Eight-node conforming straight-side quadrilateral element with high-order completeness (QH8-C1)

A new eight-node conforming quadrilateral element with high-order completeness, denoted as QH8-C1, is proposed in this article. First, expressions for the interpolation displacement function satisfying the requirements for high-order completeness in the global coordinate system are constructed. Second, the displacement function expression in global coordinates is transformed into isoparametric coordinates, and the relationships between the two series of coefficients for the two kinds of displacement function expressions are found. Third, the displacement function expression is modified to satisfy the requirements of nodal freedom and interelement boundary continuity. The key to the new element construction is the derivation of the linear relationship expressions among 12 coefficients of element displacement interpolation polynomials in the global and isoparametric coordinate systems. As a result, the relationship between quadratic completeness and interelement continuity is explicitly given, and a proof of the completeness and the continuity was conducted to theoretically guarantee the validity of the derivation results. Furthermore, in order to verify the correctness of the theoretical work, nine numerical examples were performed. The computation results from these examples demonstrate that QH8-C1 exhibited excellent performance, including high simulation accuracy, fast convergence, insensitivity to mesh distortion, and monotonic convergence.     

装配式钢管混凝土柱-双钢梁框架节点受力性能试验研究

针对一种适合装配式结构的钢管混凝土柱-双钢梁框架体系,对其2个典型平面节点和2个典型空间节点进行单调和循环加载试验,以研究加载模式和节点类型对节点破坏形态、承载力、刚度、延性及耗能能力的影响。结果表明：试件的破坏均发生在梁端,柱与节点域保持完好,满足“强柱弱梁、强节点弱构件”的抗震设计要求;试件的位移延性系数为2.6~3.6,能量耗散系数为1.7~2.2,耗能能力与型钢混凝土节点相当;加载模式(单调或循环)相同而节点类型(平面或空间)不同时,节点性能差异小;加载模式不同而节点类型相同时,节点性能差异大：循环荷载作用下的节点梁端焊缝发生拉裂破坏,位移延性系数较小。该种节点静力性能较好,但从提高抗断裂能力出发,需进一步改进构造,对焊缝分布进行优化设计。     

初始静孔隙水压力对砂土静动力剪切特性影响的试验研究

选取福建标准砂和滹沱河细砂,利用空心圆柱扭剪仪开展了一系列不同初始静孔隙水压力条件下的不排水循环扭剪试验和单调扭剪试验,着重探讨初始静孔隙水压力对超静孔隙水压力发展及其不排水抗剪强度的影响。试验结果表明:初始静孔隙水压力对超静孔隙水压力的发展产生显著的影响,从而影响砂土的静动力剪切特性。具体地,在不排水循环剪切过程中,初始静孔隙水压力越大,其超静孔隙水压力发展和变形发展越快;在不排水单调剪切过程中,初始静孔隙水压力越大,在砂土剪胀阶段产生负超静孔隙水压力越大,从而使砂土的强度显著提高。基于试验结果,初步探讨了初始静孔隙水压力对超静孔隙水压力及静动力剪切特性的影响机理。研究表明,研究地下水位以下土体(准饱和土)静动力剪切特性尤其是研究液化问题时,应充分考虑初始静孔隙水压力对砂土抗液化强度的影响,室内试验应根据砂土所处的地下水位深度来决定初始静孔隙水压力(反压)的大小。     

Robust stability analysis and improved design of phase‐locked loops with non‐monotonic nonlinearities: LMI‐based approach

Due to nonlinear nature of several phase detectors, linear approximation method often leads to performance degradation in many phase‐locked loops (PLLs), particularly when the phase errors are sufficiently large. A third or higher order PLL, in spite of the ability to track a wider variety of inputs and having higher operating‐frequency range, requires more design attention in order to ensure stable tracking. In this work, with the nonlinearities inserted into the system's model, suitable criteria that take into account the nonlinearities' non‐monotonicity, sector and slope bounds are employed to establish robust stability conditions. The result is applicable to any PLLs without order and type restrictions. For Type‐1 PLLs, the resulting condition can be used to search for the maximum stable loop gain, which is also linked to the lock‐in range of the system. In the later part of this work, the focus is devoted towards designing PLLs with high lock‐in range, which is performed via mixing the proposed method with H _∞ synthesis. The searches for the parameters in both PLL analysis and design are expressed in terms of convex linear matrix inequalities, which are computationally tractable. To illustrate the improvement introduced via this approach, several numerical examples and simulations are included with comparisons over conventional methods. Copyright © 2017John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

小偏心钢筋混凝土柱受压性能的尺寸效应试验

为分析小偏心钢筋混凝土柱受压性能的尺寸效应,对偏心距分别为0.1倍截面有效高度和0.25倍截面有效高度的2组几何相似的钢筋混凝土柱进行偏心受压破坏试验,柱截面几何尺寸分别为200mm×200mm,400mm×400mm,800mm×800mm,对比分析了其破坏形态、截面应变分布、承载力、变形能力,揭示了其尺寸效应规律。研究结果表明:小偏心钢筋混凝土柱的受压破坏形态和横截面应变分布规律基本相同,其尺寸效应不明显;承载力和变形能力存在明显尺寸效应,随着截面尺寸的增大,其安全储备降低,变形能力减弱。     

纤维底渣混合土循环剪切性能研究

生活垃圾焚烧底渣作为常见的固体废弃物之一,可与纤维混合提高其强度和稳定性。对生活垃圾焚烧底渣–黏土–聚丙烯纤维按一定比例混合,进行循环前大型直剪、循环剪切和循环后直剪试验,研究不同竖向应力、不同剪切位移幅值、不同压实度对纤维加筋底渣混合黏土循环剪切特性及循环后单调直剪特性。试验结果表明:循环前直剪试验中,剪切位移与剪应力曲线呈现弱硬化现象;施加循环荷载后的单调直剪试验,剪切位移与剪应力曲线则呈现明显软化现象。循环剪切试验过程中土样在不同竖向应力、不同剪切位移幅值下均出现循环剪切硬化和剪缩现象。随循环次数增加,硬化程度和剪缩量逐渐减小。随压实度增加,试样由明显的硬化型向软化型发展,压实度越大,沉降量越少,剪缩量越小。对比循环剪切后试样的单调直剪试验与未循环剪切单调直剪试验结果发现,循环剪切后的土样抗剪强度明显增大,黏聚力和摩擦角都相应增加。聚丙烯纤维的加入可以与底渣混合土形成空间网络骨架,从而增加试样抵抗变形能力,减小竖向沉降,增强稳定性。     

基于周期性最大功率点检测的风电机组功率备用控制方法

风电机组通常运行于最大功率输出模式,无法为受扰电网提供紧急功率支撑。稳态时预留部分出力可提高风电机组主动电网支撑能力,为此提出一种基于周期性最大功率点(MPP)检测的风电机组功率备用控制(PRC)方法。通过周期性执行最大功率点跟踪程序检测风电机组实时MPP,一旦检测到MPP即可确定PRC模式参考值并切换为直接功率控制。设置伪单调转速-机械功率曲线使风电机组稳定运行在超速功率备用点,并通过储能装置平抑MPP检测产生的峰值功率波动。仿真结果表明提出的控制方法在定风速和变风速情况下均可以准确控制检测风电机组MPP并实现PRC,并且使得风电机组一次调频效果优于传统PRC。     

Monotonic and Cyclic Plasticity Response of Magnesium Alloy. Part II. Computational Simulation and Implementation of a Hardening Model

Abstract: A constitutive materials model, which includes Ohno–Wang's kinematic hardening rule, is employed to simulate the isothermal monotonic and cyclic behaviours of high‐pressure die cast magnesium AM60B alloy under uniaxial loading condition. An implicit constitutive stress integration scheme developed by Kobayashi and Ohno 9 is used to code the model into an ABAQUS user materials subroutine (UMAT). After the material parameters used in the current model were obtained from the experimental results, the predictive capability of the model was verified.     

A 0.6 V 10 bit 1 MS/s monotonic switching SAR ADC with common mode stabilizer in 0.13 μm CMOS

This paper presents a 0.6 V 10 bit successive approximation register （SAR） ADC design dedicated to the wireless sensor network application. It adopts a monotonic switching scheme in the DAC to save chip area and power consumption. The main drawback of the monotonic switching scheme is its large common mode shift and the associated comparator offset variation. Due to the limited headroom at the 0.6 V supply voltage, the conventional constant current biasing technique cannot be applied to the dynamic comparator. In this design, a common mode stabilizer is introduced to address this issue in low-voltage design. The effectiveness of this method is verified through both simulation and measurement results. Fabricated with 1P8M 0.13 μm CMOS technology, the proposed SAR ADC consumes 6.3 μW at 1 MS/s from a 0.6 V supply, and achieves 51.25 dB SNDR at the Nyquist frequency and FOM of 21 fJ/conversion-step. The core area is only 120 × 300 μm^2.     

Incremental Dynamics

A new system of dynamic logic is introduced and motivated, witha novel approach to variable binding for incremental interpretation. Thesystem is shown to be equivalent to first order logic and complete.The new logic combines the dynamic binding idea from DynamicPredicate Logic with De Bruijn style variable free indexing. Quantifiersbind the next available variable register; the indexing mechanismguarantees that active registers are never overwritten by newquantifiers actions. Apart from its interest in its own right, theresulting system has certain advantages over Dynamic Predicate Logic orDiscourse Representation Theory. It comes with a more well behaved(i.e., transitive) consequence relation, it gives a more explicitaccount of how anaphoric context grows as text gets processed, and ityields new insight into the dynamics of anaphoric linking in reasoning.Incremental dynamics also points to a new way of handling contextdynamically in Montague grammar.