Effects of nonlinear strength parameters on stability of 3D soil slopes

Actual slope stability problems have three-dimensional(3D) characteristics and the soils of slopes have curved failure envelopes. This incorporates a power-law nonlinear failure criterion into the kinematic approach of limit analysis to conduct the evaluation of the stability of 3D slopes. A tangential technique is adopted to simplify the nonlinear failure criterion in the form of equivalent Mohr-Coulomb strength parameters. A class of 3D admissible rotational failure mechanisms is selected for soil slopes including three types of failure mechanisms: face failure, base failure, and toe failure. The upper-bound solutions and corresponding critical slip surfaces can be obtained by an efficient optimization method. The results indicate that the nonlinear parameters have significant influences on the assessment of slope stability, especially on the type of failure mechanism. The effects of nonlinear parameters appear to be pronounced for gentle slopes constrained to a narrow width. Compared with the solutions derived from plane-strain analysis, the 3D solutions are more sensitive to the values of nonlinear parameters.     

混凝土收缩徐变对系杆拱桥的影响分析

收缩徐变作为混凝土结构固有特性,随着时间地延伸,它会不断地变化[1]。尤其针对一些比较敏感的混凝土结构,如悬臂端、预应力混凝土连续梁等,其收缩徐变影响更为明显。本文以一工程实例为背景,利用有限元软件Midas进行桥梁模拟,通过对不同收缩徐变情况的探讨,得出混凝土收缩徐变对系杆拱桥的影响。     

基于用户喜好的个性推荐系统优化

采用协同过滤方式的传统推荐系统具有一定实用性,但也存在未考虑用户个性喜好的问题。为提高推荐精度,特别针对用户个性化特点和需求,提出了采用改进相似度计算和回归分析方法对协同过滤推荐进行系统优化。实验结果表明,优化算法可明显改善系统的推荐效果,并加强基于协同过滤推荐的有效性。     

Microstructural characterization of Cu/Al composites and effect of cooling rate at the Cu/Al interfacial region

Cu/Al composites are of vital importance in industrial applications because of their numerous advantages. The influence of bond-ing temperature and cooling rate on the microstructure and morphology of ...     

Head Orientation Stability of Underwater Snake-Like Robot Swimming

In prior research,the orientation of head of the snake-like robot is changed according to the sinusoidal wave. To solve this problem,we propose Central Pattern Generator( CPG)-based control scheme with head-controller to stabilize the head of the underwater snake-like robot. The advantage of the CPG-based control scheme with head-controller is that the head of the underwater snake-like robot is direct to the target orientation during swimming. The relation between CPG parameters and orientation stability of head is discussed.The adaptation of the proposed method to environment changes is tested. The influences of CPG parameters and hydrodynamic forces on the orientation offset of head are investigated. The target orientation( the input of headcontroller) with an experimental optimization is calculated through a convenient method. To prove the feasibility of the proposed methodology,the different swimming modes have been implemented in our simulation platform.The results show that the oscillation of head’s orientation is inhibited effectively,and the proposed method has strong adaptation to environment and CPG parameters changes.     

Comparisons of Fly Ash and Deposition Between Air and Oxy-FuelCombustion in Bench-Scale Fluidized Bed with Limestone Addition

In Oxy-fuel circulating fluidized bed, the residual CaO particles may react with high concentration of CO₂ in flue gas to form bonded deposit on heat transfer surfaces in backpass when limestone is used as a sorbent to capture SO₂.In this paper, experiments were designed on ash deposition in a bench-scale fluidized bed under oxy-fuel and air atmosphere. A novel ash deposit sampling probe was used to simulate the tubes of tail surfaces. The chemical composition of fly ash and ash deposit from both air-firing and oxy-fuel firing cases were analyzed by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry(ICP-AES) and Scanning Electron Microscopy(SEM), respectively. The degrees of carbonation reaction of ash deposits were measured by Thermo Gravimetric Analysis. The results showed that there are distinct differences in fly ash deposition rate between oxy-fuel and air firing cases, and oxy-fuel combustion with limestone addition can affect chemical composition of fly ash and ash deposit, especially for elements of Ca, Na, K, and S. However, the carbonation reaction degree of ash deposits is found weak, which is due to the relatively low CaO content in ash deposit or not long enough of the sampling time.[JP]     

基于云存储的网络文档共享系统

针对非结构化的海量文档获取困难的问题,设计和开发了基于云存储的网络文档共享系统。该系统采用了Hadoop和Lucene以及Mahout来实现对文档存储、全文检索和推荐。通过测试证明,网络文档共享系统可以使用户更快速高效地获取文档。     

Acquisition algorithm assisted by AGC control voltage for DSSS signals

An appropriate acquisition configuration in terms of signal quality can optimize the acquisition performance. In view of this, a new approach of acquisition assisted by the control voltage of automatic gain control(AGC) is proposed. This approach judges the signal power according to the AGC control voltage and switches the working modes correspondingly and adaptively. Non-coherent accumulation times and the detection threshold are reconfigured according to the working mode. Theoretical derivation and verification by simulation in typical situations are provided, and the algorithm is shown to be superior in terms of the mean acquisition time, especially in strong signal scenarios compared with the conventional algorithm.     

Effects of different CdCl<Subscript>2</Subscript> annealing methods on the performance of CdS/CdTe polycrystalline thin film solar cells

In this paper, the effects of different CdCl₂ annealing methods, including vapor annealing and dip-coating annealing, on the performance of CdS/CdTe polycrystalline thin-film solar cells are studied. After annealing, the samples are lightly etched with 1% bromine in methanol to remove surface oxides. Both annealing methods give CdTe polycrystalline thin films with good crystallinity and complete structure. For solar cells containing the annealed CdTe films, cell efficiency first increases and then decreases as the concentration of CdCl₂ solution used for dip-coating annealing increases, and the optimized CdCl₂ concentration is 12%. The uniformity of the performance of all cells is analyzed by calculating the relative standard deviation for each parameter. The uniformity of cell performance can be improved dramatically by dip-coating annealing instead of vapor annealing. Most notably, an appropriate concentration of CdCl₂ (12%) acts as a protective layer that is conducive to realizing uniform high-performance CdS/CdTe solar cells. According to the location of depletion regions, the CdTe films treated by dip-coating annealing show a relatively low doping concentration, except for the sample treated with a CdCl₂ concentration of 6%, which is consistent with the changes of short-circuit current density of the cells. It is believed that these results can be applied to the large-scale production of CdTe polycrystalline thin-film solar cells.