Lean philosophy: implementation in a forging company

This research addresses the implementation of lean philosophy in a forging company with a focus on radial forging production flow lines. Here, the prime motive is to evolve and test several strategies to eliminate waste on the shop floor. In this research, a systematic approach is suggested for the implementation of lean principles. This paper describes an application of value stream mapping (VSM). Consequently, the present and future states of value stream maps are constructed to improve the production process by identifying waste and its sources. Furthermore, Taguchi’s method of design of experiments is pursued here to minimize the forging defects produced due to imperfect operating conditions. A noticeable reduction in set-up time and work-in-process (WIP) inventory level is substantiated. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of managerial implications and the future scope of research.     

Estimating thermal stress in BIPV modules

The thermal stress on building‐integrated photovoltaic modules (BIPV) in Espoo, Finland, was studied with field‐testing of amorphous silicon modules. Based on these results, the thermal stress at two other European locations (Paris and Lisbon) was estimated. The estimation procedure entailed thermal modelling of heat transfer in the façade with meteorological data as input. The results indicate that the thermal stress on BIPV modules in Lisbon is, in this case, approximately 50% higher that in Espoo and between 80 and 200% higher than in Paris, depending on the activation energy of the degradation process. The difference in stress between a BIPV module and a free‐standing module in Espoo was 50–200%. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Preparation of phenolic resin derived 3-D ordered macroporous carbon

Three-dimensionally ordered long-range macroporous carbon structures were prepared using commercially available phenolic resin by utilizing sacrificial colloidal silica crystalline arrays as templates that were subsequently removed by HF etching after pyrolysis in an argon atmosphere. SEM, TEM, and BET were employed to characterize the morphology and the surface area of the porous carbon structures. The pore size (150–1000 nm) and BET surface area, which reflect pore volume (298.6 m²/g (1.32 cm³/g) ∼ 93.7 m²/g (0.12 cm³/g)), of the macroporous carbon structures produced were approximately proportional to the size (150–1000 nm) of the sacrificial silica sphere templates used (annealing temp. 550°C). The achieved 550 nm porous carbon structures were examined to function as potential catalyst carriers and were successfully impregnated with Ag or Pt-Ru on their inner walls after borohydride reduction at room temperature. In addition, porous carbon patterns were fabricated using the ‘micromolding in capillary’ technique, which has potential applications in the microreaction technology.     

支承环材料FH—857的极限PV曲线测试方法研究

研究了新型减摩耐磨支承环材料FH—857纤维增强层压酚醛的极限PV曲线的测试方法。测定了此种材料的极限PV曲线。测试结果表明:当滑动速度降低时,极限压强迅速上升,在给定速度下,FH—857的极限压强高于日本LF材料的极限压强,在10m/min滑动速度下,PV值为335MPa.m/min。失效形式是蠕变。     

Evolutionary circuit design for fast FPGA-based classification of network application protocols

The evolutionary design can produce fast and efficient implementations of digital circuits. It is shown in this paper how evolved circuits, optimized for the latency and area, can increase the throughput of a manually designed classifier of application protocols. The classifier is intended for high speed networks operating at 100 Gbps. Because a very low latency is the main design constraint, the classifier is constructed as a combinational circuit in a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The classification is performed using the first packet carrying the application payload. The improvements in latency (and area) obtained by Cartesian genetic programming are validated using a professional FPGA design tool. The quality of classification is evaluated by means of real network data. All results are compared with commonly used classifiers based on regular expressions describing application protocols.     

C语言中有关内存概念的教学研究

为使学生能快速掌握C语言的相关概念,为今后进行程序设计打下良好的基础,针对在教学过程中学生难以理解的几个问题,结合实例探讨了C语言中有关内存概念的教学方法,着重分析了内存与数组、函数参数、变量的作用域和生成期之间的关系。     

An ant direction hybrid differential evolution heuristic for the large-scale passive harmonic filters planning problem

This article presents a heuristic which combines the orthogonal array experiment technique and an ant direction hybrid differential evolution algorithm (ADHDEOA) for planning of a large-scale passive harmonic filters problem. The addressed problem has a multi-bus and under abundant harmonic current sources in the system. In this study, an orthogonal array is first conducted to obtain the initial solution. Next, an ant direction hybrid differential evolution (ADHDE) is applied to search for a near optimum solution. The objective is to minimize the cost of the filter, the total demand distortion of harmonic currents and the total harmonic distortion of voltages at each bus simultaneously. In order to determine a set of weights of each term in the objective function, the simplest and most efficient form of triangular membership functions has been considered. The designed heuristic ADHDEOA is applied to a practical harmonic problem in a steel plant, and three design schemes are compared to demonstrate the performance of the ADHDEOA.     

基于光伏电池输出特性的MPPT算法研究

为了寻找更好的实现光伏发电系统最大功率点跟踪控制方法,基于单个光伏电池的物理特性建立了太阳能光伏电池阵列的Matlab仿真模型,分析了太阳能光伏电池阵列所具有的随着光照强度和温度不同而变化的P-U和I-U非线性特性.基于光伏电池的动态特性,在最大功率点跟踪算法的设计中增加一个电流监测回路,并结合自寻优技术对电导增量法进行改进,提出了一种自适应变步长寻优算法.仿真结果表明,该算法能够快速准确的跟踪最大功率点.     

广义Jensen-Schur测度在医学图像配准中的应用

使用互信息或归一化互信息测度进行医学图像配准时,由于噪声、模态、插值等影响,测度函数存在许多局部极值,收敛范围较窄,有可能导致误配准。为了克服上述缺点,定义了广义Jensen-Schur测度,利用巴特沃思函数对自变量值的非线性压缩功能,成功地消除了PV插值伪极值点。从测度曲线光滑性、抗噪鲁棒性、收敛性能方面,对四种新构造的广义Jensen-Schur测度、互信息和归一化互信息进行了比较和分析。实验结果表明,新构造的JS22和JS23测度在以上三个方面的性能都优于其他测度。     

声学参量换能器阵及其测试系统设计

根据声学参量阵原理,设计了一个3×3的九元矩形换能器阵及其测试系统,并在空气进行验证性实验;系统包括正弦信号产生电路、信号控制电路、功率放大电路以及回波信号接收电路等,辅以LabVIEW平台,实现正弦信号和脉冲控制信号的产生,发射信号时间长度控制以及功率放大,并最终驱动换能器阵;实验表明,当有85kHz和90kHz的正弦信号产生时,系统各部分均能正常工作,能够听到天花板处有声响,且回波信号中含有5kHz的频率成分,即证明换能器阵及其系统的设计均是可行的.