In a further study of the thermal development of fingermarks on paper and similar surfaces, it is demonstrated that direct contact heating of the substrate using coated or ceramic surfaces at temperatures in excess of 230 C produces results superior to those obtained using hot air.Fingermarks can also be developed in this way on other cellulose-based substrates such as wood and cotton fabric, though ridge detail is difficult to obtain in the latter case.Fluorescence spectroscopy indicates that the phenomena observed during the thermal development of fingermarks can be reproduced simply by heating untreated white copy paper or filter paper, or these papers treated with solutions of sodium chloride or alanine. There is no evidence to suggest that the observed fluorescence of fingermarks heated on paper is due to a reaction of fingermark constituents on or with the paper. Instead, we maintain that the ridge contrast observed first as fluorescence, and later as brown charring, is simply an acceleration of the thermal degradation of the paper. Thermal degradation of cellulose, a major constituent of paper and wood, is known to give rise to a fluorescent product if sufficient oxygen is available.[1-5] However, the absence of atmospheric oxygen has only a slight effect on the thermal development of fingermarks, indicating that there is sufficient oxygen already present in paper to allow the formation of the fluorescent and charred products. In a depletion study comparing thermal development of fingermarks on paper with development using ninhydrin, the thermal technique was found to be as sensitive as ninhydrin for six out of seven donors. When thermal development was used in sequence with ninhydrin and DFO, it was found that only fingermarks that had been developed to the fluorescent stage (a few seconds of heating) could subsequently be developed with the other reagents. In the reverse sequence, no useful further development was noted for fingermarks that were treated thermally after having been developed with ninhydrin or DFO. Aged fingermarks, including 3 marks from one-year-old university examination papers were successfully developed using the thermal technique.
Although the ability to develop latent fingerprints on paper using heat alone has been noted previously, it has been considered impractical for casework and inferior to other techniques. Here a new refinement of the technique is demonstrated for the high quality development of latent fingerprints on porous surfaces such as paper. Fingerprints deposited on various papers were developed by exposing them to hot air with a temperature in the vicinity of 300 degrees C, for periods of c. 10-20 sec. Several different heating methods were tested. The novel observation was made that after shorter heating times, fluorescent prints could be observed. These became visible after longer heating times, as noted by earlier workers, but with greatly improved contrast compared with their results. Prints from various donors (and aged prints) were developed with excellent ridge contrast. Direct heating methods (such as with a hot plate or press) produced inferior results. The refined technique, which is simple, safe and inexpensive compared with conventional methods, has great potential for use in forensic laboratories.
In recent years some Boiling Water Reactors have experienced significant steam dryer cracking. In some cases this cracking has necessitated unplanned outages to implement steam dryer repairs and has also resulted in de-rated operation of the affected units. In response to these recent steam dryer failures, GE has initiated a research program focused on identifying the nature of the fluctuating loads experienced by the steam dryer and developing predictive methods that can be used to develop load definitions for steam dryers. The physical mechanisms responsible for excitation of aero-acoustic resonances are not easily modeled using purely analytic methods; therefore, GE has decided to perform model tests to investigate the nature of the expected steam dryer loading. The objectives of the study documented in this paper are to: 1) Provide guidance regarding how to preserve, in the model, the significant fluid phenomena occurring in the plant, and 2) Derive scaling laws to convert model data to plant load predictions.
Two dimensional (2-D) axisymmetric finite element models (FEMs) are often used as a simplification to modeling cylindrical nozzles that intersect a cylindrical pressure vessel. However, an axisymmetric model has the effect of representing the vessel as a spherical shell rather than a cylindrical shell. Previous work has been done to determine 2-D axisymmetric to three dimensional (3-D) stress correction factors (CFs) for the total stress at the nozzle blend radius to account for this inconsistency. The present paper expands on that work to investigate the effects of the 2-D axisymmetric modeling simplification on the through wall stress distribution at the nozzle corner. The through-wall stress distribution is necessary for some fracture mechanics analyses performed for corner cracked nozzles and for using the simplified elastic-plastic analysis given in NB-3228.5. A simplified method is proposed which can be used to obtain a nozzle specific correction factor, rather than a bounding correction factor, that can be applied to 2-D finite element analysis stress results to correct for the inaccuracy introduced by modeling the intersection as an axisymmetric section.
The weld overlay process has been developed and applied to repair of nuclear reactor pipe girth welds for many years in BWR plants. The objectives of such repairs were to induce compressive axial residual stresses on the pipe inside surface, as well as increase the pipe thickness with a weld material that is not susceptible to stress-corrosion cracking. Hence, understanding the residual stress distribution is important to evaluate the reliability of pipe joints with weld overlay repairs. In this paper, a six-inch diameter Schedule 120 stainless steel pipe with an overlay thickness of 7.87 mm (0.31 inch) was picked as a validation case. Weld sequencing effects were thoroughly studied. The residual stresses were calculated by using thermal elasto-plastic finite-element analysis (FEA). After comparing results using different weld sequences, it was found that the calculated weld residual stresses on ID surface were very sensitive to weld sequencing in FE analyses as well as internal cooling rate. The influence of the weld sequencing was relatively secondary to the pipe distortion. An optimum (producing compressive residual stress on the ID surface) weld sequencing was obtained and applied to a 711.2 mm (28-inch) diameter pipe-to-elbow girth weld with an overlay thickness of 24.9 mm (0.98 inch) and a pipe thickness of 29.5 mm (1.16 inch).
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