The present invention is related to a method for detecting and/or measuring atmospheric accretion on a suspended electrical cable span (2) of overhead power lines, said suspended electrical cable span (2) having a sag (D) and a local tension (H), and being submitted to wind pressure (w.sub.wind), comprising the steps of independently: measuring said sag (D), and optionally measuring the wind pressure (w.sub.wind), over a first time range, measuring the local tension (H) over a second time range,
the results of both steps being complemented and/or combined, so that to allow atmospheric accretion detection and/or measurement.

A new method for evaluating embrittlement of an amorphous alloy ribbon is provided. The method includes: pressing a pressurization member from one side to a plurality of positions of an amorphous alloy ribbon; scattering, in the amorphous alloy ribbon, pressurization portions where the pressurization member is pressed to form indentation; and evaluating embrittlement by the number or distribution of pressurization portions where cracks have occurred.

A new method for evaluating embrittlement of an amorphous alloy ribbon is provided. The method includes: pressing a pressurization member from one side to a plurality of positions of an amorphous alloy ribbon; scattering, in the amorphous alloy ribbon, pressurization portions where the pressurization member is pressed to form indentation; and evaluating embrittlement by the number or distribution of pressurization portions where cracks have occurred.

A system and a method for measuring drilling damage in fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) composites is described. Multiple holes are drilled in the FRP composite using a drill having nominal diameter, and the FRP composite is separated into multiple drilled blocks. Each block, covered with the black substrate, is scanned on a scanner to generate a scanned image depicting a hole region, a background, and delamination damage peaks. For each scanned image, a maximum delamination damage peak and a maximum diameter of a first circle concentric with the drilled hole and passing through tip of the maximum delamination peak, are measured. Further, a delamination size and a delamination factor are calculated based on the maximum diameter of the first circle and the nominal diameter of the drill.

This disclosure provides methods of predicting the steady state small scale critical temperatures (S4 T.sub.c) of polymer resins and pipes therefrom.

A technology for evaluating forming allowance for a bending crack at a sheared end face of the press-formed component from shape information of an actual component. The method includes applying press forming including bending deformation to a metal sheet being sheared to manufacture a press-formed component, evaluating forming allowance for a bending crack at a sheared end face being an end face subjected to the shearing. A crack index value for evaluating the bending crack at the sheared end face of the press-formed component is obtained from a bend outer side strain at or near the sheared end face acquired on a basis of a component shape of the press-formed component and a press die bend radius at a portion forming the sheared end face in a press die used in the press forming, and the forming allowance for the bending crack is evaluated by the obtained crack index value.

Proposed is an auto-flattening control method that is an auto-flattening control method for determining a minimum driving value of tension that is applied to a sample coupled at both sides to a moving unit and a winding unit, respectively. The auto-flattening control method includes a sample rotation step of rotating the winding unit at a preset reference angle, a setup value checking step of monitoring a rotation load that is applied to a sample by rotation of the winding unit, and a setting comparison step of comparing variations between an N-th (a natural number larger than 0) rotation load and an N-1-th rotation load for the rotation load that is monitored through the setup value checking step.

Proposed is an auto-flattening control method that is an auto-flattening control method for determining a minimum driving value of tension that is applied to a sample coupled at both sides to a moving unit and a winding unit, respectively. The auto-flattening control method includes a sample rotation step of rotating the winding unit at a preset reference angle, a setup value checking step of monitoring a rotation load that is applied to a sample by rotation of the winding unit, and a setting comparison step of comparing variations between an N-th (a natural number larger than 0) rotation load and an N-1-th rotation load for the rotation load that is monitored through the setup value checking step.

A device for testing durability of a cowl crossbar comprises a main picture including an input driver for a rotational durability test and a bending stiffness test on a specimen including motor driven power steering (MDPS)-mounted cowl crossbar, an output loader performing, together with the input driver, the rotational durability test and the bending stiffness test and outputting a test value, and a specimen stand disposed between the input driver and the output loader to relocatably support the specimen, and a controller controlling the main picture for the rotational durability test and the bending stiffness test.

In one version there is provided a test system including a layup tool having a layup surface, and two fairing bars attached to the layup surface. The test system includes the composite laminate having a plurality of stacked plies, and positioned between the two fairing bars. The test system includes fiber distortion initiator(s) positioned at one or more locations under, and adjacent to, one or more plies of the plurality of stacked plies. The test system includes two caul plates with a gap in between, and positioned over the composite laminate. When the test system undergoes a pressurized cure process with a vacuum compaction, a restricted outward expansion of the plurality of stacked plies by the fairing bars, and a pressure differential region formed by the one or more fiber distortion initiators at the one or more locations, create the controlled and repeatable out-of-plane fiber distortion in the composite laminate.