Consistent design for external limiting factors
When designing a product usually one wishes that it poses some resilience to environmental influences. A few critical delicate components in a mainly robust system can bog down the whole system. Those components are the weakest links in the chain and constitute some kind of bottleneck. To avoid disproportionate bog-down components should be paired with their resilience ranges, that is microcomponents could be tagged with links to informations on allowed ranges. This way one can design a system consistently for a chosen set of external limiting factors that one requires. or maximize certain limiting factors.
External limiting factors can be:
temperature T,
radiation I , ..,
acceleration a,
pressure p, ...
absolute maximum/minimum Temperature
The allowed temperature range of a whole system (on a thermally equilibrated micro-scale) is defined by the intersection of all the allowed temperature ranges of the system components. When using technology of brownian technology path in e.g. technology level III either in the process of reaching it or when re-merging after reaching it the machine phase (e.g. entropic batteries) AP Technology will acquire an accordingly restricted range of allowed operation temperature range especially much of the otherwise down to zero kelvin completely allowed low temperature regime will be cut off.
It is advisable to keep track off all the allowed temperature ranges for system components (no matter which technology path) and keep the technology path branches (with vastly different allowed temperature ranges) as separate as possible.
Structures to look out for as weak points:
- highly strained diamondoid molecular elements like cylindric shells
- structures that form when slightly changed other structures that are known to be highly stable e.g. nitogen rich locations
Diamond is metastable and can turn into graphite at too high temperatures. Other refractory materials are better suited for high temperature applications.
