Damage formation and suppression in rotary ultrasonic machining of hard and brittle materials: A critical review

Rotary ultrasonic machining (RUM) combines diamond grinding with small-amplitude tool vibration, to improve machining processes of hard and brittle materials. It has been successfully applied to the machining of a number of brittle materials from optical glasses to advanced ceramics as well as ceramic matrix composites. The emphasis of this literature review was on formation mechanism and suppression methods of machining induced damages that truly limit RUM machining efficiency improvement of brittle materials. In this review paper, material removal mechanism and cutting force modeling of RUM of brittle materials were presented, as well as all corresponding roles in the damage formation process. The critical processing capacity of RUM machine tools was described, which guarantees the RUM effectiveness and consequently constitutes the boundary condition of processing parameters determination. Formation mechanisms of edge chipping, tearing defects, subsurface damages, and their interactive effects were summarized. Advances in damage suppression methods were also described, including optimization of processing parameters, tool design of low damage, and other methods such as rotary ultrasonic elliptical machining.     

论可预见性规则

可预见性规则是限制完全赔偿原则，使损害赔偿范围合理化的重要合同法规则。该规则在英美法与法国法中均有体现，对该规则进行比较研究有助于正确使用我国《合同法》第113条第一款的规定，以满足实践中合同损害赔偿诉讼的需要。     

二茂铁及其衍生物的应用

综述了二茂铁及其衍生物在添加剂、燃速催化剂、医学、液晶材料、感光材料以及二茂铁有机磁体等方面的应用和最新研究进展。     

食品市场职业打假人权利的法律边界

聚焦食品市场,从职业打假案件的诉讼现状入手,总结分析了目前理论与实务中关于职业打假行为存在的问题与争议,讨论了职业打假人知假买假的权利保护限制必要性,并尝试从多个层面对其职业打假行为进行引导规制,如明确职业打假人的法律地位、引导打假行为正当化规范化等。     

Fabrication and performance test of catalytic micro-combustors as a heat source of methanol steam reformer

Two different types of H₂ catalytic micro-combustors were fabricated and evaluated as a heat source of methanol steam reformer through MEMS fabrication technology with photosensitive glass wafers. In a packed-bed micro-combustor design, ceramic foam coated with Pt was the catalyst bed. In the thin-film-coated combustor, Al₂O₃ was used as catalyst supports and coated on the combustion chamber wall. Pt was coated on the Al₂O₃ thin-film, which was constructed on the wall. The preparation of Al₂O₃ coating solution and coating process was set up based on sol–gel method. Both combustors had a combustion chamber whose height was 1 mm and the external volume of combustors was 1.8 cm³. Catalytic combustion of H₂ was stable with both combustors. H₂ conversions were over 90% for packed-bed micro-combustor and over 99% for Pt/Al₂O₃ coated micro-combustor. Both combustors burned 80 ml/min of H₂. The catalytic micro-combustors fabricated were applicable to the methanol steam reforming system for 20 W level PEMFC.     

Synergetic photocatalytic and thermocatalytic aqueous phase reforming of methanol for hydrogen production based on noble metal/photosensitive supports catalysts

To overcome high Gibbs free energy and low reaction rate of thermal catalytic and photocatalytic hydrogen production from methanol-H₂O mixture, photo-thermal synergistic catalysis (PC-TC) reforming has proved to be an effective strategy owing to the photo-assited thermal synergistic effect to accelerate the step controlling kinetic behavior. In order to efficiently produce H₂, proper photosensitive catalysts which absorb light energy and also show efficient thermal catalytic (TC) performance need to be developed. To study the designing principle for catalysts, herein we incorporate Pt/Pd and three different supports which show similar band gaps (ZnO, CeO₂, and P25) through the in-situ photo-deposition, which act as catalysts for PC-TC methanol aqueous reforming. The resultant 0.1%Pt/P25 catalyst exhibits H₂ evolution activity ～3.1 times than that of the TC condition and ～5.5 times than that of the photocatalytic reforming (PC) condition in the proposed PC-TC process; meanwhile 0.1%Pt/ZnO and 01%Pt/CeO₂ under PC-TC condition show ～1.3 times and ～2.0 times than that of the catalytic performance under TC condition. The physical characterizations prove that the metal-support interaction and the supports may be key factors for the catalytic performance. The active intermediate trapping experiments demonstrate possible intermediates in the PC-TC process and established reaction mechanisms to explain the synergetic effect for improved efficiency of hydrogen production. These findings may open up a new avenue of designing catalysts based on semiconductors for the PC-TC reforming of methanol-water to produce hydrogen in a high-efficiency and low-cost way, serving the needs of the future hydrogen economy.     

Bottom-up image detection of water channel slope damages based on superpixel segmentation and support vector machine

The operation of water supply channels is threatened by the occasionally occurred slope damages. Timely detection of their occurrence is critical for the rapid enforcement of mitigation measures. However, current practices based on routine inspection and structural heath monitoring are inefficient, laborious and tend to be biased. As an attempt to address the limitations, this paper proposes a bottom-up image detection approach for slope damages, which includes four steps, i.e. superpixel segmentation, feature handcrafting, superpixel classification based on support vector machine (SVM), and slope damage recognition. The approach employs a bottom-up strategy to infer the upper-level slope condition from the classification results of individual superpixels in the bottom level. Experiments were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach. The handcrafted feature “LBP + HSV” was demonstrated to be effective in characterizing the image features of slope damages. An SVM model with “LBP + HSV” as input can reliably identify the slope condition in superpixels. Based on the SVM model, the bottom-up strategy achieved high recognition performance, of which the overall accuracy can be up to 91.7%. The proposed approach has potential to facilitate the early and comprehensive awareness of slope damages along the entire route of water channel by the integration with unmanned aerial vehicles.     

Why local damage increases the buckling load of circular plates

Local material damage is often characterised as degradation of material properties. A recent study has discovered a paradoxical phenomenon that clamped circular plates with a local axisymmetric damage may have a buckling load above that of a corresponding perfect plate. This paper describes a finite element investigation into the buckling behaviour of circular plates with a local axisymmetric damage. The paradoxical results of previous researchers are explained, and observations are made regarding the appropriate modelling of local damage.     

Effect of Ce,Sb and Sn on mechanism and activation energy for crystallisation of X‐ray irradiated photosensitive glass

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This work aims to determine the effect of Ce, Sb, Sn and Ag on the mechanism and activation energy of crystallisation for an X‐ray irradiated photosensitive lithium silicate glass composition and to compare it with the one that contained only Ag. According to the obtained results, while the addition of Ce, Sb and Sn changed the crystallisation mechanism of lithium silicate crystal from two‐ to three‐dimensional growths, these additions did not affect the activation energy of crystallisation for lithium metasilicate. Differential thermal analysis was used for studying the mechanism and activation energy for crystallisation of these glasses through the Matusita and the modified Kissinger methods; SEM and XRD were used to investigate the lithium silicate and silver crystallisation in the glasses.     

Micropatterning of photosensitive glass-ceramic-polymer composite by sand blasting

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A photosensitive, sandblasted composite was used to achieve a high aspect ratio of barrier ribs. The authors investigated the erosion of the photosensitive composite prepared with two different pastes: normal and photosensitive. The barrier ribs underwent micropatterning with calcium carbonate powder as the sand blasting erodent material. The patterned green barrier ribs were fired in an air atmosphere and the thermal, physical and mechanical properties of the resulting composites were determined by thermal gravimetric analysis, atomic force microscopy, nanoindentation, and peel testing. The photosensitive composite had better adhesion with a dry film resist and showed lower porosity, surface roughness, stiffness and elastic modulus than a normal composite, which was attributed to the remaining polymer. In the process, the developed photosensitive composite and the dry film resist film were able to withstand the impact of the separated particles or clusters. These results support the use of sand blasting to fabricate the micropatterning of barrier ribs with two layers of photosensitive composite.