基于子结构的内力约束连续体拓扑优化

通过拓扑优化可以得到传力路径,不同传力路径对应不同内力载荷。如果将内力载荷作为目标或约束进行拓扑优化,可以得到满足不同需求的传力路径,为拓扑优化的发展提供新思路和新方法。为了得到不同内力载荷需求的传力路径,基于子结构法将结构分开使内力暴露出来。以结构质量最小为目标,以内力为约束建立拓扑优化模型,基于独立、连续、映射( independent, continuous, mapping, ICM)方法和单位载荷法将内力显式化,通过累加获得需要控制的传力路径上的内力,通过迭代调整2个路径上的内力使其比值达到一个稳定的值,从而获得满足内力约束的传力路径。算例表明：不同的内力约束可以得到不同的传力路径。     

Effects of foundation damage and water-level change on vibration modal parameters of gravity-type caisson structure

In this paper,the effects of foundation damage and water-level change on vibration characteristics of gravity-type caisson structure are examined by analyzing modal parameters extracted from output-only information.To achieve the objective,the following approaches are implemented.Firstly,vibration response analysis methods are selected to estimate power spectral density and modal parameters such as natural frequency,damping ratio and mode shape of a lab-scale caisson structural system.Secondly,vibration tests on the lab-scale caisson system are performed under a series of test scenarios which include three water-level changes and three damage levels.Thirdly,experimental modal parameters corresponding to the damaging cases as well as the water level cases are extracted by frequency domain decomposition method and stochastic subspace identification method.Finally,the effects of the water-level variation and foundation damage on the extracted modal parameters are examined to assess the feasibility of the vibration-based damage detection in gravity-type caisson structures under water-level uncertainty.     

Across and along-wind responses of tall building

Most modern tall buildings using lighter construction materials are more flexible, which can lead to excessive wind-induced vibrations resulting in occupant discomfort and structural unsafety. It is necessary to predict and mitigate such wind-induced vibration at the preliminary design stage. Fluctuating across and along-wind loads acting on a tall building that could not be formulated theoretically were simulated numerically in the time domain using known across and along-wind load spectra. These simulated wind loads were used to estimate the across and along-wind responses of a tall building, which are less narrow-banded processes, based on the state space variable approach. The simulated across-wind response of root-mean-square value（0.0047） and that of KAREEM＇s（0.0040） and the simulated along-wind response of root-mean-square value（0.021） and that of SOLARI＇s（0.027） were compared. It is found that these are good approximations of closed form responses. Therefore, these numerically simulated across and along-wind loads can be used for across and along-wind responses estimation for the wind-resistant design of a tall building at the preliminary design stage.     

A hardware-based algorithm for virtual machine provisioning in a private cloud

Cloud computing is becoming a key factor in the market day by day. Therefore, many companies are investing or going to invest in this sector for development of large data centers. These data centers not only consume more energy but also produce greenhouse gases. Because of large amount of power consumption, data center providers go for different types of power generator to increase the profit margin which indirectly affects the environment. Several studies are carried out to reduce the power consumption of a data center. One of the techniques to reduce power consumption is virtualization. After several studies, it is stated that hardware plays a very important role. As the load increases, the power consumption of the CPU is also increased. Therefore, by extending the study of virtualization to reduce the power consumption, a hardware-based algorithm for virtual machine provisioning in a private cloud can significantly improve the performance by considering hardware as one of the important factors.     

Microstructural and tribological behavior of TiAlN/MoS2-Ti coatings

1. Introduction The search for a better wear resistant coating has resulted in the development of a class of hard, solid-lubricated coatings. The driving force behind the coating industry was the need to develop a proc-ess that will extend the life of steel machine parts, cutting tools, molding dies, and sliding parts. For example, in the stamping industry, severe abrasive wear and galling (cold metal welding) are expected. There is the need for an efficient application of lu-bricants both for…     

PalmPhasor算法性能的理论分析

模板的安全性和隐私性是掌纹系统实际应用的关键问题,然而生物特征保护的多项指标通常相互冲突并且难以同时满足.作为解决上述冲突的一种可撤销掌纹编码算法,PalmPhasor实现了高效、安全的掌纹认证.建立了系统分析PalmPhasor性能的完整框架.为了便于具体分析,将情景分为4种情况,并且提供了支持相应分析的预备知识,包括辅助定理以及Gabor滤波掌纹图像实部和虚部分布特性.在统计学基础上建立的理论分析和实验结果均表明:即使在用户口令被盗的情况下,多方向分数级融合增强的PalmPhasor算法也可以同时有效地满足可撤销生物特征的4项指标.     

Mucoadhesive Phenolic Pectin Hydrogels for Saliva Substitute and Oral Patch

Oral disease is one of the most common conditions worldwide, negatively affecting general health, reducing the quality of life, and often developing into systemic illness. However, the design of therapeutic agents for oral diseases is challenging due to various unique features of the oral cavity, including its wet and dynamic environment and curved shape. Herein, the development of highly biocompatible mucoadhesive functional hydrogels for oral applications is reported, generated by introducing bio-inspired phenolic moieties into a pectin polymer. Pyrogallol-functionalized pectin (Pec-PG) can be crosslinked in situ via autoxidation without chemical agents and readily fabricated as various formulations. Sprayable Pec-PG hydrogel exhibits strong mucoadhesion and outstanding hydration ability ex vivo and in vivo, thus displaying significant potential as a novel saliva substitute for dry mouth. The authors further show that topical application of mucoadhesive Pec-PG patches pre-loaded with corticosteroid significantly promotes the repair of diabetic oral ulcer tissue via prolonged drug release, free radical scavenging, and physical barrier effects. Moreover, similar applications for oral ulcer treatment using a pectin hydrogel modified with catechol (Pec-CA), another phenolic moiety are demonstrated. Together, these findings suggest that mucoadhesive phenolic pectin derivatives can provide highly biocompatible, convenient, and effective hydrogel platforms for treating oral diseases.     

Multi-sector multi-range control for self-organizing wireless networks

In this paper, we propose a distributed multi-sector multi-range (MSMR) control algorithm for supporting self-organizing wireless networks. The algorithm enables us to reduce the unnecessary coverage with fine-tuned range control and also to increase the network-wide capacity with enhanced spatial reusability. The proposed algorithm discovers neighboring nodes within the maximum transmission range at every node, divides its transmission area into multiple non-overlapping angular sectors of a given degree, chooses the home sector for each neighboring node according to its relative position, and constructs a spanning subgraph per sector by determining appropriate transmission range to maintain connectivity. Since the range control influences on network connectivity directly, we prove in the first place that the proposed algorithm preserves both network-wide and local connectivity as far as both connectivity exist in the network that uses the maximum transmission range. In order to investigate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we implemented it in the ns-2 simulator, and performed an extensive set of simulation study in comparison with other transmission range control schemes. The simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme is superior to other schemes with respect to the network-wide throughput and its normalized value per energy in various simulation configurations. In specific, the algorithm achieves minimally one order and maximally two orders of magnitude improvement in those performance evaluations. The improvement becomes more salient as the number of nodes increases and is immune to traffic type, network size, node distribution, or node density.     

Theoretical and experimental characterization of wettability of various nanolens arrayed polymer surfaces replicated with nanodimpled aluminum mold insert

Various types of polymer surfaces with a nanolens array, which has an entrant shape with a low aspect ratio, were fabricated and the wettability of the fabricated surfaces was evaluated in both theoretical and experimental ways. The nanolens array was replicated on three different polymer surfaces of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), cyclic olefin copolymer (COC), and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) by means of replica molding and hot embossing with a nanodimpled aluminum mold that was manufactured by a chemical oxidation process. From the theoretical and experimental evaluations of the wettability it was found that the measured contact angles were very similar with the theoretically estimated ones and also the hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity of the hydrophilic PMMA and hydrophobic PDMS, respectively, surfaces were reinforced by the nanolens array within the Wenzel wetting state.