Improve the signal to noise ratio and installation convenience of the inductive coil for wire rope nondestructive testing

Inductive coil is used as the nondestructive testing sensor of a wire rope or a pipe, because of its low cost and high durability. However, the winding structure is complex and difficult to design during the field test. Hundreds or even thousands of turns are needed to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR) and the data processing is cumbersome. In this paper, based on the theoretical analysis and 3D transient magnetic field simulation, a kind of iron core is presented as coil winding skeleton for the wire rope nondestructive testing. Additional iron core plays a role of magnetism concentration, where the magnetic flux leakage (MFL) path is changed and the MFL of the defect is converged to the core. Therefore, the SNR of the coil which is wound on the iron core is improved, and the coil winding skeleton is simplified with the iron core structure optimization. Meanwhile, the influence of the coil cross-section area on the test result analysis is eliminated, and the influence of the lift-off distance between coil and wire rope on the detection result is also reduced. Finally, it is proved by experiment that the SNR of coil with the iron core proposed in this paper is increased almost six times, which makes it easier for defect analysis.     

Excitation of piezoelectric device through resonant helical coil antenna-like structure

A resonant helical coil antenna-like structure has been explored for wireless excitation of piezoelectric devices. The basic idea behind this wireless excitation of piezoelectric device is electromagnetic resonance along with piezoelectric resonance. The analytical studies reveal that the maximum excitation occurs in the piezoelectric device when the operating frequency of the system coincides with its mechanical resonant frequency. It has been seen that the intensity of piezoelectric stimulation depends on the frequency of operation, air gap, relative position, electric load, and the generated electric field strength by the helical coil antenna-like structure. The analytical results are verified with the measured experimental results, and are found to be in well agreement. By adopting this proposed wireless excitation system the free actuation of the piezoelectric devices can be enabled as opposed to the confined motion for various potential applications.     

Flow‐based electromagnetic‐type energy harvester using microplanar coil for IoT sensors application

Battery is the sole power source for Internet of thing (IoT) sensors. Due to limited shelf life, the batteries are required to be replaced intermittently. This periodic replacement of batteries is inflated in terms of both logistics and time. This article illustrates conceptual design, development, and characterization of a flow‐based electromagnetic‐type energy harvester (F‐EH) using microplanar coil for IoT sensors application. The F‐EH converts hydro energy into useful electrical energy utilizing electromagnetic transduction mechanism. The microfabrication and macrofabrication techniques adopted to manufacture harvester's components are presented. The F‐EH has been successfully characterized by laboratory scale experimental flow test loop commissioned for this work. Experimentation with associated uncertainty analysis prevails that at a matching impedance, the F‐EH can generate a 686 μW of maximum power at an operating flow rate of 12 L/min with an uncertainty of 8.1%.     

SAR of a birdcage coil with variable number of rungs at 300 MHz

The specific absorption rate produced in a rat’s brain phantom inside of quadrature birdcage coil as a function of the rung number was studied at 300 MHz. Electromagnetic field simulations and specific absorption rate and loss return responses were performed using a rat’s brain phantom weighing 100 mg. To assure optimal simulations and to evaluate coil performance, S-parameters were simulated and compared with experimentally data. Simulations showed that magnetic field uniformity improves and that electric field is increased with the number of rungs. Specific absorption rate and temperature values obtained from axial bi-dimensional maps increase as the number of rungs grows. These results corroborated very well with published data. A quadrature 16-rung birdcage coil was developed for comparison and phantom images were acquired to show its feasibility. The presented approach yields information on specific absorption rate allowing to previously develop RF coils and their possible effects on the biological sample.     

钢卷库天车定位及智能导航软件系统设计

主要介绍了唐钢热轧部天车定位及智能导航软件系统。根据1700库、1810库、平整原料库的管理要求设计,以及用户的需要完成入库、出库、倒库、退库、离库等功能。通过优化库房管理、天车作业节能降耗,提高了库房管理水平;实现了吊运过程全记录管理,确保了物流实时跟踪记录的完整性,发挥天车的协同工作效应,减少工人的劳动强度,提高了工作效率。     

蒸汽转化炉对流段热效率低的原因分析

结合2500t/d甲醇装置蒸汽转化炉的工艺流程及运行状况,分析与探讨蒸汽转化炉对流段热效率低的原因,并制定出相应的改进措施。     

防脱冰相间间隔棒施工新工艺研究

导线不均匀覆冰和不同期脱冰会使线路发生跳跃,导致相间短路[1]。防脱冰改造施工中新型相间间隔棒可以有效地抑制脱冰跳跃。文中主要介绍了防脱冰改造施工中新型相间间隔棒的施工新工艺,运用此施工新工艺可以有效缩短停电施工改造时间,且对类似工程技术改进具有一定的参考价值。     

计算机技术在850轧机卷取机张力控制系统中的应用

论述了850轧机卷取机张力控制原理,及计算机在张力控制中的作用,计算机系统的构成。     

To react or not to react? Intrinsic stochasticity of human control in virtual stick balancing

Understanding how humans control unstable systems is central to many research problems, with applications ranging from quiet standing to aircraft landing. Increasingly, much evidence appears in favour of event-driven control hypothesis: human operators only start actively controlling the system when the discrepancy between the current and desired system states becomes large enough. The event-driven models based on the concept of threshold can explain many features of the experimentally observed dynamics. However, much still remains unclear about the dynamics of human-controlled systems, which likely indicates that humans use more intricate control mechanisms. This paper argues that control activation in humans may be not threshold-driven, but instead intrinsically stochastic, noise-driven. Specifically, we suggest that control activation stems from stochastic interplay between the operator''s need to keep the controlled system near the goal state, on the one hand, and the tendency to postpone interrupting the system dynamics, on the other hand. We propose a model capturing this interplay and show that it matches the experimental data on human balancing of virtual overdamped stick. Our results illuminate that the noise-driven activation mechanism plays a crucial role at least in the considered task, and, hypothetically, in a broad range of human-controlled processes.     

Steady-state thermal heat conductivity in rotor of ball asynchronous motor

The problem of how to develop a mathematical model of the heat processes that take place in the rotor of a spherical asynchronous motor under the influence of internal heat sources is considered. An analytic model of the process is suggested that makes it possible to solve the problems of determination of the extreme thermal modes of a motor and is well suitable for the searching procedures of the construction optimization problems.