Characterization of the ceramic–metal brazed interface using ultrasonic technique

Sintered Al₂O₃ is brazed with 304 stainless steel (SS) using 97(Ag28Cu)3Ti active filler alloy at 1000 °C. Electron Probe Micro Analysis (EPMA) studies of the interfaces are carried out. The thickness of the interfaces are measured from the concentration penetration profile. Shear strength of the joint is evaluated. The qualities of the joints are characterized using ultrasonic technique. Mechanical properties of the joints are correlated with the obtained ultrasonic signals during the ultrasonic scanning of the sample.     

高水固结尾砂充填采矿充填体合理配比的研究

高水固结尾砂充填采矿是一种新型充填采矿法。试验测定了高水固结尾矿充填体的强度和变形特征；研究分析了影响充填体强度的主要因素、高水充填工艺的特殊要求，以及上向，下向进路开采对充填体强度和稳定性的要求，提出了满足支护强度，工艺及经济需求的充填材料的合理配比范围。     

Improved Repeatability of Pulsed Field Magnetometry Measurements Through Peltier Effect Temperature Control of Measurement Coils

Pulsed Field Magnetometers (PFMs) offer a method for high speed full loop characterisation of hard magnetic materials. As there is no dependency on iron to close a circuit, the repeatability of the technique is good. By utilising Peltier effect techniques to control the temperature of the measurement coil systems employed in a Pulsed Field Magnetometer, the level of repeatability of measurements can be significantly improved.     

Synthesis of p‐aminophenol from the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene over metal–solid acid bifunctional catalyst

BACKGROUND: A single‐step conversion of nitrobenzene (NB) to p‐aminophenol (PAP) through catalytic hydrogenation is a widely used synthesis route for PAP. The main shortcoming of this route is the use of sulfuric acid for rearrangement of the phenylhydroxylamine (PHA) intermediate. In this paper, S₂O₈^2?/ZrO₂ (PSZ) solid acid and Pt‐S₂O₈^2?/ZrO₂ (Pt‐PSZ) bifunctional catalysts were prepared for the synthesis of PAP in non‐acid medium. RESULTS: Calcination temperature has a substantial effect on the acidity, structure and activity for PHA rearrangement of PSZ. The highest PAP yield was 33.8% over PSZ calcined at 823 K when the reaction was carried out in water at 423 K. A high PAP yield of 23.9% was achieved by a single‐step reaction of nitrobenzene over Pt‐PSZ bifunctional catalysts. CONCLUSION: PSZ solid acid exhibits high activity for PHA rearrangement. Perfect tetragonal ZrO₂ and much stronger acid sites play important roles in catalytic activity. Inhibiting the hydrogenation activity by reducing the amount of Pt loading on Pt‐PSZ can improve the competition of PHA rearrangement on acid sites with hydrogenation of PHA on metal active sites, resulting in better selectivity to PAP. Copyright © 2008 Society of Chemical Industry     

Electrochemical properties of nanodiamond powder electrodes

Detonation-synthesized nanocrystalline diamond is a novel carbon material. Its increased electrical conductivity, due to the features of giant specific surface area and large numbers of surface defects as well as the cluster structure, makes it possible to be used as an electrode material. Nanodiamond powder electrodes were fabricated and the electrochemistry was investigated by cyclic voltammetry and AC impedance measurement. The results show that nanodiamond powder electrode is electrochemically stable in KCl electrolytes over a wide potential range (− 1.2–2.0 V). The electrode reaction is quasi-reversible in 0.1 M KCl containing the ferricyanide–ferrocyanide redox couple. The electrode reaction rate constant k is estimated to be 2.87 × 10^− 3 cm/s. The peak current increases linearly with the rising of the concentration of [Fe(CN)₆]^3−/4−. The AC impedance spectra have been analyzed and an equivalent circuit proposed.     

Synthesis of Iron-Based Laves Phase Containing Praseodymium Magnetostrictive Materials

The synthesis and magnetostriction of PrxTb1-x.Fe2, PrxTb1-x Fe2BO2 and PrxTb1-x（Fe0.6Co0.4）2 alloys were investigated in this study. The addition of boron or cobalt atom in PrxTb1-xFe2 could effectively prevent the formation of non-cubic phases, and Pr concentration limit was successfully increased from 0.2 to 0.4. X-ray step scanning for the PrxTb1-xFe2BO2 and PrxTb1-x（Fe0.6Co0.4）2 alloys showed that PrFe2 possessed a large spontaneous magnetostriction λ1111.     

基于动态时间规整的手势加速度信号识别

为了提高基于加速度传感器的动态手势识别算法的性能,本文采用了动态时间规整(DTW)识别算法。通过该算法计算测试模板和参考模板的相似度,从而得出识别结果。为了验证该方法,建立了一套手势加速度无线采集系统,并采集了41个志愿者的手势信息。实验结果表明,该方法手势平均识别率在97%以上。与HMM识别算法相比,DTW识别算法在识别的准确率上比HMM识别算法更具优势。     

Analysis on the spatial ecological distribution model of landscape plant community

Because the spatial pattern of plant communities in garden landscapes usually exhibits highly non-random distribution characteristics, the accuracy of the analysis results is not high. For this purpose, a spatial ecological distribution model of landscape landform plant communities is designed. Based on the remote sensing images of landscape plant communities, the study area was obtained. The grassland communities in this area were classified and calculated by geostatistics, and the semi variogram values of typical samples of different vegetation types were obtained. According to the calculation results, the spatial terrain factors of landscape plant community are extracted, and the annual NDVI value is taken as the ecological vitality index of landscape green vegetation, the NDVI level is divided, the spatial ecological distribution model of landscape plant community is constructed, and the evaluation index system is generated, so as to complete the spatial ecological distribution model analysis of landscape plant community. The results show that the method of this study accurately analyzes the area of coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest, mountain meadow, road, construction land, water area land and slope grade, which is slightly different from the actual value, indicating that the method has certain reliability.     

No-reference stereoscopic image quality assessment using quaternion wavelet transform and heterogeneous ensemble learning

As the demand for high-quality stereo images has grown in recent years, stereoscopic image quality assessment (SIQA) has become an important research area in modern image processing technology.In this paper, we propose a no-reference stereoscopic image quality assessment (NR-SIQA) model using heterogeneous ensemble learning ‘quality-aware’ features from luminance image, chrominance image, disparity and cyclopean images via quaternion wavelet transform (QWT). Firstly, luminance image and chrominance image are generated by CIELAB color space as monocular perception, and the novel disparity and cyclopean images are utilized to complement with monocular information. Then, a number of ‘quality-aware’ features in the quaternion wavelet domain are discovered, including entropy, texture features, energy features, energy differences features and MSCN coefficients of high frequency sub-band. Finally, a heterogeneous ensemble model via support vector regression (SVR) & extreme learning machine (ELM) & random forest (RF) is proposed to predict quality score, and bootstrap sampling and rotated feature space are used to increase the diversity of data distribution. Comparing with the state-of-the-art NR-SIQA models, experimental results on four public databases prove the accuracy and robustness of the proposed model.