yet assigned; citable using Digital Object Identifier – DOI) Phys. Status Solidi RRL‚ 1–3 (2012) / DOI 10.1002/pssr.201206481 A magnetoelectric laminate based passive micro-displacement sensor 1 2 pss www.pss-rapid.com Schematic diagram of the suggested micro-displacement sensor based on magnetostrictive/piezoelectric magnetoelectric laminate. © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA‚ Weinheim Zheng Wu1‚ 2‚ Jun Zhang1‚ Ke Ma1‚ Yi Cao1‚ Yanmin Jia*‚ 1‚ Haosu Luo3‚ and Yihe Zhang4 Department
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Do the circumstances surrounding the sale of the Collinsville plant play any role in your willingness to buy the assets? If so‚ how‚ if not‚ why not? On the one hand‚ the circumstances of the sale make me less willing to buy. In particular‚ both Universal and the federal government think that American’s acquisition creates antitrust issues. If this is the case‚ American could use its market power to change the nature of the market and make Dixon’s new plant unprofitable by setting lower prices
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further $2.25m on laminate technology. The subsequent investment in Laminate technology was expected to eliminate graphite costs and reduce power consumption at the Collinsville plant by 15% to 20%. We will evaluate the acquisition of the Collinsville by Dixon at the proposed price. Table 1 identifies the assumptions that have been used for the evaluation of this acquisition. Table 1 Assumptions Reference Laminate Technology reduces power by a mean of 17.5% Laminate Technology is depreciated
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analyses of mode I interlaminar delamination in z-fibre reinforced composite laminates Marcello Grassi‚ Xiang Zhang* Aerospace Engineering Group‚ School of Engineering‚ Cranfield University‚ Bedford MK43 0AL‚ UK Received 7 November 2002; received in revised form 12 March 2003; accepted 18 March 2003 Abstract This paper presents a detailed numerical study of the mode I interlaminar fracture of carbon/epoxy composite laminates with z-fibre reinforcement. The study was performed using a double cantilever
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producers in Southeastern part of the US. This plant initially cost 12 mln. USD and additional 2‚25 mln. USD needed to buy laminate technology to increase efficiency and profitability of the plant in order. Dixon has conducted thorough marketing research for the industry providing cash flow analysis on purchase of the plant. The cash flow analysis based with and without laminate technology cases‚ where the company should decide whether it should go on further to buy that plant and technology. 2. Calculating
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for the design of a composite laminate tube‚ the software package ’MathCAD’ was used to determine a lamina design with a configuration that avoids mechanical failure under loading conditions. It was also used to obtain twist angles and maximum stresses for specific lamina wind up angles. The report will provide analysis of the methods used to obtain these criteria. AIM Use a Mathcad script to determine the procedure used during the manufacture of a wound laminate composite tube and to assess its
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The Case of the Variable Laminates The Case of the Variable Laminates Grantham University Experimental design is “a formal plan that details the specifics for conducting an experiment‚ such as which responses‚ factors‚ levels‚ blocks‚ treatments‚ and tools are to be used” (Sower 2010). An experiment where one variable is studied while the other variables are held constant can be inefficient and suffers from the inability to assess interactions among the variables as well as the interaction
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Introduction: 1) This report considers the potential purchase of the sodium chlorate producing plant in Collinsville‚ Alabama by Dixon Corporation from American Chemical Corporation in October 1979. The reason for this stems from the fact that American Chemical Corporation was attempting at the time to buy a controlling stake in Universal Paper Corporation‚ but the management of Universal contested this on the basis that it would be anti-competitive‚ given that they were both producers of sodium
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fracture. The Charpy test specimens were made according to the dimensions of standard ASTM A370. One of the main reasons for concern for natural composites laminates generally is the low values of impact energy. These laminates show relatively low values of impact energy compared to metals. The ways to increase the impact energy of the composites laminates are being made the major area of research. The impact test was carried out by Charpy test and the results were recorded are shown in Table III. The fiber
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extracted in (1) above and relevant tables in the exhibits‚ estimate the expected incremental free cash flows associated with the acquisition of the Collinsville plant a. Without the laminate technology. b. With the laminate technology. 3. What is the IRR for the Collinsville investment with and without the laminate technology? Using the IRR‚ which of the two options is better? Estimating the discount rate 4. What is the appropriate beta for the Collinsville project? 5. Estimate the cost of equity
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