Heat loss and thermoelectric generator design

With the object of evaluating its importance to thermoelectric generator design, heat loss is introduced into the standard thermoelectric generator design theory. The theory for both the constant hot and cold junction temperatures model and the constant heat input model are so modified. The modification is first order and, therefore, is limited to small leg heat-transfer coefficients. Numerical results using representative properties show that significant differences can exist between the optimum geometry and performance of a generator idealized as lossless and those of a generator designed by the modified theory. The largest differences occur with the constant heat input model.     

Achieving fair service with a hybrid scheduling scheme for CICQ switches

Providing performance guarantees for arriving traffic flows has become an important measure for today’s routing and switching systems. However, none of current scheduling algorithms built on CICQ (combined input and cross-point buffered) switches can provide flow level performance guarantees. Aiming at meeting this requirement, the feasibility of implementing flow level scheduling is discussed thoroughly. Then, based on the discussion, it comes up with a hybrid and stratified fair scheduling (HSFS) scheme, which is hierarchical and hybrid, for CICQ switches. With HSFS, each input port and output port can schedule variable length packets independently with a complexity of O(1). Theoretical analysis show that HSFS can provide delay bound, service rate and fair performance guarantees without speedup. Finally, we implement HSFS in SPES (switch performance evaluation system) to verify the analytical results.     

基于Vega粒子系统的自由大气分子运动虚拟仿真

在军事训练中,三维仿真的战场环境发挥了极为重要的作用。本文将对战场环境中的自由大气进行虚拟仿真。首先分析自由大气中运动分子的性质,详细介绍在模拟不规则自然现象中运用最多的粒子系统技术,最后在Vega中运用粒子系统对大气分子的运动进行模拟仿真。仿真结果能基本模拟出大气分子的运动特性,且可以通过接口编程访问粒子的属性,从而能在无人机等航迹规划的危险天气现象的规避中加以运用。     

环境荷载联合作用下海上风电结构动力响应分析

为研究海上风电结构在复杂的海洋环境中承受环境荷载(风、波、冰、流)的联合作用时,结构产生的剧烈的动力响应问题。文章以三脚架基础海上风电结构为研究对象,采用ANSYS有限元软件建立其整体模型并进行荷载(风、波、流和风、冰、流)联合作用下的静力校核,通过对环境荷载联合作用下的三脚架基础海上风电结构进行瞬态分析,掌握其动力响应的特性及规律。结果表明:三脚架基础结构的一、二阶自振频率均为0.285Hz,在所选风机允许的频率范围内,可以保证整体结构不会与风机转动发生共振;风荷载在风、波、流荷载联合作用下主导控制结构响应的稳态波动,冰荷载在风、冰、流荷载联合作用下主导控制结构的稳态振动过程;塔筒顶端呈现的位移和加速度响应均远大于三脚架基础顶端;环境荷载联合作用下结构动力响应是环境荷载单独作用下动力响应叠加的结果。     

基于统一硬化参量的海洋K0固结土动力本构模型

为方便海洋工程中桩土相互作用计算,根据海洋K₀固结土体特性,对现有相关土体本构模型进行简化。在修正剑桥模型的基础上,基于热力学理论,选用耗散功作为硬化参量,结合原状土体的固结属性,推导了适用于黏土与砂土的统一硬化模型。在此基础上,通过采用旋转硬化与等向硬化相结合的硬化理论来表征K₀固结土在循环荷载作用下的硬化规律,同时引入屈服面收缩参数Θ来描述循环荷载加载过程中土体屈服面的演化特性,进而建立了循环荷载下海洋K₀固结土体统一硬化模型。为验证本文提出的本构模型的合理性,开展了2个案例的对比研究,研究结果表明:新提出的统一硬化模型的计算值与实测值吻合,选用的计算参数少且物理意义明确。     

Estimation of elastic constant of rocks using an ANFIS approach

The engineering properties of the rocks have the most vital role in planning of rock excavation and construction for optimum utilization of earth resources with greater safety and least damage to surroundings. The design and construction of structure is influenced by physico-mechanical properties of rock mass. Young's modulus provides insight about the magnitude and characteristic of the rock mass deformation due to change in stress field. The determination of the Young's modulus in laboratory is very time consuming and costly. Therefore, basic rock properties like point load, density and water absorption have been used to predict the Young's modulus. Point load, density and water absorption can be easily determined in field as well as laboratory and are pertinent properties to characterize a rock mass. The artificial neural network (ANN), fuzzy inference system (FIS) and neuro fuzzy are promising techniques which have proven to be very reliable in recent years. In, present study, neuro fuzzy system is applied to predict the rock Young's modulus to overcome the limitation of ANN and fuzzy logic. Total 85 dataset were used for training the network and 10 dataset for testing and validation of network rules. The network performance indices correlation coefficient, mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), root mean square error (RMSE), and variance account for (VAF) are found to be 0.6643, 7.583, 6.799, and 91.95 respectively, which endow with high performance of predictive neuro-fuzzy system to make use for prediction of complex rock parameter.     

Behavioral and electrophysiological activity of (Z,E)-7,9,11-dodecatrienyl formate,a mimic of the major sex pheromone component of carob moth,Ectomyelois ceratoniae

The behavioral and electrophysiological activity of a mimic [(Z,E)7,9,11-dodecatrienyl formate] of the major sex pheromone component [(Z,E) 9,11,13-tetradecatrienal] of carob moth was assessed. Wind-tunnel bioassays demonstrated that the formate was as effective as natural gland extracts, and significantly more effective than the trienal alone or than the trienal blended with two minor pheromone components, in evoking source contact. Dispensers containing the formate were as effective as trienal-containing blend lures in attracting males when placed at the same dosage in traps in date gardens. Single-cell recordings showed that at least two olfactory neurons, differentiated by spike amplitude, are located in the long trichoid hairs on male carob moth antennae. Dose-response relationships indicated that puffs from cartridges loaded with at least 0.1 g of the formate or of the trienal were necessary to elicit spiking by either the small or the large-spiking cell within a sensillum. Cross-adaptation studies demonstrated that both compounds stimulated the same large-spiking cell. The frequencies of spikes evoked from the large cell when stimulated by emissions from 0.1-g, 1-g, or 10-g cartridges of either the formate or the trienal were not significantly different, suggesting that the formate is an effective mimic of the trienal at the antennal receptor cell level.     

一种无线链状网络路由算法的研究与应用

文章基于货运列车状态监控的无线传感器网络应用,针对网络节点能量有限以及链状网络节点负载不均衡的问题进行分析和研究,提出一种适合该应用的新型路由算法,该算法基于网络节点可通过功率控制来调整通信距离这一前提,为每个传感器节点选择合适的数据传输路径,以达到整个网络节省能耗,负载均衡的目的。仿真结果验证了该算法有效地平衡了网络负载,节省了网络能量,提高了网络生命周期。     

可靠性技术在继电器控制中的应用

本文以可靠性技术,针对继电器在使用时主要失效模式触点失效故障进行分析,从触点材料、控制负载、抑制触点电弧,并对触点在常用环境下不合理使用等问题一并进行了较详细的阐述。     

多元QoS约束下电力通信无线资源分配的边缘代理调度方法

为满足不同配电通信业务的服务质量要求,BS需要在时变网络条件下实时优化无线资源。提出一种基于级联深度网络的接入网无线资源边缘代理调度方法,将时频资源和发射功率分配给延迟耐受度不同的业务。核心网采用网元功能与专用硬件设备解耦的软切片方法,在保证负荷在规定时长内可靠切除的同时,提高了核心网服务器对不同业务的时空间复用能力。仿真结果表明,多业务并列运行时RTU与协控子站间的接入时延与TD-LTE专网相比降低40.76%,相邻第一第二信道间的功率泄露比均高于45 dB,满足毫秒级负荷切除业务分路整组动作时延和通信可靠性的要求。