Conceptual damage-sensitive features for structural health monitoring: Laboratory and field demonstrations

The use of damage-sensitive features to evaluate structural condition or health is a very critical aspect of structural health monitoring. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential of two different damage-sensitive features for detecting damage. Different damage scenarios are simulated on a large-scale laboratory structure and a three-span highway bridge for demonstration. The features presented in this paper are the modal flexibility-based deflection and curvature both of which are obtained directly from dynamic properties. In the literature, flexibility associated with mode shapes and mode shapes curvatures have been mostly explored. In this study, multi-input–multi-output dynamic data are used to obtain modal flexibility, which is a close approximation to the actual flexibility. A main novelty is that the curvature is calculated from the deflected shapes using the modal flexibility as opposed to using modal vectors. In this paper, the theory of the methodology is explained and then experimental studies and results are presented. For the experimental studies, the laboratory specimen and the three-span bridge were gradually damaged. It is shown that both deflection and curvature are conceptual and physically meaningful features for damage detection and localization. The issues and the requirements for these features to perform successfully are also presented.     

Simultaneous sulfide and acetate oxidation under denitrifying conditions using an inverse fluidized bed reactor

BACKGROUND: Simultaneous removal of sulfur, nitrogen and carbon compounds from wastewaters is a commercially important biological process. The objective was to evaluate the influence of the CH₃COO^?/NO₃^? molar ratio on the sulfide oxidation process using an inverse fluidized bed reactor (IFBR). RESULTS: Three molar ratios of CH₃COO^?/NO₃^? (0.85, 0.72 and 0.62) with a constant S^2?/NO₃^? molar ratio of 0.13 were evaluated. At a CH₃COO^?/NO₃^? molar ratio of 0.85, the nitrate, acetate and sulfide removal efficiencies were approximately 100%. The N₂ yield (g N₂ g^?1 NO₃^?‐N consumed) was 0.81. Acetate was mineralized, resulting in a yield of 0.65 g inorganic‐C g^?1 CH₃COO^?‐C consumed. Sulfide was partially oxidized to S⁰, and 71% of the S^2? consumed was recovered as elemental sulfur by a settler installed in the IFBR. At a CH₃COO^?/NO₃^? molar ratio of 0.72, the efficiencies of nitrate, acetate and sulfide consumption were of 100%, with N₂ and inorganic‐C yields of 0.84 and 0.69, respectively. The sulfide was recovered as sulfate instead of S⁰, with a yield of 0.92 g SO₄^2?‐S g^?1 S^2? consumed. CONCLUSIONS: The CH₃COO^?/NO₃^? molar ratio was shown to be an important parameter that can be used to control the fate of sulfide oxidation to either S⁰ or sulfate. In this study, the potential of denitrification for the simultaneous removal of organic matter, sulfide and nitrate from wastewaters was demonstrated, obtaining CO₂, S⁰ and N₂ as the major end products. Copyright © 2008 Society of Chemical Industry     

Solving the trade-off between fairness and throughput: Token bucket and leaky bucket-based weighted fair queueing schedulers

In this article, we present two efficient weighted fair queueing (WFQ) scheduling algorithms leaned on the well-known token bucket and leaky bucket shaping/policing algorithms. The performance of the presented algorithms is compared to those of the state-of-the-art WFQ approximations such as weighted round robin (WRR) and the recently proposed bin sort fair queueing (BSFQ). Our simulation results show that the proposed algorithms provide a better fairness at a lower implementation complexity while simultaneously achieving a comparable network utilization.     

VSC8150在波分复用系统开销提取中的应用

波分复用系统将不同波长的光复用在一起进行传输,以满足对传输容量和传输距离的各种需求。介绍了一种开销监视与提取的设计方法,使用VSC8150提取承载在波分复用系统相应波长上SDH信号的开销。分析了VSC8150的工作原理,管脚和外部接口,以及与FPGA、单片机共同完成B1重新计算,开销提取,B1,J0提取。此外,还提出将帧丢失,帧失步等错误状态传送给单片机和网管的方法。本设计增强了波分复用系统网管管理参数,功能和灵活性,这会在系统维护时带来较大的方便。该设计已经成熟应用在实际的波分复用系统中。     

催化裂化沉降器多臂式旋流快分系统封闭罩内的流场

用智能型五孔探针对催化裂化沉降器内多臂式旋流分离系统封闭罩内的气体流场进行了测试。测试结果表明，罩内流场为轴对称的三维湍流场，在旋流头喷出口处径向速度较大，呈短路流现象。根据流场测试结果，建立了三维气流速度分布的无因次计算式，可供工程设计参考。     

氧气合理利用决策支持系统和空分装置操作仿真系统

分析了钢铁企业空分系统能源管理的特点 ,并开发出降低空分能耗的应用软件 :氧气合理利用决策支持系统和空分装置操作仿真系统。前者可为决策者提供全面的辅助决策信息和决策支持以降低氧气放散 ,实现氧气的合理利用 ;后者既可实现空分装置运行操作的仿真 ,也可实现空分装置的仿真实验和仿真操作 ,为实施空分装置的节能优化运行提供技术支持     

Characterization of dynamic behavior of a spout-fluid bed with Shannon entropy analysis

Differential pressure fluctuation time series were obtained at different locations in a two-dimensional spout-fluid bed with a cross section of 300 × 30 mm and height 2000 mm. Shannon entropy analysis of differential pressure fluctuations was developed to characterize the dynamic behavior. Effects of two important operating parameters (spouting gas velocity and fluidizing gas flow rate) on the Shannon entropy were examined. It was demonstrated that a spout-fluid bed at a high spouting gas velocity or fluidizing gas flow rate was a deterministic chaos system since the Shannon entropies at all bed locations increased sharply and asymmetric unstable flows occurred. Shannon entropies were found to be significantly different at various bed locations. Shannon entropies of different flow regimes were distinct, so they were used to identify the flow regimes. The results show that the Shannon entropy helps to grasp the complex characteristics of dynamic behavior in spout-fluid beds.     

储运罐区计算机监测系统的开发与应用

储运罐区计算机监测系统是石化企业自动控制的薄弱环节。中国石油集团公司抚顺石油一厂使用ZYG-101型电子智能液位仪，以及使用FIX组态软件完成该系统的数据库组态、工艺流程显示、实时和历史趋势显示、报警和报表等处理过程，通过二次表的串行口与计算机进行通信，由计算机实时监测每个罐的各种重要参数。运行证明：该系统测量误差小，数据实时性好．易于存储及远程传送，较理想地达到储运罐区的自动检测功能。     

中子寿命测井在评价管外窜槽中的应用

管外窜槽已成为制约中原油田注水开发的障碍，并造成了严重的经济损失。文中分析了管外窜槽的形成机理，重点介绍了注硼中子寿命测井技术用于管外窜槽监测的原理、工艺及解释方法。结合中原油田的应用实例，论证了中子寿命测井评价管外窜槽的有效性，为油藏动态监测提供了有效手段。     

变形观测与高精度测量机器人系统

介绍了中南大学自行研制开发的高精度测量机器人系统的组成，工作原理，以及该系统实现高精度观测所采取的主要措施；仪器室内检定，野外边频同测，高精度气象改正，周日观测等，同时以某电站大坝的变形观测为例，简单介绍该系统可达到的精度及工程应用领域。