Mullite-corundum refractories for pouring steel through slide gates

Conclusions At the Ukrainian Scientific-Research Institute of Refractories, in collaboration with Ukrogneupornerod and the Chasov-Yar Refractories Combine, methods have been developed for improving the service properties of mullite-corundum slabs and increasing their reliability and stability in operation. The commercial production of mullite-corundum slabs has been organized.The slabs are being successfully used in stopperless steel pouring at the Il'ich Metallurgical Works, Zhdanov, and at the Donetsk Metallurgical Works.To increase the stability of mullite-corundum slabs to two or three meltings, it is necessary to organize the commercial production of these articles with alumina-enriched binder.Translated from Ogneupory, No. 5, pp. 25–29, May, 1981.     

二次盐水精制采用5台树脂塔流程简介

介绍了国内首创的离子膜盐水二次精制塔工艺,运行6 a证明本工艺是投资省、见 效快,生产能力大,又切实可行的工艺方法。     

单组分聚脲材料在寒冷地区某大坝溢流面防护中的应用

水利水电工程泄洪建筑物表面经常遭受高速含沙水流或携带推移质的冲刷,经过一段时间的运行,往往会出现不同程度的磨损及气蚀破坏,采用性能优越的水工混凝土抗冲耐磨材料修复和防护尤为重要。本文通过单组分聚脲材料性能试验揭示了材料的特点,介绍了其在新疆某大坝溢流面防护中的应用情况,其处理技术对类似工程具有良好的借鉴意义。     

New software developments for quality mesh generation and optimization from biomedical imaging data

In this paper we present a new software toolkit for generating and optimizing surface and volumetric meshes from three-dimensional (3D) biomedical imaging data, targeted at image-based finite element analysis of some biomedical activities in a single material domain. Our toolkit includes a series of geometric processing algorithms including surface re-meshing and quality-guaranteed tetrahedral mesh generation and optimization. All methods described have been encapsulated into a user-friendly graphical interface for easy manipulation and informative visualization of biomedical images and mesh models. Numerous examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the described methods and toolkit.     

Automatic moment segmentation and peak detection analysis of heart sound pattern via short-time modified Hilbert transform

This paper proposes a novel automatic method for the moment segmentation and peak detection analysis of heart sound (HS) pattern, with special attention to the characteristics of the envelopes of HS and considering the properties of the Hilbert transform (HT). The moment segmentation and peak location are accomplished in two steps. First, by applying the Viola integral waveform method in the time domain, the envelope (E_T) of the HS signal is obtained with an emphasis on the first heart sound (S1) and the second heart sound (S2). Then, based on the characteristics of the E_T and the properties of the HT of the convex and concave functions, a novel method, the short-time modified Hilbert transform (STMHT), is proposed to automatically locate the moment segmentation and peak points for the HS by the zero crossing points of the STMHT. A fast algorithm for calculating the STMHT of E_T can be expressed by multiplying the E_T by an equivalent window (W_E). According to the range of heart beats and based on the numerical experiments and the important parameters of the STMHT, a moving window width of N = 1 s is validated for locating the moment segmentation and peak points for HS. The proposed moment segmentation and peak location procedure method is validated by sounds from Michigan HS database and sounds from clinical heart diseases, such as a ventricular septal defect (VSD), an aortic septal defect (ASD), Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), rheumatic heart disease (RHD), and so on. As a result, for the sounds where S2 can be separated from S1, the average accuracies achieved for the peak of S1 (AP₁), the peak of S2 (AP₂), the moment segmentation points from S1 to S2 (AT₁₂) and the cardiac cycle (ACC) are 98.53%, 98.31% and 98.36% and 97.37%, respectively. For the sounds where S1 cannot be separated from S2, the average accuracies achieved for the peak of S1 and S2 (AP₁₂) and the cardiac cycle ACC are 100% and 96.69%.     

Effect of boron nitride addition on some properties of aluminosilicate refractories

Conclusions An addition of 10–60 wt.% of boron nitride significantly alters the thermal conductivity, thermal expansion, and the elastic modulus of aluminosilicate refractories.As the boron nitride content is increased from 1–60% the strength of specimens heated in a nitrogen atmosphere with an oxygen content of 0.02% decreases.During cyclic heat treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere between 900 and 20°C additional bonds develop between the particles of the aluminosilicate and the oxygen-free additive. As a result the strength of the specimen increases.The thermal shock resistance of the specimens increases with an increase in the amount of boron nitride addition. Specimens with 40–50% boron nitride addition are in practice insensitive to temperature drops in the range 20–2400°C.Aluminosilicate refractories with the addition of 30–40 wt.% of boron nitride can be used as lining material in high temperature systems with brief nonsteady or cyclic work schedules.Translated from Ogneupory, No. 4, pp. 36–39, April, 1968.     

Composition and Properties of Biodegradable Materials

The important possibility of fabricating biodegradable materials by incorporating different bio- and photodegradable additives in the polymer is demonstrated. Changes were found in the structure and properties of degradable materials during exposure to soil microorganisms, air, and UV radiation for different times. The results obtained can serve as the basis for a more in-depth investigation of the mechanism of degradation of PCM.     

Optimizing ranking method using social annotations based on language model

Recent research has shown that more and more web users utilize social annotations to manage and organize their interested resources. Therefore, with the growing popularity of social annotations, it is becoming more and more important to utilize such social annotations to achieve effective web search. However, using a statistical model, there are no previous studies that examine the relationships between queries and social annotations. Motivated by this observation, we use social annotations to re-rank search results. We intend to optimize retrieval ranking method by using the ranking strategy of integrating the query-annotation similarity into query-document similarity. Specifically, we calculate the query-annotation similarity by using a statistical language model, which in a shorter form we call simply a language model. Then the initial search results are re-ranked according to the computational weighted score of the query-document similarity score and the query-annotation similarity score. Experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the NDCG score by 8.13%. We further conduct an empirical evaluation of the method by using a query set including about 300 popular social annotations and constructed phrases. More generally, the optimized results with social annotations based on a language model can be of significant benefit to web search.     

Safe Landing Analysis of a Quadrotor Aircraft With Two Legs

We proposed a multi-propeller multifunction aerial robot (MMAR) that is composed of a quadrotor with two legs. The legs can increase the function of the robot. We found that the legs can increase the safety region of the robot during the landing. To study the safety problem, the dynamics of MMAR interacting with environment should be solved. On the basis of the interaction dynamics, this paper investigates the velocity constraint for safe landing of MMAR. The investigation begins from the kinematics and dynamics of MMAR in flight mode. Then the impact dynamics of MMAR during landing is developed. Furthermore, the landing safety problem is formulated by a series of constraint equations which can give a safety region of the velocity during landing. The safety region can give the safe velocity of the aerial robot before landing. Finally, simulation examples are presented using the proposed methodology. In the examples, a detailed safety region of a simulated MMAR is constructed and shown.