cristais e filmes policristalinos, relacionados com a cristalinidade e a concentração de impurezas, neste trabalho investigamos métodos de obtenção e processamento de filmes de haletos alcalinos dopados. Durante este trabalho foi montado um sistema de evaporação que disponibilizou a utilização de duas fontes de evaporação para a produção de amostras: resistiva e via feixe de elétrons. Apresentamos uma comparação entre resultados de caracterizações dos filmes produzidos e de monocristais existentes na literatura. A fim de se obter filmes dopados com impurezas mono e divalente e, também, duplamente dopados, alguns métodos alternativos de processamento foram investigados. A partir da comparação entre os sistemas KCl:(In +, Tl+ e Cu+) determinamos a dependência da cristalinidade em função do tamanho do íon dopante. O efeito da temperatura do substrato durante a evaporação foi investigado para o sistema KCl:Tl+, e comparado com resultados obtidos em filmes submetidos a tratamentos térmicos. Para a obtenção de filmes do sistema KCl:Yb2+:CN-, a preparação dos materiais precursores é um aspecto muito importante a ser considerado, a fim de se reproduzir nos filmes propriedades similares às dos monocristais. Nesse sentido, para evaporação foram utilizados o próprio cristal e pastilhas dos sais precursores obtidas a partir de técnicas de processamento cerâmico. A caracterização óptica dos filmes foi feita através de espectroscopia de absorção óptica e luminescência. A morfologia foi observada através de microscopia eletrônica de varredura e de força atômica, e a estrutura determinada por técnica de difração de raios X / The present work has been motivated by previous research on doped alkali halides films, that had been compared with single crystals, yielding different features, wich were related to crystallinity and impurity concentration. Preparation and processing techniques of doped alkali halides polycrystalline films have been investigated in this work. Two different evaporation sources have been used for samples production: resistive and via electron beam gun. Main results presented here are used to compare single crystals and films. In order to prepare single and double doped films, we have also tried several processing methods. From investigation of KCl:Tl+ system we have determined crystallinity dependency with impurity ion size. The KCl:Tl+ system has been used to verify the effect of substract temperature during evaporation. Results have been compared with films submited to thermal annealing. To obtain double doped KCI:Yb2+ :CN- films, we were very careful with preparation of precursor materials, since we intended to reproduce single crystals physical properties. Then, we have used single crystal itself for evaporation, besides pressed power pieces from precursor salts, obtained from ceramics processing technique. Optical absorption and photoluminescence have been carried out to perform optical characterization of evaporated films. Morphology has been observed by atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, and film structure has been observed by X-ray diffraction technique