High-strength concrete with new organic mineral complex admixture

There are the great problems of the concrete for high voltage the transmission lines obtaining. One of them is the creation of reinforced concrete centrifugally spun transmission towers with enhanced reliability and durability for high-voltage transmission lines having voltage of 110-750 kV. The second problem is the creation of high-quality reinforced concrete foundations to fix overhead electric line lattice towers in the ground because more than 50% of operated reinforced concrete towers and foundations are in need of repair or were put into repair. A complex high-performance organic mineral admixture for tower bodies of high-voltage transmission lines is developed. The main components of the admixture are polycarboxylate polymere and silica sol. It insures increased compressive strength and tensile strength in bending, freeze resistance, waterproofing and corrosive resistance. The obtained positive results allow to reduce a compression zone width and a crack growth width. The paper can be useful for not only the transport construction but and for concrete obtaining with special properties at any fields.

Enhancement of Critical Current Density of Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide Thin Films by Introducing Nano dimensional Cerium Oxide Defects

The critical current density, Jc  has been the most important parameter used in the design and engineering of effective devices which is one of the implementation of high temperature superconductors (HTSC). In this work, an effort has been made to further improve the critical current density of YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) thin films by preventing the magnetic flux line lattice against the Lorentz force by pinning it in place with the aid of nano-dimensional defects. These defects were generated by distributing nano sized CeO2 islands after YBCO layer was created on LaAlO3 substrates perpendicular to the film using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. Three samples with buffer layers of CeO2 were prepared. CeO2 with 50 pulses, 100 pulses and 150 pulses, after each 1000 pulses of YBCO were prepared five layers for each of the samples. The structural characterization of YBCO/CeO2 and YBCO pristine films were carried out using x-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Superconducting proprieties were measured using a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). Jc  for the pure YBCO and the YBCO/CeO2 films were calculated from magnetization (M) versus Field (H) loops using Bean’s model. Jc  for the 50 pulses of YBCO/CeO2 films was found to be increased slightly by an order of magnitude of about 40% with respect to those of YBCO films without the nano dimensional defects.

High-strength Concrete with new organic mineral complex admixture

There are the great problems of the concrete for high voltage the transmission lines obtaining. One of them is the creation of reinforced concrete centrifugally spun transmission towers with enhanced reliability and durability for high-voltage transmission lines having voltage of 110-750 kV. The second problem is the creation of high-quality reinforced concrete foundations to fix overhead electric line lattice towers in the ground because more than 50% of operated reinforced concrete towers and foundations are in need of repair or were put into repair. A complex high-performance organic mineral admixture for tower bodies of high-voltage transmission lines is developed. The main components of the admixture are polycarboxylate polymere and silica sol. It insures increased compressive strength and tensile strength in bending, freeze resistance, waterproofing and corrosive resistance. The obtained positive results allow to reduce a compression zone width and a crack growth width. The paper can be useful for not only the transport construction but and for concrete obtaining with special properties at any fields.

A simulator for discrete quantum walks on lattices

In this paper, we present a simulator for two-particle quantum walks on the line and one-particle on a two-dimensional squared lattice. It can be used to investigate the equivalence between the two cases (one- and two-particle walks) for various boundary conditions (open, circular, reflecting, absorbing and their combinations). For the case of a single walker on a two-dimensional lattice, the simulator can also implement the Möbius strip. Furthermore, other topologies for the walker are also simulated by the proposed tool, like certain types of planar graphs with degree up to 4, by considering missing links over the lattice. The main purpose of the simulator is to study the genuinely quantum effects on the global properties of the two-particle joint probability distribution on the entanglement between the walkers/axis. For that purpose, the simulator is designed to compute various quantities such as: the entanglement and classical correlations, (classical and quantum) mutual information, the average distance between the two walkers, different hitting times and quantum discord. These quantities are of vital importance in designing possible algorithmic applications of quantum walks, namely in search, 3-SAT problems, etc. The simulator can also implement the static partial measurements of particle(s) positions and dynamic breaking of the links between certain nodes, both of which can be used to investigate the effects of decoherence on the walker(s). Finally, the simulator can be used to investigate the dynamic Anderson-like particle localization by varying the coin operators of certain nodes on the line/lattice. We also present some illustrative and relevant examples of one- and two-particle quantum walks in various scenarios. The tool was implemented in C and is available on-line at http://qwsim.weebly.com/ .