Novel Ferrimagnetic Material for Fabricating Multilayer Chip Inductors —Low-Temperature-Sintered Ba3Co2−xZnxFe24O41 Hexaferrites

The Zn-substituted planar hexaferrite Ba₃Co_{2− x} Zn _x Fe₂₄O₄₁ ( x =0–1.2) powders were prepared via a citrate precursor method. With an appropriate sintering aid, ceramics with high density could be obtained after sintering at a temperature of less than 900°C. These ceramics exhibit excellent high-frequency properties such as high initial permeability up to 10.0 with cut-off frequencies above 1.1 GHz. The results show that we have exploited novel promising ferrimagnetic materials well suited for multilayer chip inductors or multilayer chip beads applications in the high-frequency range.     

模糊系统结合蚁群算法的金具温升建模

为了得到准确可靠的阀厅连接金具温升模型,运用模糊系统结合蚁群算法的方法进行建模。在分析基本蚁群算法与梯度下降法优缺点的基础上,将两种方法结合形成改进蚁群算法,即在基本蚁群算法基础上应用梯度下降算法。通过试验得到的训练数据分别用基本蚁群算法、梯度下降算法、改进蚁群算法训练模糊系统,改进蚁群算法的收敛效果优于其他两种方法;通过试验得到的测试数据对4种方法所得的模型进行测试,由改进蚁群算法训练模糊系统所得模型的测试效果是最好的。结果表明,若能通过试验得到足量训练数据,用改进蚁群算法训练模糊系统的方法对阀厅连接金具的温升进行建模是可行的。     

Temperature control for thermal treatment of aluminum alloy in a large-scale vertical quench furnace

The temperature control of the large-scale vertical quench furnace is very difficult due to its huge volume and complex thermal exchanges. To meet the technical requirement of the quenching process, a temperature control system which integrates temperature calibration and temperature uniformity control is developed for the thermal treatment of aluminum alloy workpieces in the large-scale vertical quench furnace. To obtain the aluminum alloy workpiece temperature, an air heat transfer model is newly established to describe the temperature gradient distribution so that the immeasurable workpiece temperature can be calibrated from the available thermocouple temperature. To satisfy the uniformity control of the furnace temperature, a second order partial differential equation(PDE) is derived to describe the thermal dynamics inside the vertical quench furnace. Based on the PDE, a decoupling matrix is constructed to solve the coupling issue and decouple the heating process into multiple independent heating subsystems. Then, using the expert control rule to find a compromise of temperature rising time and overshoot during the quenching process. The developed temperature control system has been successfully applied to a 31 m large-scale vertical quench furnace, and the industrial running results show the significant improvement of the temperature uniformity, lower overshoot and shortened processing time.     

面向工程能力培养的计算机硬件系统实验体系

针对计算机专业学生的工程实践能力和系统思维能力培养的需要,设计了一套计算机硬件系统实验体系,构建了"电子系统设计专题实验"和"计算机组织与结构专题实验"的实验内容和实验装置。通过计算机专业的三届500余人的实际使用和反馈调查,表明该实验体系和内容可以有效提升学生的系统思维能力和工程实践能力。     

Numerical simulation on magnetic flux leakage evaluation at high speed

High-speed non-destructive inspection (NDI) systems using magnetic flux leakage method (MFL) is in great demand in online metal inspection and defect characterisation, especially in pipeline and rail track inspection. For MFL systems at high speed measurement, in addition to magnetic flux, eddy currents exist in metal specimen because of the relative movement between the probe and specimen. These currents alter the profile of electromagnetic field, which increases difficulty in signal interpretation and defect characterization. In this paper, eddy currents generated by high speed movement and their characterisation in high-speed MFL inspection systems were investigated by using numerical simulations. Besides, the MFL signals from high speed MFL measurement against defect depth were examined.     

低温烧结Zn(Nb0.9V0.1)2O6微波介质陶瓷的结构与性能

对低温烧结Zn(Nb0.9V0.1)2O6微波介质陶瓷进行了研究,讨论了V离子取代Nb离子进入铌酸锌晶格后对材料结构与微波性能的影响以及V5+取代后材料结构与性能之间的关系.实验结果表明少量V5+取代Nb5+后材料的烧结温度可从未取代时的1150℃显著降至取代后的950℃;V离子进入铌酸锌晶格,材料晶体结构仍为铌铁矿结构;低温烧结后ZnNb0.9(V0.1)2O6微波介质材料具有圆柱状微结构和部分玻璃相物质;Zn(Nb0.9V0.1)2O6微波介质材料950℃烧结后具有最佳微波介电性能(介电常数为25,Q×f值为29 500GHz,谐振频率温度系数为-44×10-6/℃).     

不锈钢焊管抛磨新设备

PG圆管和PF方管系列抛光机的抛光质量及效率能满足生产需要。介绍了这种不锈钢圆管及方管抛光机的工作原理。着重分析了抛磨轮的选用。     

Ergonomic Analysis of Mobile Cart–Assisted Stocking Activities Using Electromyography

Workers in grocery stores are exposed to numerous musculoskeletal risks that can be reduced using assistive devices while performing stocking tasks. A regional grocery store has recently deployed a mobile cart without comprehension of its ergonomic impact on workers, which this article investigates using normalized electromyography data (%MVC). This article studies not only ergonomic impact based on %MVC values but also work performance represented by a muscle force metric (MFM). The results from this study showed highest muscle groups in %MVC and MFM were the erector spinae and triceps. Interestingly, muscle activations on erector spinae were reduced when mobile cart is used. %MVC and MFM distribution for value‐added‐ and non‐value‐added subtasks were slightly different, with larger differences observed for non‐value‐added tasks. Video recordings revealed higher work performance when the mobile cart is used. In future research, the number of participants will be increased to further validate the results from this study.     

Novel neural network modeling method and applications

Neural networks play an important role for designing the parametric model of electromagnetic structures. The current neural network methods are unfit for a circuit model with many input variables because it is costly to extract a large number of the training data and test data to complete the highly nonlinear mapping approximation. This article proposes a new neural network modeling method—the multidimensional neural network model, which can be used to solve the issue of multivariable radiofrequency and microwave passive device modeling. The entire multidimensional neural network modeling problem is simplified into a set of neural network submodels through decomposition method. Then the submodels are combined into an equivalent model, and the final entire model is produced through the neural‐network mapping model developed with the submodels and equivalent model. A microstrip hairpin filter model is developed using the proposed method. The simulation results show the correctness and the effectivity of the proposed method. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:769–779, 2015.     

Parametric Stabilization of Quantized Interconnected Systems with Application to Coupled Inverted Pendulums

This paper studies the analysis of parametric stability and decentralized state feedback control of a kind of quantized interconnected systems. The output of each controller is quantized logarithmically before it is input to the subsystem, and the quantized density would affect the stability of the systems. First, a decentralized state feedback controller is designed for interconnected systems without quantization and the corresponding stable region is obtained. Second, for a given controller, the lower bound of the quantization density is evaluated from parameters of local controllers. Finally, the proposed method is applied to coupled inverted pendulums systems which can be viewed as quantized interconnected systems. The simulation results show that by using the proposed quantized controllers, the interconnected inverted pendulum systems are parametrically stabilized.