Fast sinter crystallisation of waste glasses

Abstract

Two glasses, belonging to the CaO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂ system and corresponding to the melting of mixtures of industrial wastes (recycled glasses, mining residues, ashes, asbestos containing cements, etc.), have been successfully converted into dense glass ceramics by sintering with concurrent crystallisation. The usage of fine glass powders (<37 μm) allowed very short sintering treatments, due to the enhanced nucleating activity of glass surfaces. In particular, dense glass ceramics could be produced by direct insertion of pressed glass powders in the furnace at the sintering temperature, followed by rapid cooling at room temperature after a 30 min holding time. The proposed approach evidences the feasibility of sintered glass ceramics by the fast and economic processes employed for traditional ceramics, with the advantage of superior mechanical properties (bending strength exceeding 100 MPa, Vickers' microhardness exceeding 6 GPa). Like in traditional ceramics, clay and water could be used for the shaping of pressed tiles, thus posing the conditions for massive industrial production.     

BASIC THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF WELDING ARC SPECTRAL INFORMATION

Welding arc spectral information is a rising welding information source.In some occa- sion,it can reflect many physical phenomena of welding process and solve many problems that cannot be done with arc electric information,acoustic information and other arc information.It is of important significance in developing automatic control technique of welding process and other similar process.Many years study work on welding are spectral information of thc anthor are dis- cussed from three aspects of theory,method and application.Basic theory,view and testing methods of welding arc spectral information has been put forward.In application aspects,many applied ex- amples,for example,monitoring of harmful gases in arc(such as hydrogen and nitrogen)with the method of welding arc spectral information;welding arc spectral imaging of the welding pool which is used in automatic seam tracking;controlling of welding droplet transfer with welding arc spectral information and so on,are introduced.Especially,the successful application in real time controlling of welding droplet transfer in pulsed GMAW is introduced too.These application examples show that the welding arc spectral information has great applied significance and development potentiali- ties.These content will play an important role in applying and spreading welding arc spectral infor- mation technology.     

Closed-loop form quantization algorithm with bounded accumulative error

This paper proposes a closed-loop form quantization algorithm that guarantees the boundness of accumulative error. The algorithm is particularly useful for mobile robot navigation that is usually implemented on embedded systems. If the wheel command of the mobile robot is given by velocity or positional increments at every control instant that are quantized due to the finite word length of the controller's CPU, the quantization error accumulates to produce large position error. Such an error is critical for wheeled mobile robots or autonomous vehicles with non-holonomic constraints. To solve this problem, a non-error accumulative quantization algorithm with a closedloop form is presented. We can extend it to a generalized form corresponding to the nth-order accumulation. The boundness of the accumulative quantization error is proven via mathematic processes and verified by a series of computer simulations. The proposed method is effective to accurately control the autonomous mobile robot, particularly with embedded systems.     

Materials Knowledge Transfer Network (UK)

Abstract

Launched in January 2006, the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) is a partnership between businesses, research and technology organisations and universities to provide UK manufacturing and other sectors of the economy with additional resources to assist innovation in current highly competitive global markets.     

The Seepage Characteristics of Heterogeneous Body With Different Spreading Solution Modes and its Applications

As the dump was a typically heterogeneous body, the seepage was different with varied spreading solution modes. The phenomenon of lamination that occured in the site was simulated using three layers in an indoor experiment, and the seepage effect comparison experiment of the inside spreading solution model and the top spreading solution model have been carried out. In the inside spreading solution mode, the phreatic planar flew without infiltration and the parallel layer motion model was used to calculate the seepage coefficient and equivalent seepage coefficient of each state respectively. In the top spreading solution model, the phreatic planar flew with an even infiltration on the surface, and the vertical layer motion model was adopted to calculate the above coefficient. The results showed that the seepage coefficient of the inside model was larger than the top model in the heterogeneous body, The ratio of them was between 1.42 and 3.07. On the basis of these results, the following new technologies were discussed: installing a few small diameter mechanical pore sand piles with every lamination in the using dump; drilling some holes one-off in the unused dump. These two methods could changed the top spreading solution into the inside model, thus the seepage in the dump was improved.     

A Visualization Framework and User Studies for Overloaded Orthogonal Drawings

Overloaded orthogonal drawing (OOD) is a recent graph visualization style specifically conceived for directed graphs. It merges the advantages of some popular drawing conventions like layered drawings and orthogonal drawings, and provides additional support for some common analysis tasks. We present a visualization framework called DAGView, which implements algorithms and graphical features for the OOD style. Besides the algorithm for acyclic digraphs, the DAGView framework implements extensions to visualize both digraphs with cycles and undirected graphs, with the additional possibility of taking into account user preferences and constraints. It also supports an interactive visualization of clustered digraphs, based on the use of strongly connected components. Moreover, we describe an experimental user study, aimed to investigate the usability of OOD within the DAGView framework. The results of our study suggest that OOD can be effectively exploited to perform some basic tasks of analysis in a faster and more accurate way when compared to other drawing styles for directed graphs.