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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
Facility•Thiruvananthapuram, India•
About: Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is a facility organization based out in Thiruvananthapuram, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Aerosol & Ultimate tensile strength. The organization has 2092 authors who have published 3058 publications receiving 47975 citations. The organization is also known as: VSSC.
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TL;DR: In this article, an addition-curable maleimide-functional novolac phenolic resin was evaluated for adhesive properties such as lap shear strength and T-peel strength using aluminium adherends, when thermally self-cured and cocured with epoxy resins.
Abstract: A novel, addition-curable maleimide-functional novolac phenolic resin was evaluated for adhesive properties such as lap shear strength and T-peel strength using aluminium adherends, when thermally self-cured and cocured with epoxy resins. The adhesive properties of the self-cured resin, although inferior at ambient temperature, improved at high temperature and were found to depend on the cure conditions. When cocured with epoxy resin, the adhesive properties improved significantly and showed a strong dependence on the nature of the epoxy resin used, on the stoichiometry of the reactants, on the concentration of imide groups in the phenolic resin, and on the extent of polymerization of the maleimide groups. Optimum adhesive properties were obtained for novolac resins with a moderate concentration of maleimide groups, taken on a 1 : 1 hydroxyl–epoxy stoichiometry with a novolac epoxy resin. In comparison to the conventional novolac, the imide–novolac contributed to improved adhesion and better adhesive property retention at higher temperature when cured with the novolac–epoxy resin. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 73: 695–705, 1999
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TL;DR: Granular activated carbon was treated with different types of acids in order to improve its capability for the removal of perchlorate from drinking water as discussed by the authors, and the characteristics of acid treated granular activated carbons were examined by SEM, XRD, Raman spectrum and FTIR spectroscopic analysis.
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TL;DR: In this article, a ternary Epoxy-Allyl phenolic-Bismaleimide system was evaluated through their thermal and dynamic mechanical characterization, and it was found that the increase in BMI concentration in the system resulted in enhanced glass transition temperature with a consequent improvement in high temperature performance typically estimated by their lap shear strength at high temperatures.
Abstract: Novolac epoxy (EPN)—2,2′-diallyl bisphenol A (DABA) resin system was modified by cocuring it with bisphenol A bismaleimide (BMI). Molar concentration of BMI in the stochiometric blend of EPN and DABA was varied from 0.5 to 2.0. The cure optimization was done using DSC, IR spectroscopy, and rheological studies. The curing proceeded by phenol-epoxy and Alder-ene reactions. The performance of the ternary Epoxy-Allyl phenolic-Bismaleimide system was evaluated through their thermal and dynamic mechanical characterization. BMI improved the overall thermal stability and the modulus of the resultant composites. The increase in BMI concentration in the system resulted in enhanced glass transition temperature with a consequent improvement in high temperature performance typically estimated by their lap shear strength at high temperatures. The high temperature performance of the epoxy-phenol-bismaleimide (EPB) system was found to be far superior to the epoxy-phenol (EP)system. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 2007
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TL;DR: In this article, the role of mesoscale meteorology/dynamics in controlling the evolution of solar eclipse-induced changes in ozone in a relatively clean environment was pointed out.
Abstract: [1] Studies on the solar eclipse–induced changes in near-surface ozone and its precursors NOx and CO were carried out at two nearby tropical coastal locations, Thumba (very close to the sea) and the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS), which is 4.5 km off the Thumba coast and with varying topography, during the annular eclipse of 15 January 2010. The surface ozone decreased by 12 and 13 ppb (35% and 52%) over Thumba and CESS, with the time lag of 40 min and 25 min from the maximum phase of eclipse, respectively, and at CESS, post-eclipse recovery was faster compared to Thumba. No pronounced change was observed in NOx, but CO showed an enhancement toward the ending phase of the eclipse. The diurnal patterns of ozone and their differences at the two sites were strongly dependent on local meteorology, in particular, the mesoscale dynamics and topography. While the temperature decreased by 1.2°C at Thumba, the decrease was almost double (∼2.1°C) at CESS. The early fall in temperature caused the early setting in of land-breeze (post-eclipse effect), which in turn triggered an early evening decrease in near-surface ozone compared to the control conditions. The present study points to the role of mesoscale meteorology/dynamics in controlling the evolution of solar eclipse–induced changes in ozone in a relatively clean environment. The chemical box model simulations reproduced these broad features: a percentage decrease and the time lag in surface ozone. The observation of total column ozone showed a decrease and fluctuations, after the eclipse maximum.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental characterisation of random field models for the material uncertainties has been investigated and the importance of appropriate modeling of the parameters has been highlighted through a numerical example.
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M. Santosh | 103 | 1344 | 49846 |
Sabu Thomas | 102 | 1554 | 51366 |
S. Suresh Babu | 70 | 498 | 17113 |
K. Krishna Moorthy | 54 | 263 | 9749 |
Sathianeson Satheesh | 53 | 172 | 11099 |
M. Y. Hussaini | 49 | 207 | 16794 |
J.R. Banerjee | 44 | 146 | 5620 |
C. P. Reghunadhan Nair | 37 | 181 | 4825 |
K. N. Ninan | 36 | 159 | 4156 |
Anil Bhardwaj | 35 | 230 | 4527 |
Ivatury S. Raju | 33 | 121 | 6626 |
Venkata Sai Kiran Chakravadhanula | 32 | 102 | 3011 |
P.K. Sinha | 32 | 118 | 2918 |
J.-P. St.-Maurice | 31 | 113 | 3446 |
Subramaniam Gopalakrishnan | 28 | 123 | 2951 |