The orientation dependence of fatigue-crack growth in 8090 Al-Li plate

A series of fatigue-crack growth rate (FCGR) tests was carried out on 8090 Al-Li plate to examine the effects of specimen orientation on fatigue-crack growth. The directionality of fatigue fracture behavior is found to be related to the strong {110}〈112〉 texture in this alloy. Based on a previously developed transgranular FCGR model using restricted slip reversibility (RSR) concepts, [1] a mechanistic model is developed for transgranular fatigue-crack growth in highly textured materials. The model takes the form of the Paris relationship with a power law exponent of 3, and the material texture is shown to strongly influence the proportional factor. The effect of texture on FCGR is related through a geometric factor cos² ϕ, where ϕ defines the angle between the load axis and the normal of the favorable slip plane. The effect of specimen orientation on FCGR in 8090 Al-Li alloy is shown to be related to a combination of its anisotropic mechanical properties and the variation of angleϕ with specimen orientation. The model further predicts that fatigue-crack growth rates will be slower in many textured materials than texturefree materials becauseϕ > 0 and cos₂ ϕ < 1.     

On real-time databases: concurrency control and scheduling

In addition to maintaining database consistency as in conventional databases, real-time database systems must also handle transactions with timing constraints. While transaction response time and throughput are usually used to measure a conventional database system, the percentage of transactions satisfying the deadlines or a time-critical value function is often used to evaluate a real-time database system. Scheduling real-time transactions is far more complex than traditional real-time scheduling in the sense that (1) worst case execution times are typically hard to estimate, since not only CPU but also I/O requirement is involved; and (2) certain aspects of concurrency control may not integrate well with real-time scheduling. In this paper, we first develop a taxonomy of the underlying design space of concurrency control including the various techniques for achieving serializability and improving performance. This taxonomy provides us with a foundation for addressing the real-time issues. We then consider the integration of concurrency control with real-time requirements. The implications of using run policies to better utilize real-time scheduling in a database environment are examined. Finally, as timing constraints may be more important than data consistency in certain hard realtime database applications, we also discuss several approaches that explore the nonserializable semantics of real-time transactions to meet the hard deadlines     

The impact of SONET digital cross-connect system architecture ondistributed restoration

The viability of distributed control restoration using digital cross-connect systems (DCS) depends on its capability for restoring services within specified time requirements, and its economics for providing restoration compared to other alternatives. The authors report a Bellcore study for the impact of the DCS architecture on distributed restoration. This study concludes that currently proposed distributed control DCS self-healing schemes may not meet the 2 second restoration objective for large metropolitan local exchange carrier's networks, regardless of the distributed algorithm used, if the present DCS system architecture which uses serial message processing and serial path cross-connection remains unchanged. They also discuss several DCS architecture enhancement options, including a parallel processing/cross-connect DCS architecture, which may improve the service restoration time     

Design considerations for Rowland circle gratings used in photonicintegrated devices for WDM applications

Design issues of photonic integrated devices for WDM applications based on Rowland circle gratings have been studied. Effects of grating period, diffraction order, grating aperture (size), and Rowland circle size on device performance are discussed. The point spread function of a typical Rowland circle grating is evaluated numerically which yields an optical image (spot) size of several microns in diameter. Our study shows that there is a tradeoff between channel dispersion and feedback efficiency in choosing the grating period when a Rowland circle grating is used as the wavelength-selective element for a parallel-waveguide-type wavelength division multiplexing device     

Fuzzy consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system reliability

In this paper, we propose a new method to analyze fuzzy consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system reliability using fuzzy GERT. The triangular fuzzy numbers are used to fuzzify probabilities of the consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system and the interval arithmetic, α-cuts and an index of optimism λ are applied to compute fuzzy consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system reliability on fuzzy the GERT network. Futhermore, we can obtain all computation results by “MATHEMATICA” package.     

新型可调剪切差平行分束偏光器设计

本文给出了一种新型可调的切差平行分束偏光器设计。它调节方便,可获得较大平行分束剪切差,并可一镜多用     

导汽箱产生长裂纹和大面积凹陷原因分析、处理及预防对策

对硫酸废热锅炉锅筒内自然循环的导汽箱产生长裂纹和大面积凹陷的原因作了分析，提出处理该缺陷的方法，确保了锅炉的安全运行，并提高了蒸汽的品质。     

粉末冶金自润滑止推板的研究和应用

采用粉末冶金技术制备出车辆发动机涡轮增压器用自润滑止推板,研究了材料的基体强化、组织结构和摩擦磨损特性,分析了装机台架综合考核数据,并且与国际上同类产品进行比较,结果表明:该材料综合性能优于国际上同类产品,现已投入工业化生产和批量使用。     

Ti-23Al-14Nb-3V合金氩弧焊接头的显微组织及其力学性能

研究了预热对Ｔｉ－２３Ａｌ－１４Ｎｂ－３Ｖ合金焊接性，特别是对消除氩弧焊冷裂纹的作用以及对接头显微组织和力学性能的影响。结果表明，焊前预热可有效降低该合金的冷裂倾向。经预热处理后，焊缝区的结晶层状线消失，热影响区的硬度峰得到缓和，整个焊缝的显微硬度分布趋于均匀，但焊缝区的枝晶发生粗化，热影响区有所扩大。焊件接头的拉伸试验表明，预热可使焊缝区的接头强度系数增加，但无论预热与否，接头强度均低于母材强度，且不显示宏观塑性。     

Design of a product quality control system based on the use of data mining techniques

In recent years industries have increasingly used customer relationship labor in management as a tool to improve their position in the marketplace. This research involves using a data warehouse, decision-tree-based data mining, and neural network pattern classification analysis to isolate the causes of non-conformity in IC packaging. The correctness of the classification analysis produced using the two methods is compared. Our objective is to establish an information analysis system, that is able to quickly identify the causes of problems thereby reducing the time taken to solve quality-related problems. It is shown that predictions made about the target group using decision tree analysis are more accurate than those made by neural network classification, indicating that decision tree analysis is an effective means of classification analysis of a company's quality problems.