Effect of Moving Speed of Charged Metallic Spherical Electrode on Electrostatic Discharge

In this investigation, the nature of the electrostatic discharge (ESD) that occurs when a charged object moves toward a stationary grounded object is experimentally clarified. The spark lengths, discharge currents, and induced voltages in a magnetic probe were measured when a charged metallic spherical electrode connected to a 422 pF capacitor approached a stationary grounded object, which was the current target, for different moving speeds of the charged metallic spherical electrode in a range of 1 mm/s to 100 mm/s. The charge voltages of the capacitor were +6.5 kV and +10 kV. Based on the results, the average gap length shortened with the speed of the spherical electrode. The average peak values of the discharge current and the induced voltage were likely to increase with the speed of the spherical electrode. The average rise times of the discharge current and the induced voltage were likely to drop with the speed of the spherical electrode. The relation between the spark length and the discharge current due to the ESD can be explained qualitatively by using an equation derived from the spark resistance formula proposed by Rompe and Weizel.     

Adaptive B‐spline neural network‐based vector control for a grid side converter in wind turbine‐DFIG systems

This paper presents a novel control system design for the grid‐side converter of doubly fed induction generator wind power generation systems. The control method proposed in this work is a vector control based on adaptive B‐spline neural network by using a simple fixed‐gain stabilizing control topology. The adaptive control is designed both for inner current loops and an outer DC‐link voltage loop of the grid side converter control system. To guarantee the control stability, the weights updating rule for the B‐spline neural network is synthesized by utilizing Lyapunov's direct method. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed control system, extensive simulations are performed using MATLAB/Simulink. Based on the simulation results, it is concluded that the proposed controller has improved performance compared to an optimum proportional integral control system. It is also relatively robust against external disturbances and variations of the control parameters. © 2015 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

一阶迎风差分格式的精度问题

通过对一维线性对流方程和一维非线性对流方程的数值求解 ,对一阶迎风差分格式的精度作了较详细的分析 .当计算如悬移质泥沙、污染物等质量输移方程时 ,应避免用其离散其中的对流项 ;而当计算水流动量方程时 ,用其离散其中的对流项可以获得较高精度结论 .最后给出了算例 ,计算结果与精确解和实验符合良好     

A reinforcement learning with switching controllers for a continuous action space

Reinforcement learning (RL) attracts much attention as a technique for realizing computational intelligence such as adaptive and autonomous decentralized systems. In general, however, it is not easy to put RL to practical use. This difficulty includes the problem of designing a suitable action space for an agent, i.e., satisfying two requirements in trade-off: (i) to keep the characteristics (or structure) of an original search space as much as possible in order to seek strategies that lie close to the optimal, and (ii) to reduce the search space as much as possible in order to expedite the learning process. In order to design a suitable action space adaptively, in this article, we propose a RL model with switching controllers based on Q-learning and an actor-critic to mimic the process of an infant’s motor development in which gross motor skills develop before fine motor skills. Then a method for switching controllers is constructed by introducing and referring to the “entropy.” Further, through computational experiments by using a path-planning problem with continuous action space, the validity and potential of the proposed method have been confirmed.     

Distance measurement between Tyr10 and Met35 in amyloid beta by site-directed spin-labeling ESR spectroscopy: implications for the stronger neurotoxicity of Abeta42 than Abeta40

The neurotoxicity of the 42-mer and 40-mer amyloid beta peptides (Abeta42 and Abeta40) is closely related to the radicalization at both Tyr10 and Met35. Abeta42 is more neurotoxic than Abeta40. Our previous structural analyses of Abeta42 suggested that Tyr10 and Met35 are brought closer together by the turn at positions 22 and 23, and the S-oxidized radical cation at position 35, which is the ultimate toxic radical species, can be produced effectively through oxidation by the phenoxy radical at position 10. To verify this idea, their separation was measured by site-directed spin labeling (MTSSL) by using ESR spectroscopy. Among the three kinds of Abeta42 derivatives, which are doubly or singly spin-labeled at position 10 and 35, only 10,35-MTSSL-Abeta42 showed a clear dipole coupling in continuous-wave ESR; this suggests that the intramolecular spin labels at position 10 and 35 in Abeta42 are located within approximately 15 A. In contrast, 10,35-MTSSL-Abeta40 did not give such signals. The distance between Tyr10 and Met35 in 10,35-MTSSL-Abeta40, which was successfully measured by pulsed ESR spectroscopy was 30 A long. The difference in the distance between Abeta42 and Abeta40 could explain in part the stronger neurotoxicity of Abeta42 compared to Abeta40.     

Properties of novel diallyl phthalate resin modified with sulfur‐containing allyl ester compounds

Sulfur‐containing allyl ester, which reacts with diallyl phthalate (DAP) resin to have allyl groups, was synthesized by the reaction of allyl phthalic acid with bisphenol having sulfur atoms. The sulfur‐containing allyl ester compound was blended with DAP resin to improve the adhesive properties to copper. By modification with sulfur‐containing allyl ester compound, the T‐peel adhesive strength and the lap shear adhesive strength to copper was improved. In particular, the adhesive strength was greatly improved when the resin was modified with the allyl ester compound having a disulfide bond (?S?S?) (DADS). It is concluded that this result is due to the improvement of the interfacial adhesive strength because the sulfur atom was found to be located in the surface of the copper by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis. The glass transition temperature (T_g) and the thermal decomposition temperature (T_d) of the cured DAP resin modified with DADS slightly decreased with increasing concentration of DADS. The lowering of T_g is because the crosslinking density of the DAP resin modified with DADS is smaller than that of DAP resin. Moreover, from thermogravimetric analysis, the lowering of Td of the DAP resin modified with DADS is because DADS is likely to pyrolyze. © 2013 Society of Chemical Industry     

Reduction of irreversible capacities of amorphous carbon materials for lithium ion battery anodes by Li2CO3 addition

Amorphous carbon materials for lithium ion battery anodes which contain a small amount of Li₂CO₃ were prepared by three methods. The obtained materials were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, Raman spectroscopy and CO₂ adsorption experiments. Although the XRD profiles and Raman spectra of these materials were similar to those of carbon materials synthesized with no addition, the amount of CO₂ adsorbed was largely decreased by Li₂CO₃ addition. These results suggest that the micropores in these materials were plugged and/or filled with Li₂ CO₃. Galvanostatic lithium charging and discharging experiments showed that the irreversible capacity of the material can be significantly decreased by Li₂CO₃ addition, which is thought to be due to the plugging of the pore inlets by Li₂CO₃. Moreover, it was also found that the reversible capacities of the materials can be increased by adjusting both the amount of Li₂CO₃ addition and carbonization temperature.     

Novel organic-inorganic hybrids prepared from polybenzoxazine and titania using sol-gel process

Novel organic-inorganic hybrids were prepared from polybenzoxazine and titania using sol-gel process by blending titanium isopropoxide as a precursor for titania with a typical benzoxazine monomer, bis(3-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,3-benzoxazinyl)isopropane (Ba). Deep red brown and transparent hybrid materials were obtained after thermal cure at 200 °C. DSC indicated that, in the presence of titania precursor, the onset and maximum temperature of the exothermic peak due to the ring opening polymerization of Ba decreased by ca. 30 and 70 °C, respectively. Viscoelastic analyses revealed that the glass transition temperatures (T_g) of the polybenzoxazine-titania hybrids shifted to higher temperature than the neat polybenzoxazine. The storage moduli below T_g for the hybrids increased with the increase of the titania content, and the storage moduli were maintained constant up to higher temperature than the neat resin. TGA results confirmed that the thermal stability and char yield of polybenzoxazine increased by hybridization with titania.     

Annealing Effect in GaDyN on Optical and Magnetic Properties

The annealing effect on the optical and magnetic properties of the GaDyN layers was studied. The PL intensities of yellow and green bands as well as the intra-4f orbital transition of Dy³⁺ ions were found to decrease for the samples annealed at 900 and 1000 °C. It is supposed that the intra-4f orbital transition is related to the broad peak luminescence coming from defects. Increasing the annealing temperature, the magnetization becomes smaller. It is considerable that the number of electrons coming from defects was reduced by the annealing treatments and that the ferromagnetism in GaDyN is attributed as carrier induced ferromagnetism.