Successful melting and Mg treatment were conducted using a vortex unit which produced spheroidal graphite (SG) Fe ingots having a percentage carbon equivalent (%CE) ranging from 3.782 to 5.240. Microstructure examination revealed graphite nodules embedded in a white matrix (unetched condition). The variation of %CE proved to have a pronounced effect on the nodule characteristics. The nodule count showed a maximum value at %CE of 4.613. For metal-mould ingots it reached a value of 1584 nodules mm–2, while for sand-mould ingots it reached a value of 970 nodules mm–2. Nodule size was found to be inversely proportional to the nodule count for both sand- and metal-mould ingots. The nodularity of all ingots was, in general, higher than 95%. The density of SG Fe was found to decrease gradually (at %CE=3.782) from 7242 to 6969 kg m–3. The modulus of elasticity (E) showed a boat-like curve having minimum values of 189 and 192 GPa for the sand and metal moulds, respectively. 相似文献
Wide-bandgap zinc oxide (ZnO) semiconductors and nanowires have become important materials for electronic and photonic device
applications. In this work, we report the growth of well-aligned single-crystal ZnO nanowire arrays on sapphire substrates
by chemical vapor deposition and the development of atom probe tomography, an emerging nanoscale characterization method capable
of providing deeper insight into the three-dimensional distribution of atoms and impurities within its structure. Using a
metal-catalyst-free approach, the influence of the growth parameters on the orientation and density of the nanowires were
studied. The resulting ZnO nanowires were determined to be single crystalline, with diameter on the order of 50 nm to 150 nm
and length that could be controlled between 0.5 μm to 20 μm. Their density was on the order of high 108 cm−2 to low 109 cm−2. In addition to routine characterizations using scanning and transmission electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, photoluminescence,
and Raman spectroscopy, we developed the atom probe tomography technique for ZnO nanowires, comparing the voltage pulse and
laser pulse modes. In-depth analysis of the data was carried out to determine the accurate chemical composition of the nanowires
and reveal the incorporation of nitrogen impurities. The current–voltage characteristics of individual nanowires were measured
to determine their electrical properties. 相似文献
Drugs and other chemical compounds are often modeled as polygonal
shapes, where each vertex represents an atom
of the molecule, and covalent bonds between atoms are represented by edges between
the corresponding vertices. This polygonal shape derived from a chemical
compound is often called its molecular graph, and can be a
path, a tree, or in general a graph. An indicator defined over this molecular graph,
the Wiener index, has been shown to be strongly correlated to various
chemical properties of the compound.
The Wiener index conjecture for trees states that for any integer n (except for
a finite set), one can find a tree with Wiener index n.
This conjecture has been open for quite some time, and many authors have presented incremental progress
on this problem. In this paper we present further progress towards proving this conjecture—through
the design of efficient algorithms, we show that enumerating all possible
trees to verify this conjecture (as done by all the previous approaches) is not necessary,
but instead searching in a small special family
of trees suffices, thus achieving the first polynomial (in n) time algorithm to verify the
conjecture up to integer n.
More precisely, we
(i) present an infinite family of trees and prove various properties of these trees,
(ii) show that a large number of integers, up to at least 108
(compared with the previous best 104) are representable as Wiener indices of trees in this
succinct family,
(iii) provide several efficient algorithms for computing trees with given Wiener indices, and
(iv) implement our algorithms and experimentally show that their performance is asymptotically
much better than their theoretical worst-case upper bound. 相似文献
This study was conducted to evaluate quality and structural changes in parallelepipedic pieces of pears during convective drying at different air temperatures (30–70 °C).Submitted to atmospheric O2 conditions, ascorbic acid deterioration demonstrated first-order kinetic behaviour and was found to depend on air temperature and pear moisture content. Loss of ascorbic acid content increased with increasing air temperature. Possible explanation could be the irreversible oxidative reaction occurring during drying. Phenol content degradation fitted a pseudo first-order reaction and was significantly influenced by air temperature.Variations in bulk density, shrinkage and porosity essentially depended on changes in moisture content. Porosity exhibited a nonlinear variation with respect to moisture content. Volume change showed, as expected, a linear variation with moisture content. Drying temperature significantly induced the increase of a* and b* colorimetric parameters due to non-enzymatic browning reaction, which turned the samples more reddish and yellow when the temperature rose. 相似文献
The deformation up to fracture at 150 K was undertaken on α-β brass two-phase bicrystals. The variation of the slip systems
during the proceeding deformation was studied and explained on the basis of incompatible stresses. The normal stress-strain
curves were analyzed for various types of bicrystals and the bending that appeared in the specimens when unloaded was explained
with respect to the occurrence of the Bauschinger effect in the α phase. Fracture modes other than those observed at room
temperature were present. The results, and other minor problems, were discussed. 相似文献
The effect of nano-sized PbO (10–30 nm) addition on the transport critical current density, Jc of (Bi1.6Pb0.4)Sr2Ca2Cu3O10 (PbO)x (x=0–0.15 wt%) was investigated. Jc of PbO added pellet samples showed the maximal value at x=0.05 wt%. Using this result, Ag-sheathed (Bi1.6Pb0.4)Sr2Ca2Cu3O10 (PbO)x/Ag tapes (x=0 and 0.05 wt %) were fabricated by the powder-in-tube (PIT) method. The tapes were sintered for 50 h and 100 h at 845 °C. The temperature dependence of Jc for the non-added and PbO added tapes in applied field was investigated. Jc of the non-added tapes was 4510 A/cm2 at 40 K and 949 A/cm2 at 77 K. Jc of (Bi1.6Pb0.4)Sr2Ca2Cu3O10 (PbO)0.05/Ag tape sintered for 100 h was 26,800 A/cm2 at 40 K and 10,700 A/cm2 at 40 K, which was higher than the tapes sintered for 50 h (8590 A/cm2 at 40 K and 1880 A/cm2 at 77 K). Nano-sized PbO added tapes sintered for 100 h showed a higher Jc (more than 10 times) under magnetic field (0–0.75 T) compared with the non-added tape. A combined effect of enhanced flux pinning and improved microstructure led to the significant increase in Jc of the nano-sized PbO added tapes. 相似文献
Volleyball premier league (VPL) simulating some phenomena of volleyball game has been presented recently. This powerful algorithm uses such racing and interplays between teams within a season. Furthermore, the algorithm imitates the coaching procedure within a game. Therefore, some volleyball metaphors, including substitution, coaching, and learning, are used to find a better solution prepared by the VPL algorithm. However, the learning phase has the largest effect on the performance of the VPL algorithm, in which this phase can lead to making the VPL stuck in optimal local solution. Therefore, this paper proposed a modified VPL using sine cosine algorithm (SCA). In which the SCA operators have been applied in the learning phase to obtain a more accurate solution. So, we have used SCA operators in VPL to grasp their advantages resulting in a more efficient approach for finding the optimal solution of the optimization problem and avoid the limitations of the traditional VPL algorithm. The propounded VPLSCA algorithm is tested on the 25 functions. The results captured by the VPLSCA have been compared with other metaheuristic algorithms such as cuckoo search, social-spider optimization algorithm, ant lion optimizer, grey wolf optimizer, salp swarm algorithm, whale optimization algorithm, moth flame optimization, artificial bee colony, SCA, and VPL. Furthermore, the three typical optimization problems in the field of designing engineering have been solved using the VPLSCA. According to the obtained results, the proposed algorithm shows very reasonable and promising results compared to others.
A workflow system, in its general form, is basically a heterogeneous and distributed information system where the tasks are performed using autonomous systems. Resources, such as databases, labor, etc. are typically required to process these tasks. Prerequisite to the execution of a task is a set of constraints that reflect the applicable business rules and user requirements.In this paper we present a Petri Net (PN) based framework that (1) facilitates specification of workflow applications, (2) serves as a powerful tool for modeling the system under study at a conceptual level, (3) allows for a smooth transition from the conceptual level to a testbed implementation and (4) enables the analysis, simulation and validation of the system under study before proceeding to implementation. Specifically, we consider three categories of task dependencies: control flow, value and external (temporal).We identify several structural properties of PN and demonstrate their use for conducting the following type of analyses: (1) identify inconsistent dependency specifications among tasks; (2) test for workflow safety, i.e. test whether the workflow terminates in an acceptable state; (3) for a given starting time, test whether it is feasible to execute a workflow with the specified temporal constraints. We also provide an implementation for conducting the above analyses. 相似文献