Wide field cameras for SAX

SAX is an Italian X-ray satellite with a Dutch contribution that will be placed in orbit in 1994. The prime scientific object of SAX is to cover an energy bandwidth that ranges from 0.1 keV up to 200 keV. Among other instruments, SAX will consist of two X-ray Wide Field Cameras built by the Space Research Organisation Netherlands at Utrecht. The WFCs are based on the coded mask principle, the reconstruction of the image takes place on ground. The field of view is 20 degrees square full width at half maximum (FWHM), the angular resolution 5 arcminutes (FWHM) and the energy band ranges from 1.8 to 30 keV with a resolution of 18% at 6 keV. The sensitive area is 200 cm² at 6 keV. The mask pattern is based on a pseudo random array with 255 × 257 elements of 1 mm², 50% of which are transparent.     

WSO-UV project

During last three decades, astronomers have enjoyed continuous access to the 100–300 nm ultraviolet (UV) spectral range where the resonance transitions of the most abundant atoms and ions (at temperatures between 3000 and 300 000 K) reside. This UV range is not accessible from ground-based facilities. The successful International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) observatory, the Russian ASTRON mission and successor instruments such as the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission or the COS and STIS spectrographs on-board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) prove the major impact of observations in the UV wavelength range in modern astronomy. Future access to space-based observatories is expected to be very limited. For the next decade, the post-HST era, the World Space Observatory – Ultraviolet (WSO–UV) will be the only 2-m class UV telescope with capabilities similar to the HST. WSO–UV will be equipped with instruments for imaging and spectroscopy and it will be a facility dedicated, full-time, to UV astronomy. In this article, we briefly outline the current status of the WSO–UV mission and the science management plan.     

涡喷发动机可靠性增长试验方案的设计

根据对产品可靠性的最低可接收值与幂律模型的可行性增长管理公式、可行性增长管理策略，推导了涡喷发动机可靠性增长试验所需的台数公式，参照某些涡喷发动机的试验数据及上述公式，给出了某B－2型涡喷发动机的可靠性增长试验方案及其理想增长曲线。     

ZA27Ce合金组织形态对阻尼性能的影响

对铸态ZA2 7Ce合金进行固溶处理 ,获得单一均匀的固溶体后 ,分别进行 96℃ ,180℃和 2 5 0℃人工时效。采用悬挂弯曲共振法测量阻尼性能Q-1值 (阻尼本领 ) ,结果是 ,96℃人工时效后阻尼性能好于 180℃以及 2 5 0℃人工时效后的阻尼性能。利用SEM研究时效后微观组织 ,结果发现 ,96℃人工时效获得粒状组织 ,180℃以及2 5 0℃人工时效获得层片状组织。利用等轴晶界面滑动内耗机理分析认为 ,ZA2 7Ce合金粒状组织的阻尼性能好于层片状组织的阻尼性能