Air quality work at Guelph: GAViM and a traffic tunnel study

The Guelph Aerosol and Visibility Monitoring (GAViM) program presently runs three monitoring sites: two rural sites compatible with the IMPROVE protocol and one urban site mostly for special comparison studies. Fine aerosol is analyzed by the Laser Integrated Plate Method (LIPM), Proton Elastic Scattering Analysis (PESA), Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and gravimetric analysis. Air quality data from the presently running sites and from two rural sites operated in the past are available through the WWW. The Guelph Scanning Proton Laboratory also participates in other aerosol programs: PIXE was employed to determine the composition of the ambient aerosol in a Vancouver traffic tunnel, to identify the main emission sources and to make estimates of vehicle emission factors. The PIXE facility was also modified for analysis of size-fractionated samples from the PIXE International Cascade Impactor (PCI) sampler. Significant improvement in detection limits for light elements due to the two-detector PIXE system used in Guelph, was justified particularly because of low air particulate loadings in case of PCI.     

弹性金属塑料瓦推力轴承的滑移问题研究

本文对流体力学的经典雷诺方程中固液界面无滑移假设对于弹性金属塑料瓦的适用性提出疑问，从理论上论证在一些表面能低的聚合物表面存在滑移的可能性，并进行对比实验，实验证明在聚四氟乙烯与润滑油的界面上存在滑移现象，发现滑移是在剪切速率和油膜厚度达到一定值才出现的，滑移速度随着转速的提高和膜厚的减小而增大。在分析以聚四氟乙烯为表面的弹性金属塑料轴瓦的润滑机理时，应当对雷诺方程进行修正，计入滑移因素的影响。