Undergraduate Summer Research in Structural Engineering

For the last seven years, a summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates site in structural engineering, funded by the National Science Foundation, has operated at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. During this time, 33 students from 22 colleges and universities have participated in the site. Participants are recruited nationally and have come from as far away as California and Puerto Rico. The program is intended to provide students interested in graduate studies with an introduction to research methods, and to provide students who will not continue their studies past a bachelor of science in civil engineering with a better understanding of how research provides the theoretical foundation of engineering practice. Students work individually with faculty on literature reviews, computer modeling, laboratory testing, and field research. Three students have researched structural failure case studies and the technical and ethical lessons to be learned from them. Participants also have the opportunity to tour construction sites and construction material manufacturers’ and fabricators’ facilities. During the past three years, an ethics seminar series has been added. At the end of the program, students prepare research papers and Web pages documenting their work and present their results to faculty, students, and other participants.     

Cortney S. Warren: Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award.

Provides the biography of Cortney S. Warren and announces that she has received the APA Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award (2004) for an outstanding research paper whose findings examine the potential for ethnicity to protect against body image disturbance by moderating the relationships between awareness and internalization of a thin physical ideal and body dissatisfaction. A selected bibliography is also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

加强电炉钢短流程生产工艺研究与技术开发的建议

论述了加强电炉钢短流程生产工艺研究与技术开发的必要性和主要课题，并提出关于组织合金钢短流程生产工艺研究与技术开发“九五”国家科技攻关及提高高研究开发投资强度的建议。     

ZPG系列盘式真空过滤机的研制与应用

详细介绍了ZPG系列盘式真空过滤机的主要特点、基本原理和主要技术参数。对盘式真空过滤机的过滤理论进行了系统的研究 ,以及为提高过滤系数和降低滤饼水分所采取的关键措施。与传统的真空过滤机进行了对比 ,表明ZPG系列盘式真空过滤机的滤饼水分可以降低 1 %～ 3 % ,过滤系数提高 3 0 %～5 0 % ,过滤每吨精矿的能耗可以降低 5 0 %左右 ,使得ZPG系列盘式真空过滤机在国内各大冶金矿山得到全面推广使用 ,创造了巨大的经济效益和社会效益。     

塔格糖制备方法研究进展

塔格糖是一种天然的低能量填充型甜味剂，并具有抑制高血糖、改善肠道菌群和不致龋齿等多种生理功效。目前主要通过生物和化学两种方法合成。     

半导体发光器件技术现状及其产业发展趋势

本文根据最新资料，综述了上前国内外半导体发光器件的现状和发展趋势，并对我国应如何发展光电器件提出建议。     

SDQ941地化-气测综合录井仪

地化-气测录井仪将地化、气测二种成熟的技术,有机地结合在一起.地化、气测数据在同一软件下运行,可达到技术互补的优势,克服了单一录井方法录取资料单一片面的缺陷,有利于提高油气层的发现率和解释成功率,为实现录井仪器和录井服务向综合型发展的战略创造了条件。该文主要介绍了仪器的构成、功能及计算机软件的特色,并阐述了该仪器的技术装备优势及应用前景。     

煤炭企业信息化建设问题探讨

企业信息化作为国民经济信息化的基础,是当前推进国民经济信息化的重中之重。伴随全球信息化浪潮,我国煤矿企业信息化进程不断向深度和广度双向推进,但依然存在一些不尽人意的地方。本文首先分析了煤矿企业信息化的现状和制约信息化的原因,在此基础生展望了煤矿企业信息化的发展方向。     

Applications of additive manufacturing (AM) in sustainable energy generation and battle against COVID-19 pandemic: The knowledge evolution of 3D printing

Sustainable and cleaner manufacturing systems have found broad applications in industrial processes, especially aerospace, automotive and power generation. Conventional manufacturing methods are highly unsustainable regarding carbon emissions, energy consumption, material wastage, costly shipment and complex supply management. Besides, during global COVID-19 pandemic, advanced fabrication and management strategies were extremely required to fulfill the shortfall of basic and medical emergency supplies. Three-dimensional printing (3DP) reduces global energy consumption and CO₂ emissions related to industrial manufacturing. Various renewable energy harvesting mechanisms utilizing solar, wind, tidal and human potential have been fabricated through additive manufacturing. 3D printing aided the manufacturing companies in combating the deficiencies of medical healthcare devices for patients and professionals globally. In this regard, 3D printed medical face shields, respiratory masks, personal protective equipment, PLA-based recyclable air filtration masks, additively manufactured ideal tissue models and new information technology (IT) based rapid manufacturing are some significant contributions of 3DP. Furthermore, a bibliometric study of 3D printing research was conducted in CiteSpace. The most influential keywords and latest research frontiers were found and the 3DP knowledge was categorized into 10 diverse research themes. The potential challenges incurred by AM industry during the pandemic were categorized in terms of design, safety, manufacturing, certification and legal issues. Significantly, this study highlights the versatile role of 3DP in battle against COVID-19 pandemic and provides up-to-date research frontiers, leading the readers to focus on the current hurdles encountered by AM industry, henceforth conduct further investigations to enhance 3DP technology.     

Teleoperation to robotics at Langley Research Center

A popular conception of the evolution of remote manipulation is a progression from teleoperation to telerobotics and then to robotics. This is logical because in going from teleoperation to robotics there would appear to be a continuous decrease in manned workload, an increase in system complexity, and an increase in the amount of intelligence in the automated system. During the past 10 years NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) has been involved in all three areas. The decision on which system is most suitable for a task depends not only on the task, but on the allocation of responsibility for intelligence or high level control. The operator may be responsible for all intelligence and control functions, they may be shared between the operator and the automated system, or they may be performed by an autonomous system. This paper discusses some of the experiences in each area in applications related to possible space tasks and some of the lessons learned.