Thermomechanical finite-element model of shell behavior in continuous casting of steel

A coupled finite-element model, CON2D, has been developed to simulate temperature, stress, and shape development during the continuous casting of steel, both in and below the mold. The model simulates a transverse section of the strand in generalized plane strain as it moves down at the casting speed. It includes the effects of heat conduction, solidification, nonuniform superheat dissipation due to turbulent fluid flow, mutual dependence of the heat transfer and shrinkage on the size of the interfacial gap, the taper of the mold wall, and the thermal distortion of the mold. The stress model features an elastic-viscoplastic creep constitutive equation that accounts for the different responses of the liquid, semisolid, delta-ferrite, and austenite phases. Functions depending on temperature and composition are employed for properties such as thermal linear expansion. A contact algorithm is used to prevent penetration of the shell into the mold wall due to the internal liquid pressure. An efficient two-step algorithm is used to integrate these highly nonlinear equations. The model is validated with an analytical solution for both temperature and stress in a solidifying slab. It is applied to simulate continuous casting of a 120 mm billet and compares favorably with plant measurements of mold wall temperature, total heat removal, and shell thickness, including thinning of the corner. The model is ready to investigate issues in continuous casting such as mold taper optimization, minimum shell thickness to avoid breakouts, and maximum casting speed to avoid hot-tear crack formation due to submold bulging.     

Glycoconjugated polymer 6. Synthesis of poly[styrene-<Emphasis Type="Italic">block</Emphasis>-(styrene-<Emphasis Type="Italic">graft</Emphasis>-amylose)] via potato phosphorylase-catalyzed polymerization

Summary The potato phosphorylase-catalyzed polymerization of α-D-glucose-1-phosphate (G-1-P) onto poly[styrene-block-(4-vinylbenzyl maltohexaoside)] (1) was performed at the molar ratios of [G-l-P]₀ and [maltohexaose]₀ of 35, 80, and 250. The product was found to be soluble in dimethyl sulfoxide, which was a good solvent for amylose, and showed the complex-formation with iodine, indicating that the product was assignable to poly[styrene-block-(styrene-graft-amylose)] (2). The quantitative analysis of the liberated phosphoric acid gave the average degree of polymerization o f the glucose unit (n) as 27, 5 1, and 180 for 2-I, 2-II, and 2-III, respectively. Received: 29 November 2002/Accepted: 22 December 2002 Correspondence to Toyoji Kakuchi     

MULTICARRIER DS—CDMA WITH ADAPTIVE MODULATION AND POWER ALLOCATION

Adaptive modulation and power allocation is introduced into the multicarrier DSCDMA system to improve the system performance and bandwidth efficiency.First,the system design appropriate for adaptive modulation and power allocation is given,then the algorithm of adaptive modulation and power allocation is applied.Simulation results demonstrate great performance improvement compared with the fixed modulated one.     

Exchange-correlation errors at harmonic and anharmonic orders: the case of bulk Cu

As an aid towards improving the treatment of exchange and correlation effects in electronic structure calculations, it is desirable to have a clear picture of the errors introduced by currently popular approximate exchange-correlation functionals. We have performed ab initio density functional theory and density functional perturbation theory calculations to investigate the thermal properties of bulk Cu, using both the local density approximation (LDA) and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). Thermal effects are treated within the quasiharmonic approximation. We find that the LDA and GGA errors for anharmonic quantities are an order of magnitude smaller than for harmonic quantities; we argue that this might be a general feature. We also obtain much closer agreement with experiment than earlier, more approximate calculations.     

Electronic properties of magnetically doped nanotubes

Effect of doping of carbon nanotubes by magnetic transition metal atoms has been considered in this paper. In the case of semiconducting tubes, it was found that the system has zero magnetization, whereas in metallic tubes the valence electrons of the tube screen the magnetization of the dopants: the coupling to the tube is usually antiferromagnetic (except for Cr).     

QR factoring to compute the GCD of univariate approximate polynomials

We present a stable and practical algorithm that uses QR factors of the Sylvester matrix to compute the greatest common divisor (GCD) of univariate approximate polynomials over /spl Ropf/[x] or /spl Copf/[x]. An approximate polynomial is a polynomial with coefficients that are not known with certainty. The algorithm of this paper improves over previously published algorithms by handling the case when common roots are near to or outside the unit circle, by splitting and reversal if necessary. The algorithm has been tested on thousands of examples, including pairs of polynomials of up to degree 1000, and is now distributed as the program QRGCD in the SNAP package of Maple 9.     

关于我国钢铁工业发展战略的思考

21世纪初是世界经济发展的重大战略机遇期,如何抓住机遇加快发展,是中国钢铁行业应认真思考的问题。十一五我国钢铁工业的发展,靠什么来拉动,还能靠大规模的投资吗?目前我们还不能生产的双高产品怎么办,靠花钱能买来技术吗?靠市场能换来核心产品吗?值得深思。当今,我们思考的不仅应考虑个别企业的生存问题,而更应考虑的是钢铁行业整体的长远发展问题,即     

交互控制程序编程方法

交互控制是计算机程序的重要功能 ,也是实现人—机对话的基本途径。VisualBasic编程语言以其易学习掌握、开发灵活的特点而成为目前流行的程序开发工具 ,本文以VisualBasic语言为例介绍了交互控制程序编程方法 ,并对具体的每一种方法编写了相应的示例。     

基于VXI总线的超宽带线性调频信号源的设计

主要介绍了VXI总线C尺寸超宽带线性调频信号源的设计方法，重点描述了利用现场可编程逻辑器件FPAG和DSP设计VXI总线接口电路，以及数字波形存储直读技术在线性调频信号源中的应用。     

GMSK无线接收终端设计

设计了GMSK(Gauss Minimum Shift Keying，高斯最小频移键控)无线接收终端的硬件与软件系统。硬件的射频电路对空中信号进行接收与滤波，再由以MX589构成的解调模块解调，输出数字信号；数字硬件以单片机GMS97L5为核心。软件系统设计了对IC卡AT88SCl608加密卡的认证以及对串行数据的接收与处理的中断程序。终端系统接收数据快、性能稳定。