A factorial analysis of automatic transfer line systems

A 2³ factorial experiment was conducted based on a discrete-time computer model to elucidate the effects of system configuration, relative stage position and buffer capacity allocation in automatic transfer line systems under steady-state conditions. A total of 96 simulated experiments were conducted. It was found that second and third-order interaction effects could be statistically significant, a potentially useful result being the possibility of increasing production rate and decreasing average in-process stock simultaneously     

综合先进技术的交通噪音评估(一)-以立体地理资讯系统为基础的区域噪音模型

为了解、组织及整理整个香港区域的道路交通噪音资料,从而确定、量化及分折交通噪音的严重性,再鉴定相关的噪音缓解措施,香港环境保护署综合了数种先进的技朮,包括地理信息系统、大型的电脑噪音模型、立体影像技朮等,自行开发了一套以立体地理资讯系统为基础的区域噪音模型。从这个系统和模型计算出来的交通噪音地图,加上利用地理信息系统軟件、人口分布的资料库和统计学方法的帮助,评估了整个城市总共有多少居民在那些区域受着多少交通噪音的影响。这些结果可以分析交通噪音的问题,继而决定未来噪音缓解设施及制定综合的计划,以应付这噪音问题。     

落叶松新浆种的开发——第二部分 落叶松与黑云杉混合制备预热化学机械浆和化学机械浆

对落叶松—云杉混合预热化学机械法(CTMP)和化学机械法(CMP)制浆的研究结果表明,在云杉中配加少比例量的落叶松、能降低磨浆能耗,提高所得浆的强度性能。在落叶松—云杉混合木片的磨浆过程中,两种木片之间有相互促进作用。     

THIN LAYER METHOD ANALYSIS OF SPOUTED BED DRIED MALAYSIAN PADDY – CHARACTERISTIC DRYING CURVES

A lab‐scale spouted bed dryer was used for the drying of paddy. The Malaysian grown paddy is a sample of Geldart's Group D particle. Drying was carried out in the dryer at two different internal configurations, namely with or without the installation of a draft tube, and at several drying temperatures (60–90C), air flow rates (1.14–1.45 m/s) and bed heights (30–45 cm). Drying kinetics of paddy in spouted bed showed only induction and falling rate periods, without constant drying rate period. Thin layer method analysis shows characteristic drying rate curves of linear and exponential functions for the first and second falling rate period, respectively, in conventional spouted bed drying. A single power function was observed in spouted bed drying with a draft tube, mainly as a result of a better tempering effect that gave a lower drying rate gradient.     

钢筋混凝土并筋梁的粘结锚固及受力性能研究

为解决工程实践中当混凝土结构内钢筋用量较大时钢筋间距过小的问题,提出了将纵向受力钢筋并筋布置的方法.根据31个并筋粘结锚固拉拔试件验的结果,进行了17根钢筋混凝土并筋梁的受力性能试验,较详细地讨论了并筋梁粘结锚固的特点以及影响并筋粘结锚固的主要因素,并与一般梁进行了对比.试验研究结果表明,采用并筋后钢筋和混凝土之间的粘结锚固性能有所下降,但粘结滑移特性与一般梁相近,通过适当延长锚固长度即可保证并筋梁的锚固强度和承载力,从而使并筋梁可在工程实践中应用.给出了并筋锚固长度计算的建议公式,计算结果与试验结果符合良好.在可靠度分析的基础上提出了并筋梁的设计建议,可供我国混凝土结构设计规范修订时参考.     

Upgrading the Activated-Sludge Process for Total Nitrogen Removal in Hong Kong

In order to protect the sensitive waters in Tolo harbour (Hong Kong), Sha Tin and Tai Po sewage-treatment works were first designed to remove 70% of the nitrogen load from the sewage. Since then, due to continuing serious eutrophication problems in the harbour, both plants have been modified to increase the removal efficiency to 90%.
The modifications were based on the Bardenpho process. However, the designers of the two plants adopted different approaches to process intensity, complexity and control of bacterial foam. At Sha Tin, the average monthly results have shown an increase of total nitrogen removal from 60–70% to about 80% since its completion. The addition of methanol was found to be ineffective on further enhancement of the denitrification rate due to difficulties in the apportioning of the second anoxic zone. The overall monthly results for Tai Po have also shown an increase in the removal rate to about 80%, even though 90% was achieved for a short period of time. The major problem encountered at the latter plant was that the process design did not provide an effective control on bacterial foaming, which had affected the smooth operation of the process.     

Cell tracking using phase‐adaptive shape prior

Automated tracking of cell population is very crucial for quantitative measurements of dynamic cell‐cycle behaviour of individual cells. This problem involves several subproblems and a high accuracy of each step is essential to avoid error propagation. In this paper, we propose a holistic three‐component system to tackle this problem. For each phase, we first learn a mean shape as well as a model of the temporal dynamics of transformation, which are used for estimating a shape prior for the cell in the current frame. We then segment the cell using a level set‐based shape prior model. Finally, we identify its phase based on the goodness‐of‐fit of the data to the segmentation model. This phase information is also used for fine‐tuning the segmentation result. We evaluate the performance of our method empirically in various aspects and in tracking individual cells from HeLa H2B‐GFP cell population. Highly accurate validation results confirm the robustness of our method in many realistic scenarios and the essentiality of each component of our integrating system.     

用时域法和频时域法识别桥面移动车载

基于欧拉梁模型,本文利用时域法和频时域法由桥梁响应识别桥面移动车载并重点讨论了几个主要参数对识别结果的影响。这些参数包括模态数、采样频率、车速、响应测点位置和测点数等。结果表明：车桥试验室模型是成功的,用时域法和频时域法均能得到满意的识别结果,但以时域法实用性更强、精度更高,可以直接用于桥面移动车载识别的现场试验。