Effects on the crystallite growth behavior of LaPO4 nanopowders and its mechanical properties

The effects of pH of the reaction solution and the concentration of phosphoric acid on the crystal growth behavior of LaPO₄ crystallites were investigated and the mechanical properties of rare-earth phosphates were compared. As a result, the concentration of phosphoric acid of 10% was beneficial to the crystal growth of LaPO₄ nanocrystalline. When the pH value of the reaction solution was 2, the size of LaPO₄ crystallites increased gradually with the increasing reaction temperature, and the smallest crystallite size of 43.27 nm was obtained after heat-treatment at 1000 °C. Simultaneously, the activation energy for crystal growth of LaPO₄ nanocrystalline was relatively lower (26.82 kJ mol⁻¹). With the decreasing radii of rare-earth ions, the hardness, Young's modulus and fracture toughness of the bulk rare-earth phosphates exhibited a reduced tendency, resulted from the increase of porosity under the same preparation process.     

折臂式随车起重机转台的拓扑优化设计

为了使折臂式随车起重机转台在最大应力不超过材料许用应力的前提下实现轻量化设计的目的,通过ADAMS软件仿真确定其极限工况,对转台进行静力学分析及拓扑优化。通过拓扑优化得到了理想的材料分布。基于优化结果调整转台结构,并对改进后的转台进行静力学分析。结果表明,优化后的转台能够满足实际的使用需求。同时,转台质量降低了12%,证明了优化设计的有效性和可行性,并为折臂式随车起重机的相关设计提供了一定的借鉴。     

Reversible data hiding based on RSBEMD coding and adaptive multi-segment left and right histogram shifting

By leveraging the secret data coding using the remainder storage based exploiting modification direction (RSBEMD), and the pixel change operation recording based on multi-segment left and right histogram shifting, a novel reversible data hiding (RHD) scheme is proposed in this paper. The secret data are first encoded by some specific pixel change operations to the pixels in groups. After that, multi-segment left and right histogram shifting based on threshold manipulation is implemented for recording the pixel change operations. Furthermore, a multiple embedding policy based on chess board prediction (CBP) and threshold manipulation is put forward, and the threshold can be adjusted to achieve adaptive data hiding. Experimental results and analysis show that it is reversible and can achieve good performance in capacity and imperceptibility compared with the existing methods.     

An investigation into the cause of loss of containment from the supply of mini-bulk lubricants

An Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) was punctured during its handling, releasing oil onto soil at an environmentally-sensitive region of Australia. The telehandler did not pierce the plastic of the IBC directly (as was expected) but rather one of the tynes had caught on the underside of the metal base plate, despite numerous controls being in place at time of spill, revealing a previously unreported mechanism for a fluid spill from handling of petroleum hydrocarbons. The diverse investigation team used a root cause analysis (RCA) technique to identify the underlying cause: the inspection process was inadequate with contributing factors of not using a spotter and design of IBC did not anticipate conditions. Engineering controls were put in place as part of the change management process to help prevent spills from occurring from piercing from telehandler tynes on the current project site.     

A Novel Beam Search to Improve Neural Machine Translation for English-Chinese

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, overcoming the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems. Although NMT based systems have gained their popularity in commercial translation applications, there is still plenty of room for improvement. Being the most popular search algorithm in NMT, beam search is vital to the translation result. However, traditional beam search can produce duplicate or missing translation due to its target sequence selection strategy. Aiming to alleviate this problem, this paper proposed neural machine translation improvements based on a novel beam search evaluation function. And we use reinforcement learning to train a translation evaluation system to select better candidate words for generating translations. In the experiments, we conducted extensive experiments to evaluate our methods. CASIA corpus and the 1,000,000 pairs of bilingual corpora of NiuTrans are used in our experiments. The experiment results prove that the proposed methods can effectively improve the English to Chinese translation quality.     

洞庭湖区三口水系生态基流研究

近年来大型水利工程的建设与运行、洞庭湖区三口水系分流量的持续减少和三口水系地区水资源的不合理利用,导致三口水系的生态流量严重不足。基于洞庭湖区三口水系的主要水文站2003—2018年逐日平均流量和1973—2002年逐月平均流量数据,提出一种综合考虑不同水文学法的生态基流确定方法,得出逐月和全年的生态基流推荐值,并分析其保证率和影响因素。结果表明:新江口站、沙道观站、弥陀寺站、康家岗站和管家铺站的全年生态基流分别为208.18、49.44、75.39、2.52、93.94 m³/s,全年生态基流保证率分别为84.83%、37.52%、51.88%、21.84%、42.60%;各水文站汛期的生态基流最高值均出现在7月份,8月份、9月份和6月份依次递减,汛期的生态基流及其保证率明显高于非汛期。研究提出的方法和计算结果可为洞庭湖区三口水系的水生态修复提供参考。     

基于混成自动机理论的间歇性电源并网多逆变器并联环流抑制方法

针对间歇性电源并网多逆变器并联运行环流突出、抑制困难的问题,论文提出运用混成自动机理论抑制间歇性电源并网多逆变器并联环流。论文首先详细分析间歇性电源并网多逆变器并联运行的混成特征和环流产生原理,得出逆变器输出电压与环流大小的数学关系。然后深入研究运用混成自动机理论建模与控制实现间歇性电源并网多逆变器并联运行环流控制的原理、方法,根据开关器件工作状态与逆变器输出电压的关系设计多逆变器并联环流混成控制器。最后,通过Matlab仿真平台进行仿真验证。仿真结果表明,本文所设计的环流控制器与相应的环流抑制方法的正确性与可行性,采用混成自动机模型能够实现较好的环流控制效果,能有效抑制多并联逆变器间的环流。     

考虑客户画像和能量枢纽的配电网多目标抢修重构模型

随着大规模风电以及能量枢纽接入配电网,配电网故障后抢修重构面临新挑战,提出一种考虑客户画像和能量枢纽的配电网多目标多故障抢修重构模型。通过对配电网用电客户多因素精准画像,确定权重,建立兼顾客户画像和能量枢纽的配电网多目标抢修重构模型,提出一种改进NSGA-II算法以适应对模型求解,从而获得Pareto解集,并利用模糊最大满意度进行决策。算例仿真表明所提模型正确有效,与传统模型相比更加精细而客观。     

脉冲电压法检测空心电抗器的FFT波形特征及其故障判别方法

脉冲电压法是检测空心电抗器匝间绝缘故障的有效方法,但其时域检测波形的故障特征识别难度大,本文提出利用其FFT波形特征来判别故障的方法。通过有限元法计算了空心电抗器不同部位故障时线圈组非故障各层线圈电感值及线圈组总电感值的变化规律。为线圈组模型添加脉冲振荡回路,将得到的电抗器两端电压的时域波形利用FFT转换为频域波形。对比分析了不同故障部位的FFT波形变化特征,认为不同故障部位的空心电抗器FFT波形衰减谐振频率的变化是由电感值的变化引起的,为频域故障判据提供了数学支持。以故障线圈组的FFT波形峰值点对应频率为判据,提出了基于FFT波形特征的电抗器故障及故障程度的判别方法,并进行了实例验证。所得结果进一步拓展了脉冲电压法检测空心电抗器匝间短路故障的有效性和精确性,为进一步准确判断空心电抗器匝间短路缺陷提供了方法指导。