Vertical Vibration of a Flexible Plate with Rigid Core on Saturated Ground

In this paper, the vertical vibration of a flexible plate with rigid core resting on a semi-infinite saturated soil is studied analytically. The behavior of the soil is assumed to follow Biot’s poroelastodynamic theory with compressible soil skeleton and pore water, and the response of the time-harmonic excited plate is governed by the classical thin-plate theory. By virtue of the Hankel transform technique, the fundamental solutions of the skeleton displacements, stresses, and pore pressure are derived, and a set of dual integral equations associated with the relaxed boundary and completely drained condition at the soil-foundation contact interface are also developed. These governing integral equations are further reduced to the standard Fredholm integral equations of the second kind and solved by numerical procedures. Comparison with existing solutions for a rigid permeable plate on saturated soil confirms the accuracy of the present solution. Selected numerical results are presented to show the influence of the permeability, the size of the rigid core, and the plate flexibility on the dynamic interaction between the elastic plate with rigid core and the underlying saturated soil.     

生物地耕法降解含油污泥的研究

对含油质量分数为9.0%和10.2%的油泥进行生物地耕法的研究。结果表明,生物降解120d后,油泥残油质量分数分别由9.0%和10.2%降至3.1%和4.0%,石油降解率分别为65.6%和60.8%;同时利用气相色谱-质谱分析生物降解前后含油污泥中饱和烃的组分和质量分数变化,含油质量分数为9.0%和10.2%油泥中的长链烷烃分别减少39.8%和42.2%。     

A transient method for characterizing flow regimes in a circulating fluid bed

In recent years, although an increasing number of literature have been devoted to circulating fluidized bed (CFB), the prediction of velocities over which different fluidization regimes exist is still difficult. In this study, a transient method was applied which readily allows one to identify operational features and critical transitions. The method is based on stopping the solids flow rate into the riser when riser is operating in fully dense transport regime. The analysis of transient pressure drop data across the riser during a solids flow cut-off experiment against its time derivative demonstrate the three distinct operating regimes that exist as the gas deplete the solid out of the riser. The transient was compared to data taken under steady state operations using statistically designed experiments. Results indicated that although there were significant differences when comparing operations in dilute conditions, there were no significant differences between the two methods in the fast fluidized and dense transport regimes. The transient method was capable of reproducing the solids circulation dependence on riser solids holdup and on the axial pressure profile. This transient method offers an accurate, easy, rapid, and reproducible means of characterizing CFB operations over a wide range of flow conditions. The lack of accuracy in the dilute regime is conjectured to be due to the wide particle size distribution that resulted in segregation during the transient testing.     

Internet访问时间的混沌性解析

以CAIDA组织授权的海量数据为样本空间,利用相空间重构技术以及G-P算法,对时间维的Internet访问时间进行相空间重构,得到其混沌吸引子饱和关联维数为2.8308,证实Internet访问时间的演化过程具有混沌特征.在此基础上,根据关联维数及奇怪吸引子在相空间混沌轨道运动的特性,提出了三维微分方程组的Internet访问时间长期预测模型.     

Effective dimensions and relative frequencies

Consider the problem of calculating the fractal dimension of a set X consisting of all infinite sequences S over a finite alphabet Σ that satisfy some given condition P on the asymptotic frequencies with which various symbols from Σ appear in S. Solutions to this problem are known in cases where

(i)

the fractal dimension is classical Hausdorff or packing dimension (by work of Volkmann and Olsen), or

(ii)

the fractal dimension is effective (even finite-state) and the condition Pcompletely specifies an empirical distribution π over Σ, i.e., a limiting frequency of occurrence for every symbol in Σ.

In this paper, we show how to calculate the finite-state dimension (equivalently, the finite-state compressibility) of such a set X when the condition P only imposes partial constraints on the limiting frequencies of symbols. Our results automatically extend to less restrictive effective fractal dimensions (e.g., polynomial-time, computable, and constructive dimensions), and they have the classical results (i) as immediate corollaries. Our methods are nevertheless elementary and, in most cases, simpler than those by which the classical results were obtained.     

Fe-Si-C熔体的作用浓度计算模型

根据含化合物金属熔体结构的共存理论、相图和Fe－C系亚稳态化合物的有关热力学数据制定了Fe－Si－C熔体的作用浓度计算模型，计算结果符合实际，从而证明所推导的计算模型可以反映本熔体的结构实际．就碳而言，就碳而言，以饱和为标准态的碳作用浓度Nc′可以通过考虑纯物质到饱和标准态的转换系数Lc来求得．     

高粘度磁性液体的制备研究

采用直流电弧等离子体法 ,分别在 1个大气压的H2 +Ar和CH4+He混和气氛中制备了Fe、Ni、Fe-Ni合金磁性超微粒子 (UFP)。利用Fe、Ni、Fe-Ni合金超微粒子 ,选择适当的表面活性剂和载液 ,制备了高粘度磁性液体(ML) ,常温 (2 5℃ )粘度为 (2 6～ 6 0 )× 10 5mPa·s,高温 (85℃ )粘度为 (1 0～ 3 2 )× 10 5mPa·s,室温下饱和磁化强度为FeML 2 4 0 8～ 6 8 0 0Am2 /kg,NiML 10 19～ 17 83Am2 /kg,Fe-NiML 2 6 2 1～ 75 13Am2 /kg     

Microglial Cell Activation Increases Saturated and Decreases Monounsaturated Fatty Acid Content,but Both Lipid Species are Proinflammatory

Neuroinflammation is a component of age-related neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive decline. Saturated (SFA) and monounsaturated (MUFA) fatty acids are bioactive molecules that may play different extrinsic and intrinsic roles in neuroinflammation, serving as exogenous ligands for cellular receptors, or endogenous components of cell structural, energetic and signaling pathways. We determined the fatty acyl profile of BV2 microglial cells before and after acute activation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). We also investigated the effect of SFA and MUFA pretreatment on the production of an invasive, neurotoxic phenotype in BV2 cells. Acute activation of BV2 microglia resulted in an increase in the relative content of SFA (12:0, 16:0, 18:0, 20:0, 22:0, and 24:0 increased significantly), and a relative decrease in the content of MUFA (16:1n7, 18:1n7, 18:1n9, 20:1n9, 24:1n9 decreased significantly). In agreement, the major stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) isoform in BV2 cells, SCD2, was significantly down-regulated by LPS. We next treated cells with SFA (16:0 or 18:0) or MUFA (16:1n7 or 18:1n9), and found that levels of secreted IL6 were increased, as was secreted MMP9-mediated proteolytic activity. To test the functional significance, we treated SH-SY5Y neuronal cells with conditioned medium from BV2 cells pretreated with fatty acids, and found a small but significant induction of cell death. Our findings suggest differential intrinsic roles for SFA and MUFA in activated microglial cells, but similar extrinsic roles for these fatty acid species in inducing activation. Expansion of SFA is important during microglial cell activation, but either supplemental SFA or MUFA may contribute to chronic low-grade neuroinflammation.     

Adaptive control for spacecraft rendezvous subject to actuator faults and saturations

An adaptive saturated fault-tolerant controller is proposed for a spacecraft rendezvous maneuver with a cooperative target spacecraft. The six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) relative dynamics subject to unknown inertial parameters, external disturbances, actuator faults and saturations are formulated in the pursuer's body-fixed frame. To design controller satisfying asymmetric magnitude constraints, a modified smooth hyperbolic tangent function is applied to approximate the non-differentiable saturation function. Based on the augmented system technique, an adaptive fault-tolerant saturated controller is designed for the pursuer by using a Nussbaum function matrix compensating for the nonlinear term arising from the input saturations. In addition, a Levant differentiator is introduced to obtain the derivative of the virtual control in finite time that avoids the complicated calculation. It is proved via Lyapunov stability theory that all the signals in the closed-loop augmented system are bounded and the relative errors asymptotically converge to zero. Numerical simulations are performed to illustrate effectiveness of the proposed controller.     

Responses of a cylindrical lined tunnel due to internal dynamic load in two distinct mediums: Ideal elastic and saturated porous medium

The dynamic responses of a lined tunnel subjected to dynamic loading is one of the key issues that needs to be addressed prior to the design and construction of tunnels. While the tunnel lining and surrounding soil are commonly designed in ideal explosion-proof engineering as ideal elastic media to simplify the problem, in reality; soils are porous geo-materials. Therefore, the concern is whether this practice is more conservative or close to the reality, in contrast to the scenario where the surrounding soil is assumed as a saturated porous medium. This study investigates the differences and relationships between the dynamic responses of the lining structures in two immensely disparate media: ideal elastic medium and porous saturated medium. Firstly, to avoid the complexity of 3D numerical studies, 3D analytical solutions for the responses of the lined tunnel in both the ideal elastic medium and porous medium due to internal dynamic loading are derived using Fourier and Laplace transforms. Also, the differences between the dynamic responses (e.g., the radial displacement, radial effective stress, and hoop effective stress) of the lining structures in two media are determined to assess the rationality of assuming that the soil around the lined tunnel is an infinite elastic compressible medium. Finally, the influence of the porosity on the dynamic response of a cylindrical lined tunnel subjected to dynamic loads is examined.