Al–Si cast alloys under isothermal and thermomechanical fatigue conditions

This work presents a survey of the isothermal and anisothermal fatigue behavior of aluminum casting alloys obtained from different processes. Experimental results have shown that porosity, especially large and irregular pores, provides the main factor in decreasing fatigue properties of the tested alloys. In materials with similar porosity levels, other microstructural factors became relevant such as, matrix morphology and the amount of alloying elements. Fractographic analyses showed that fatigue cracks preferentially start to propagate in microcracks or interdendritic shrinkage usually located next to the surface. In most cases, propagation takes place in the eutectic phase, although in the thixoformed material, a transition from transgranular to intergranular mode was observed in the crack propagation mode.     

Actuator and Sensor Fault Detection and Isolation for Uncertain Switched Nonlinear System Based on Sliding Mode Observers

International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems - In this paper, we discuss actuator fault and sensor fault detection and isolation (FDI) problems for a class of switched nonlinear systems...     

基于云存储的离线下载系统

数据获取是现代网络应用中的重要组成部分,是几乎所有网络操作的前提。下载工具能够帮助用户更加便捷地获取网络资源。该文提出一个基于云存储的离线下载系统,系统保持离线下载原有特色与优点,并引入云存储解决系统存储空间不足和"秒杀"下载率不高的的问题,利用基于文件存储价值的存储更新策略提高云存储系统的存储效率。双机热备技术的引入,有效提高系统整体可靠性。     

A comment on “Using locally estimated geodesic distance to optimize neighborhood graph for isometric data embedding”

A geodesic distance-based approach to build the neighborhood graph for isometric embedding is proposed to deal with the highly twisted and folded manifold by Wen et al. [Using locally estimated geodesic distance to optimize neighborhood graph for isometric data embedding, Pattern Recognition 41 (2008) 2226-2236]. This comment is to identify the error in their example and the ineffectiveness of their algorithm.     

Influence of sugar filter mud on formation of portland cement clinker

To explore the mechanisms of filter mud (FM) in the portland cement clinker formation, and to make effective use of FM in the cement production as lime-based raw materials, the influences of FM on the apparent activation energy of calcium carbonate decomposition, liquid phase amount, crystalline phase and tricalcium silicate polymorphism were investigated by TA, SEM and XRD. The experimental results show that FM can reduce apparent activation energy of calcium carbonate decomposition, and increase liquid phase amount. Appropriate FM replacement ratios are useful to promoting the C₃S formation and heightening the C₃S content. New phases of α-C₂S and C₂S·0.5Ca₃ (PO₄)₂ can be found in the clinkers while the ratios are above 15%. In addition, impurities in FM can induce the C₃S polymorph to transform.     

Stereo effect of image converted from planar

Research on planar-to-stereo image conversion has significant theoretical and practical implications for image processing. In this paper we use a method which segments an image into sub-blocks to perform this kind of conversion; parameters such as random variables are used for conversion control. We use two quantitative criteria, cross-entropy and root-mean-square error, to evaluate the stereo effect. Furthermore, the stereo effect that the random variables create is discussed. The results of the experiment show that, (i) when all random variables have the same distribution, different values of these random variables only slightly affect the stereo effect; and (ii) when different distributions are applied to the random variables, the cross-entropies or root-mean-square errors are slightly different, which indicates different distributions have a small influence on the stereo effect. Generally, we recommend normal distribution for better stereo effect in most cases.     

考虑非线性大变形的轮胎模态分析

轮胎的动态特性是影响包括操纵稳定性、行驶平顺性在内的车辆整体性能的重要指标之一。建立了考虑轮胎的实际边界条件、复杂材料特性的有限元模型，进行了考虑非线性大变形的模态分析。同时分析了影响模态频率的各个因素，主要包括轮胎胎压、轮胎侧壁材料和轮胎胎体质量。     

A correlation-free on-line optimal control method of heat rejection pressures in CO2 transcritical systems

This paper proposes a novel correlation-free on-line optimal control method for CO₂ transcritical refrigeration systems. It uses the on-line correction formula to track the optimal pressure set point. As a critical advantage against the existing empirical correlations of the heat rejection pressure, it is independent of the cycle, the system specifications, and the operating conditions. Dynamic numerical simulation demonstrates how to apply the new method to a basic CO₂ transcritical refrigeration system. The results show that the proposed method can well track the optimal pressures and is robust to resist the sampling noise.     

微粒群算法在SBR污水处理系统中的应用

污水处理过程是一个具有大时滞、非线性、强干扰的复杂控制对象,需要不断把当前最先进的优化算法应用到污水处理过程中以优化现有污水处理系统。详细介绍了微粒群算法(PSO)应用到各种污水处理系统中进行优化的方法并给出了PSO算法本身的优化。     

Detecting Hot Road Mobility of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) can provide value-added services to both drivers and passengers with on-board vehicular communication systems. Node mobility and volatile wireless connection in VANETs affect inter-contact time (T _I ) between mobile nodes, which greatly degrades the performance of vehicular applications. Nevertheless, the node spatial distribution in VANETs is another important factor especially in real applications. It positively affects the inter-contact time of vehicular nodes. By leveraging it, we can significantly improve the performance of data transmissions and inter-vehicle communication. To this end, we investigate the data collected from around 4,000 taxisin Shanghai and propose in this paper an efficient hot road mobility model. We find that most taxis distribute on some hot roads, which makes the node spatial distribution follow the power law. Based on this observation, we propose the concepts of indirect contact and heterogeneous inter-contact time (T _H ) to reveal how hot roads can change the distribution of inter-contact time. We find that the tail distribution of T _H also appears the power law, and both node spatial distribution and T _H distribution decay at least as the power law. We further propose a model for detecting vehicle mobility in hot roads, which can generates synthetic traces that captures both spatial and temporal features of nodes in VANETs.