A new point contact surface acoustic wave transducer for measurement of acoustoelastic effect of polymethylmethacrylate

A new acoustic transducer and measurement method have been developed for precise measurement of surface wave velocity. This measurement method is used to investigate the acoustoelastic effects for waves propagating on the surface of a polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) sample. The transducer uses two miniature conical PZT elements for acoustic wave transmitter and receiver on the sample surface; hence, it can be viewed as a point- source/point-receiver transducer. Acoustic waves are excited and detected with the PZT elements, and the wave velocity can be accurately determined with a cross-correlation waveform comparison method. The transducer and its measurement method are particularly sensitive and accurate in determining small changes in wave velocity; therefore, they are applied to the measurement of acoustoelastic effects in PMMA materials. Both the surface skimming longitudinal wave and Rayleigh surface wave can be simultaneously excited and measured. With a uniaxial-loaded PMMA sample, both acoustoelastic effects for surface skimming longitudinal wave and Rayleigh waves of PMMA are measured. The acoustoelastic coefficients for both types of surface wave motions are simultaneously determined. The transducer and its measurement method provide a practical way for measuring surface stresses nondestructively.     

CFD simulation of particle segregation in a rotating drum. Part I: Eulerian solid phase kinetic viscosity

Although the Eulerian approach coupling the kinetic theory of granular flow is usually used to study granular flows with relative lower solid fractions, it can be used to study relative denser granular flows if appropriate solid phase kinetic viscosity values were adopted. A granular bed surface fitting (BSF) method is proposed to determine the appropriate solid phase kinetic viscosities of the granular flows in a rotating drum. The specularity coefficient is also used to address the interaction between particles and the drum wall. The BSF solid phase kinetic viscosity increases with decreasing of particle sizes and drum rotational speeds. The BSF solid phase kinetic viscosity and the specularity coefficient follow a power-law relationship with 0.6–1.1 as the exponent of the specularity coefficient. The BSF solid phase kinetic viscosities for the particles of two different sizes are used to study particle segregation in a rotating drum. The core thickening segregation mechanism and the segregation band formations are well predicted.     

Brain MR images segmentation using statistical ratio: mapping between watershed and competitive Hopfield clustering network algorithms

Conventional watershed segmentation methods invariably produce over-segmented images due to the presence of noise or local irregularities in the source images. In this paper, a robust medical image segmentation technique is proposed, which combines watershed segmentation and the competitive Hopfield clustering network (CHCN) algorithm to minimize undesirable over-segmentation. In the proposed method, a region merging method is presented, which is based on employing the region adjacency graph (RAG) to improve the quality of watershed segmentation. The relation of inter-region similarities is then investigated using image mapping in the watershed and CHCN images to determine more appropriate region merging. The performance of the proposed technique is presented through quantitative and qualitative validation experiments on benchmark images. Significant and promising segmentation results were achieved on brain phantom simulated data.     

海洋数据质量检验方案中残差优化选择算法磁

随着信息化的快速发展,海洋数据的获取手段变得多种多样,海洋数据的“量”急剧增大,如何保证海洋大数据的质量问题成为热点。抽样检验是一个较成熟的课题,但适用于海洋数据特性的抽样方案研究较少。结合海洋数据的特点,利用 Skyline 的思想,提出了分批排序的优化抽样检验方案选择算法。通过各抽样检验方案残差的 Skyline 集合,选择优化的质量检验方案,提高海洋数据质量检验精度的同时保证海洋数据的检验费用。     

三维模型的二维矢量化机制的研究与实现

论述了三维模型二维图形矢量化的必要性,详细描述了一种三维模型的二维矢量化机制,包括三维模型的一致化建模方式以及模型的组织与分层聚合方法,并对以往的隐藏几何元素消除算法做出改进,使其适应三维空间曲面的情况。     

多支点锚桩支护结构计算方法及锚点位置优化的探讨

多支点锚桩支护结构设计方法较多,论文探讨采用等值梁法对支护结构进行内力、弯距、插入深度的计算,用弹性地基法对变形与位移进行计算;探讨多锚点位置的优化,提出一种综合考虑内力、弯距和嵌入深度三种指标对锚点位置优化的新思路。     

印度大停电及其对我国电网发展的借鉴作用

2012年7月30日和31日,印度接连发生2次大停电事故,其中第一次事故影响了14个邦,而第二次事故则影响了多达22个邦。此次停电事故波及地区广、涉及人口多,对各国电力发展再次敲响警钟。分析了此次大停电事故的主要原因,结合我国电网发展面临的内外部因素,分析了我国电网发展需要从中汲取的经验教训,并提出相关建议。     

Intelligent energy-saving operation of wheel loader based on identifiable materials

Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology - This study applies image recognition technology to the shovel loading operation of a wheel loader for the first time. In the proposed method, the...     

Texture analysis and classification with tree-structured wavelettransform

A multiresolution approach based on a modified wavelet transform called the tree-structured wavelet transform or wavelet packets is proposed. The development of this transform is motivated by the observation that a large class of natural textures can be modeled as quasi-periodic signals whose dominant frequencies are located in the middle frequency channels. With the transform, it is possible to zoom into any desired frequency channels for further decomposition. In contrast, the conventional pyramid-structured wavelet transform performs further decomposition in low-frequency channels. A progressive texture classification algorithm which is not only computationally attractive but also has excellent performance is developed. The performance of the present method is compared with that of several other methods.     

激光光斑探测系统软件设计与分析

对激光光斑探测系统构成和光斑探测原理进行分析研究。在激光光斑探测系统软件设计中对图像采集控制和图像显示提出了全新的控制手段和设计思路,并对激光光斑采集软件和图像处理软件进行了详细设计说明,在图像处理软件设计中运用了一种激光光斑能量分布的三维伪彩色可视化方法,更加清晰反应光斑的不同区域能量分布的相对大小和位置。