Formation of a flange from a flat blank with a hole

A model of axisymmetric formation of a flange from a flat blank with a hole by expanding by a hard punch with a fixed flat flange is given, taking into consideration contact friction, change of wall thickness, strengthening of material, and the tool bending radius. Elastic, elastic-plastic and hard-plastic process stages are studied.     

变遗憾为精彩

从我做杂志起,我就知道自己选择了一个创造遗憾的职业,一个需要不停地变遗憾为精彩的职业。 每期杂志的出版都使我惴惴不安,在反思杂志的不足与期盼您评判到来中度过,在深入的思考与尖锐的批评中杂志不断汲取了营养,     

用体视显微镜改制体视摄影器

详细地介绍了XSD型体视显微镜改制体视摄影器的方法与效果。并提出摄影接筒的长度可为30～225mm,其变化对摄影器总的放大倍数没有影响。     

高效镜面抛光技术

一次加工就可将刀槽表面抛光到镜面质量。DIAMETAL公司最新开发的MNT-MS金刚石砂轮以其卓越的加工能力而备受关注。他们甚至还可以一次就加工完成深度达若干毫米的刀槽。     

Collision between a ring and a beam

With car–parapet collision accidents in mind, a normal collision between a free-flying half ring and a simply supported beam with/without axial constraints is studied, in which an elastic–plastic half ring with an attached mass and the elastic–plastic beam are taken as the simplest models of a car and a parapet, respectively. Particular attention is paid to the energy partitioning between the two structures and the evolution of the contact regions during collision. A mass–spring finite difference (MS–FD) model is employed whilst the large deflection and axial stretching/compression are incorporated. The numerical results show that the less stiff (i.e. softer) structure will dissipate more energy and the contact regions will move away from the initial contact points. With the increase of the relative thickness of the beam to the ring, the final deformation of the half ring will transform from a “U” shape to a “W” shape.     

Estimation of a Bottom Echo-Signal Level Reflected from a Plane Surface of a Cylindrical Article Using a Normal Probe Operating in a Pulsed Mode

The influence of the pulsed operating mode on a bottom echo-signal level reflected from a plane surface of a cylindrical article is studied during variations in the article's radius. It is shown that the pulsed character of a signal smoothens this function significantly as compared to that in the previously computed continuous mode. Numerical estimates of the bottom echo signal have been made for the ultrasonic inspection of wheel-pair axles of railway vehicles.     

八关节三动杆蛇形机器人的运动模拟

蛇形机器人是一种高冗余度的机器人,由于其结构可变形,能够通过松软地面以及跨越(或避开)障碍物,能代替人完成某些危险场所如核电厂等维修及城市搜救.本文提出了一种类正弦波形的八关节三动杆蛇形机器人结构,做了运动模拟并给出了结论,该蛇形机器人的研制成功为设计相关类型的机器人提供了参考.     

On the problem of a longitudinal impact on a bar supported with a plate

The wave processes that evolve in a plate-supported bar hit with a hard striker with a yielding spherical impact surface are considered. The linearized Hertz contact characteristics are used to derive analytical solutions describing the wave processes that may be conveniently applied for engineering calculations. The reliability of the results obtained with the proposed models is confirmed by experimental data.     

Solving a new mathematical model for a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with a processor assignment by a genetic algorithm

This paper presents a new mathematical model for a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with a processor assignment that minimizes makespan (i.e., C _max) and cost of assigning a number of processors to stages. In this problem, it is assumed that there are a number of parallel identical processors which are assigned to all of the stages with an unlimited intermediate storage between any two successive stages. To solve such a hard problem, first a new heuristic algorithm is proposed to compute the makespan that is embedded in the proposed genetic algorithm in order to find the best sequence of jobs, and then processors are assigned to the stages simultaneously. A number of test problems have been solved and related results are illustrated and analyzed.     

集散控制系统在啤酒厂糖化车间的应用

本文简介了工控组态软件 T350 0、欧陆下位机的特点 ,给出了一个在啤酒厂糖化车间应用的实例。     

Operation of a tight joint under a torque

A tight joint subjected to a torque is considered, in the case of pliability of the joint components and tangential pliability of the contact layer. On that basis, the torque distribution over the joint length may be determined more precisely, and fretting wear may be predicted.     

Swing-attenuation for a quadrotor transporting a cable-suspended payload

This paper presents the problem of safe and fast transportation of packages by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) kind quadrotor. A mathematical model and a control strategy for a special class of underactuated mechanical systems, composed of a quadrotor transporting a cable-suspended payload, are proposed. The Euler-Lagrange formulation is used to obtain the dynamic model of the system, where the integrated dynamics of the quadrotor, cable and payload are considered. An Interconnection and Damping Assignment-Passivity Based Control (IDA-PBC) is chosen because of its inherent robustness against parametric uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics. Two cases are considered to obtain two different control laws, in the first case, the designed control law depends on the swing angle of the payload, in the second case the control law does not depend on it. The control objective is to transport the payload from point to point, with swing reduction along trajectory. Experimental results using monocular vision based navigation are shown to evaluate the proposed control law.     

在普通车床上磨削深孔内圆

介绍一种在普通车床上磨削深孔内圆的方法.给出了内圆磨具的总体设计及内圆磨具的调整情况,以及磨头的结构.使用效果良好.     

The use of a segmented cathode of a drift tube for designing a track detector with a high rate capability

Detector rate capability is one of the main parameters for designing a new detector for high energy physics due to the permanent rise of the beam luminosity of modern accelerators. One of the widely used detectors for particle track reconstruction is a straw-detector based on drift tubes. The rate capability of such detectors is limited by the parameters of readout electronics. The traditional method of increasing detector rate capability consists in increasing their granularity (the number of “elementary” detectors = readout channels) by reducing the straw diameter and/or by dividing the straw anode wire into two parts (for decreasing the rate per readout channel). A new method of designing straw detectors with a high rate capability is presented and tested. The method is based on dividing the straw cathode into parts and the independent readout of each part.     

Upgrading a microscope with a spiral phase plate

We present the implementation of a spiral phase plate in a standard bright-field microscope to enhance the contrast of phase and amplitude samples. The method can be employed in all types of microscopy where standard phase contrast methods are applicable, for example, in bright-field transmission or reflection microscopy using an illumination source with partial spatial coherence. The spiral phase filter is placed into an accessible Fourier plane of the imaging path of the microscope. It is shown that this produces not only a strong contrast enhancement but in theory also improves the spatial resolution of the microscope for white light. A series of different set-ups for transmissive or reflective samples, including epi-illumination, are presented to demonstrate the practical range of applications of this contrasting method. A minute shift of the spiral phase plate out of the centre results in relief-like images that are similar to those obtained by differential interference contrast microscopy. A series of such relief-like images can be numerically processed to obtain quantitative phase and amplitude information of the sample.     

Diagnostics of a cavity in a prismatic beam

A beam with a cross section in the form of a hollow rectangular box is considered. A method for calculation of the dimensions of a cavity in a beam by two natural bending frequencies that are taken from different spectra is proposed. These are the spectra of vibrations in two mutually perpendicular planes that are chosen in such a way that the neutral axis of the cross section is parallel to the sides in both cases. The dependence of the natural frequency on the cavity’s parameters is studied. It is proven that the frequency values of the beam under investigation and of an identical beam with a solid cross section do not coincide at any size of the cavity and the natural frequency values of the former beam are always higher than those of the latter one.     

Fabricating a micromould insert using a novel process

A new method of fabricating micromould inserts that is compatible with semiconductor manufacturing is proposed. Diffusion of phosphorous at a high temperature is first used to increase the electric conductivity of the surface of the silicon wafer to generate a silicon-based seed layer for electroforming. If the process temperature and the duration of doping with phosphorous are controlled, then the electric conductivity of this novel silicon-based seed layer can be expected to equal that of a metal seed layer. Then, a structure layer of amorphous silicon is successfully formed onto the silicon-based seed layer, by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The structure layer has none of the defects that would be present if a metal seed layer were used to replace the silicon-based seed layer. Finally, a silicon-based master microstructure was created by using ICP-RIE to etch the structure layer. The silicon-based master has been demonstrated to be useable in successfully fabricating, by electroforming, a metal micromould insert with a large area and high aspect ratio.     

Imprinting a needle array on a polycarbonate substrate

A micro-needle array was fabricated on a polycarbonate (PC) substrate using an electroformed-Ni mold with a conical concave pattern. The diameter and length of each needle were 50 μm and 135 μm, respectively. The needle array pattern of the electroformed-Ni mold was produced by combining a grayscale mask for X-ray lithography with Ni electroforming technology. The X-ray grayscale mask was composed of Si absorbers and a SU-8 membrane. Each Si absorber had a three-dimensional cone shape rather than a rectangular shape. Threedimensional Si structures were formed to etch an active Si layer in a silicon-on-insulator wafer using a taperedtrench etching technology. Beamline BL-4 in the TERAS synchrotron radiation facility at AIST was used for the Xray lithography experiments. X-rays that penetrated the X-ray grayscale mask irradiated a polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) sheet. Pt was deposited on the PMMA structure after developing, and Ni was electroformed on it. The electroformed-Ni object was processed by grinding to complete a Ni mold. Finally, the micro-needle array was fabricated by thermal-imprinting on a 0.5-mm thick PC sheet with the electroformed Ni mold.