Tar sand extractions with microemulsions: I-the dissolution of light hydrocarbons by microemulsions using 2-butoxyethanol and diethylmethylamine as cosurfactants

For oil sand extractions with microemulsions it is important to disperse large quantities of light hydrocarbons in an aqueous medium. Fundamental studies on the properties of 2-butoxyethanol (BE) and diethylmethylamine (Et₂McN) in water suggest that these two liquids could be more effective cosurfactants than the usual alcohols used for this purpose. The phase diagrams of microemulsions using BE and Et₂MeN as cosurfactants, combined with typical ionic and non-ionic surfactants and typical aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, were therefore investigated and compared with microemulsions based on n-butanol. Although the phase diagrams depend significantly on the nature of the surfactant and of the oil, the monophasic region generally increases with the cosurfactant in the order n-butanol < Et₂McN < BE. With the active mixture BE-cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, temperature has little effect on the phase diagram and NaCl generally destabilizes the microemulsion.     

Re-GAN：残差生成式对抗网络算法

目的 生成式对抗网络（generative adversarial network,GAN）是一种无监督生成模型,通过生成模型和判别模型的博弈学习生成图像。GAN的生成模型是逐级直接生成图像,下级网络无法得知上级网络学习的特征,以至于生成的图像多样性不够丰富。另外,随着网络层数的增加,参数变多,反向传播变得困难,出现训练不稳定和梯度消失等问题。针对上述问题,基于残差网络（residual network,ResNet）和组标准化（group normalization,GN）,提出了一种残差生成式对抗网络（residual generative adversarial networks,Re-GAN）。方法 Re-GAN在生成模型中构建深度残差网络模块,通过跳连接的方式融合上级网络学习的特征,增强生成图像的多样性和质量,改善反向传播过程,增强生成式对抗网络的训练稳定性,缓解梯度消失。随后采用组标准化（GN）来适应不同批次的学习,使训练过程更加稳定。结果 在Cifar10、CelebA和LSUN数据集上对算法的性能进行测试。Re-GAN的IS （inception score）均值在批次为64时,比DCGAN （deep convolutional GAN）和WGAN （Wasserstein-GAN）分别提高了5%和30%,在批次为4时,比DCGAN和WGAN分别提高了0.2%和13%,表明无论批次大小,Re-GAN生成图像具有很好的多样性。Re-GAN的FID （Fréchet inception distance）在批次为64时比DCGAN和WGAN分别降低了18%和11%,在批次为4时比DCGAN和WGAN分别降低了4%和10%,表明Re-GAN生成图像的质量更好。同时,Re-GAN缓解了训练过程中出现的训练不稳定和梯度消失等问题。结论 实验结果表明,在图像生成方面,Re-GAN的生成图像质量高、多样性强;在网络训练方面,Re-GAN在不同批次下的训练具有更好的兼容性,使训练过程更加稳定,梯度消失得到缓解。     

RDMA技术在数据中心中的应用研究

随着云计算向数据化智能化的方向演进,数据的流转与有效利用将为业务带来核心价值。大规模深度学习、机器训练等应用是极其依赖算力的,大量的信息交互对网络提出了很高的要求,由此需要一个低时延、无丢包、高吞吐的算力网络。考察RDMA[1]技术在数据中心中的应用,并分析其对于未来云数据中心高性能集群计算的影响。     

基于独立连续变量和复合指数函数的位移约束平面连续体结构拓扑优化

为了进一步研究连续体结构拓扑优化模型的合理性和可行性,基于独立、连续、映射( independent continuous mapping,ICM)方法,在满足结构位移约束的条件下,通过引入复合指数形式过滤函数对位移约束下质量最小化( minimum weight with a displacement constraint,MWDC)模型进行了改进,建立了基于独立连续变量和复合指数函数的位移约束平面连续体结构拓扑优化模型,并进行了优化求解。同时,利用M语言,基于Matlab软件平台,开发了相应的拓扑优化计算程序,并针对4种典型平面连续体结构进行了数值验证,分别比较分析了体积约束下的柔顺度最小化( minimum compliance with a volume constraint,MCVC)模型、MWDC模型以及改进的MWDC模型所得到的最优拓扑结构。数值结果表明：采用复合指数形式过滤函数改进的MWDC优化模型迭代次数更少,优化求解计算效率更高。     

Effects of annealing processes on Cu<Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis></Subscript>Si<Subscript>1-<Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis></Subscript> thin films

The Cu _x Si_1-x thin films have been grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) with in situ annealing on Si (001) and Si (111), respectively. The transformation of phase was detected by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results showed that the as-deposited films were composed of Cu on both Si (001) and Si (111). The annealed thin films consisted of Cu + η”-Cu₃Si on Si (001) while Cu + η’-Cu₃Si on Si (111), respectively, at annealed temperature (T _a) = 300-600 °C. With the further increasing of T _a, at T _a= 700 °C, there was only one main phase, η”-Cu₃Si on Si (001) while η’-Cu₃Si on Si (111), respectively. The annealed thin films transformed from continuous dense structure to scattered-grain morphology with increasing T _a detected by field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM). It was also showed that the grain size would enlarge with increasing annealing time (t _a).     

Morphology study of oriented SmBCO film deposited by MOCVD

c-axis-oriented SmBa_2Cu_3O_7(SmBCO) films have been deposited on(100)- LaA1O_3(LAO)substrate by metal organic chemical vapor deposition(MOCVD) technique.The effects of deposition temperature(T_(dep)) and total pressure(P_(tot)) on the orientation and microstructure of SmBCO films were investigated.The orientation of SmBCO films transformed from α-axis to c-axis with increasing of T_(dep) from 900 to 1 100℃.At T_(dep)=1 050℃,SmBCO films had c-axis orientation and tetragon surface.At P_(tot)~(dep)=400-800 Pa and T_(dep)=1 050 ℃,totally c-axis-oriented SmBCO films were obtained.The R_(dep) of SmBCO films increased firstly and then decreased with increasing P_(tot).The surface of SmBCO films exhibited tetragon morphology at 1 050 ℃ and400 Pa.Maximum thickness of SmBCO film deposited was 1.2μm at P_(tot)= 600 Pa,and the corresponding R_(dep)was 7.2 μm·h~(-1).     

电路软差错率评估综述

综述了近10年来软差错影响下的电路可靠性分析方法,主要从系统结构级、寄存器传输级、门级、电路级4个抽象层次进行了分析,在每个抽象层次上再依据方法属性进行了分类比较.结果表明,多数情况下,基于的抽象层次越高,时间开销越小而准确度越低;不同属性的方法中模型解析法更简易可行,而故障模拟方法更贴合实际.     

An analytic study on the deflection of subway tunnel due to adjacent excavation of foundation pit

Predicting and estimating the response of subway tunnel to adjacent excavation of foundation pit is a research focus in the field of underground engineering. Based on the principle of two-stage method and incremental method, an analytic approach is suggested in this paper to solve this problem in an accurate and rapid way, and the upheavals of tunnel due to adjacent excavation are solved by analytic method. Besides, the presented method is used in the practical engineering case of Shenzhen Metro Line 11 and verified by numerical simulation and in situ measurement. Finally, a parametric analysis is performed to investigate the influence of different factors on tunnel’s deflection. Some useful conclusions have been drawn from the research as below: The deflection results of tunnel obtained from analytic method are nearly consistent with the results getting from numerical analysis and measured data, which verified the accuracy and rationality of presented method. The excavation size has a significant impact on both the displacement values and influenced range of tunnel. However, the relative distance only impacts the displacement values of tunnel, but not the influenced range of tunnel. It may provide certain reference to analyze the deflection of subway tunnel influenced by adjacent excavation.

     

Evaluation of apatite-coated chitosan microspheres for bone regeneration

The apatite-coated chitosan microspheres were fabricated by incubating chitosan in five times simulated body fluid. The apatite deposited on the microspheres was similar to natural bone mineral, as demonstrated by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction spectra and Fourier transformed-infrared spectroscopy analyses. Rat bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells （BMSCs） were seeded on apatite- coated microspheres to investigate the effect of this scaffold on cell proliferation and differentiation. BMSCs seeded on uncoated microspheres were served as a control. In vivo experiment was evaluated by transplanting the microspheres loaded with or without BMSCs in 5-mm cranial defects of Wistar rats. Bone regeneration was investigated via micro-CT and histological analysis. It was found that apatite-coated chitosan microspheres could significantly promote the proliferation and alkaline phosphatase activity of BMSCs compared with uncoated microspheres. Histological slices and Micro-CT images at 8 weeks revealed much better regeneration of bone in the apatite-coated microspheres loaded with BMSCs than the control. In addition, the defect filled with pure microspheres induced little new bone formation. Our findings suggest that the apatite-coated chitosan microspheres scaffold is a promising carrier of stem cells for cranial bone tissue engineering.     

Annealing effects on the structure and hardness of helium-irradiated Cr2AlC thin films

Cr₂AlC MAX phase thin films prepared by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering were irradiated at room temperature by 100 keV helium ions to a fluence of 1 × 10¹⁷ ions cm⁻². The effects of thermal annealing on the structural and mechanical properties of the helium-irradiated Cr₂AlC films as well as the helium release were investigated by grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD), Raman spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscope (SEM) in combination with nano-indentation and elastic recoil detection (ERD) analysis. The irradiation-induced structural damage in the Cr₂AlC is significantly recovered by thermal annealing at temperatures around 600℃, attributed to high defect diffusivity. After annealing to 750℃, the hardness of irradiated films recovered almost completely, which is ascribes to both defect recombination and reformation of damaged chemical bonds. Substantial helium release occurring at this annealing temperature is closely related to the damage recovery due to helium irradiation.