Behaviors of concrete-filled steel tubular members subjected to combined loading

The present study is an investigation on the behaviors of concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubular members subjected to combined loading, such as compression and torsion, bending and torsion, compression, bending and torsion. ABAQUS software is used in this paper for the finite element analysis (FEA). A comparison of results calculated using this modeling shows generally good agreement with test results. The FEA modeling is then used to investigate the influence of important parameters that determine the ultimate strength of the composite members under combined loading, such as compression and torsion, bending and torsion, compression, bending and torsion. The parametric studies provide information for the development of formulae for calculating the ultimate strength of the composite members subjected to combined loading.     

Education-driven research in CAD

We argue for a new research category, named education-driven research (EDR), which fills the gap between traditional field-specific research that is not concerned with educational objectives and research in education that focuses on fundamental teaching and learning principles and possibly on their customization to broad areas (such as mathematics or physics), but not to specific disciplines (such as CAD). The objective of EDR is to simplify the formulation of the underlying theoretical foundations and of specific tools and solutions in a specialized domain, so as to make them easy to understand and internalize. As such, EDR is a difficult and genuine research activity, which requires a deep understanding of the specific field and can rarely be carried out by generalists with primary expertise in broad education principles. We illustrate the concept of EDR with three examples in CAD: (1) the Split and Tweak subdivisions of a polygon and its use for generating curves, surfaces, and animations; (2) the construction of a topological partition of a plane induced by an arbitrary arrangement of edges; and (3) a romantic definition of the minimal and Hausdorff distances. These examples demonstrate the value of using analogies, of introducing evocative terminology, and of synthesizing the simplest fundamental building blocks. The intuitive understanding provided by EDR enables the students (and even the instructor) to better appreciate the limitations of a particular solution and to explore alternatives. In particular, in these examples, EDR has allowed the author to: (1) reduce the cost of evaluating a cubic B-spline curve; (2) develop a new subdivision curve that is better approximated by its control polygon than either a cubic B-spline or an interpolating 4-point subdivision curve; (3) discover how a circuit inclusion tree may be used for identifying the faces in an arrangement; and (4) rectify a common misconception about the computation of the Hausdorff error between triangle meshes. We invite the scientific community to encourage the development of EDR by publishing its results as genuine research contributions in peer-reviewed professional journals.     

Feature-Based Parametric Design of a Gating System for a Die-Casting Die

This paper presents a semi-automated approach for designing the gating system of a die-casting die. This approach combines the P-Q 2 technique and feature-based parametric design for achieving the automatic generation of the geometries for the gating system. It also enables users to integrate their expertise in the design at an early stage. User-defined gating features are pre-defined and stored in a gating library, and are then retrieved from the library and applied to the gating part with the desired parameters and locations during the design process. Algorithms based on the P-Q 2 technique are proposed for calculating the related parameters of the gating system. A prototype design has been developed using this approach, and the system is able to shorten the time for constructing the 3D geometries of the gating elements such as the gate, runner, overflow, shot sleeve, sprue, etc.     

A parametric interpolator with confined chord errors, acceleration and deceleration for NC machining

Parametric interpolation has many advantages over linear interpolation in machining curves. Real time parametric interpolation research so far has addressed achieving a uniform feed rate, confined chord errors and jerk limited trajectory planning. However, simultaneous consideration of confined chord errors that respect the acceleration and deceleration capabilities of the machine has not been attempted. In this paper, the offline detection of feed rate sensitive corners is proposed. The velocity profile in these zones is planned so that chord errors are satisfied while simultaneously accommodating the machine's acceleration and deceleration limits. Outside the zone of the feed rate sensitive corners, the feed rate is planned using the Taylor approximation. Simulation results indicate that the offline detection of feed rate sensitive corners improves parametric interpolation. For real time interpolation, the parametric curve information can be augmented with the detected feed rate sensitive corners that are stored in 2×2 matrices.     

Identification of delayed system using instrumental variable method

System identification uses system inputs and outputs to raise mathematical models.Various techniques of system identification exist that offer a nominal model and an uncertainty bound.Many practical systems such as thermal processes & chemical processes have inbuilt time delay.If the time delay used in the system model for controller design does not concur with the actual process time delay,a closed-loop system may be unstable or demonstrate unacceptable transient response characteristics so here the time delay is assumed to be time-invariant. This paper proposes on-line identification of delayed complex/uncertain systems using instrumental variable(Ⅳ) method.Parametric uncertainty has been considered which may be represented by variations of certain system parameters over some possible range.This method allows consistent estimation when the system parameters are associated with the noise terms,as the IV methods(IVM’s)usually make no assumption on the noise correlation configuration.The faster convergence of the parameters including noise terms has been proved in this paper.Iterative prefiltering(IP)method has also been used for the identification of the delayed uncertain system and the graphical results given in this paper demonstrate that the convergence results are inferior to the instrumental variable method.     

钢管塔架K型加肋节点的承载力分析

通过试验对1／4加肋K型钢管插板连接节点的极限承载力进行了研究,同时借助有限元分析了主管壁厚,环板宽度和厚度以及不同加肋方式对节点极限承载力的影响。在此基础上根据试验和有限元结果以及节点的破坏模式提出了适用于估算此类节点极限承载力的极限分析模型和建议公式。结果表明：加肋K型钢管插板连接节点的承载力受主管壁厚和环板宽度和厚度的影响较大,且分主管控制和环板控制2种情况来讨论。采用的四铰破坏机理和五铰破坏机理极限分析模型能较好的反映此类节点的受力性能。     

液压机用液压缸的计算机辅助设计

针对液压机用液压缸，在AutoCAD R14平台上开发了一套以专家系统、结构优化、参数化绘图技术为支撑的计算机辅助设计软件YYGCAD2．0。其专家系统YYGES的知识和数据来源于液压机领域专家的经验，基于规则推理，具有庞大的数据库和良好的人机接口。参数化绘图模块是在Visual C 6．0环境下用Object ARX语言开发的应用程序，运行速度快，利用MFC(微软基础类库)开发的用户界面，具有Windows风格。操作简单，易于推广。用户在输入液压缸的主要技术参数后，可以借助专家系统直接设计出液压缸的成套施工图纸，也可以通过优化设计得到结构最优并符合技术要求的设计图纸。该软件可以在Windows95／98／NT系统的微机上运行，具有较高的设计效率和设计水平。     

HY-2高度计海况偏差非参数估计模型研究

基于HY-2高度计数据,采用局部线性回归非参数估计方法,利用球谐核函数及局部可调带宽,对70和71周期的交叉点进行海况偏差非参数估计。依据解释方差、海况偏差与有效波高及风速的相关度和模型残差分析,检验评价模型。与相同数据集下的参数模型估计结果进行了分析比对,结果表明:所选定的非参数模型的海况偏差与有效波高和风速的相关度均处于较高水平,说明模型更为有效。在不同纬度段,非参数模型和参数模型各有所长,在北半球高纬度区域,非参数模型表现更优。     

Piecewise affine kernel tracking for non-planar targets

Since the multiple kernel representation opened in tracking the possibility of representing several features of the target in the same model, tracking multiple features using kernel-based methods has received a great attention. In spite of these efforts, the formulation has been reduced to tracking planar targets or targets rotating inside a plane parallel to the image plane. The aim of this paper is to extend the multi-kernel tracking to cope with situations different to those. To this end, we consider the triangular mesh described by the centers of the kernels and we develop the estimation of a set of affine transforms, one at each mesh triangle, subject to the constraints that each affine transform of a triangle must be compatible with the affine transforms coming from contiguous triangles. The method is applied to sequences including face and car tracking. Results show an outperformance respect to previous kernel tracking methods, which generally work with a too restricted set of movements.