Molds made of gray cast iron for casting pig iron ingots are subjected to severe temperature fluctuations. The main life-
limiting factor for mold damage is the formation of surface cracks arising from thermal fa-tigue. Various flame and plasma
sprayed coatings were investigated to extend the life of these molds. Coating materials studied include plasma sprayed ceramic
coatings with bond coats as well as flame sprayed oxidation- resistant alloy powders. The results of cyclic furnace tests
from room temperature to 1100 °C in air, simulating the thermal cycle in casting, indicated that failure occurred along the
interface between the bond coat and the gray iron substrate because of iron oxidation, and not at the interface between the
ceramic top coat-ing and the bond coating for a superalloy substrate. The field test results indicated that plasma sprayed
alumina coatings with 200 μm top coating thickness are the most promising materials for pig iron casting. 相似文献
As recent cyber-attacks have been increasing exponentially, the importance of security training for employees also has become growing ever than before. In addition, it is suggested that security training and education be an effective method for discerning cyber-attacks within academia and industries. Despite the importance and the necessity of the training, prior study did not investigate the quantitative utility of security training in an organizational level. Due to the absence of referential studies, many firms are having troubles in making decisions with respect to arranging optimal security training programs with limited security budgets. The main objective of this study is to find out a relationship between cybersecurity training and the number of incidents of organizations. Thus, this study quantified the effectiveness of security training on security incidents as the first study. This research examined the relationship among three main factors; education time, education participants, and outsourcing with numbers of cybersecurity incidents. 7089 firm level data is analyzed through Poisson regression method. Based on analysis results, we found that the negative relationship between security trainings and the occurrence of cybersecurity incidents. This study sheds light on the role of security training and education by suggesting its positive association with reducing the number of incidents in organizations from the quantitative perspective. The result of this study can be used as a referential guide for information security training decision-making procedure in organizations.
The maintenance of relevant backgrounds under various scene changes is very crucial to detect foregrounds robustly. We propose
a background maintenance method for dynamic scenes including global intensity level changes caused by changes of illumination
conditions and camera settings. If the global level of the intensity changes abruptly, the conventional background models
cannot discriminate true foreground pixels from the background. The proposed method adaptively modifies the background model
by estimating the level changes. Because there are changes caused by moving objects as well as global intensity level changes,
we estimate the dominant level change over the whole image regions by mean shift. Then, the problem caused by saturated pixels
are handled by an additional scheme. In the experiments for dynamic scenes, our proposed method outperforms previous methods
by adaptive background maintenance and handling of saturated pixels. 相似文献
GPS/INS integrated systems do not guarantee robustness and accuracy of localization, because GPS has vulnerability to external
disturbances. However, the overall performance and reliability of the system can be significantly improved by fusing multiple
sensors with a different operating principle. In outdoor environments where GPS may be blocked, there are many features compared
to the open space and these features can provide much information for UGV localization. Thus, this paper proposes an improved
localization algorithm based on the hierarchical federation of three measurement layers, i.e., GPS, INS, and visual localization,
to overcome the shortcomings of GPS/INS integrated systems. The proposed algorithm automatically switches the operation modes
according to GPS status and a network of a ground-based reference station. A vocabulary tree with SURF is used in the visual
localization method. In the data fusion of visual localization and INS, an asynchronous and time-delayed data fusion algorithm
is presented because visual localization is always time-delayed compared with INS. By using DGPS to obtain the reference position
under the dynamic conditions of the reference station, the restrictions of the conventional DGPS are overcome and all UGVs
within WiBro communication range of the reference station can accurately estimate the position with a common GPS. The experiment
results with a predefined path demonstrate enhancement of the robustness and accuracy of localization in outdoor environments. 相似文献
Unlike deterministic real-time communication in which excessive resources may be required for “absolute” performance guarantees, statistical real-time communication seeks to achieve both probabilistic performance guarantees and efficient resource sharing. This paper presents a framework for statistical real-time communication in ATM networks, providing delay-guaranteed transport of MPEG-coded video traffic with a statistically-guaranteed cell-loss ratio. Delay-guaranteed communication is achieved with a modified version of Traffic-Controlled Rate-Monotonic Priority Scheduling (TCRM). A set of statistical real-time channels that share similar traffic characteristics are multiplexed into a common macrochannel. Those statistical real-time channels which are multiplexed together share the resources of a macrochannel, and individual statistical real-time channels are given timeliness and probabilistic cell-loss guarantees. A macrochannel is serviced by the modified TCRM which improves link utilization and makes channel management simpler. Based on the analysis of an M/D/1/N queueing system, we propose a procedure for determining the transmission capacity of a macrochannel necessary to statistically guarantee a cell-loss ratio bound. Our extensive trace-driven simulation has shown the superiority of the proposed framework to the other approaches. The overall cell-loss ratios for multihop statistical real-time channels are shown to be smaller than the predetermined bounds, thus verifying our analytical results 相似文献
The resistive type high temperature superconducting fault current limiter (HTSFCL) limits the fault current with the resistance that generated by fault current. The generated resistance by fault current makes large pulse power which makes the operation of HTSFCL unstable. So, the cryogenic cooling system of the resistive type HTSFCL must diffuse and eliminate the pulse energy very quickly. Although the best way is to make wide direct contact area between HTS winding and coolant as much as possible, HTS winding also need the impregnation layer which fixes and protects it from electromagnetic force. This paper deals with thermal conductivity and dielectric strength of some epoxy compounds for the impregnation of high temperature superconducting (HTS) winding at 77 K. The measured data can be used in the optimal design of impregnation for HTS winding. Aluminar filling increased the thermal conductivity of epoxy compounds. Hardener also affected the thermal conductivity and the dielectric strength of epoxy compounds. 相似文献