55CrMo钢感应淬火工艺的数值模拟及工艺优化

借助工艺实验和数值模拟技术,优化了55Cr Mo钢精密滚珠丝杠感应加热及冷却工艺参数,改善了丝杠感应淬火后的淬硬层分布。构建了丝杠单感应圈加热的有限元模型,通过数值模拟得到了单感应圈加热时沟道区域的温度曲线。数值模拟结果表明:沟道区域的温度场分布不合理是导致淬硬层分布不合理的主要原因。针对单感应圈感应淬火工艺的不足,提出了双感应圈加热工艺。数值模拟结果表明,采用双感应圈加热工艺、喷水冷却带宽度为40 mm时,可保证丝杠沟道顶部的淬硬层深度约为6.2 mm,沟道底部的淬硬层深度约为3.0 mm。工艺实验结果表明,丝杠沟道区域的淬硬层分布得到较大的改善,数值模拟结果与工艺实验结果吻合得较好。     

镀镍金属化42CrMo钢的微观组织与传感特性研究

采用化学镀镍和电镀镍相结合的方法,对光纤光栅传感器进行保护,然后用钎焊方式将传感器嵌入42Cr Mo钢基体中获得智能金属结构,对其微观组织和传感特性进行研究。结果表明,智能金属结构的灵敏度大大提高,比光纤光栅的灵敏度高1倍。     

β-asarone对Aβ1-42激活的ACM所致PC12细胞损伤的保护作用研究

目的：探讨不同浓度β-淀粉样蛋白（Aβ1-42）激活的星形胶质细胞条件培养液（ACM）对PC12细胞存活率及脑源性神经营养因子（BDNF）、乙酰胆碱酯酶（AChE）蛋白表达的影响,以及β-细辛醚（β-asarone）的保护作用。方法：首先,将对数生长期的PC12细胞随机分为正常对照组、ACM（Aβ1-42 3.3 μmol/L）组、ACM（Aβ1-42 10 μmol/L）组、ACM（Aβ1-42 30 μmol/L）组,分别采用实时无标记动态细胞分析技术（Real Time Cell Analysis, RTCA）和MTT法检测各组PC12细胞的存活率,Western blot检测PC12细胞BDNF、AChE蛋白的表达;其次,将对数生长期的PC12细胞随机分为正常对照组、ACM（Aβ1-42 10 μmol/L）组、β-asarone（18.5、55.5、166.7 μg/mL）组,RTCA法检测PC12细胞存活率的改变,Western blot检测PC12细胞BDNF、AChE蛋白表达的变化。结果：ACM作用24 h,各组PC12细胞存活率无统计学差异（P>0.05）,ACM作用36 h,ACM（Aβ1-42 10 μmol/L）组、ACM（Aβ1-42 30 μmol/L）组PC12细胞存活率显著降低(P<0.01);BDNF、AChE蛋白表达随Aβ1-42 浓度增加显著升高(P<0.05或P<0.01);β-asarone(18.5、55.5、166.7 μg/mL)能显著提高PC12细胞的存活率,β-asarone(55.5、166.7 μg/mL)组AChE表达相比于模型组显著下降(P<0.05或P<0.01),β-asarone(55.5 μg/mL)组与模型组比较BDNF表达增加(P<0.05)。结论：β-asarone能抑制AChE的上调,对BDNF的表达有促进作用,提示β-asarone对神经元细胞有一定的保护作用。     

Effect of High-Energy and Instantaneous Electropulsing Treatment on Microstructure and Properties of 42CrMo SteelEI北大核心CSCD

42CrMo steel was widely used in many industry fields for its excellent hardenability and high temperature strength. Many transmission mechanisms and fasteners, such as roller and heat-resistant gear, are made of this steel. However, the ductility of 42CrMo steel is relatively low after quenching and tempering. During high tempering Mo riched carbides at grain boundary and undecomposable martensite at low tempering are the main reasons for poor ductility of 42CrMo steel. Grain refinement can enhance both strength and ductility significantly, but traditional refinement technology will cause intergranular oxidation so that strengthening effect was weak. Although thermomechanical treatment can achieve dynamic recrystallization, its refinement effect is unstable. Elecropulsing treatment, which makes significant change in microstructure and properties of metals, has been applied in many fields such as, modification of solidified microstructure of liquid metal, healing of fatigue crack, nanocrystallization of amorphous materials and so on. Moreover, this process can produce superior mechanical properties in metals. In order to improve the mechanical properties of 42CrMo steel better, high-energy and instantaneous electropulsing treatment was applied. In this contribution, 42CrMo steel was subjected to traditional and electropulsing treatment individually. It was found that EPQ treatment (480 ms electropulsing treatment, water cooled) results in finer grain, promoting the formation of retained austenite and twin martensite; EPT treatment (180 ms electropulsing treatment, air cooled) can stabilize retained austenite in EPQ specimen and induce multiphase structure. Mechanical properties results indicate that strength-ductility balance of EPQ and EPQ+EPT specimen are 32% and 13.9% higher than that of TQ (traditional quenched) and EPQ+TT (traditional tempered) specimen respectively.     

35CrMo钢组织遗传消除工艺研究

通过对船用长轴类大锻件的热处理工艺研究得知,采用临界区高温侧正火热处理工艺可以有效消除35CrMo钢组织遗传现象,细化晶粒。     

Effects of the German Renewable Energy Act on structural change in agriculture – The case of biogas

The strong political support for biogas production in Germany over the past decade has greatly affected agricultural production, farms and land markets. This paper analyzes the effects of Germany's biogas policies on agricultural development by using the agent-based simulation model AgriPoliS. Particular focus is placed on the effects of the previous German Renewable Energy Act (REA, German “EEG”) of 2012, as well as the latest amendments, which were added in 2014. Our results show that under the previous REA and its predecessors, biogas production provided an attractive investment opportunity, especially for large farms, which led to a boost in biogas production. However, this policy also caused distortions within the agricultural sector, including increasing land rental prices. These effects particularly threatened farms that were not able to invest in biogas, as well as smaller biogas farms. On average, biogas farms could not increase their profitability. The main reason for this effect can be seen in the fact that a significant share of the value added is transferred via increased rental prices to land owners. The amendment of the REA in 2014, which reduced support levels substantially, partly attenuates some of these effects, though the previous policy will cast a long shadow.     

Frequency effect and influence of testing technique on the fatigue behaviour of quenched and tempered steel and aluminium alloy

Influences of testing technique and frequency on the fatigue behaviour of 50CrMo4 and EN AW-5083 were investigated. To clarify the effect of test frequency on the fatigue behaviour, tests with 20 kHz and f < 400 Hz were performed. The frequency effect can be caused by temperature, environment and strain rate. For the aluminium alloy, the influence of environment is responsible for the dependence of fatigue lifetime on the frequency. The fatigue lifetime of the steel showed in both environments similar frequency dependency, i.e. the strain rate is assumed to be responsible for the differences in fatigue lifetime.     

The effect of residential solar photovoltaic systems on home value: A case study of Hawai‘i

An investment in solar photovoltaic (PV) is considered a home improvement, and should be reflected in home sales prices. However, uncertainty about PV policies and information asymmetries may result in an imperfect pass-through. Hawai‘i serves as an illustrative case study to assess the impact of PV on home prices because Hawai‘i has the highest number of PV installations per capita nationwide. Applying a hedonic pricing model using home resale and PV building permit data from 2000 to 2013 for Oʻahu, I find that the presence of PV adds on average 5.4% to the value of a home. The value of PV exceeds total average installed costs because many of Hawai‘i's electricity circuits have reached legal limits for PV installations and thus many neighborhoods could technically no longer install additional PV capacity. Therefore, the value of the system goes beyond its capital investment—on average, by $5000—to incorporate expected electricity savings.     

Enhanced Performance of Nanostructured Coatings for Drilling by Droplet Elimination

Cutting tool performance is mainly characterized by material substrate, cutting edge geometry, and coating, and also by a good choice of the cutting parameters, mainly cutting speed, depth of cut, and feed. In drilling a good choice of substrate/coating can reduce production costs per hole cut by 50%. Coatings evolution has gone from monolayer to nanostructured and/or nanometric-scale multilayer coatings. These are used because of their high hardness, good corrosion and oxidation resistance, and thermal stability. Cutting edge preparation on the one hand and droplet elimination after the coating process on the other are important issues for reaching a good tool/coating performance, being a key issue. In this article a series of coatings for drilling low and medium carbon alloyed steels are presented, along with their performance. Validation tests were carried out on steel 42CrMo4, very often used in the automotive sector. Seven coatings were tested, including AlCrSiN, µAlTiN, TiAlCrN, AlTiCrN, AlCrN, AlTiSiN, and TiAlSiN. Flank wear, evolution of drilling thrust force and torque, damage on cutting edge faces on primary cutting edge, and behavior of drill bit secondary edges were studied. A final elimination of droplets by drag grinding was performed in several cases. Process monitoring, scanning electron microscope (SEM) microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis were used, concluding that the best results were for µAlTiN, TiAlSiN, and AlTiSiN. Reasons for the good behavior are the good surface finishing after droplet elimination and the high thermal stability of these protective layers.     

Analysis of different containment models for IRIS small break LOCA, using GOTHIC and RELAP5 codes

Advanced nuclear water reactors rely on containment behaviour in realization of some of their passive safety functions. Steam condensation on containment walls, where non-condensable gas effects are significant, is an important feature of the new passive containment concepts, like the AP600/1000 ones.In this work the international reactor innovative and secure (IRIS) was taken as reference, and the relevant condensation phenomena involved within its containment were investigated with different computational tools. In particular, IRIS containment response to a small break LOCA (SBLOCA) was calculated with GOTHIC and RELAP5 codes. A simplified model of IRIS containment drywell was implemented with RELAP5 according to a sliced approach, based on the two-pipe-with-junction concept, while it was addressed with GOTHIC using several modelling options, regarding both heat transfer correlations and volume and thermal structure nodalization. The influence on containment behaviour prediction was investigated in terms of drywell temperature and pressure response, heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and steam volume fraction distribution, and internal recirculating mass flow rate. The objective of the paper is to preliminarily compare the capability of the two codes in modelling of the same postulated accident, thus to check the results obtained with RELAP5, when applied in a situation not covered by its validation matrix (comprising SBLOCA and to some extent LBLOCA transients, but not explicitly the modelling of large dry containment volumes).The option to include or not droplets in fluid mass flow discharged to the containment was the most influencing parameter for GOTHIC simulations. Despite some drawbacks, due, e.g. to a marked overestimation of internal natural recirculation, RELAP5 confirmed its capability to satisfactorily model the basic processes in IRIS containment following SBLOCA.