The influence of chloride-ion concentration on the pitting behaviour of steel in saturated Ca(OH)2 solution was studied using the D.C. polarization technique. Results seem to indicate a threshold chloride level for the on-set of severe pitting around 3000 ppm, the pitting potential Ep exhibits dramatic drop and large hysteresis loops develop. The results provide insight into the pitting performance of steel in concrete and highlight the poor repassivation of this metal/environment system. 相似文献
The suppression of the superconductivity by praseodymium in La1−x PrxCaBaCu3O7 may be explained in terms of the difference in the electronic or crystal structure between these compounds. Three compositions
with x=0.0, 0.5, 1.0 were, therefore, investigated by X-ray diffraction in order to determine the unit-cell dimensions at room temperature
as well as at lower temperatures down to 5 K. The results showed no considerable changes in the orthorhombic unit-cell dimensions
on decreasing the temperature to 5 K. Unit-cell volumes at low temperatures were 0.99 of the room temperature values. The
intensity sequence of reflections in the diffraction pattern was the same for all samples throughout the range of temperature
studied. 相似文献
A refined study of multi-carrier code division multiple access transmission over a Nakagami fading channel is proposed. The channel power is modeled with an exponential power profile rather than the uniform profile prevalent in other papers. An expression for the bit error rate (BER) is then derived. Numerical results show that MC-CDMA performances depend on the power dispersion of interferers around the desired user power. 相似文献
The first detailed comparison has been made of the metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy growth rates of CdTe, ZnTe, and ZnSe,
measured in situ with laser reflectometry. The comparison also includes the photo-assisted growth with visible radiation from
an argon ion laser. Using a standard Group II precursor (DMCd or DMZn.TEN) partial pressure of 1.5 × 10−4 atm, VI/II ratio of 1 and DIPM (M = Te, Se) the maximum growth rates are in the region of 10 to 15 AU/ s. Decrease in growth
rates of ZnTe at higher temperatures or higher laser powers have been attributed to the desorption from the substrate of unreacted
Te precursor. The behavior of DTBSe is quite different from DIPSe for both pyrolytic and photo-assisted growth. The maximum
growth rate is around 1 AU/ s with very little photo-enhancement, except at 300°C. Secondary ion mass spectroscopy analysis
of hydrogen concentration in the ZnSe layers shows high concentrations, up to 5.9 × 1019 atoms cm−3 for DTBSe grown ZnSe under pyrolytic conditions. These results show that the growth kinetics play an important part in the
incorporation of hydrogen and passivation of acceptor doped material. 相似文献
The electrical properties of CdTe thin film have been studied and discussed, including, the conduction mechanism, and the effect of temperature and indium doping on the current passing through the CdTe film and hence on the film conductivity. It is observed that the CdTe film is of the modified Poole–Frenkel conduction mechanism and the resistivity of the film can be lowered by more than one order of magnitude due to indium doping. 相似文献
In this article, a new extension of affine arithmetic is introduced. This technique is based on a quadratic form named general quadratic form. We focus here on the computation of reliable bounds of a function over a hypercube by using this new tool. Some properties
of first quadratic functions and then polynomial ones are reported. In order to show the efficiency of such a method, ten
polynomial global optimization problems are presented and solved by using an interval branch-and-bound based algorithm.
The work of the first author was also supported by the Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées CNRS–FRE 2570, Université de
Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France, and by the Laboratoire d'Electrotechnique et d'Electronique Industrielle CNRS–UMR5828,
Group EM3, INPT–ENSEEIHT. 相似文献
The most computationally demanding aspect of Association Rule Mining is the identification and counting of support of the frequent sets of items that occur together sufficiently often to be the basis of potentially interesting rules. The task increases in difficulty with the scale of the data and also with its density. The greatest challenge is posed by data that is too large to be contained in primary memory, especially when high data density and/or low support thresholds give rise to very large numbers of candidates that must be counted. In this paper, we consider strategies for partitioning the data to deal effectively with such cases. We describe a partitioning approach which organises the data into tree structures that can be processed independently. We present experimental results that show the method scales well for increasing dimensions of data and performs significantly better than alternatives, especially when dealing with dense data and low support thresholds.
Shakil Ahmed received a first class BSc (Hons) degree from Dhaka University, Bangladesh, in 1990; and an MSc (first class), also Dhaka University, in 1992. He received his PhD from The University of Liverpool, UK, in 2005. From 2000 onwards he is a member of the Data Mining Group at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Liverpool, UK. His research interests include data mining, Association Rule Mining and pattern recognition.
Frans Coenen has been working in the field of Data Mining for many years and has written widely on the subject. He received his PhD from Liverpool Polytechnic in 1989, after which he took up a post as a RA within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. In 1997, he took up a lecturing post within the same department. His current Data Mining research interests include Association rule Mining, Classification algorithms and text mining. He is on the programme committee for ICDM'05 and was the chair for the UK KDD symposium (UKKDD'05).
Paul Leng is professor of e-Learning at the University of Liverpool and director of the e-Learning Unit, which is responsible for overseeing the University's online degree programmes, leading to degrees of MSc in IT and MBA. Along with e-Learning, his main research interests are in Data Mining, especially in methods of discovering Association Rules. In collaboration with Frans Coenen, he has developed efficient new algorithms for finding frequent sets and is exploring applications in text mining and classification. 相似文献
New experimental studies on the effects of large dynamic compressive loads on highly birefringent optical fibers are presented. The intensity rate of applied dynamic loads ranged between 2.18-6719 KN/m-sec. A Fibercore (previously York) HB600 Bow-Tie fiber with an initial beat length of 1.16 mm was employed in the present study. Sensor response is discussed in terms of the effects of force amplitudes and velocities on the calibration parameter Tf. Tf is a function of the amplitude as well as the velocity of applied loading. Therefore, calibration of the sensor should be achieved through regression analysis of the load-fringe data for the entire spectrum of the desired force velocities. The ramification of this finding is that a single experiment for the measurement of Tf cannot provide the required parameters for calibration. This further implies that the change in beat length is also dependent on the amplitude and velocity of loading. The suggested method takes both effects into account through empirical analysis of experimental data 相似文献
In this article, a new solution approach is developed to numerically compute large deformations of 3D hyperelastic solids based on the compressible nonlinear elasticity. The governing equations are derived by the minimum total potential energy principle, and the Neo-Hookean model is used for the hyperelastic character of material. One of the key novelties of the work is its formulation in which the tensor form of equations is replaced by an efficient matrix–vector form that can be readily utilized in the coding process. Moreover, the variational differential quadrature technique is adopted to arrive at the discretized governing equations in a direct way. Simple implementation, fast convergence rate, and computational efficiency are the main advantages of present approach. Through some examples, the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed numerical approach are revealed.