Investigation into the causes of fracture in railway freight car axle

Railway axles are vital parts of railway. Their failure in the form of dynamic fracture is commonly of disastrous outcomes for railway vehicles. Accordingly, railway axles are designed to be highly reliable, while the maintenance system requires regular inspection in terms of crack initiation. However, due to complex exploitation conditions, complex stress state and multiple stress concentration, railway axles often experience fatigue failures. This occurrence has been studied in a large number of papers. This paper too sheds light on the causes of fracture occurrence in the axle of railway freight car for coal transport in a thermal power plant. Detailed analyses were conducted on the axle fracture surface and mechanical properties. Also, microstructure of the axle material, as well as on exploitation conditions and stress state was examined. Calculations indicated that, apart from working load impact, the influence of press fit joints, especially of the one between the labyrinth seal and the axle is of crucial importance for the analysis of railway axle stress state. The entire numerical–experimental analysis has shown that the considered axle failure was caused by inadequate maintenance, insufficient axle strength and adverse stress state in the railway axle critical cross-sections.     

化工冶金学家陈家镛

1958年中国科学院化工冶金研究所(现过程工程研究所)的创建,与建国初期的国家经济发展和国防建设的需求紧密相关。1956年陈家镛受到世界著名冶金学家叶渚沛的邀请,到正在筹建中的化工冶金研究所工作。作为国内该领域开拓者和学术带头人,陈家镛院士的学术经历是本文主线。以他带领同事们开展湿法冶金研究为案例,分析了国家重大战略需求与科学技术研究之间的关系。重点介绍了他在冶金、化工、材料等研究领域做出的重要学术贡献,以及将代表性科研成果经过中间试验应用于实际生产、解决企业所面临的技术难题的情况。藉此反映了以过程工程研究所为代表的国立科研机构,围绕国家重大战略需求开展科技攻坚的历程与成果。     

A meta-model for knowledge configuration management to support collaborative engineering

This paper focuses on industrial design and simulation processes especially in automotive and aerospace areas. Designers use business models (called expert models) such as CAD (computed aided design) and CAE (computed aided engineering) models to optimize and streamline the engineering process. Each expert model contains information such as parameters, expert rules, mathematic relations (parametric models, for example) which are shared by several users and in several different domains (mechanical, thermal, acoustic, fluid, etc.). This information is exploited at the same time in a concurrent engineering context. It is the basis of an imperfect collaboration process due to the fact that existing tools do not manage encapsulated information well and are unable to ensure that parameters and rules are consistent (same value of parameters for example) throughout different heterogeneous expert models. In this context, we propose an approach to manage knowledge using configurations synchronized with expert models which enable designers to use parameters consistently in a collaborative context. Our approach is called KCModel (knowledge configuration model): it allows acquisition, traceability, re-use and consistency of explicit knowledge used in configuration.     

Elitist clonal selection algorithm for optimal choice of free knots in B-spline data fitting

Data fitting with B-splines is a challenging problem in reverse engineering for CAD/CAM, virtual reality, data visualization, and many other fields. It is well-known that the fitting improves greatly if knots are considered as free variables. This leads, however, to a very difficult multimodal and multivariate continuous nonlinear optimization problem, the so-called knot adjustment problem. In this context, the present paper introduces an adapted elitist clonal selection algorithm for automatic knot adjustment of B-spline curves. Given a set of noisy data points, our method determines the number and location of knots automatically in order to obtain an extremely accurate fitting of data. In addition, our method minimizes the number of parameters required for this task. Our approach performs very well and in a fully automatic way even for the cases of underlying functions requiring identical multiple knots, such as functions with discontinuities and cusps. To evaluate its performance, it has been applied to three challenging test functions, and results have been compared with those from other alternative methods based on AIS and genetic algorithms. Our experimental results show that our proposal outperforms previous approaches in terms of accuracy and flexibility. Some other issues such as the parameter tuning, the complexity of the algorithm, and the CPU runtime are also discussed.     

Applying γ‐Substituted Prolines in the Foldon Peptide: Polarity Contradicts Preorganization

Rational choice of chemical modifications to proline residues allows the preorganization principle to be exploited for more stable assembly of the foldon domain as a tag for trimerization. With systematic knowledge of how chemical and steric variations of the ring substituents affect the relative stabilities of exo and endo puckers, the preorganization principle should then be usable in biotechnologically synthesized foldon mutants and applicable for protein tagging elsewhere.     

关于信息化测绘时代工程测量发展的思考

如今我国信息化技术全面发展，尤其对于工程测量工作领域来讲，不管是在工程建设和管理方面都产生不小的支撑引导效用。由此，笔者具体结合如今工程建设信息化测绘核心任何以及设备布置细节，进行结构整体安全管理周期和周边地理空间信息技术发展能效整理解析，试图将工程测量最新发展机遇和技术挑战问题处理完全。希望能够借此为日后一定时期范围内相关工程测量规划主体提供合理指导性建议内容，最终为我国各类工程事业可持续发展前景绽放奠定深刻适应基础。     

UV/TiO_2光催化氧化工艺脱汞的试验研究

UV/TiO_2光催化技术在TiO_2催化剂的作用下可将烟气中Hg~0氧化脱除。利用自制的UV/TiO_2氧化试验台研究了影响Hg~0去除率的相关因素,结果表明,在无催化剂和有紫外灯情况下可脱除少量Hg~0;Hg~0去除率随催化剂活性组分含量的增加而上升,但上升速率逐渐下降;在温度(50～200)℃范围内,Hg~0去除率无明显变化;Hg~0去除率随着Hg~0初始浓度的升高逐渐下降;Hg~0去除率随着烟气中氧含量先上升后趋于不变。UV/TiO_2氧化工艺脱汞可为燃煤电厂烟气脱汞提供理论指导。     

阴离子种类及浓度对RCT催化剂催化湿式氧化处理头孢废水的影响

采用催化湿式氧化法处理头孢类废水,以RCT为催化剂,考察了阴离子对污染物降解效果的影响。结果表明,不加阴离子时,RCT催化剂能有效催化污染物的降解,TOC和TN去除率分别为78.3%和85.9%;投加不同阴离子对反应的影响不同。RCT催化剂可将头孢氨苄废水中的有机N转化为$N_{2}$,少部分以$NO_{3}-N$形式存在;阴离子F^-、Cl^-、Br^-、I-及$S^{2-}_{4}$对TN的降解影响不大,而$N^{-}_{3}$、$P^{3-}_4$、$CO^{2-}_{3}$、$Si^{2-}_{3}$及$B_{4}O^{2-}_{7}$则明显抑制了对TN的去除。投加F^-、Cl^-、Br^-、I-及$NO^{-}_{3}$对TOC的降解有促进作用(I^-> F^-> Cl^-> Br^-> $NO^{-}_{3}$),TOC的降解率提高了3.1~18.6个百分点;而投加$S^{2-}_{4}$、P,$P^{3-}_4$、$CO^{2-}_{3}$、$SiO^{2-}_{3}$及$B_{4}O^{2-}_{7}$对TOC的降解有抑制作用($SiO^{2-}_{3}$> ,$P^{3-}_4$> $CO^{2-}_{3}$> $B_{4}O^{2-}_{7}$> $S^{2-}_{4}$),TOC的降解率降低了2.0~46.9个百分点。研究Cl-浓度对RCT催化剂降解效果的影响,当Cl-为0.1 mol·L-1时,对TOC的去除有抑制作用,而较高的Cl-浓度(≥0.3 mol·L-1)对TOC的去除却有促进作用,投加Cl-对TN的去除有促进作用,但随着Cl-浓度的增加[(0.1~0.8) mol·L-1],TN的去除率变化不明显(约为88%)。