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Puritan Blister #20
Bona Drag City
By William Bowers , October 6, 2006
Today's column might poke at the limits of good sense and rightheadedness in much the same way that the velociraptors tested their electrified paddocks in the first Jurassic Park, but I have to say this: the language is my Lord. I mean that it's my "Lord" in the glum, Kierkegaardian sense, that I am bound to it, that I dread its power over me, that I sometimes exalt in it, and that I fret about my inaccurate uses of it and its inaccurate uses of me. I'm also its, um, bitch, in that without it, I don't get to eat: All of my paychecks come from either teaching composition and manipulation of words, or from freelance compositions resulting from manipulating Microsoft Word. I can't get a moment's reprieve, even when staring at paintings or listening only to my hard drive's huge, buoying "Instrumental" folder. Sadly, the wordlessness of Four Tet and Mono just induces further (possibly compensatory) verbiage in this humble subject.
So forgive me for the fun that I am about to try to have with the word "drag." I'm only lashing out against an enforced and constraining sobriety, like a kid making submarine sounds over the drive-thru headset at his McDonalds job, or leaving a booger in a church hymnal. Go ahead, actually, and substitute "language" for "Lord" in the following famous Robert Frost quote before you skim the rest of this column, which at least won't perpetuate his King Jamesian wink: "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."
As I have been lead to understand "drag" via the rigorous pomp of the graduate students as well as via the lazy pomp of the undergraduates kind enough to synopsize its usage for me, the term currently has to do with gender performance that is often cartoonish or "extreme." Note how that explication is already a tad more elastic than the previous (and still more common) assumption that the term indicates cross- or transgender performance. So, drag can go down within one gender: Dolly Parton and Arnold Schwarzenegger are equally as gussied-up in hyperbolic versions of "natural" notions of their own gender as are, say, Annie Lennox in a pin-striped suit or RuPaul in sequins, of gender opposites.
Hopefully your bullshit detector just started blaring. I first trotted this thesis out years ago in a Pitchfork review of schlock-rocker Thor's Triumphant. Since then, I've seen Thor in concert. His plastic Viking shtick definitely constitutes some kind of drag; I mean, any Wikipedophile could tell you that "drag in its broadest sense means a costume or outfit that carries symbolic significance." Thor's silly breastplate was kind of awesome, signifying that tit-bigness on males has nothing to do with biological redundance (man-mammaries simply won't yield milk, even with an alley-oop from the most premium pumps) but has everything to do with some notion of strength and plenitude that predates the locution "Abraham's bosom." I'm ill-equipped to ruminate on the implications of Thor's massive one-horned helmet, or of how a lesbian acquaintance stole (and constantly wears) the Thor "wifebeater" that I bought that night.
Anyway: Parton & Schwarzenegger are different from Lennox and RuPaul, reckon, because I am equating the former's actual altered/engineered physiognomies with the latter's mere costumery? (Arnold even jumped the gender-shark by being pregnant in 1994's Junior.) But don't people often wear ideological "costumes" that aren't immediately perceptible? Isn't this country, for example, packed with secular capitalists in lip-service "drag" as cosmic Christians? Furthermore, couldn't "doing drag" relate to fandom of a band through whom folks live vicariously? Isn't half of my love of Black Sabbath the fun of how they lend me their demonic awe, and of how they let me imagine the rockingness of years I wasn't alive to experience, just as my sister's fishnets and mascara lend me the fun of her vampy Los Angeles existence that I couldn't access otherwise? You know that you know, in your heart of hearts, that every Decemberists concert contains total imaginationless dolts for whom that band functions as literate/quirky surrogates...
How are some of my students at my dayjob not participating in political/protest "drag" via their esteem for Rage Against the Machine and similar outfits? The majority of them admit to me that they don't alter their patterns of consumption; they continue inhaling Big Tobacco and sucking down Big Beer, bemoaning bigness' bigness despite their T-shirt-demonstrated (and thus consumption-based) fandom of such corporation-critiquing (and thus consumption-questioning) acts.
Everyday hustler Rick Ross recently played my city. People whom I know are, at best, lower-middle-class wage-earners, decked themselves out in (economically misrepresentative?) "bling" and paid exorbitant fees to be VIPs in the club's "White Room." How are hip-hop's gaudy appropriations of CEO wealth not examples of extreme costumery, i.e. drag? Not to imply that whitey's sensible wardrobe is anything more than a repeated mode, but: how are hip-hop's versions of whitey's mercantile grandiosity (from Makavelli's updating of Machiavelli to Roc-A-Fella's updating of Rockefeller) not extreme or cartoonish versions of, say, a Smith Barney exec? I mean, this is a free country and all, but some of the bejeweled necklaces in Lil Scrappy's video for "Money In the Bank" are larger than Flavor Flav's arsenal of timepieces. If the term drag is rooted in "dressed as a girl" and the term drab is rooted in "dressed as a boy," could draz be applied here for hip-hop's "dressed as a zillionaire"?
I love me some the Hold Steady, but I think that Craig Finn and his gang are getting away with some sleight-of-hand. Many of their fans are super-young (you know, 15ish) and even straight-edge; when these folks, at outdoor festivals, pump their fists along to Finn's chronicles of substance-oblivion, how are they not feigning a value? I know several people who were patrons of this last summer's Productapalooza, at which the Hold Steady performed, and they insist that there was no need for a "Chillout Tent." How does Finn's almost pathological/spoofable, and multiple-album-spanning, lostalgia not provide his clean-living listeners with an aural costume for druggy reverie? Doesn't the Hold Steady enable abandon-drag, nightlife-drag, or even junkie-drag for curfew-minded clockwatchers?
Let's make this more awkward. In theory, I casually "suffer" (as a straight white male) from all manner of ethnicity and sexual-preference envy. Blackness seems cool in a way that I can't access without physical/ideological costumery. Jewishness seems cool in a way that I can't access with physical/ideological constumery. Same for Hispanicness, etc. Same for Antony and Boy George and Ani DiFranco, etc. Am I moonlighting, as is straight-whitey's supposed planetary right, as a tourist in the burdens and benefits of "Otherness"? Either way, the marketplace doesn't care; I can purchase each vivid perspective at Best Buy. iTunes privileges only one's bank account.
But how is this year's music-crit snafu/kerfuffle about Magnetic Fieldhand Stephin Merritt's supposed "racism" not in some way an example of morality-drag? I'm not so daft as to pretend that racism doesn't exist, but how are the protestations of Sasha Frere-Jones (of The New Yorker) and ("Chicago-based feminist music and culture critic") Jessica Hopper (of a zillion publications) anything more nuanced than fake dragonslaying? Who, even among racists, needs to be told that racism is, er, cretinous? If an honest discussion of aesthetics approaches, say, the filmmaker D.W. Griffith, the poet Ezra Pound, and the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", should the artistry be totally dismissed because Griffith was so insanely Aryan, Pound was so insanely anti-Semitic, and "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is so racist? Here we are left to the classic aestheticist argument: Should the artist assist the dying individual, or note the particular purple of the proto-corpse's lips? Sure, we could do without art that causes corpses, but 69 Love Songs isn't oppressing anyone. What do Frere-Jones and Hopper possibly get out of wearing the breastplate and one-horned helmet of supertolerance?
And oh my goodness, have you seen Zebo.com, "The World's Largest Repository of What People Own"? I have already conversationally busted people listed there as participating in property-drag. Trust that I am as fatigued as you are by vapid rockumentaries that stress performers' adornment over their recordings. If I took such documentation seriously, I'd quit Pitchforkmedia, wear a bra over my turtleneck, call my diary entries "poetry," and hope that no one noticed that I didn't have anything to say. Long live substance-drag.
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Here they are finally. I finished all my blocks to fill in and enhance the look of fall and those magnificent colors. The captions on the pictures show credit for the blocks. More to come as I add setting triangles and borders and other items to make a Harvest Moon fall quilt.
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Thanks for the replies...at least I know there is still a program, and as one of you waited 30 months, the 12 months I have waited is explained.
I actually had a dealer that is familiar with my...
At one time BMW NA had a program, where at 100,000 mile intervals they awarded a nice medallion with the mileage level embossed on it.
Does anyone know if this program is still active?
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this can't be this hard!!! Why am I making it that way?
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A microsensor for detecting corrosive media acting on a bulk metallic material when mounted in situ adjacent a location in the bulk metallic material. The microsensor includes a plurality of corrosive tracks (16; 132; 216B) exposed to the corrosive media, each said corrosive track being formed as a patterned conductive thin film track. The tracks follow serpentine paths which include a plurality of bends, at least two of which are of opposite curvature, to provide a high degree of miniaturisation coupled with accurate and reliable corrosion sensing characteristics. The corrosive tracks may be formed from an alloy material, such as an aluminium alloy, to mimic the corrosive characteristics of a bulk metallic alloy and to provide improved corrosion detection for components made from such materials at high degrees of miniaturisation.
1. A microsensor for detecting corrosive media acting on a metallic material when mounted in situ adjacent a location in the metallic material, the microsensor including a plurality of corrosive tracks between common terminals, each of the tracks being exposed to the corrosive media and being formed as a patterned conductive thin film track following a path which includes a plurality of mutually inverted generally U-shaped bends.
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the bulk alloy having a main metal constituent which is the same as the main metal constituent of the track alloy, and at least one alloying metal constituent which is the same as the alloying metal constituent of the track alloy.
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the different bulk alloy having a main metal constituent and at least one alloying metal constituent,
the second microsensor having at least one thin film track made from a metallic alloy which is different to the metallic alloy from which the at least one track of the first-mentioned microsensor is made and having a main metal constituent which is the same as the main metal constituent of the different bulk metallic alloy, and at least one alloying metal constituent which is the same as the main alloying metal constituent of the different bulk metallic alloy.
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This invention relates to microsensors for detecting corrosive media acting on a metallic material when mounted in situ adjacent a location in the metallic material.
Corrosion is a problem which leads to high maintenance and repair overheads in many different industries. The paper �Naval Aviation Corrosion Challenges and Solutions�, Dale L. Moore, Corrosion 2000, paper 00270 (NACE, Orlando, USA, 2000) describes the problem areas in aircraft component corrosion and classifies corrosion types found in the aircraft industry.
Various different methods of detecting corrosion in a metallic material are known. The paper �Corrosion Detection and Monitoring�a Review�, Vinod S. Agarwala, Siri Ahmad, Corrosion 2000, paper 00271 (NACE, Orlando, USA, 2000) describes various of the known methods, including visual methods, ultrasonic and acoustic methods, radiographic methods, thermal imaging, electromagnetic methods, electrical resistance measurement, and electrochemical methods. It describes a commonly used type of corrosion sensing, referred to as the electrical resistance probe method. In this case a sample of the material being monitored has its electrical resistance monitored. As the metal corrodes its cross section reduces and the resistance increases. In a practical embodiment of this technique the metal sample is made long and thin in order to optimise the resistance change to the thickness loss by corrosion. In this sensitive configuration the sensor is also highly sensitive to temperature changes by virtue of the material's temperature coefficient of resistivity. This is often overcome by using a second sample of the material of identical dimensions and temperature but protected from corrosion. Even when all these features are accommodated this sensor type is poor when the corrosion is at all localised, e.g. exfoliation, intergranular, pitting, crevice or stress corrosion. Under these conditions of degradation the resistance change is not proportional to extent of corrosion. Indeed it may not change sufficiently to allow problematic corrosion to be reliably detected. Localised types of corrosion cause significant problems for some types of metallic materials such as aluminium alloys.
The paper �Multi-layer Galvanic Cell for Next Generation Corrosion Sensors�, M. D. Jaeger, B. R. Pilvelait, P. J. Magari, Corrosion 2000, paper 00302 (NACE, Orlando, USA, 2000) describes a galvanic sensor with a multilayer geometry which is to be mounted in situ adjacent a location in a metallic material to be monitored and provides advantages in sensitivity and lifetime. The sensor measures the presence of an electrolyte, e.g. moisture in the area of the sensor, but not actual corrosion of the metallic material.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,338,432 describes galvanic microsensors which use patterned thin metallic foils bonded to a non-conductive substrate. The sensors described include various alternative arrangements of interdigitated tracks of different metallic materials.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,383,451 describes a thin film electric resistance sensor which includes a plurality of corrosive tracks exposed to corrosive media, running between two corrosion-protected common terminals. The detector described is sensitive to slight corrosion caused by pitting corrosion, however the current drain remains relatively high. In particular for corrosion monitoring in situ, it would be desirable to reduce the current drain in order to provide a longer battery lifespan; this is particularly important when a microsensor is to be mounted in a relatively inaccessible location and access thereto, for example for battery replacement, is to be avoided to as great an extent as possible. It would also be desirable to further improve the sensitivity and accuracy of the microsensor in detecting location-specific corrosion.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention there is provided a microsensor for detecting corrosive media acting on a metallic material when mounted in situ adjacent a location in the metallic material, the microsensor including a plurality of corrosive tracks exposed to the corrosive media, each said corrosive track being formed as a patterned conductive thin film track and following a path which includes a plurality of bends, at least two of which are of opposite curvature.
The present invention in this aspect provides a highly miniaturised microsensor which can detect corrosion with high accuracy and reliability, whilst a relatively long lifetime of the microsensor and an associated limited power source are achievable.
Preferably, the thin film corrosive tracks are made of a material in which the proportion of the alloying constituent in the track material is similar to the proportion of the alloying constituent of the bulk metallic alloy to be monitored. This provides a microsensor which is capable of more accurately detecting corrosive phenomena acting on the bulk alloy than prior art thin film sensors, which include corrosive tracks made from a single metallic constituent, such as pure aluminium. Such single metallic constituent thin film tracks are not affected by corrosive media in the same manner as the bulk alloy, in particular when the bulk alloy is susceptible to localised corrosive phenomena.
Further aspects, features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments of the invention given, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
Various different embodiments of microsensor in accordance with the invention will now be described. The microsensors include corrosive tracks which mimic the corrosive characteristics of a bulk metal material, such that when placed in situ adjacent a location in a bulk metal material component, the effects of exposure to corrosive media measured by the microsensor reflect the effects of exposure of the bulk metal to the same corrosive media. The microsensors may be mounted in various locations and manners, for example by mounting between the plates of a joint between components, by adhesion to a component using a Mylar� foil, etc. Once mounted, the microsensors may be coated with paint or another type of coating which similarly covers the bulk metal material.
Between the common terminals 8, 10, a plurality of conductive thin film corrosive tracks 16 are formed. The corrosive tracks 16 are not covered by a protective thin film, and are thus exposed to corrosive media, when the microsensor is in use, to a similar degree to which the bulk metallic alloy material, adjacent to which the microsensor is mounted, is exposed in the mounting location.
Each corrosive track 16 is formed to meander across a separate surface portion, in this embodiment one of a set of linear corridors 20, between the common terminals 8, 10. The track 16 extends fully across the corridor 20 in which it meanders. The corridors 20 each have a similar width D1 and are separated by a distance D2 such that the minimum separation D3 between adjacent corrosive tracks is preferably at least as great as the track width W. Each corrosive track 16 has a periodically repeating serpentine shape within the linear corridor. As can be seen in
As a result of the serpentine shape of the corrosive track 16, the track gradually changes in direction, so that, using the centre line 22 as a reference axis, a track section of a positive or negative gradient relative to the centre line 22 is followed by a track section of an opposite gradient relative to the centre line 22, the two sections being to each side of a bend of the corrosive track. The gradients alternately vary as the track is followed through each bend. The serpentine paths thus resemble a periodic waveform.
By providing a serpentine path such as that described, the track length is increased without the need to increase the microsensor dimensions correspondingly, thus aiding miniaturisation. The sensitivity of the sensor is thus increased due to the increased track length and the current drain reduced. By using gradual bends having a minimum radius of curvature which is greater than half the track width as described, discrete or excessively sudden changes in direction of the path of the corrosive tracks, for example by the formation of right angles in the track paths, are avoided. It has been found that accelerated corrosion phenomena occur at such points in the track paths, which undesirably produce resistance variations which do not accurately reflect the state of corrosion of the component being monitored.
By maintaining at least a predetermined distance D3 between adjacent tracks, a predetermined minimum radius of curvature R at the bends, and at least a predetermined distance C between the adjacent track sections at the centre line, all track sections, including track sections within a single track and track sections within adjacent tracks, are well-spaced across the sensor. Preferably, no two adjacent track sections have sides spaced from each other by less than the track width W. In this way, corrosion effects are produced which more closely mimic the corrosion effects in the bulk alloy.
When mounted in situ, the effects of corrosion are monitored by intermittently passing a constant current across the common terminals and sensing the voltage response. After a period of exposure to corrosive media, whilst initially the tracking is fully intact and fully conductive, corroded track becomes gradually more resistive due to loss of conductive cross-sectional area and finally becomes insulating after corrosion affects at least one part of the track fully across its entire width. Different of the tracks may be affected differently by unrepresentative corrosive phenomena or other phenomena such as percussive damage, but by using a number of tracks, preferably at least four or more, connected in parallel, the response of the sensor more reliably reflects the effects of corrosion in the adjacent bulk metal.
The resistance thermometer 6 is made of a conductive material which is corrosively inert, such as platinum. The resistance thermometer 6 includes a tightly-concertinaed sensing section 17 which provides well-behaved measurable variations in resistivity with temperature, formed between connector stubs 18, 20. Since rates of corrosion are highly temperature-dependent, the output from the resistance thermometer can be used in combination with the output from the corrosion sensor to provide more accurate corrosion state prediction for the bulk alloy material being monitored.
The microsensor may also include other types of sensor, not shown, for measuring parameters which can have an effect on corrosion rates, such as an airflow sensor arranged for measuring airflow in the area in which the unit is mounted. Such an airflow sensor may be formed as thin film patterns of conductive strips, made of a material having a high temperature coefficient of resistivity, which are spaced in a direction in which airflow is to be sensed; variations in resistance of the strips indicate levels of airflow.
In this embodiment, the corrosion sensor 130 is in the form of a galvanic corrosion sensor having interdigitated thin film tracks 132, 134 formed of different metallic materials and producing a measurable variation in galvanic voltage in response to exposure to an electrolyte. The thin film tracks 132, 134 are not covered by a protective thin film and are thus exposed to an electrolyte, which is a corrosive medium such as moisture, when the microsensor is in use, to a similar degree to which the bulk metallic alloy material, adjacent to which the microsensor is mounted, is exposed in the mounting location.
The thin film tracks include a first set of thin film tracks 132 and a second set of thin film tracks 134. The first set are made from a first metallic material connected to a first common terminal 108 and not connected to the second common terminal 110. The second set of thin film tracks 134 are made from a second, different, metallic material connected to the second common terminal 110 and not connected to the first common terminal 108. Preferably, the first set of tracks 132 are formed from a corrosive material mimicking the bulk metal for which the microsensor is to be used to monitor corrosion, and the second set of tracks 134 are formed from a relatively corrosively inert metal such as gold or platinum. Thus, a galvanic voltage is generated between the common terminals by the sets of corrosive tracks 132 and the set of non-corrosive tracks 134, which is measurable to provide an indication of time of exposure and amount of exposure to the electrolyte in the bulk material.
The tracks 132,134 are formed in the patterns described above in relation to
In this embodiment, the resistive corrosion sensor 204B is in the form of a referenced resistive corrosion sensor having a similar form to the resistive corrosion sensor described in relation to
The corrosion sensor 204B is formed in an overlapping arrangement on top of the reference sensor. The function of the reference sensor 204A is to provide an output which is independent of corrosion but which has a virtually identical temperature-dependence in resistivity as the corrosion sensor 204B, due to its similar patterning and composition. The output from the reference sensor 204A can thus be used to balance out any temperature dependence in the output of the corrosion sensor 204B in a simple manner. By arranging the two sensors in an overlapping manner, rather than side-by-side, the temperature of the corrosion sensor 204B and the reference sensor 204A are more closely matched, in particular when mounted in locations subject to relatively large temperature gradients. Hence, the function of the reference sensor 204A is improved. Furthermore, miniaturisation of the microsensor element is improved.
The two sensors 204A, 204B are arranged with a slight offset, and the corrosive tracks 216B and the corresponding tracks 216A are formed with a greater pitch. Thereby, the corrosive tracks 216B of the corrosion sensor are not formed on the surface of the protective film covering the corresponding tracks 216A of the reference sensor, this avoids degradation of the uniformity of the corrosive tracks 216B due to variations in surface height of the protective layer due to the tracks 216A underneath. In this embodiment, the number of tracks in each sensor is half that of the sensor shown in
Note that, in relation to
In particular envisaged applications, the bulk metal material to be mimicked is a metallic alloy and in such cases the material used for the corrosive tracks in each of the above-described embodiments is preferably an alloy having alloying constituents in similar proportions to the respective bulk alloy being mimicked. It has been found that the proportion of each alloying constituent of the track material is generally preferred to be accurate within 3%, more preferably within 1%, of the total constituents of the bulk alloy. Constituents having a proportion of less than 1% of the bulk alloy may either be present in a similar proportion, or omitted.
In preferred embodiments, in which the microsensor is to be used in a health monitoring system for aircraft, the corrosive tracks are made of an aluminium alloy, such as an aluminium copper alloy, an aluminium silicon alloy, an aluminium silicon copper alloy, etc. In particular, the material used for the corrosive tracks is preferably an alloy which closely resembles in composition one of the aluminium alloys used in the aviation components.
In a first example the track alloy is an aluminium-copper alloy having a copper constituent proportion forming in the region of 2% to 8%, preferably approximately 5%, of the mass of the alloy, such as a 2000 series aluminium alloy.
In a second example the track alloy is an aluminium-silicon alloy having a silicon constituent proportion forming in the region of 5% to 20%, preferably approximately 12%, of the mass of the alloy, such as a 4000 series aluminium alloy.
In a third example the track alloy is an aluminium-magnesium alloy having a magnesium constituent proportion forming in the region of 2% to 8%, preferably approximately 5%, of the mass of the alloy, such as a 5000 series aluminium alloy.
In a fourth example the track alloy is an aluminium-magnesium-silicon alloy having magnesium and silicon proportions each forming in the region of 0.3% to 1.2% of the mass of the alloy, such as a 6000 series aluminium alloy.
In a fifth example the track alloy is an aluminium-zinc alloy having a zinc constituent proportion forming in the region of 2% to 8%, preferably approximately 5%, of the mass of the alloy, such as a 7000 series aluminium alloy.
In a sixth example the track alloy is an aluminium-lithium alloy having a lithium constituent proportion forming in the region of 1% to 4%, preferably approximately 2%, of the mass of the alloy, such as an 8000 series aluminium alloy.
Note that alloying constituents other than those specifically mentioned in each example above, and in lesser proportions to those specifically mentioned, may also be present in the alloys from which the tracks are made, particularly if present in the bulk alloys to be mimicked. These other alloying constituents may include one or more of magnesium, copper, manganese, silicon, iron, zinc, lithium, titanium, chromium, vanadium, zirconium, etc.
The thin film layers from which the corrosive tracks are made is preferably deposited on the substrate by sputtering. In order to further improve the degree to which the corrosive characteristics of the thin film tracks mimic the bulk alloy, the thin film layer is preferably annealed following sputtering to encourage growth of metallic grains within the thin layer to produce a thin film which is essentially a two-dimensional array of metallic grains. Enhancing the grain size after sputtering by annealing enhances the capability of the sensors to specifically detect localised corrosion, at the early stages of its growth. Since localised corrosion initiates at specific sites such as grain boundaries, specific intermetallic phases etc, production of thin films of metal alloys with similar compositions of the intermetallic phases and grain boundaries of the bulk metal alloys concerned enhances detection of such localised corrosion. By subsequent photolithographic patterning, the films are structured into track forms, as described above, that give a desired sensitivity to such corrosion.
The thickness of the corrosive tracks is selected in accordance with the material from which the tracks are formed and the type of application for the microsensor. For example, for monitoring components in a marine environment the rate of corrosion is relatively high, and therefore a relatively thick film is used, for example, in the case of an aluminium alloy, corrosive tracks in the region of 50 μm to 500 μm in thickness are used. However, for other applications in which the environment in which the microsensor is to be placed is less corrosive, higher sensitivity to corrosion is required, and therefore thinner films are used to form the corrosive tracks. In the case of monitoring non-marine aircraft components, the thickness of the corrosive tracks is preferably between 0.5 μm and 10 μm, for example approximately 1.5 μm.
The above-described geometries of the corrosive tracks may be used at any point in a range of miniaturisation scales. A track width of approximately 1 μm is possible, and highly sensitive in the range of scales envisaged. However, such a track width will produce a sensor which is generally too sensitive for practical corrosion sensing applications. Track widths of up to 1 mm are envisaged. Preferred track widths fall within the range 20 μm to 500 μm.
In a further embodiment, not shown in the Figures, at least two of the different sensor configurations shown in
In a further embodiment, not shown in the Figures, sensors having tracking arranged as described and of different widths in each sensor, for example different by an order of magnitude, are formed on a single substrate and included in a single microsensor unit, so as to provide so as to provide a microsensor unit having a plurality of sensor outputs of different sensitivities to corrosion and different sensor lifetimes. A sensor having a smaller track width will be more sensitive but have a smaller lifetime; once the sensor has degraded a sensor having a larger track width may be used to continue corrosion monitoring at a lower sensitivity.
In a yet further embodiment, not shown in the Figures, sensors having tracking arranged as described and of a plurality of different metallic compositions of different corrosivities are formed on a single substrate and included in a single microsensor unit, so as to provide different sensitivities to corrosion and different sensor lifetimes. For example, a first sensor having tracking made of a material which is relatively corrosive, such as an aluminium-silicon-copper alloy, may be included for higher sensitivity to corrosion but have a smaller lifetime, and a second sensor having tracking made of a less corrosive material such as substantially pure aluminium may be included for longer lifetime corrosion detection at a lower sensitivity. A third sensor having tracking made of a material having an intermediate corrosivity such as an aluminium-silicon alloy may also be included for medium lifetime corrosion detection at a medium sensitivity
The corrosion microsensors described herein are located on various different components of a multi-component apparatus, such as an aircraft, to form a corrosion sensing system, which itself is part of a health monitoring system for the apparatus. Typically, the components of the apparatus will be formed from different metal alloys, in particular, in the case of an aircraft, from different aluminium alloys such as the examples given above. One aspect of the invention is that a plurality of different corrosion microsensors, each having a set of corrosive tracks made of different metal alloy compositions mimicking the different component material compositions, are mounted adjacent locations in the respective corresponding components to form part of the corrosion sensing system for the apparatus.
A corrosion sensing system arranged in accordance with the present invention includes a data processing system arranged to receive data derived from each of a plurality of microsensor units which contain the corrosion sensors, to process the detection data and to provide corrosion analysis data based thereon, whereby corrosion state prediction is provided for the bulk alloy materials of the various different components in the various different locations being monitored. The units include a battery and a sensing circuit for each sensor. In the case of the LPR sensor, the circuit is adapted to apply a constant current to common terminals of the sensor, and to measure a voltage generated therein to sense resistance changes in the sensor. In the case of the galvanic sensor, the circuit is adapted to sense the galvanic voltage generated across the two common terminals.
One or more of the corrosion sensors of the present invention may be included in a semi-autonomous microsensor unit which includes a data logging memory, for storing sensor data sensed at a plurality of intervals over a period of time, and a data output whereby data is output from the microsensor unit to the data processing system. Such a semi-autonomous microsensor unit may be connected to the data processing system by means of physical wiring trough which data is communicated, or may include a data port whereby a data connection is intermittently established. The data port may be a socket to which a data cable of a reader unit is manually connected, or a wireless data port such as a Bluetooth� short range radio transmitter.
The above embodiments are to be understood as illustrative examples of the invention. Further embodiments of the invention are envisaged. Note for example that, whilst the corridors across which the corrosive tracks extend are in the above-described embodiments linear, the corridors may instead take a different form, including various different curved forms, including bell-shaped forms.
Using thin film alloys to mimic the behaviour of bulk alloys lends itself to further applications in corrosion both to elucidate corrosion rates specific to specific components and locations thereon, in which the microsensor is mounted. It should be noted that the invention is applicable to alloy systems other than aluminium, including magnesium alloys, which are used in the manufacture of gearbox components. It has particular benefit for alloys which tend to corrode locally, such as by exfoliation, or intergranular, pifting, crevice or stress corrosion.
It should be understood that the above-described preferred geometries, in particular the track width values, the track section separation values and the minimum radii of curvature values, have been found by empirical observation. Experiments were conducted in which the corrosion rates of large numbers of different test geometries were compared with the corrosion rates of the bulk metal materials being mimicked, when exposed to the same corrosive media. Geometries inside or outside the thresholds described were found to tend to cause corrosion effects which did not accurately reflect those in the bulk material; however it should be understood that, if different sensor characteristics are desired, for example increased sensitivity to corrosion relative to the bulk material, such alternative geometries may be used.
It is to be understood that any feature described in relation to any one embodiment may be used alone, or in combination with other features described, and may also be used in combination with one or more features of any other of the embodiments, or any combination of any other of the embodiments. Furthermore, equivalents and modifications not described above may also be employed without departing from the scope of the invention, which is defined in the accompanying claims.
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And here's the second one! Whippee!
Our first video is up on YouTube! Check it out!
Video 1: Atmosphere
We aim to make our video a reentering of the past, through the lens of an old camera. The sections of the house we show hold memories within them. As our video visits these memories, a retrospective and eerie atmosphere is created. We chose this kind of atmosphere because we wanted to highlight the history behind the cottage and the family who occupied it. As the camera travels through the cottage, it absorbs the family's past through the cottage's authentic appearance. To achieve our proposed atmosphere we have used video filters that create the look of a 19th century camera. We ensured to capture different viewpoints so that the audience felt as though they were in each room as well. Close-ups of furniture were used to show the age of the home. To create the eerie side of our intended atmosphere, we used soundscape. The sounds of a clock ticking and piano throughout our video create rhythm and constant background sound. We then layered sounds that are normally associated with a house to remind the audience that the cottage was once occupied. Our video is targeted at the older generation who would recognise and appreciate the time period that we are revisiting.
Video 2: Viewpoint
We aim to show how overwhelming the present can be to someone who is used to the past. We also mimic the way a person suffering from agoraphobia would feel as they enter the outside world. We achieved these ideas through eye and ground level perspectives. As we exchanged between viewpoints, it becomes difficult for the audience to tell which is which. This recreates the confusion that the person in the video is feeling as they lack stability and direction throughout their journey of the garden. We experimented with strapping the camera to our feet, holding it above our heads and using a range of close-ups and camera angles in order to achieve effective points of view. To further gain chaos in our video, we used quick transitions and scene changes. Sound enabled us to show how loud and intimidating the present may seem to a person who is familiar to the quiet atmosphere of the past. We layered sound effects such as revving engines, barking dogs and road works to create an intense soundscape - building tension for the viewer. Our intended target audience is the younger generation who can cope with the rapid and hectic pace of our video.
Finished my part: Scenes 5 to 8 on Friday, 28/03/2014.
Today, we'll add extra sound effects and hopefully put the video together, so that they are ready to get uploaded.
- Corina
Final Idea Video #2:
- Corina
Final Idea Video #1:
"Camera from the 19th century"
- Corina
Idea 1:
House = Past
-> Old Camera Effect
-> Slow Pace (building tension)
-> Start at Entrance door
-> Show feet and hands
-> "look around the corner" perspective
-> piano in background (person is looking for it)
Idea 2:
Garden = Present
-> Hectic, panic mood
-> Road/street sounds
-> trying to escape - fast pace
-> Fisheye effect?
-> chicken sounds, rattling cages
POSSIBLE PLOT (connecting Video 1 and 2 indirectly):
Start at Door -> Journey through house -> looks through window -> scared -> finds the door again and goes out -> overwhelmed by noises -> starts to panic -> tries to escape
- Corina
Thanks to the last Studio Screen class, I got inspired how to cut the fast scenes for our second video :) And of course thanks to the movie editor of Snatch.
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MADRID: Rafael Nadal is looking forward to returning to action in the first clay-court tournament of the year in Chile next week, but the Spaniard admits that his injured knee is still a source of some pain.
After missing seven months with the injury and then being forced to sit out the recent Australian Open due to a stomach virus, Nadal will take part in the ATP event in Vina del Mar as a wildcard.
The 26-year-old told reporters after a training session in his native Mallorca that he is excited at the prospect of returning to top-level tennis, but there are nagging doubts as to how his knee will respond.
"I'm looking forward to competing again and taking part in a top-level tournament," he said.
"I hope the knee responds well and that it tolerates the demands of professional competition.
"There are still days when it bothers me but it is evident that I will need time before the knee is used to top-level competition again."
Nadal won the last of his 11 Grand Slam titles to date at last year's French Open but has not played a competitive match since losing to Czech outsider Lukas Rosol in the second round at Wimbledon last June.
He will enter the Vina del Mar tournament at the second-round stage, with his first match scheduled for next Wednesday on Feb 6.
"I'm looking forward to returning after seven months out, to training and coming up against the other players in Chile," he added.
Apart from fifth-ranked Nadal, the leading player in the Vina del Mar draw will be Argentina's world No.12 Juan Monaco, who will be defending his title. — AFP
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Welcome to the second installment of Meal Plan Monday. Just like last week, the post is sprinkled with photos from the weekend, which I'll briefly recap first.
Ethan and I met Sara and Erin at a pumpkin patch on Friday. All the little cuties were so darling!
Sadly there wasn't much time to chat since one toddler wanted to play with the water toys, and another wanted to play in the sand box. Ethan wasn't content to be any one place in particular but rather pushing this little car around the entire farm.
More fall fun ensued on Saturday. Kevin and I brought E to Windy Hill Apple Orchard and Cider Mill for their annual fall harvest festival. It was fun, but we had to leave just as our other friends were arriving. Nap attack!
The hard cider was pretty good. Kevin and I split a flight, but we both preferred the basic cider or slightly hopped cider, as opposed to the fruity ones, such as pomegranate and strawberry.
- Sunday: baked salmon, asparagus, and quinoa
- Monday: slow cooker apple butternut squash and chicken (because I need to photograph it this time – turns out it was totally recipe worthy!)
- Tuesday: roast pork loin, Brussels sprouts, and roast potato
- Wednesday: taco chicken rice bowls with pepper, onion, beans, and salsa
- Thursday: not sure, perhaps homemade pizzas or something quick from TJs
- Friday: out!
- Saturday: depends on Thursday's TJ's haul (maybe pumpkin chili)
Thurs-Sat is a little up in the air because Kevin is out of town. No, no, no. If you're a creep, don't come stalk me thinking I'm all alone. I'll have family in town to keep me company. (which is why you see so many dinners out and easy meals)
As for the other meals… (plus unmentioned snacks, desserts, or whatever Ethan doesn't finish that I usually devour)
- Breakfast: eggs, bell pepper, and maybe toast
- Lunch: chicken chili meatloaf muffins with steamed broccoli
- Snack: apple and pb or cheese
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Native American Youth Suicides and the Sequester
Statistics concerning Native American death rates as compared to the rest of the United States population deserve much more attention than they receive.
In 2010, Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, compiled a report entitled "The Tragedy of Native American Youth Suicide." The report echoes a 2008 study by the Indian Health Service (IHS) in stating: "The rate of suicide for American Indian and Alaska Natives is far higher than that of any other ethnic group in the United States—70% higher than the rate for the general population of the United States. American Indian and Alaska Native youth are among the hardest hit. They have the highest rate of suicide for males and females, ages 10 to 24, of any racial group."
Additionally, the report declares that on certain reservations, the incidence of youth suicide was found to be 10 times the national average. These statistics are by no means recent developments, with studies by the Centers for Disease Control showing similar numbers from between 1989 and 1998. Dorgan's report lists a few risk factors specific to Native American populations living on reservations, including rampant alcohol and drug abuse, high sexual assault rates, low socioeconomic status, etc.
The IHS and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) took note of alarming Native American suicide rates in the early 2000s and have worked together to create targeted suicide prevention programs. The IHS established a Suicide Prevention Initiative in 2003. SAMHSA bestowed funding to the IHS in 2004 & 2005 specifically to address youth suicides and provided Garrett Lee Smith grants to programs aimed at suicide prevention within high risk populations.
Among other efforts, the IHS provides suicide prevention training for professionals and community stakeholders, funds intervention programs for adolescents who have attempted suicide, and provides peer counseling programs. SAMHSA's Tribal Affairs Program focuses on Native American youth suicide prevention, and attempts to partner with federal organizations, nonprofit organizations, and behavioral health professionals in curbing suicide rates. These seem to be steps in the right direction, for according to Dorgan, "funding for youth suicide prevention must be a priority for both Congress and the Indian Health Service."
Unfortunately, however, the federal government recently enacted dramatic budget cuts to SAMHSA and the IHS. Congressman Henry Waxman stated SAMHSA was set to lose over $200 million of funds in 2013 due to the sequester. The budget cut, Waxman states, will affect every single SAMHSA program. The IHS itself will also incur $220 million in sequestration cuts in 2013, which is troublesome for many additional reasons unrelated to suicides.
Talk of budget sequestration can be, at times, incredibly vague. A discussion of what programs are impacted and how the government spends its money are necessary to understand how to evolve as a nation.
Note: Upon leaving the United States Senate, Byron L. Dorgan founded the Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) at the Aspen Institute. CNAY intends to improve the well-being of Native youth, paying special attention to suicide prevention. Learn more at www.cnay.org.
Ramona Taheri holds a Master's in Political Science from Columbia University.
Byron L. Dorgan. "The Tragedy of Native American Youth Suicide." Psychological Services, Vol 7(3), Aug 2010, 213-218. doi: 10.1037/a0020461.
Centers for Disease Control. "Atlas of Injury Mortality" http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/american_indian_injury_atlas/11d-allmaps-suicide.htm.
Henry Waxman's full statement to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations- http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Statement-Waxman-OI-SAMHSA-Mentally-Ill-Services-2013-5-22.pdf.
Indian Health Services. http://www.ihs.gov.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. http://www.samhsa.gov.


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Offensive guard Logan Mankins spoke at Patriots training camp today, touching on a number of subjects, including when he may retire, expectations for the team, and new offensive line coach, Dave DeGuglielmo.
Mankins has taken a fair amount of criticism from fans and analysts this offseason (myself included), and I am sure he will be looking to silence the doubters in the coming months.
On how much time he has left:
I don't know. That's a good question. It depends on health I think, and if they want to keep me around here still. We'll see.
On expectations:
Well, we have pretty high expectations every season. We expect to have a good football team and play good football and try to be there at the end. We added some good players and we kept some good players from previous years. I have the same expectations I do every year: for us to have a good football team. You just have to play the games and see how it goes.
On Gronkowski being cleared:
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It's been great. Googe– he's a good guy. He's a hard working guy. He's very loud. He gets his point across well. He's funny. It's been great so far and once the pads come on we'll really see how he wants things done and the way he coaches. We haven't experienced him in a game situation yet, so we're still getting to know him and he's still getting to know us. That's what all these practices are for.


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TNA Hardcore Justice 2010 Now Available For Free Online
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- Dixie Carter wrote the following on Twitter: On the plane on the way to Orlando to film a LIVE Impact tonight. If you have @DirecTV you will NOT see the show. Contact them! Not right! — Dixie Carter (@TNADixie) July 12, 2012 Bully Ray vs Joseph Park will kick off tomorrow night's live Impact […]
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- TNA Wrestling issued the following, letting fans know the replay of Destination X is available online for a limited of time: Watch the replay of Destination X ONLINE for a limited time! If you missed the epic event, it's now available online at TNAOnDemand.com. Destination X is also still available all month long on […]
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