Degradation of Stiffness of Cemented Calcareous Soil in Cyclic Triaxial Tests

The deformation characteristics of artificially cemented calcareous soil subjected to undrained cyclic triaxial loading are investigated at different confining pressure and cyclic stress levels. The influence of cementation on the shear stiffness is investigated by comparing the behavior of cemented and uncemented soils with similar initial conditions. It is observed that the deviator stress and the deviatoric strain at yield reduced with increasing number of cycles for cemented sand due to progressive degradation of bond, which results in significant decrease in stiffness. On the other hand, a strain-hardening effect is observed in uncemented sand and this results in increasing yield stress and strain with progressive number of cycles. A linear relationship between degradation index and number of cycles is observed for cemented sand. This relationship has been synthesized in the form of an empirical equation by modifying a previously proposed equation for cohesive soils. This empirical equation was further used to evaluate the fatigue life of soils by adopting a failure criterion.     

基于ANSYS的闩体刚强度有限元分析

闩体的刚度和强度必须满足设计要求。用有限元法对复杂结构件进行力学性能分析是非常有效的方法。采用ANSYS软件对闩体进行了刚度和强度分析,得出了有用的结论,可供相关设计借鉴。     

柔性石墨纸轧机动刚度薄弱部位辨识与优化

借助谐响应分析辨识出柔性石墨纸轧机动刚度的薄弱环节,并利用灵敏度分析方法建立该环节的优化数学模型,进而实现对整机动刚度的提升。通过对各部件刚度提升前后的柔性石墨纸轧机进行模态分析,并对比各部件对整机固有频率的影响,辨识出薄弱部位为底座,故以底座为优化对象;将牌坊Y向共振频率对底座尺寸的灵敏度曲线拟合得出优化目标函数,以Y向共振频率为优化目标,质量为约束条件建立优化方程并求解;对比优化前后整机的动刚度,得出:在质量不增加的情况下,整机薄弱频率提升了24.1%,Y向振幅降低了15.9%。为提高优化效率提供了理论依据和参考。     

Development of new-concept desk top size machine tool

A desktop multiprocess machinery has been designed that has two concepts: miniaturizing of machine tool and multiprocessing with a same machine tool. The prototype of desktop multiprocess machinery is developed in this study. This is tabletop size machine tool that has five changeable machining heads. Outline of main body and machining head are presented.In order to know the basic accuracy of desktop multiprocess machinery, experimental evaluation is carried out. Machining head setting error, stiffness of multiprocess machinery and straightness of X, Y, Z stage is measured. To study the basic performance of desktop multiprocess machinery, a complex machining experiment is carried out with the developed machine tool. The complex machining consists of three steps: electrode machining by milling, hole shaping by EDM, and hole finishing by ECM. These steps are performed in sequence on the same machine tool. The complex machining is successfully carried out. In order to evaluate the desktop multiprocess machinery from environmental point of view, machining energy, volume of machining liquid, and installation space of desktop multiprocess machinery are measured. The measured values are compared with estimated values with conventional machine tools. The machining energy, the volume of machining liquid, and the installation space of desktop multiprocess machinery are smaller than those of conventional machine tool.     

Power system transient stability assessment based on the multiple paralleled convolutional neural network and gated recurrent unit

In order to accurately evaluate power system stability in a timely manner after faults, and further improve the feature extraction ability of the model, this paper presents an improved transient stability assessment (TSA) method of CNN?+?GRU. This comprises a convolutional neural network (CNN) and gated recurrent unit (GRU). CNN has the feature extraction capability for a micro short-term time sequence, while GRU can extract characteristics contained in a macro long-term time sequence. The two are integrated to comprehensively extract the high-order features that are contained in a transient process. To overcome the difficulty of sample misclassification, a multiple parallel (MP) CNN?+?GRU, with multiple CNN?+?GRU connected in parallel, is created. Additionally, an improved focal loss (FL) function which can implement self-adaptive adjustment according to the neural network training is introduced to guide model training. Finally, the proposed methods are verified on the IEEE 39 and 145-bus systems. The simulation results indicate that the proposed methods have better TSA performance than other existing methods.     

Short-term changes in upper extremity dynamic mechanical response parameters following power hand tool use

Dynamic mechanical response parameters (stiffness, damping and effective mass), physiological properties (strength and swelling) and symptoms of the upper limb were measured before power tool operation, immediately following and 24?h after power tool operation. Tool factors, including peak torque (3 Nm and 9 Nm) and torque build-up time (50?ms and 250?ms), were controlled in a full factorial design. Twenty-nine inexperienced power hand tool users were randomly assigned to one of four conditions and operated a pistol grip nutrunner four times per min for 1?h in the laboratory. Isometric strength decreased immediately following tool use (15%) (p?<?0.01) and 24?h later (9%) (p?<?0.05). Mechanical parameters of stiffness (p?<?0.05) and effective mass (p?<?0.05) were affected by build-up time. An average decrease in stiffness (43%) and effective mass (57%) of the upper limb was observed immediately following pistol grip nutrunner operation for the long (250?ms) build-up time. A previously developed biomechanical model was used to estimate handle force and displacement associated with the tool factors in the experiment. The conditions associated with the greatest predicted handle force and displacement had the greatest decrease in mechanical stiffness and effective mass, and the greatest increase in localized discomfort.     

MATLAB在有限元分析中的应用

有限元分析法是现代机械设计中应用非常广泛的一种数值分析技术．本文在有限元分析中引入工程技术计算中使用最广泛的计算机软件包MATLAB，使有限元设计中的计算问题简单化。并通过具体的实例（梁元），阐述了MATLAB在有限元方法中的应用步骤以及所得结果，从而向读者展示了MATLAB在有限元分析中的一般应用方法。     

Assessment of Soil Stiffness Properties by Dynamic Tests on Bridges

This paper presents a method to determine soil stiffness properties using measured structural modes of bridges. Normally, the identified mode shapes have to be smoothed. The mode shapes are approximated using functions describing the transverse vibration of distributed–parameter systems. Artificial coefficients are introduced into this solution in order to sum up the error contributions of displacements and its derivatives up to second order. Then, a pier-soil model based on normalized mechanical impedance functions is used. Applying this method along with more than one vertical mode shape leads to acceptable and more accurate results. The amplitudes of pier bottom vibrations are chosen as the suitable weights for the averaging procedure. For the Warth Bridge situated near Vienna, shear wave velocities and shear moduli at the pier foundations have been estimated. The results correspond quite well to the geological investigation.     

Free Vibration Analysis of Laminated Stiffened Shells

The free vibration of the laminated composite anticlastic doubly curved stiffened shells is investigated using the finite element method. The stiffened shell element is obtained by appropriate combination of the nine-node doubly curved isoparametric thin shallow shell element with the three-node curved isoparametric beam element. The shell forms include the hyperbolic paraboloid, hypar, and conoidal shells. The accuracy of the formulation is validated by comparing the authors’ results of specific problems with those available in the literature. The additional problems are taken up for parametric studies to include the effects of fiber orientation and lamina stacking sequence of shells and stiffeners. Moreover, the effects of number, types, and orientations of stiffeners, and stiffener depth to shell thickness ratio on the fundamental frequency are also included in the present study. Further, mode shapes corresponding to the fundamental frequency for typical cases are obtained to verify the parametric trend of the results of the fundamental frequency.     

Stiffness-Damping Simultaneous Identification under Limited Observation

A more reliable and stable method, compared to the previous one developed by the present writers, of stiffness-damping simultaneous identification of shear-type building structures is proposed using stationary random records under limited observation. It is shown that when stationary random horizontal accelerations are recorded at the floors just above and below a specific story in a shear building model, the story stiffness and the damping ratio can be identified uniquely. The viscous damping coefficient and the material damping ratio can also be identified simultaneously in a numerical model structure. It is also shown that unfavorable effects by extraneous noises, including measurement noises, due to wind excitation, building facilities, and the motion of the occupants can be eliminated partially by using the present method. The accuracy of the present identification method is investigated through the actual records under limited observation in a base-isolated building.