Free vibration behavior of a thermally post-buckled FG Timoshenko beam under large deflection using a tangent stiffness-based method

For thermally postbuckled configurations, the free vibration behavior of functionally graded (FG) Timoshenko beams are investigated. The postbuckling configurations are obtained through a geometrically nonlinear static problem. The free vibration problem around the postbuckled configuration is formulated using its tangent stiffness. The energy based governing equations are solved following the Ritz method. The elements of the tangent stiffness matrix are obtained using the Ritz coefficients. The results are shown to exhibit the effects of FG material, material profile parameter, and length-thickness ratio. The comparative results are presented for both the cases of the physical neutral surface and the geometrical neutral surface.     

γ射线法测量高压管束间气液两相流的截面含气率分布

在立式蒸汽发生器垂直管束间的气液两相流中，截面含气率是其中一个重要参数。使用γ射线法对高温高压下垂直管束间气液两相流截面含气率的分布规律进行了实验研究。实验压力分别为5、7、9 MPa，质量流速为300 kg/(m²?s)，热力学干度的范围为0.003 ~ 0.4。实验得到了垂直管束间截面含气率随热力学干度、体积含气率和压力的变化关系；并与经典公式的计算结果对比发现，在低干度区域，实验结果与Miropolskii模型、Smith模型和Armand模型偏差较大，均大于30%，在高干度区域偏差较小；基于Armand理论，通过多元线性回归法拟合出本文工况下平均截面含气率的计算关联式，与日本核动力工程公司(NUPEC)的实验数据偏差小于15%。本研究对蒸汽发生器的结构设计和流动特性研究具有重要意义。     

基于等切共轭的弧齿锥齿轮差曲面建立与解析

对弧齿锥齿轮提出了一种新的共轭求解方法，来更方便地求解共轭小轮的齿面方程，在此基础上进行了齿面接触分析。在分析过程中提出了一种新的ease-off差曲面计算方法，即用对应点的转角误差替代直线误差进行差曲面求解，使得传动误差解析、齿面修形量的确定更为直观和准确。提取了ease-off曲面上的差曲线，以方便地确定出接触路径和边缘接触点。根据全程差曲线得到了齿面接触印痕分布情况。     

基于图像轮廓曲线的拐点检测算法

拐点是图像很重要的特征,包含图像的主要结构信息，拐点检测对图像配准、目标识别和三维重建等任务的处理都有着非常重要的作用。从研究轮廓上点的曲率出发，针对传统基于轮廓的拐点检测算法对噪声和局部变化敏感而造成检测结果不稳定的问题，提出一种间接反映轮廓曲率特性的方法，记为APTD(Accumulation of Point to Tangent Distance)。使用高斯函数对轮廓曲线进行平滑处理，轮廓上点的曲率越大则该点附近的点到该点处切线的距离也越大，根据这一思想，将轮廓上点附近支撑域内的点到该点所对应切线相对距离的累加和作为拐点的判别函数，从而实现轮廓拐点的检测。经由数学推导表明所提出的算法具有合理性和可行性，对比实验分析表明该算法精度高、运算量小、定位准确。     

5×5棒束通道内流动转捩特性研究

棒束通道的特殊结构导致其内部流动转捩情况较为复杂，探究其内部流动转捩规律具有重要意义。本文针对棒束通道内的流动转捩特性开展实验与CFD模拟研究，通过实验获得了棒束通道内沿程阻力系数的变化规律；采用不同湍流模型进行了数值模拟。结果表明，SST k-ω模型能较好地反映实验结果。进一步对比了不同雷诺数工况下通道内不同位置的沿程阻力系数与湍流强度，发现对于不同子通道，中心子通道湍流强度与沿程阻力系数高于边角子通道；对于同一子通道，子通道中心处湍流强度与壁面切应力高于子通道边缘处。这一结果说明，受壁面影响，棒束内湍流强度、壁面切应力、阻力特性具有不均匀性，这些空间上的不均匀性相互作用会引起总体上棒束转捩点不明显。     

Evaluation of a large dish‐type concentrator solar lighting system for underground car park

To utilize solar energy more efficiently and reduce lighting power consumption in underground public spaces such as car park, a large dish‐type concentrator solar lighting system is put forward along with its evaluation, which is a unique design to apply a laminated layer of beam split thin‐film coating and thin‐film solar cells onto the dish reflector. The collected sunlight is split into 2 parts, one being reflected into a fiber optical bundle and transmitted for daylighting, while the rest being absorbed by solar cells for electricity generation as the other way to replenish daylighting. A set of 4 solar lighting systems using 3.28‐m diameter dish are designed to meet the lighting requirement in a 1771‐m² underground car park. A mathematical model is adopted to calculate the output power and conversion efficiency of solar cells distributed on the parabolic dish surface. The indoor illuminance distribution is given by lighting simulation. The results indicate that the average daylight illuminance in the car park can vary between 62.7 and 284 lx on February 25, 2016 and between 62.7 and 353 lx on August 17, 2016 for 2 chosen days, respectively. For the presented design, the electricity produced by solar cells is just enough to power light‐emitting diodes for lighting meeting a criterion at night. Considering about 19% conversion efficiency of solar cells and the efficacy of 129.5 lm/W of light‐emitting diodes, the hybrid solar lighting system can have about 40% utilization ratio of solar energy, so it can be concluded that a sufficient lighting provision can be provided by the proposed large dish‐type concentrator solar lighting system for applications in underground car park.     

Probing Protein Folding with Sequence-Reversed α-Helical Bundles

Recurrent protein folding motifs include various types of helical bundles formed by α-helices that supercoil around each other. While specific patterns of amino acid residues (heptad repeats) characterize the highly versatile folding motif of four-α-helical bundles, the significance of the polypeptide chain directionality is not sufficiently understood, although it determines sequence patterns, helical dipoles, and other parameters for the folding and oligomerization processes of bundles. To investigate directionality aspects in sequence-structure relationships, we reversed the amino acid sequences of two well-characterized, highly regular four-α-helical bundle proteins and studied the folding, oligomerization, and structural properties of the retro-proteins, using Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy (CD), Size Exclusion Chromatography combined with Multi-Angle Laser Light Scattering (SEC-MALS), and Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS). The comparison of the parent proteins with their retro-counterparts reveals that while the α-helical character of the parents is affected to varying degrees by sequence reversal, the folding states, oligomerization propensities, structural stabilities, and shapes of the new molecules strongly depend on the characteristics of the heptad repeat patterns. The highest similarities between parent and retro-proteins are associated with the presence of uninterrupted heptad patterns in helical bundles sequences.     

Numerical study of thermal-hydraulic and dust-deposition of tube bundles in an intermediate heat exchanger

Very-high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (VHTRs) are promising for efficient, zero-carbon hydrogen production. The intermediate heat exchanger (IHX) is a key piece of equipment for VHTR-coupled hydrogen production. Constrained by the limited space within the VHTR, the IHX must be efficient and compact. Besides, radioactive graphite dust deposition will reduce the performance and reliability of IHXs. Therefore, understanding the thermal-hydraulic and dust-deposition characteristics of IHX tube bundles is crucial for the design and safe operation of IHXs. This study uses the unsteady k-kl-ω model to simulate flow and heat transfer in IHX tube bundles. The discrete particle model combined with a deposition model is used to predict the movement and deposition behavior of graphite dust. The deposition model is achieved using user-defined functions. The model and code are first validated by empirical correlations and experimental results. The transient flow fields show that, in the in-line arrangement, unsteady and asymmetric periodic flow occurs with a period of about 0.047 s. The flow is steadier and more symmetric in the staggered arrangement due to the restriction of the main flow to the separation vortices. The maximum circumferential heat-transfer coefficient for inner tubes occurs at the impact point, where the central angle θ is about 60° and 0° for the in-line and staggered arrangement, respectively. The graphite-dust deposition rate decreases with increasing Reynolds number and particle size and the deposition mechanism is also analyzed in detail. With the current design conditions, the Nusselt number of the staggered arrangement increases by 27.90%–29.17% compared with the in-line arrangement, and the deposition rate decreases by 1.52%–3.15%. Furthermore, new correlations for Nusselt number and friction factor are developed for the thermal-hydraulic design of IHX tube bundles.     

Squeezed MHD tangent hyperbolic fluid flow across a sensor surface

In the present numerical study, the combined effect of temperature-dependent thermal conductivity, linear thermal radiation, and magnetic effect on shear-thinning tangent hyperbolic fluid past a sensor surface has been studied. After converting the modelled partial differential equations into ordinary differential equations by using similarity transformation, the system of equations is tackled with the aid of the shooting method. The influence of important parameters on the fluid motion and energy distribution is displayed graphically and analyzed in detail. The presented simulations depict that a significant rise in fluid velocity is noticed for an enhancement in the magnetic parameter while an opposite trend is observed for the temperature distribution. Moreover, the skin friction coefficient decreases as the squeezed flow index is increased.     

GPS用于单航线航空摄影测量加密的可行性研究

精度是表征平差系统各未知数求解质量的绝对数字指标之一，本文采用一组带ＧＰＳ导航数据的实际航摄资料，通过平差计算出精度矩阵Ｑｘｘ的数值，然后分析了单航线ＧＰＳ辅助光束法平差的质量。在此基础上，经与区域网ＧＰＳ辅助光束法平差的精度相比较，对ＧＰＳ用于单航线航空摄影测量加密的可行性进行了探讨并提出了相应的作业方法。