Determination of surface heat-transfer coefficients of steel cylinder with phase transformation during gas quenching with high pressures

In numerical simulation of quenching process, the boundary conditions of temperature field and stress field are very important, in which the boundary conditions of temperature field are very complicated. In order to simulate the thermal strains, thermal stresses, residual stresses and microstructure of the steel during gas quenching by means of the numerical method, it is necessary to obtain an accurate boundary condition of temperature field. The surface heat-transfer coefficient is a key parameter. The explicit finite difference method, non-linear estimate method and the experimental relation between temperature and time during quenching have been used to solve the inverse problem of heat conduction. The relationships between surface temperature and surface heat-transfer coefficient of cylinder have been given. The non-linear surface heat-transfer coefficients include the coupled effects between phase transformation and temperature. In calculation, physical properties were treated as the function of temperature and volume fraction of constituent. The results obtained have been shown that this technique can determine effectual the surface heat-transfer coefficients during gas quenching.     

Design Strategies for Piled Rafts Subjected to Nonuniform Vertical Loading

The piled raft is a geotechnical composite construction, consisting of the three elements piles, raft, and soil, which is applied for the foundation of tall buildings in an increasing number. In a parametric study, 259 different piled raft configurations have been analyzed by means of three-dimensional elastoplastic finite element analyses. In the study, the pile positions, the pile number, the pile length, and the raft-soil stiffness ratio as well as the load distribution on the raft has been varied. In the scope of this paper, the results of the parametric study are presented and design strategies for an optimized design of piled rafts subjected to nonuniform vertical loading are discussed.     

High order finite difference methods for unsteady incompressible flows in multi-connected domains

Using the vorticity and stream function variables is an effective way to compute 2-D incompressible flow due to the facts that the incompressibility constraint for the velocity is automatically satisfied, the pressure variable is eliminated, and high order schemes can be efficiently implemented. However, a difficulty arises in a multi-connected computational domain in determining the constants for the stream function on the boundary of the “holes”. This is an especially challenging task for the calculation of unsteady flows, since these constants vary with time to reflect the total fluxes of the flow in each sub-channel. In this paper, we propose an efficient method in a finite difference setting to solve this problem and present some numerical experiments, including an accuracy check of a Taylor vortex-type flow, flow past a non-symmetric square, and flow in a heat exchanger.     

A pulsed neural network model of spectro-temporal receptive fields and population coding in auditory cortex

The existence of spectro-temporal receptive fields and evidence for population coding in auditory cortex motivate the development of such models, that explicitly operate in the time-frequency domain and are based on a pulsed neural network. In presenting such a model, a formal connection of the fields of Time Frequency Analysis and Pulsed Neural Networks is established. The resulting neural time-frequency signal representation is shown to be representable as a signal-dependent overcomplete dictionary. It is derived from neural population coding. Signal decomposition and filtering effects are presented, indicating obvious technical applications of the proposed model. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

On a new class of finite dimensional estimation algebras

We introduce a new class of solvable finite dimensional estimation algebras that contains both the linear and the Bene cases. The condition for finite dimensionality is expressed in terms of two matrices. They play an important role in understanding the structure of estimation algebras.     

Effect of integrated extrusion–equal channel angular pressing temperature on microstructural characteristics of low carbon steel

Abstract

In the present research, a combined forward extrusion–equal channel angular pressing was developed and executed for the deformation of a plain carbon steel. In this method, two different deformation steps, including forward extrusion and equal channel angular pressing, take place successively in a single die. The deformation process was performed at different deformation start temperatures (800, 930 and 1100°C). Three-dimensional finite element simulation was used to predict the strain and temperature variations within the samples during deformation. With microstructural observations and the results of finite element simulation, the main grain refinement mechanisms were studied at different deformation temperatures. The results show that the forward extrusion–equal channel angular pressing is effective in refining the ferrite grains from an initial size of 32 μm to a final size of ～0·9 μm. The main mechanisms of grain refinement were considered to be strain assisted transformation, dynamic strain induced transformation and continuous dynamic recrystallisation, depending on the deformation temperature.     

数控研配液压机上梁有限元计算

研配液压机的上梁为箱式梁,其受力分析采用材料力学计算,精度非常低,局部应力和应力集中处都不能表现,在主要结构完成后,需要采用有限元进行应力和变形分析.本文采用有限元法计算研配液压机的上梁,结果表明该方法有助于上梁的结构计算.     

基于命令流方法的液压机ANSYS有限元建模

介绍了命令流方法在液压机ANSYS有限元建模的起因和用途,并作了实例建模,最后指出对计算机应用软件的二次开发在液压机结构设计中的必要性.     

基于稀疏矩阵存储的状态表压缩算法

正则表达式匹配对于网络安全应用至关重要。将稀疏矩阵和索引表引入确定的有限自动机的状态转换表,提出了一种稀疏矩阵索引的状态压缩表算法,并给出了稀疏矩阵和索引表的构造方法。而后同字母压缩表算法结合,给出了该算法的优化策略。最后在实际规则集上进行评估,实验结果证明了算法的压缩效果,并进一步得出了算法的适用范围。     

一种新型啮合式磁吸传动系统的电磁有限元分析

介绍一种新型的啮合式磁吸传动系统,它将电动机和减速机结合在一起,结构和制造工艺简单、传动比大、成本低、可靠性高。在分析其结构和工作原理的基础上,建立有限元分析模型,采用磁矢量势分析方法（MVP）对这种磁吸传动系统进行二维静态仿真,得到了系统的静态性能,并分析了磁势、工作气隙、材料等各种因素对该系统传动性能的影响。将计算结果与现有电机产品进行比较,得出该系统的优缺点。