自动化控制课程教法新探

自动控制是自动化专业的一门专业基础课,涵盖了诸多通识课程的知识,然而当前校内的自动化控制课程教学方法相对陈旧、落后,与技术前沿与工业实践严重脱节。为了解决这个问题,本文首先梳理了自动化控制课程的诸多现存问题,进而深入论述与分析了加速教学改革,强化实践环节的具体方法,具有较高的创新性与可实践性。     

Pilot Study for the Performance of a New Demand Control Ventilation System in Hong Kong

There are different ventilation control methods for outdoor air quantity in air-conditioned spaces to reduce the energy consumed in cooling the outdoor air. Demand controlled ventilation (DCV) is an important strategy to control the outdoor air quantity. However, the current practice in DCV systems creates several problems for air-conditioned office buildings. Although metabolic carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration is mainly used as a surrogate indicator for ventilation adequacy, the conventional DCV system does not seriously consider the placement location of the CO2 sensor, and it does not take into account the adverse effects of the consequential increase in pollutant concentrations in the indoor space when the fresh airflow rate is reduced. In this study, a long period of subjective and objective measurements were conducted in an occupied office to examine its suitability for conversion to a new demand controlled ventilation system (nDCV). After the feasibility investigation, an nDCV system was developed to optimize the energy consumed for outdoor air ventilation while providing the desirable thermal comfort and indoor air quality. The true optimization of this nDCV is achieved by a new concept of the optimized indoor air quality window which determines the most representative locations for the indicator sensors. A minimum ventilation rate is determined by a calibration procedure for the pollutant inventory of a building, taking into account the infiltration characteristics. Radon gas, which is a notorious carcinogenic indoor pollutant, is used as a reference to determine the minimum fresh airflow rate. The findings show that this nDCV system reduced 16% of fresh air cooling energy consumption without jeopardizing the thermal comfort and indoor air quality.     

Stiffness-Damping Simultaneous Identification under Limited Observation

A more reliable and stable method, compared to the previous one developed by the present writers, of stiffness-damping simultaneous identification of shear-type building structures is proposed using stationary random records under limited observation. It is shown that when stationary random horizontal accelerations are recorded at the floors just above and below a specific story in a shear building model, the story stiffness and the damping ratio can be identified uniquely. The viscous damping coefficient and the material damping ratio can also be identified simultaneously in a numerical model structure. It is also shown that unfavorable effects by extraneous noises, including measurement noises, due to wind excitation, building facilities, and the motion of the occupants can be eliminated partially by using the present method. The accuracy of the present identification method is investigated through the actual records under limited observation in a base-isolated building.     

Impact of the Boeing 767 Aircraft into the World Trade Center

A numerical simulation of the aircraft impact into the exterior columns of the World Trade Center (WTC) was done using LS-DYNA. For simplification, the fuselage was modeled as a thin-walled cylinder, the wings were modeled as box beams with a fuel pocket, and the engines were represented as rigid cylinders. The exterior columns of the WTC were represented as box beams. Actual masses, material properties and dimensions of the Boeing 767 aircraft and the exterior columns of the WTC were used in this analysis. It was found that about 46% of the initial kinetic energy of the aircraft was used to damage columns. The minimum impact velocity of the aircraft to just penetrate the exterior columns would be 130?m/s. It was also found that a Boeing 767 traveling at top speed would not penetrate exterior columns of the WTC if the columns were thicker than 20?mm.     

Description of Structural Damage Caused by the Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon

On September 11, 2001, an airliner was intentionally crashed into the Pentagon. It struck at the first elevated slab on the west wall, and slid approximately 310?ft (94.5?m) diagonally into the building. The force of the collision demolished numerous columns and the fa?ade of the exterior wall, and induced damage to first-floor columns and the first elevated slab over an area approximately 90?ft (27.4?m) wide and 310?ft (94.5?m) long. None of the building collapsed immediately. The portion that remained standing, even after an intense fire, sustained substantial damage at the first-floor level.     

Toughness of the Pentagon Structure

On September 11, 2001, the reinforced concrete structure of the Pentagon Building was able to resist, without collapse, the impact of a large commercial airliner despite the total loss of 26 columns and severe damage to 15 columns at the ground level. The ensuing fire and related fire-fighting activities led to the collapse of a portion of the building approximately one-half hour after the impact. In this paper, the reasons for the demonstrated toughness of the reinforced concrete structure are examined and attributed to use of spiral columns, effective splicing of reinforcing bars, strong girders, and short span lengths.     

Generalized Linear Quadratic Gaussian Techniques for the Wind Benchmark Problem

This paper presents a comprehensive study of the stage-3 benchmark problem for response control of wind-excited tall buildings based on the linear quadratic gaussian (LQG) approach, and on its generalization, the k-cost-cumulant control method. For control design, the original nodal building model is first transformed into balanced modal space. The Hankel singular values (HSVs) and the power spectral density of the wind disturbances are calculated; and, based on them, a reduced-order model is derived by keeping the first six low-frequency modes. A balanced LQG (BLQG) controller is then determined by adopting the HSVs as a basis to choose the design weights. The main results of the paper are that the BLQG control design is able to come within 5–10% of the performance of the sample LQG controller supplied with the benchmark, but with control actions on the order of one-third less than the sample LQG, and with stability improvement features of a substantial nature over the range of stiffness perturbations specified in the benchmark. Finally, if the low authority BLQG controller is regarded as a one-cost-cumulant design, then with the appropriate use of the second-cost cumulant, the latter methodology is able to demonstrate how higher-authority controllers can give certain improvements in performance, but at the expense of significant investment in control action.     

Serviceability of Materials in the Tropics

With increasing complexity in the building construction trend and the advancement of building material technology, more building materials and substitutes have evolved and been adopted for use to function together in a building that is supposed to maintain its technical performance during its intended working life. Condition surveys of 450 buildings, face-to-face interviews, and workshops were conducted with industry specialists, to examine the behavior of materials used in facades and wet areas in tropical climates and their estimated costs of maintenance. This paper presents an indicative computational method for the durability of building materials for fa?ades and wet areas in the tropics. Total operations and maintenance costs of the identified materials are also included to provide suggestive maintenance expenditure over the materials’ service life. Natural stone was preferred as a more durable fa?ade material while ceramic and homogeneous tiles proved more economical for wet areas.     

我国商品砂浆技术发展现状及展望

从历史回顾、产品分类、生产技术、应用技术、支撑体系(标准制定、科学研究、学术交流)等方面论述了我国商品砂浆的发展、技术现状及展望,并针对我国商品砂浆产业在技术上存在的问题,提出了研发方向和建议。