Effect of particle size distribution on green properties during high velocity compaction

Iron powders with two different particle size distributions were compacted by high velocity compaction. The influences of particle size distribution and impact velocity on green properties, including green density, springback, tensile strength and bending strength etc., were studied with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and a computer controlled universal testing machine. The results show that the particle size distribution and the impact velocity strongly affect its properties. Wider size distribution results in green compact with higher density and better strength. Furthermore, springback of compacts is lower produced by the powder with wider size distribution, especially for radial springback. As impact velocity increases, its green density and green strength gradually increases, but the increasing rate of density decreases gradually. No special relation is found between springback and impact velocity. In addition, the axial springback and the bending strength are higher than the radial springback and the tensile strength, respectively.     

A formal architectural model for logical agent mobility

The process of agent migration is the major difference between logical code mobility of software agents and physical mobility of mobile nodes in ad hoc networks. Without considering agent transfer, it would make little sense to mention the modeling of strong code mobility, which aims to make a migrated agent restarted exactly from the state when it was stopped before migration. From the perspective of system's architecture, this paper proposes a two-layer approach for the formal modeling of logical agent mobility (LAM) using predicate/transition (PrT) nets. We view a mobile agent system as a set of agent spaces and agents could migrate from one space to another. Each agent space is explicitly abstracted to be a component, consisting of an environmental part and an internal connector dynamically binding agents with their environment. We use a system net, agent nets, and a connector net to model the environment, agents, and the connector, respectively. In particular, agent nets are packed up as parts of tokens in system nets, so that agent transfer and location change are naturally captured by transition firing (token game) in Petri nets. Agent nets themselves are active only at specific places and disabled at all the other places in a system net. The semantics of such a two-layer LAM model is defined by transforming it into a PrT net. This facilitates the analysis of several properties about location, state, and connection. In addition, this paper also presents a case study of modeling and analyzing an information retrieval system with mobile agents.     

The E3 Ligase GmPUB21 Negatively Regulates Drought and Salinity Stress Response in Soybean

E3-ubiquitin ligases are known to confer abiotic stress responses in plants. In the present study, GmPUB21, a novel U-box E3-ubiquitin ligase-encoding gene, was isolated from soybean and functionally characterized. The expression of GmPUB21, which possesses E3-ubiquitin ligase activity, was found to be significantly up-regulated by drought, salinity, and ABA treatments. The fusion protein GmPUB21-GFP was localized in the cytoplasm, nucleus, and plasma membrane. Transgenic lines of the Nicotiana benthamiana over-expressing GmPUB21 showed more sensitive to osmotic, salinity stress and ABA in seed germination and inhibited mannitol/NaCl-mediated stomatal closure. Moreover, higher reactive oxygen species accumulation was observed in GmPUB21 overexpressing plants after drought and salinity treatment than in wild-type (WT) plants. Contrarily, silencing of GmPUB21 in soybean plants significantly enhanced the tolerance to drought and salinity stresses. Collectively, our results revealed that GmPUB21 negatively regulates the drought and salinity tolerance by increasing the stomatal density and aperture via the ABA signaling pathway. These findings improved our understanding of the role of GmPUB21 under drought and salinity stresses in soybean.     

Transient simulation and analysis of the simultaneous load rejection process in pumped storage power stations using a 1-D-3-D coupling method

The load rejection imposes a danger in the pumped storage hydropower plants (PSPs),especially when two or more pump turbines reject their loads simultaneously.I...     

Improving the precision of optical metrology by detecting fewer photons with biased weak measurement

In optical metrological protocols to measure physical quantities, it is, in principle, always beneficial to increase photon number n to improve measurement prec...     

沥青路面弯道施工技术浅议

由于受摊铺机找平原理、找平基准设置、自动找平延时特性以及人为的误操作等因素的影响,即便装有微电脑控制自动找平装置的摊铺机,摊铺后的沥青路面还是不太理想.结合实际施工工作,从道路结构特点、施工工艺、施工机械、控制系统等8个方面定性地总结了影响沥青路面弯道标高准确性与平整度的因素,并提出从优化施工组织、基线找准、控制信号调整、压路机碾压等4个方面提高弯道路面沥青的摊铺质量.     

PLC应用中的问题及解决办法

就教学及实践工作中遇到的一些典型问题做一探讨,以期对正在学习和应用PLC的人员有所帮助.     

基于DSP的嵌入式系统的程序引导设计

作对以DSP为核心的嵌入式系统的程序引导功能进行了深入的研究及分析,并以TI公司的TMS320C33芯片为实例,归纳了其实现流程及设计方案,从硬件和软件两个方面阐述了实现该功能的关键点和值得注意的地方。该设计已被应用于一个配电网环网柜智能终端装置。运行实践表明,是一种简便、可靠的方案。     

变电站接地网大修改造探讨

变电站接地网改造设计是一项实践性很强的工作,针对兴义供电局开展的系列变电站地网大修改造工程。对地网安全指标评估、土壤结构分析、地网安全性能仿真研究、改造设计方法及施工工艺等实践经验进行了总结,旨在为今后相关单位的类似工作提供必要的参考。