Microstructural change of ultrafine-grained aluminum during high-speed plastic deformation

Effect of strain rate on microstructural change in deformation of the ultrafine grained (UFG) aluminum produced by severe plastic deformation (SPD) was studied. Commercial purity 1100 aluminum sheets were highly strained up to an equivalent strain of 4.8 by the Accumulative Roll-Bonding (ARB) process at ambient temperature. The ARB-processed sheets were found to be filled with pancake-shaped ultrafine grains surrounded by high-angle grain boundaries. The ultrafine grains had a mean grain thickness of 200 nm and a mean grain length of 1100 nm. The ultrafine-grained aluminum sheets were deformed at various strain rates ranging from 2 to 6.0×10⁴ s⁻¹ by conventional rolling, ultra-high-speed rolling, and impact compression. High-speed plastic deformation generates a large amount of heat, inducing coarsening of the ultrafine grains during and after deformation. On the other hand, it was also suggested that high-speed plastic deformation is effective for grain-subdivision, in other words, ultra-grain refinement, if the effect of heat generation is extracted.     

天然气:通向氢能时代的桥梁

文章概述了人类能源利用从柴薪、煤到石油、天然气的探索与转变历程,着重对天然气利用在解决城市燃料和空气污染、提高发电效率、推动分布式发电、生产合成氨和合成甲醇、推动燃料电池转向氢能经济时代等方面的优越性进行了阐述。     

The medium matters: Mining the long-promised merit of group interaction in creative idea generation tasks in a meta-analysis of the electronic group brainstorming literature

This meta-analysis examines the influence of electronic communication media on group idea generation tasks. Data from the following three areas of the brainstorming literature are synthesized to assess differences across performance variables and group member satisfaction: (1) electronic brainstorming (EBS) groups versus traditional face-to-face (FTF) interacting groups, (2) EBS groups versus nominal groups, and (3) EBS versus electronic nominal (e-nominal) groups. The results of this integration show that EBS groups are more productive and more satisfied with the interaction process than FTF groups. Additionally, large EBS groups outperformed nominal groups, whereas small nominal groups outperformed EBS groups. These findings have important implications for electronic collaboration and teamwork in both academic and organizational settings, especially given the recent proliferation of virtual teamwork.     

Chalcogenide Glasses Based on Germanium Disulfide for Second Harmonic Generation

High second‐order susceptibilities are created by thermal poling in bulk germanium disulfide based chalcogenide glasses. Experimental conditions of the poling treatment (temperature, voltage, time) were optimized for each glass composition. The second‐order nonlinear signals were recorded by using the Maker fringes experiment and a second‐order coefficient χ⁽²⁾ up to 8 pm V^–1 was measured in the Ge₂₅Sb₁₀S₆₅ glass. This value is obtained using a simulation based on accurate knowledge of the thickness of the nonlinear layer. Two mechanisms are proposed to explain the creation of a nonlinear layer under the anode: the formation and the migration of charged defects towards the anode may mainly occur in Ge₂₀Ga₅Sb₁₀S₆₅ and Ge₂₅Ga₅S₇₀ glasses, whereas the migration of Na⁺ ions towards the cathode may be responsible for the accumulation of negative charges under the anode in Ge₃₃S₆₇ and Ge₂₅Sb₁₀S₆₅ glasses. Different electronic conductivity behaviors seem to be at the origin of the phenomenon. In parallel, the potential effect of the poling treatment on the structural and electronic properties is studied using Raman spectroscopy and secondary ion mass spectroscopy measurements.     

A branch-and-price algorithm to solve the molten iron allocation problem in iron and steel industry

The molten iron allocation problem (MIAP) is to allocate molten iron from blast furnaces to steel-making furnaces. The allocation needs to observe the release times of the molten iron defined by the draining plan of the blast furnaces and the transport time between the iron-making and steel-making stages. Time window constraints for processing the molten iron must be satisfied to avoid freezing. The objective is to find a schedule with minimum total weighted completion time. This objective reflects the practical consideration of improving steel-making efficiency and reducing operation cost caused by the need for reheating. Such a problem can be viewed as a parallel machine scheduling problem with time windows which is known to be NP-hard. In this paper, we first formulate the molten iron allocation problem as an integer programming model and then reformulate it as a set partitioning model by applying the Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition. We solve the problem using a column generation-based branch-and-price algorithm. Since the subproblem of column generation is still NP-hard, we propose a state-space relaxation-based dynamic programming algorithm for the subproblem. Computational experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is capable of solving problems with up to 100 jobs to optimality within a reasonable computation time.     

生烃化学动力学在川东北普光气田的应用

普光气田是四川盆地近期发现的规模最大、埋藏最深、资源丰度最高的气田。通过认识普光气田各个烃源岩层的贡献量、生烃关键期与构造演化的关系、油气成藏具体模式等，建立生烃化学动力学模型、标定参数，结合地区烃源岩参数和地史、热史资料，定量描述该地区的生烃过程及油裂解成气过程。认为：普光地区的主力烃源岩为下志留统泥岩；主要干酪根生油期为早二叠世末到早三叠世末期（距今286Ma至240Ma）；主要干酪根生气期为中三叠世（距今240Ma至230Ma）；主要气源是原油后期热裂解气，原油裂解成气的时间比较晚，主要油裂解成气期为早白垩世（距今144Ma至97．5Ma），从而决定了普光气田的成藏模式为“多期成藏，油气转化，晚期定位”。图2表3参33     

From children's hands to adults' ears: Gesture's role in the learning process.

Children can express thoughts in gesture that they do not express in speech--they produce gesture-speech mismatches. Moreover, children who produce mismatches on a given task are particularly ready to learn that task. Gesture, then, is a tool that researchers can use to predict who will profit from instruction. But is gesture also useful to adults who must decide how to instruct a particular child? We asked 8 adults to instruct 38 third- and fourth-grade children individually in a math problem. We found that the adults offered more variable instruction to children who produced mismatches than to children who produced no mismatches--more different types of instructional strategies and more instructions that contained two different strategies, one in speech and the other in gesture. The children thus appeared to be shaping their own learning environments just by moving their hands. Gesture not only reflects a child's understanding but can play a role in eliciting input that could shape that understanding. As such, it may be part of the mechanism of cognitive change. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Optically Tunable Nonlinearities in Polymers Based on Photoisomerizable Metal‐Based Coordination Complexes

The bottom‐up design of polymer films exhibiting quadratic nonlinear optical properties that can be tuned optically and chemically is described. The polymer matrices are doped with metal‐containing chromophores built around a Zn^II core and photoisomerizable ligands with two different geometries. These molecules possess specifically designed photophysical and nonlinear optical properties to be used towards all‐optical poling, an interference process between one‐ and two‐photon excitations that locally induces macroscopic second‐order effects in polymer films. It is shown that grafting the molecules onto the polymer chains improves the stability of the macroscopic photoinduced nonlinearity in the films.     

混流,定浆式转轮特性参数的计算机处理

本文根据混流、定浆式转轮特性多数的特点建立了一种能将高维特性多数用一个具有二阶连续导数且保形的函数给予表达的方法，它的精度高，且能方便生成满足各种用途的特性曲线。     

网格生成方法在APFSDS及弹托干扰流场计算中的应用

介绍APFSDS及弹托干扰流场数值模拟中的网格生成方法及其应用。利用等比数列网格生成技术，三维弧长生成技术以及拼接技术生成计算网格。该方法具有简明、快捷的特点。在临近物面的地方具有较好的贴体性和正交性。在计算脱壳穿甲弹和弹托之间的干扰时，将弹托简化为带圆弧的楔形块，计算结果比较令人满意。