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This paper discusses one approach to the process of choosing the starting system for designing an optical system, based on the use of heuristic rules that formalize and generalize the experience of the developers of objectives. Examples are given of the process of designing objectives.

This paper discusses the main types of modern optical systems that operate with television image detectors, mainly CCD detectors. The use of such systems covers the main range of problems of protection and security: external observation, including scanning, long-range observation, and mobile systems.

To develop novel consecutive β- and γ-turn mimetics, we designed and characterized α-aminooxy tripeptides (trimers) consisting of oxanipecotic acid dimer and α-aminooxy acid. According to FT-IR and NMR data, as well as ab initio quantum calculations, the trimers adopted unusual folded structures with consecutive β- and γ-turnlike conformations.

Creep and creep-recovery data of 304 stainless steel are reported for experiments under constant combined tension and torsion at 593°C (1100°F). The data were represented by a viscous-viscoelastic model in which the strain was resolved into five components—elastic, plastic (time-independent), viscoelastic (time-dependent recoverable), and viscous (time-dependent nonrecoverable) which has separate positive and negative components. The data are well represented by a power function of time for each time-dependent strain. By applying superposition to the creep-recovery data, the recoverable creep strain was separated from the nonrecoverable. The form of stress-dependence associated with a third-order multiple integral representation was employed for each strain component. The time-dependent recoverable and nonrecoverable strains had different nonlinear stress dependence; but, the time-independent plastic strain and time-dependent nonrecoverable strain had similar stress-dependence. A limiting stress below which creep was very small or negligible was found for both recoverable and nonrecoverable components as well as a yield limit. The limit for recoverable creep was substantially less than the limits for nonrecoverable creep and yielding. The results showed that the model and equations used in the analysis described quite well the creep and creep-recovery under the stress states tested.

The demand for high quality and fully automated production, coupled with advances in alloy development, focuses attention on the surface condition of products, especially the residual stresses on the machined surface because of its effect on component performance, longevity, and reliability. Although stainless steel is an important, material with wide application, it is not easy to obtain favorable surface condition, due to its sensitivity to thermal and mechanical operations. In order to obtain favorable surface conditions in a stainless steel component, it is necessary to have practical data which include information concerning tool wear, surface roughness and surface residual stress. In the research toward developing a machinability chart which can provide suitable cutting parameters for the high production rate and good quality surface, and can be used in computer controlled machining tools, surface residual stress distributions in the turning process for stainless steel were studied. Austenitic 304 stainless steel bars were selected as the workpieces and uncoated carbide tools were used in the tests. The obtained results will show residual stress conditions on the machined stainless steel components varying according to cutting conditions.

Prior research on creep of metals and plastics under combined stresses is reviewed. Recent and current research in this area are described. Emphasis of the review is on experimental investigations of creep under multiaxial stresses since 1950.

Creep and creep recovery data are reported for pure tension of 2618-T61 aluminum alloy under variable temperature between 200° C and 230° C. Varying temperature experiments involved an abrupt temperature increase and a linearly increasing and decreasing temperature at a constant stress of 137.9 MPa (20 ksi). A temperature-compensated time by Sherby and Dorn was employed to represent the effect of temperature. A temperature-history-dependent theory using data from constant stress creep and creep recovery together with the apparent activation energy was used to predict the creep under variable temperature. The predictions agreed quite well with the observed data. The apparent activation energy of this alloy was found to be 49,000 cal/mole°K.

Creep and creep recovery data of 304 stainless steel are reported for experiments at low stress levels under combined tension and torsion at 593°C (1100°F). The data were represented by a viscous-viscoelastic model in which the strain was resolved into five components—elastic, plastic (time-independent), viscoelastic (time-dependent recoverable), and viscous (time-dependent nonrecoverable) which has separate positive and negative components. Only part of the creep strain at low stresses was recovered upon complete unloading following creep (as also found at high stresses), and each time-dependent strain data was well represented by a power function of time. But the stress dependence below a transition stress was approximately a linear relation with no creep limits and no cross effects such as were found in a previous analysis for higher stress levels above a transition stress. The transition stress for nonrecoverable strains agrees with the Frost-Ashby boundary between diffusional flow and dislocation creep. Aging decreased the creep rate and plastic strain. Results for different times of aging at 593°C (1100°F) under pure tension stresses were well represented by power functions of aging time up to 1000 h for each creep component and plastic strain.

Nonlinear constitutive equations for varying stress histories are developed and used to predict the creep behavior of 304 stainless steel at 593°C (1100°F) under variable tension or torsion stresses including reloading, complete unloading, step-up, and step-down stress changes. The strain in the constitutive equations (a viscous-viscoelastic model) consists of: linear elastic, time-independent plastic, time-dependent-recoverable viscoelastic, and time-dependent-nonrecoverable viscous components. For variable stressing, the modified superposition principle, derived from the multiple integral representation, and the strain hardening theory were used to represent the recoverable and nonrecoverable components, respectively, of the time-dependent strain. Time-independent plastic strains were described by a flow rule of similar form to that for nonrecoverable, time-dependent strains. The material constants of the theory were determined from constant stress creep and creep recovery data. Considerable aging effects were found and the effects on the strain components were incorporated in each strain predicted by the theory. Some modifications of the theory for the viscoelastic strain component under step-down stress changes were made to improve the predictions. The final predictions combining the foregoing features made satisfactory agreements with the experimental creep data under step stress changes.

Creep and creep recovery data are reported for pure tension of 304 stainless steel under variable temperature between 593°C and 649°C. Varying temperature experiments involved multiple steps of abrupt temperature increase and decrease at a constant stress of 86.2 MPa (12.5 ksi). A temperature-compensated time proposed by Sherby and Dorn was employed to represent the effect of temperature. The temperature history dependent theory combined with the modified superposition principle was used to predict the variable temperature creep and creep recovery from data under constant temperature. The test data were predicted reasonably well by the theory.

Results of creep experiments under stress reversals in torsion with and without constant tension are reported. Constitutive equations based on data for single step creep and creep recovery tests previously reported are used to describe the test results. A viscous-viscoelastic model with aging effects and modifications for step-down stress changes and stress reversals predicted the creep behavior reasonably well. The prediction of time-independent plastic strains is also described.

Results of nonproportional stress changes on creep and plastic strains resulting from abrupt changes in proportion of tension and torsion are reported. Both step-up and step-down changes are included. Constitutive equations based on data for single step creep and recovery tests previously reported are used to describe the test results. A viscous-viscoelastic model with aging effects and modifications for step-down tests predicted the creep behavior reasonably well. The prediction of time-independent plastic strains is also described.