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Reimagining nuclear materials for the future of medicine
Nuclear medicine has come a long way since Henri Becquerel first observed the penetrating energy of radioactive materials in 1896. Today, technetium-99m alone is used in more than 40 million diagnostic procedures every year—from cardiovascular imaging and bone scans to cancer detection—making it the undisputed workhorse of nuclear medicine. That single statistic tells you something important: An enormous portion of modern diagnostic medicine rests on a surprisingly narrow foundation, one built around a small number of aging research reactors that were never originally designed for continuous isotope production.
B. Zhu, Y. P. Li, X. P. Zhu, M. K. Lei (Dalian Univ of Technology)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 45-50
An analysis of elastohydrodynamic lubrication with boundary slippage is conducted for thrust bearing with polymer pad and Babbitt pad based on limiting shear stress model. The pressure distribution in the lubricating film and the elastic deformation of the pad are obtained through the solution of fluid-solid coupling problem by using parameter quadratic programming technique. The results show that the boundary slippage and elastic deformation of thrust pad has significant influence on the load carrying capacity with shifted distribution of pressure maxima. It is implied that, the performance of thrust bearings with respect to the load carrying capacity could be improved if the thrust pad surface could be controlled with slip and no-slip zones.