Statistical Piezotronic Effect in Nanocrystal Bulk by Anisotropic Geometry Control

Utilizing inner-crystal piezoelectric polarization charges to control carrier transport across a metal-semiconductor or semiconductor–semiconductor interface, piezotronic effect has great potential applications in smart micro/nano-electromechanical system (MEMS/NEMS), human-machine interfacing, and nanorobotics. However, current research on piezotronics has mainly focused on systems with only one or rather limited interfaces. Here, the statistical piezotronic effect is reported in ZnO bulk composited of nanoplatelets, of which the strain/stress-induced piezo-potential at the crystals’ interfaces can effectively gate the electrical transport of ZnO bulk. It is a statistical phenomenon of piezotronic modification of large numbers of interfaces, and the crystal orientation of inner ZnO nanoplatelets strongly influence the transport property of ZnO bulk. With optimum preferred orientation of ZnO nanoplatelets, the bulk exhibits an increased conductivity with decreasing stress at a high pressure range of 200–400 MPa, which has not been observed previously in bulk. A maximum sensitivity of 1.149 µS m⁻¹ MPa⁻¹ and a corresponding gauge factor of 467–589 have been achieved. As a statistical phenomenon of many piezotronic interfaces modulation, the proposed statistical piezotronic effect extends the connotation of piezotronics and promotes its practical applications in intelligent sensing.     

冠状动脉系统的微分积分终端滑模混沌抑制

冠状动脉系统的混沌现象会导致严重的健康问题。以非线性冠状动脉系统为研究对象，建立了不确定性冠状动脉系统动力学模型，提出了不确定性冠状动脉系统的微分积分终端滑模混沌抑制方法，针对该模型的不确定性设计了扰动观测器，根据Lyapunov理论证明了所设计控制系统的稳定性，通过仿真实验验证了所提出的混沌抑制方法的有效性和可行性。     

高压静电场协同抗氧化剂抑制大豆油氧化

高压静电场作为物理加工技术,近年来在食品领域有一定应用,但在油脂加工方面的应用鲜有报道。本研究以大豆油为原料,通过探究过氧化值、酸价、羰基价、茴香胺值及典型脂肪酸相对含量的变化,考察高压静电场对大豆油油脂氧化的影响。研究表明当高压静电场场强为150?k V/m时,对大豆油油脂氧化的抑制效果最好。在该场强下,协同考察了茶多酚、植酸、特丁基对苯二酚这3种抗氧化剂对大豆油氧化的抑制效果。结果表明:150?k V/m高压静电场结合茶多酚的方式增强了茶多酚的抗氧化效果,可以有效抑制大豆油的氧化,其对过氧化值、酸价、羰基价及茴香胺值的抑制率分别达到34.4%、67.6%、66.0%及55.0%。高压静电场结合茶多酚的处理方式,为抑制大豆油油脂氧化提供了全新的研究思路。     

分数阶PID控制对钻柱黏滑振动的抑制

钻柱黏滑振动是导致钻井设备加速磨损、钻井安全性下降以及钻井效率降低的重要原因之一。针对钻柱的扭转运动,建立了钻柱、钻杆、BHA及钻头4自由度钻柱系统扭转模型。该模型考虑了扭转自由度、钻柱阻尼以及岩石与钻头相互作用的高度非线性摩擦;通过对钻柱模型进行仿真试验,分析了钻井参数对黏滑振动的影响;为了抑制钻柱黏滑振动,设计了一种分数阶PID控制器。研究结果表明:分数阶PID控制器能够快速稳定系统,缩短调节时间,有效抑制钻柱黏滑振动,它对黏滑振动的抑制效果明显优于传统PID控制器。研究结果对抑制钻柱黏滑振动研究具有参考意义,对降低钻井工具损害、提高钻井效率以及增强作业安全性有重要的指导意义。     

Effect of O2 and temperature on the catalytic performance of Ni/Al2O3 and Ni/MgAl2O4 for the dry reforming of methane (DRM)

Al₂O₃ and MgAl₂O₄ supported 10% (w/w) Ni catalysts having a dispersion of 1.5 and 2.0% are active for DRM at 600 and 750 °C. High temperature reduction of both the calcined catalysts resulted in metallic Ni being formed, suggesting strong support metal interactions. The CH₄ and CO₂ conversion during DRM are relatively constant with time-on-stream, and are higher for Ni/MgAl₂O₄ than Ni/Al₂O₃. Carbon-whiskers are also detected on both catalysts. O₂ co-feed of 2.6% (v/v) and increasing reaction temperature to 750 °C helped in decreasing the amount of carbon deposited, except for Ni/MgAl₂O₄ at 600 °C. Furthermore, higher conversions and H₂/CO ratios are achieved. It appears that on spent Ni/MgAl₂O₄ a different type of carbon species was formed, and this carbon species was difficult to remove by oxygen at 600 °C. Thus, co-feeding O₂, using an appropriate temperature, and choosing a suitable support can reduce the carbon present on the nickel catalysts during DRM.     

A two-stage vision-based method for measuring the key parameters of ball screws

Ball screws are crucial for improving the reliability and interchangeability of transmission mechanical systems; however, existing contact measurement methods that utilise stylus contact are not efficient, which precludes their use for rapid in-situ geometry evaluation. This paper presents a vision-based two-stage method for rapid measurement of key parameters (raceway arc radii and centre distance) of ball screws. The edge contour information is extracted from the acquired image using the dual-tree complex wavelet transform and non-maximal suppression. In the matching stage, a shape-matching algorithm is used for detecting approximate geometrical centres of raceway arcs. The refinement stage, on the other hand, is implemented for acquiring precise dimensional results. Furthermore, the method of averaging multiple measurements is performed to suppress random noise. A comparative experiment is presented to validate the robustness of the proposed method. Based on experimental results, the calculated mean absolute errors in the measurement of the two raceway arc radii and the centre distance are found to be 0.0082 mm, 0.0079 mm and 0.0055 mm, respectively. This study therefore paves the way for key parameter measurement without removing ball screws.     

Mechanism of smoke suppression by melamine in rigid polyurethane foam

The smoke suppression of rigid polyurethane foam (RPUF) modified by melamine was investigated based on three sections: the condensed phase, the carbon layer, and the gas phase. In the condensed phase, the results of thermogravimetry, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) N1S spectrum, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy indicated that melamine could suppress the degradation of RPUF by reacting with the aromatic hydrocarbons. It also reduced the smoke generation because the volatilizable aromatic hydrocarbons were the principal smoke precursors in a fire. In the carbon layer, the decrease from 38.50% to 24.76% of the inner layer oxygen content identified by XPS full‐spectrum and C1S spectrum indicated that melamine could prevent oxygen from transferring into the inner foam by the formation of an enhanced surface carbon layer, and the enhanced carbon layer could also block the release of smoke precursors. In the gas phase, the content of total aromatic hydrocarbons declined to 59.12% according to pyrolysis gaseous chromatography mass spectroscopy and indicated that melamine could reduce the smoke precursors. The results of smoke density chamber and cone calorimeter tests revealed that the addition of the melamine could decrease the smoke density of burning RPUF. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Improved non-maximum suppression for object detection using harmony search algorithm

Non-maximum suppression (NMS) plays a key role in many modern object detectors. It is responsible to remove detection boxes that cover the same object. NMS greedily selects the detection box with maximum score; other detection boxes are suppressed when the degree of overlap between these detection boxes and the selected box exceeds a predefined threshold. Such a strategy easily retain some false positives, and it limits the ability of NMS to perceive nearby objects in cluttered scenes. This paper proposes an effective method combining harmony search algorithm and NMS to alleviate this problem. This method regards the task of NMS as a combination optimization problem. It seeks final detection boxes under the guidance of an objective function. NMS is applied to each harmony to remove imprecise detection boxes, and the remaining boxes are used to calculate the fitness value. The remaining detection boxes in a harmony with highest fitness value are chosen as the final detection results. The standard Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modeling and Computational Learning Visual Object Classes dataset and the Microsoft Common Objects in Context dataset are used in all of the experiments. The proposed method is applied to two popular detection networks, namely Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks and Region-based Fully Convolutional Networks. The experimental results show that the proposed method improves the average precision of these two detection networks. Moreover, the location performance and average recall of these two detectors are also improved.     

干扰条件下的“北斗”信号解扩重构DOA估计

在干扰条件下，卫星导航抗干扰波束形成算法往往需要卫星信号波达方向（Direction-of-Arrival，DOA）的先验信息。但当存在低信噪比信号或主动干扰源时，常规的DOA估计算法性能急剧下降甚至失效。针对此问题，提出了一种被干扰信号压制的低信噪比“北斗”信号的DOA估计算法。该算法首先通过对接收信号进行子空间投影抑制干扰信号，然后对抑制干扰后的信号进行解扩重构处理，最后通过多重信号分类算法完成对“北斗”信号的DOA估计。仿真结果表明，在干扰信号干信比80 dB条件下，“北斗”信号DOA估计误差在5°以内，为下一步进行波束形成计算提供了高精度的入射角信息。