A new procedure to generate resonance integral table with an explicit resonance interference for transport lattice codes

Resonance interference could not be considered explicitly in the conventional resonance treatment employing subgroup and direct resonance integral methods when using coarse energy group structure. This problem comes from the lack of information for the resonance shapes of resonant nuclides in the resonance interference formulas. As energy group boundaries get coarser, inaccuracy in estimating self-shielded cross sections with resonance interference gets bigger. A new method has been proposed to conserve the self-shielded cross sections for each group through an explicit consideration of resonance interference effect, which results in a good accuracy in predicting the multiplication factor. This method can be applicable to various mixing combinations of constituent resonant nuclides with resonance interference and can cover wide dilution range. The MERIT code has been used to generate resonance integral tables and to estimate resonance interference effects. And the 2-D transport lattice code KARMA has been used to perform sample calculations to see the effectiveness of the newly developed method. Sample calculations have been performed for single pins with various temperatures, ²³⁵U enrichments and dilution levels with the 47 and 190 energy group structures. The computational results show that this method is able to estimate self-shielded cross sections in each coarse energy group accurately for various temperatures and various geometry and composition configurations.     

Improvement on application of Dancoff factor and resonance interference table

An improvement for application of Dancoff factor is developed. It combines Stamm'ler's two-term method for resonance integral calculation with neutron current method for Dancoff factor calculation. Stamm'ler's formulation, which is originally derived for the infinite lattice geometry, can be easily revised to contain the Dancoff factor explicitly, while the neutron current method can easily calculate the Dancoff factor for general irregular assembly geometry. For the resonance interference effects the resonance interference factor table is built in pairs of nuclides, only for the interference between 238 U and other resonance nuclides, spanning over a range of background cross-section and number density ratio of the pairing nuclides. A series of verification calculations have been carried out for problems of infinite lattice and single assembly geometry, with two or multiple resonance absorbers. For these verification calculations, our improvement on Dancoff factor application and resonance interference give good results.     

用于无线能量传输系统的微带天线设计

本文提出一种用于组成无线能量传输(Wireless Power Transmission,WPT)系统的微带天线结构,并采用基于有限元法的电磁仿真软件(HFSS)对微带天线进行3D建模.在二端口网络分析法的基础上,建立磁耦合共振无线能量传输等效电路模型,求解出系统发生频率分叉现象产生的条件以及最大效率时的频率表达式.基于以上方法,研究本文设计的微带天线传输特性,包括:系统的最优传输效率与耦合距离的关系,工作频率与耦合距离的关系,得出在能量传输距离在50cm左右时,天线的谐振频率为12.5MHz,效率可达63%.微带天线具有很大的结构优势,如与集成电路兼容,成本低,体积相对较小,且工艺相当成熟,易大规模批量生产等优势.因此该设计的平面微带天线可用于无线能量传输系统.     

正交矩形波导复合耦合槽特性分析

两个正交矩形波导公共宽边上偏离中心线的耦合斜槽称为复合耦合槽。考虑波导壁的厚度，根据等效原理和缝隙口面切向磁场的连续条件建立一对耦合积分方程，利用矩量法进行求解，给出复合耦合槽的谐振长度、散射参量随缝隙的倾角、偏离波导中心线距离的关系曲线     

The Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in the Maintenance of Verbal Working Memory: An Event-Related fMRI Analysis.

Neuroimaging studies have been inconclusive in characterizing the role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) for maintaining increasingly larger amounts of information in working memory (WM). To address this question, the authors collected event-related functional MRI data while participants performed an item-recognition task in which the number of to-be-remembered letters was parametrically modulated. During maintenance of information in WM, the dorsolateral and the ventrolateral PFC exhibited linearly increasing activation in response to increasing WM load. Prefrontal regions could not be distinguished from one another on the basis of load sensitivity, but the dorsolateral PFC had stronger functional connectivity with the parietal and motor cortex than the ventrolateral PFC. These results suggest an increasingly important role for the PFC in actively maintaining information as the amount of that information increases. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Synthesis and characterization of strontium-lanthanum apatites

Two series of strontium-lanthanum apatites, Sr_10−xLa_x(PO₄)_6−x(SiO₄)_xF₂ and Sr_10−xLa_x(PO₄)_6−x(SiO₄)_xO with 0 ≤ x ≤ 6, were synthesized by solid state reaction in the temperature range of 1200-1400 °C. The obtained materials were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, infrared absorption spectroscopy and solid ³¹P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Pure solid solutions were obtained within a limited range of unsubstituted phosphate and silicate apatites. A variation of the lattice parameters was observed, with an increase of a and a decrease of c parameters, related to the radius of the corresponding substituted ions.     

精细陶瓷高温疲劳性能测试方法研究

对平面弯曲型的三点弯曲试样，采用共振法研究并测定了两类Ｓｉ３Ｎ４陶瓷的高温疲劳性能曲线。研究结果表明：所用陶瓷材料的高温疲劳数据位于两个极端；即：起始阶段就破断或超过指定寿命不破坏。经疲劳试验未破断的样品在高温下的弯曲强度明显地高于原邕样品的高温弯曲强度。     

Degradation of Sands due to Combined Sinusoidal Loading

Dynamic loading due to earthquakes is made up of very complicated combinations of different types of waves including compressive waves, shear waves, etc. If a soil specimen is subjected to a combined longitudinal and torsional excitation, significant degradation of the specimen occurs, wherein the modulus is reduced and the damping increased more than for single excitation. This paper presents equations based on test results on clean sands for the determination of the shear modulus and damping of sandy soils for single and combined sinusoidal loadings. From the equations, the degree of specimen degradation can be determined, as well as the threshold strain ratio needed for the degradation to occur. The dynamic properties obtained from combined loadings will be more representative of actual field conditions than those from single-loading conditions.     

掺氟二氧化锡透明导电膜的核技术分析

运用卢瑟福背散射(RBS)和二次离子质谱(SIMS)技术相结合测量了SnO_2透明导电膜的密度和膜厚,对于常压CVD法制备的SnO_2薄膜密度约为6.20g/cm~3,接近相应块状材料的密度。采用~(19)F(p,αγ)~(16)O共振核反应技术测量了用于非晶硅太阳能电池电极的大面积掺氟SnO_2(FTO)中氟的含量和深度分布以及50—180keV的~(19)F~+离子注入SnO_2膜中氟离子的射程分布参数。结果表明,FTO膜中氟元素的含量和深度分布并不是均匀的,而是在0.6×10~(20)—6.O×10~(20)/cm~3间波动;50—180keV的~(19)F~+离子注入SnO_2膜中氟离子的平均投影射程(R_P)值与理论计算结果符合得很好,而平均投影射程标准偏差(ΔR_P)值则比理论值偏大。     

Feedback stabilization of connected nonlinear oscillators with uncontrollable linearization

A nonlinear system with uncontrollable linearization is under investigation. The uncontrollable part of the linearization is assumed to have no eigenvalues in the right half-plane and have eigenvalues with zero real and nonzero imaginary part. A nonlinear feedback loop is assumed to carry out a connection between the controllable part of the system and the uncontrollable one. The control law of the controllable part is defined to be a linear function of the state variables. This linear feedback loop can maintain the stability of a whole control system provided its feedback law coefficients satisfy a system of algebraic inequalities. The consistence of this system of inequalities is proved.