A weight function-critical plane approach for low-cycle fatigue under variable amplitude multiaxial loading

Low‐cycle fatigue data of type 304 stainless steel obtained under axial‐torsional loading of variable amplitudes are analyzed using four multiaxial fatigue parameters: SWT, KBM, FS and LKN. Rainflow cycle counting and Morrow's plastic work interaction rule are used to calculate fatigue damage. The performance of a fatigue model is dependent on the fatigue parameter, the critical plane and the damage accumulation rule employed in the model. The conservatism and non‐conservatism of predicted lives are examined for some combinations of these variables. A new critical plane called the weight function‐critical plane is introduced for variable amplitude loading. This approach is found to improve the KBM‐based life predictions.     

表面含有半导电层的高压绝缘结构的电场的有限元分析

表面半导电层结构可以均匀电场和抑制表面电晕放电,因此被广泛应用于高压电力电缆接头和高压发电机定子线圈端部绝缘中。由于表面半导电层比主绝缘层薄得多,在应用有限元法进行分析时存在着分析区域难剖分的缺点。本文经过一个简单的分析实例,提出了表面含有半导电层的高压绝缘结构电场的有限元分析方法。     

Preparation of patterned SiC and SiCN microstructures

With the development of modern science and technology, the importance of small structures or microstructures (such as the fluidic nanostructure or microreactor[1], the in- tegrate circuit in microelectronics[2], the factory in a chip[3,4], etc.) has been incarnated day by day in the fields of microelectronics, micro-optical systems, microanalytical sys- tems, microelectromechanical systems and cytobiology. And the fabrication technique (microfabrication) of the small structures has become the h…     

大型汽轮发电机主绝缘耐压和电老化试验中定子线棒端部防晕技术的研究

大型汽轮发电机在主绝缘耐压和电老化试验中,可能出现定子线棒端部闪络和防晕层过热的情况,从而损伤主绝缘,影响试验顺利进行。本文通过建立真机线棒端部的Pspice仿真模型,模拟了线棒端部绝缘表面电场分布,分析了端部闪络的原因。通过进一步的仿真研究,提出了线棒端部防晕的技术方案,并试制了线棒端部防晕装置。试验结果表明,该防晕装置可有效防止线棒端部闪络和防晕层过热。     

Performance improvement using time delays in multivariable controller design

A new controller for linear multivariable ordinary systems is suggested in which distributed delays are included in the feedback loop. A general design approach to obtain this type of controller is suggested. It is shown that the resulting closed-loop system is asymptotically stable under some sufficient conditions. Sufficient conditions are derived under which the disturbance attenuation, the robustness against parameter variations, and the time-delay stability margins are improved by the proposed controller. The state feedback tracking controller and the dual-state observer are obtained by modification of the proposed controller.     

Modified analogue forecasting in the hidden Markov frameworkfor meteorological droughts

An analogue method(AM) is a nonparametric approach that has been applied to predict the future states of a dynamic system by following the evolution of the analogues in the historical archive. In this study, we proposed a hidden Markov model(HMM)framework for a modified analogue forecasting(MAF) approach for meteorological droughts in Korea. The unobservable(hidden) state process in the framework aims to model the underlying drought state, while the observation process was formed from the time series of the standardized precipitation index(SPI) as a drought index. Within the framework, the likelihood estimator was used as the measure of similarity between past SPI analogues and current data. The MAF approach was conducted on the selected analogues to make forecasts at lead times of one and three months. The proposed model was applied to five selected stations in Korea using the SPI data from 1973 to 2016. The forecasting performance of the proposed model was tested during the validation period(2003–2016) using several statistical criteria and it was compared to a persistence-based benchmark model. The results showed significant improvement in the forecasting capacity, and satisfactory performance for numerical SPI forecasting and categorical drought forecasting. The results also suggested that the proposed model was able to provide useful information for determining future drought categories for early drought warning with a lead time of up to three months.     

Effect of pulse time on surface characteristics and corrosion resistance during pulse electrochemical polishing

Pulse electrochemical polishing (PECP) was used to improve the mechanical properties,such as surface roughness and corrosion resistance,of conductive metallic materials.PECP can provide a smooth,bright,reflective,and deburred surface that exhibits superior corrosion resistance.In this work,stainless steel was used as the anode,and copper was used as the cathode due to their low electrical resistances.The surface roughness of the PECP sample was measured by atomic force microscopy (AFM).A scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used to observe surface characteristics,and an Auger electron spectroscope (AES) was used to analyze the metallurgical composition and thickness of the passive film.The aim of this research was to compare the corrosion resistance rates of the unprocessed and PECP-processed stainless steel.