Oxidation Behaviour of NiCrAl and NiCoCrAl Bond Coatings Under Industrial Gas Turbine Conditions

Model bond coatings were deposited with a wide range of compositions and their oxidation behaviour investigated at 900 °C. These Ni–Co–Cr–Al coatings were deposited using magnetron sputtering (a physical vapour deposition technique) onto 10 mm diameter sapphire substrates. A range of compositions was generated by co-sputtering from a combination of two or three sources: Ni–10 wt% Cr, Ni–20Cr, Ni–50Cr, Ni–20Co–40Cr and/or Ni–40Co–20Cr combined with pure Al. The coatings were oxidised at 900 °C and the scales formed characterised. These data have been summarised into oxide predominance diagrams to show the relationships between coating compositions and the formation of protective Cr₂O₃ or Al₂O₃ scales, or the formation of other, less protective oxides (or mixed oxides). Both coating composition and exposure temperature (by comparison with earlier published research) were found to influence the oxide scale growth rate and oxide type, and thus the resulting degree of protection.     

面向产品创新的计算机辅助概念设计系统的研究

将面向产品外形、布局、人机工程学的产品概念设计的研究提到一个新的高度.本文将产品几何特征拓广为涵盖几何特征、工程特征、语义特征等三大内容的产品组件特征,重组为总体特征、布局特征、形状特征和人机特征,以三元组、条件约束集、多值依赖图建立组件特征模型,进而,建立了基于组件特征模型的产品信息模型,并研究了基于组件特征模型的产品布局设计技术、面向概念设计的人机工程设计技术,开发了一套计算机辅助概念设计系统.最后,以吸尘器概念设计为例,对本文提出的理论、方法、技术和系统加以验证,完成对机电信息一体化产品概念设计的支持.     

Resuspension of coal and coal/municipal sewage sludge combustion generated fine particles for inhalation health effects studies

Airborne particulate matter (PM) is an important environmental issue because of its association with acute respiratory distress in humans, although the specific particle characteristics that cause lung damage have yet to be identified. Particle size, acid aerosols, water-soluble transition metals (e.g. Cu, Fe, V, Ni and Zn), polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and particle composition are the focus of several popular hypotheses addressing respiratory distress. All of the above mentioned characteristics are contained in PM generated from the combustion of both pulverized coal, and biomass, including dried municipal sewage sludge (MSS). In this investigation, we report results from collaborative interdisciplinary research on the inhalation health risks caused by particles emitted from the co-combustion of municipal sewage sludge (MSS) and coal. A solid particle resuspension system was implemented to resuspend ash particles. Mice were exposed to resuspended coal and MSS/coal ash particles. Mice exposed to MSS/coal ash particulate demonstrated significant increases in lung permeability, a marker of the early stages of pathological lung injury, while the mice exposed to coal-only ash did not. These results show that the composition of particles actually inhaled is important in determining lung damage. Zinc was significantly more concentrated in the MSS/coal ash than coal ash particles and the pH of these particles did not differ significantly. Specifically, an MSS/coal mixture, when burned, emits particles that may cause significantly more lung damage than coal alone, and that consequently, the use of MSS as a 'green', CO2-neutral replacement fuel should be carefully considered.     

数字时代的设计观念与技术

对数字时代的设计技术进行了研究，探讨了现代设计观念。     

Differentiation of the concepts of luck and skill.

20 Ss from each grade level (kindergarten, Grades 2, 4, 6, and 8) were presented a luck (figures to be matched with a standard were not visible but were on the underside of cards) and a skill (figures were visible) version of a task using items from the Matching Familiar Figures Test. Questioning Ss about the performance of hypothetical others on these tasks revealed 4 levels of differentiation of luck and skill. The least mature Ss focused on the visual complexity of tasks rather than on the fact that the luck task permitted only guessing. On this basis, they expected luck outcomes to reflect effort and considered the luck task to require less effort than the skill task. Only the most mature Ss clearly understood that effort could not affect outcomes on the luck task and selectively attributed skill outcomes to effort and luck outcomes to luck. The most mature Ss also spent less time than did less mature Ss in the face of failure on luck tasks, but spent more time on skill tasks. Findings of age-related differences in the differentiation of skill (effort and ability) and luck and of associated differences in behavior make the analysis of the development of achievement-related cognition and behavior more complete. (13 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)