The Transformation of Carbides during Austenization and Its Effect on the Wear Resistance of High Speed Steel Rolls

The transformation of carbides with austenization time of a high speed steel (HSS) roll material, manufactured by a centrifugal casting method, has been studied. The correlation between wear resistance and the type, morphology, volume fraction, and distribution of the carbides has also been investigated. Microstructural observations, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, hardness measurements, and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) have been used to characterize the carbides. The type and volume fraction of carbides were found to change with austenizing time. During austenization, the transformation of the M₃C carbides can be postulated as M₃C + γ-Fe → M₂C, with much finer nodular and rodlike MC carbides also forming through a solid-state transformation. The M₂C carbide decomposes as M₂C + γ-Fe → MC + M₇C₃ + M₆C. The decomposed carbide substantially maintains a platelike shape until the end of decomposition. The most important finding of this study is that austenization results in changes in the type, morphology, volume fraction, and distribution of carbides and that it can be controlled to produced a homogeneous distribution of hard carbides, resulting in an improvement in the wear resistance of HSS rolls. This finding may be of great use for the industrial production of HSS rolls.     

The Growth of a Single Cell/Dendrite in a Directional Solidification Process

Following the original model for a single cell/dendrite growth by Hunt,[5] systematic numerical simulations are carried out with focus on cell shape evolution and tip radius selection in a directional solidification process conducted in a capillary tube. Computations indicate that the anisotropy of solid/liquid interfacial energy and the diameter of a capillary tube have significant influences on the selection of a tip shape. The anisotropy in dilute SCN-salol alloys has been determined through the equilibrium droplet shape method and its value is 1.09 pct. The calculated cell/dendrite shapes with this value of anisotropy agree with experimental observations where a single cell/dendrite of SCN-salol alloys grows in a capillary tube.     

External-Memory Algorithms for Processing Line Segments in Geographic Information Systems

In the design of algorithms for large-scale applications it is essential to consider the problem of minimizing I/O communication. Geographical information systems (GIS) are good examples of such large-scale applications as they frequently handle huge amounts of spatial data. In this paper we develop efficient external-memory algorithms for a number of important problems involving line segments in the plane, including trapezoid decomposition, batched planar point location, triangulation, red--blue line segment intersection reporting, and general line segment intersection reporting. In GIS systems the first three problems are useful for rendering and modeling, and the latter two are frequently used for overlaying maps and extracting information from them.     

Train Tracks and Confluent Drawings

Confluent graphs capture the connection properties of train tracks, offering a very natural generalization of planar graphs, and—as the example of railroad maps shows—are an important tool in graph visualization. In this paper we continue the study of confluent graphs, introducing strongly confluent graphs and tree-confluent graphs. We show that strongly confluent graphs can be recognized in NP (the complexity of recognizing confluent graphs remains open). We also give a natural elimination ordering characterization of tree-confluent graphs, and we show that this class coincides with the (6,2)-chordal bipartite graphs. Finally, we define outerconfluent graphs and identify the bipartite permutation graphs as a natural subclass.     

怀念建筑设计大师张开济先生

虽然国内正值“十一”黄金周,但是新华社的一则唁电却给中国建筑界带来了一个噩耗。中国建筑界泰斗、全国建筑设计大师、第一届梁思成奖获得者、北京市建筑设计研究院顾问总建筑师张开济,因病医治无效,于9月28日零时5分在北     

戏弄空间:R00mZ

对多数室内设计而言，如何在有限空间中创造出令人惊艳的设计想像，向来是不容小觑的挑战，狭小生活环境尤其是香港设计师长久以来必须面对的基本问题。要在总面积仅39.6m^2的建筑中，创造满足工作、Party和休闲三种功能需要的空间，是本案最具挑战性之处。     

关于地下工程底板柔性外防水功效之我见

《地下室底扳柔性防水层防水作用商榷》（以下简称《商榷》)一文发表后，引起了不小的反响，其中较多为商榷与反驳。本着“疑义相与析”、提倡争鸣的原则，笔者在此也谈几点看法。     

Analysis of dinosaur samples by nuclear microscopy

Several dinosaur bone and eggshell fossil samples unearthed at different sites in China were analyzed by means of nuclear microscopy. Concentrations and distributions of elements such as Na, Mg, Al, P, S, Ca, Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, As, Br, Sr, Y, Ce, Pb and U, etc. were obtained for each sample. The results of quantitative PIXE and RBS analyses show unusually high concentrations of U and Ce in several samples obtained from a period near the K-T boundary (between Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, 65 million years ago), suggesting that some form of environmental pollution could be the cause of dinosaur extinction.     

Pattern analysis of airborne dipole antenna in high-frequency region

The Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction (UTD) has been successfully used in pattern analysis of airborne dipole antenna on the A-5 fighter in high-frequency region. In the analysis, several canonical problems are investigated first, then the complicated problem is calculated with compiling these canonical problems. The numerical results are compared with the experimental data, and good agreement has been seen. The effectiveness and practicality of the present analysis are thus verified.     

非线性光孤子传输方程的研究

本文在从描述光孤子在单模光纤中的非线性传输方程（ＮＬＳ，即非线性薛定谔方程）出发，利用Ｍａｘｗｅｌｌ方程和慢变包络近似性，导出ｐｓ量级光孤子高阶修正的非线性薛定谔方程（ＨＭＮＬＳ）可进一步研究色散，损耗等高价效应对孤子传输造成的影响。