Effect of cationic surfactant and inorganic anions on the electrochemical behavior of carbon steel in formation water

Corrosion behavior of carbon steel in formation water associated crude oil from Egyptian western desert was studied at various concentrations of dodecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride (CS) as a cationic surfactant. Polarization curves indicate that CS has a good inhibition efficiency for carbon steel in formation water and behaves as cathodic inhibitor. The inhibition efficiency was found to increase with increase in CS concentration until reaches a maximum constant value corresponding to the critical micelle concentration of CS and decrease with increase in solution temperature. The adsorption of CS follows the kinetic thermodynamic model and Flory-Huggins isotherm. Thermodynamic parameters obtained indicate that that the presence of the CS increases the activation energy. Polarization and Impedance measurements indicate that the addition of KI has a significant synergistic effect with CS and results in increase the inhibition efficiency of CS in formation water.     

Augmented Lyapunov functional approach for stability of neutral systems with mixed delays

This paper is concerned with the neutral‐delay‐dependent and discrete‐delay‐dependent stability for uncertain neutral systems with mixed delays and norm‐bounded uncertainties. Through constructing a new augmented Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional and proving its positive definiteness, introducing some slack matrices and using integral inequality, the improved delay‐dependent stability criteria are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the significant improvement on the conservatism of the delay bound over some existing results. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

负摩阻力计算及对桩承载力的影响

探讨了负摩阻力的计算方法及考虑负摩阻力时对桩承载力的验算，对软土层超过１５米，上部堆载大或地下水位大幅度下降地区的桩，尤其是端承桩而言，具有较大的工程实际意义。     

The effect of neutral red on the corrosion inhibition of cold rolled steel in 1.0 M hydrochloric acid

The corrosion inhibition of neutral red on the corrosion of cold rolled steel in 1.0 M hydrochloric acid (HCl) was studied using weight loss method and potentiodynamic polarization method. Results obtained revealed that neutral red is an effective inhibitor. It was found that the adsorption of neutral red could prevent steel from weight loss and the adsorption accorded with the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. Potentiodynamic polarization studies showed that neutral red mainly acted as a mixed-type inhibitor for steel in 1.0 M hydrochloric acid. Thermodynamic parameters such as adsorption heat, adsorption entropy and adsorption free energy were obtained from experimental data of the temperature studies of the inhibition process at four temperatures ranging from 30 to 45 °C. The most suitable range of inhibitor concentration was discussed. The kinetic data such as apparent activation energies and pre-exponential factors at different concentrations of the inhibitor were calculated, the effect of the apparent activation energies and pre-exponential factors on the corrosion rates of cold rolled steel was discussed. The inhibitive action was satisfactorily explained by using both thermodynamic and kinetic models. Synergism between chloride ion and neutral red was proposed. The results obtained from weight loss and potentiodynamic polarization were in good agreement.     

Preparation of self-healing protective films on a zinc electrode treated in a cerium(III) nitrate solution and modified with sodium phosphate and cerium(III) nitrate

Self-healing protective films were prepared on a zinc electrode previously treated in a Ce(NO₃)₃ solution by modification with Na₃PO₄ and Ce(NO₃)₃. The protective and self-healing abilities of the films were examined by polarization measurements and observation of pit formation after the electrode was scratched with a knife-edge crosswise and immersed in oxygenated 0.5 M NaCl at 30 °C for many hours. Mechanisms of the protective and self-healing activities were discussed using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electron-probe microanalysis. The protective and self-healing abilities of the films prepared on the zinc electrode by treatment in the Ce(NO₃)₃ solution and modification with Na₃PO₄ plus Ca(NO₃)₂, Mg(NO₃)₂, Zn(NO₃)₂ or Ce(NO₃)₃ were summarized.     

Controllability results for damped second-order impulsive neutral integrodifferential systems with nonlocal conditions

In this paper, we establish a set of sufficient conditions for the controllability of damped second-order impulsive neutral integrodifferential systems with nonlocal initial conditions in Banach spaces. The approach used is the Sadovskii fixed point theorem combined with a noncompact condition on the cosine family of operators. An example is presented to illustrate the result.     

A neural network-based scheme coupled with the RPV model inversion package

A hybrid scheme for the inversion of the Rahman-Pinty-Verstraete (RPV) model is presented. It combines the inversion technique described by Lavergne et al. (Lavergne, T., Kaminski, T., Pinty, B., Taberner, M., Gobron, N., Verstraete, M.M., Vossbeck, M., Widlowski, J.L., Giering, R. (2007). Application to MISR land products of an RPV model inversion package using adjoint and Hessian codes. Remote Sensing of Environment, 107, 362-375.) and a multilayer backpropagation feedforward neural network. The RPV inversion package is applied to a sample set of pixels within the satellite scene. Subsequently the pairs of bidirectional reflectance factors (BRF) and model parameters estimated from the sample set of pixels are used to train the neural network. Since the mathematical formulation of the RPV model is embedded in these training data variables, the neural network can efficiently retrieve the model parameters for the whole satellite scene. This scheme has been tested for a MISR L2 BRF scene, MISR L1B2-derived BRF data corresponding to two different dates and a mosaic of MISR L2 BRF scenes acquired over Southern Africa covering a large extent of Miombo woodland. The results show this strategy retrieves the RPV model parameters and uncertainties with high accuracy and considerable speed over large areas.     

战斗机空气循环系统故障诊断方法的仿真研究

现代战斗机的飞行包线范围较大,飞行条件严苛多变,机载电子设备的功率密度也在不断增加,为了保证飞行员安全舒适,保障电子设备可靠工作,空气循环系统的可靠性问题亟待解决.为此提出了一种战斗机空气循环系统的故障诊断方法,方法基于BP神经网络.首先,对空气循环系统进行故障分析,选取热交换器和涡轮为典型故障部件,以二者的效率为故障特征值.其次,对空气循环系统的四种典型故障模式进行仿真,由仿真得到的数据训练BP神经网络,实现故障模式识别.诊断结果表明,方法具有良好的准确性和自适应性,能够成功诊断空气循环系统的典型故障.针对战斗机空气循环系统提出的故障诊断方法合理,对系统的可靠性研究具有重要意义.     

Stability analysis of neutral systems with distributed delays

The stability of neutral systems with distributed delays is investigated in this paper. A modified Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is constructed to study this class of systems. The proposed stability criterion is discrete-, distributed- and neutral-delay-dependent. In addition, by this method one can study the case when the coefficient matrix of the neutral delay term is time-varying uncertain. The reduced conservatism is illustrated in a numerical example.     

Improved exponential stability criteria for uncertain neutral system with nonlinear parameter perturbations

This paper investigates the problem of robust exponential stability for neutral systems with time-varying delays and nonlinear perturbations. Based on a novel Lyapunov functional approach and linear matrix inequality technique, a new delay-dependent stability condition is derived. Since the model transformation and bounding techniques for cross terms are avoided, the criteria proposed in this paper are less conservative than some previous approaches by using the free-weighting matrices. One numerical example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed results.