The near crack tip fields of stress and damage for concrete

The crack tip fields of stress, strain and damage for concrete under both antiplane shear and plane strain conditions are investigated based on the damage model proposed by Mazars and Lemaitre [2]. The structures of near tip fields obtained are similar to those for an elastic-perfectly-plastic material. It has been found that damage boundaries can not be determined by the near-tip analysis due to the discontinuities of stresses on the damage boundaries induced by the damage model used in the present paper.The Project is Supported by National Natural Science Fundation of China.     

环形激光弱磁传感器误差分析

本文从理论上分析了环形激光弱磁传感器主要误差因素并提出了若干克服这些因素的方法。这些误差因素是:大尺寸的法拉第室引入的噪声,磁光材料的费尔德常数的温度系数,塞曼效应的混入、朗谬尔效应等。     

任意除环上一矩阵方程组的一般解与中心和反中心对称解

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the existence of the general solution, the centrosymmetric solution, and the centroskewsymmetric solution to a system of linear matrix equations over an arbitrary skew field. The representations of such the solutions of the system are also derived.     

纳秒脉冲等离子体合成射流激励器的流场特性分析

采用一台高重频、快上升沿纳秒脉冲电源作为激励源,对典型的双电极合成射流激励器进行放电,通过粒子图像测速法（particle image velocimetry,PIV）测量放电实验中激励器稳定流场特性以及发展速度.分析实验结果发现,随着重复频率的提高,合成射流的平均发展速度也随之增大,1 kHz时的平均速度最高达到28.28 m/s,并在单脉冲能量远低于微秒脉冲的情况下,实现了更快的稳态流场控制,表明高重复频率下,更多次数的脉冲放电可提高激励总能量,有效地弥补纳秒脉冲单脉冲输出能量不足的缺点.而且频率越高,流场发展速度越快,说明高重频工作模式会对输出总能量有补偿作用.      

Nonideal double-slope effect in organic field-effect transistors

With the development of device engineering and molecular design,organic field effect transistors(OFETs)with high mobility over 10 cm2 V-1-s-1 have been reported.However,the nonideal doubleslope effect has been frequently observed in some of these OFETs,which makes it difficult to extract the intrinsic mobility OFETs accurately,impeding the further application of them.In this review,the origin of the nonideal double-slope effect has been discussed thoroughly,with affecting factors such as contact resistance,charge trapping,disorder effects and coulombic interactions considered.According to these discussions and the understanding of the mechanism behind double-slope effect,several strategies have been proposed to realize ideal OFETs,such as doping,molecular engineering,charge trapping reduction,and contact engineering.After that,some novel devices based on the nonideal double-slope behaviors have been also introduced.     

Ultrasound irradiation as an effective tool in synthesis of the slag-based catalysts for carboxymethylation

Waste minimization strategy was applied in the current work for synthesis of the catalysts from industrial solid waste, namely desulfurization slag. The starting slag material comprising CaCO₃, Ca(OH)₂, SiO₂, Al₂O₃, Fe₂O₃, and TiO₂ was processed by various treating agents systematically varying the synthesis parameters. A novel efficient technique – ultrasound irradiation, was applied as an additional synthesis step for intensification of the slag dissolution and crystallization of the new phases. Physico-chemical properties of the starting materials and synthesized catalysts were evaluated by several analytical techniques. Treatment of the industrial slag possessing initially poor crystal morphology and a low surface area (6 m²/g) resulted in formation of highly-crystalline catalysts with well-developed structural properties. Surface area was increased up to 49 m²/g. High basicity of the neat slag as well as materials synthesized on its basis makes possible application of these materials in the reactions requiring basic active sites. Catalytic performance of the synthesized catalysts was elucidated in the synthesis of carbonate esters by carboxymethylation of cinnamyl alcohol with dimethyl carbonate carried out at 150 °C in a batch mode. Ultrasonication of the slag had a positive effect on the catalytic activity. Synthesized catalysts while exhibiting similar selectivity to the desired product (ca. 84%), demonstrated a trend of activity increase for materials prepared using ultrasonication pretreatment. The choice of the treating agent also played an important role in the catalytic performance. The highest selectivity to the desired cinnamyl methyl carbonate (88%) together with the highest activity (TOF₃₅ = 3.89*10⁻⁷ (mol/g*s)) was achieved over the material synthesized using 0.6 M NaOH solution as the treating agent with the ultrasound pre-treatment at 80 W for 4 h.     

Solvent-tuned ultrasonic synthesis of 2D coordination polymer nanostructures and flakes

Herein, a new 2-dimensional coordination polymer based on copper (II), {Cu₂(L)(DMF)₂}_n, where L stands for 1,2,4,5-benzenetetracarboxylate (complex 1) is synthesized. Interestingly, we demonstrate that both solvent and sonication are relevant in the top-down fabrication of nanostructures. Water molecules are intercalated in suspended crystals of complex 1 modifying not only the coordination sphere of Cu(II) ions but also the final chemical formula and crystalline structure obtaining {[Cu(L)(H₂O)₃]·H₂O}_n (complex 2). On the other hand, ultrasound is required to induce the nanostructuration. Remarkably, different morphologies are obtained using different solvents and interconversion from one morphology to another seems to occur upon solvent exchange. Both complexes 1 and 2, as well as the corresponding nanostructures, have been fully characterized by different means such as infrared spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction and microscopy.     

Ultrasound freeze-thawing style pretreatment to improve the efficiency of the vacuum freeze-drying of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench) and the quality characteristics of the dried product

Vacuum freeze-drying is a new and high technology on agricultural product dehydrating dry, but it faces the high cost problem caused by high energy consumption. This study investigated the effect of ultrasound (US), freeze-thawing (including the freeze-air thawing (AT), freeze-water thawing (WT), freeze-ultrasound thawing (UST), and freeze-air ultrasound thawing (AT + US)) pretreatments on the vacuum freeze-drying efficiency and the quality of dried okra. The results indicated that the application of ultrasound and different freeze-thawing pretreatments reduced the drying time by 25.0%–62.50% and the total energy consumption was 24.28%–62.35% less. The AT pretreatment reduced the time by of okra slices by 62.50% and the total energy consumption was 62.35% less. The significant decrease in drying time was due to a change in the microstructure caused by pretreatment. Besides, the okra pretreated with the US retained most of the quality characteristics (flavor, color, hardness, and frangibility) among all methods, while, AT + US had the most changeable characteristics in quality, which is deprecated in our study. The okra pretreated with the US and AT, separately, had the best dry matter content loss (9.008%, 5.602%), lower chlorophyll degradation (5.05%, 5.44% less), and higher contents of total phenolics, total flavonoids, and pectin, with strong antioxidant capacity, compared to other methods. The pretreatments did not have a large effect on the functional groups and the structure of pectin, but slightly affected the viscosity. It can be concluded that AT and US pretreatment methods are better than others.     

Ultrasound-assisted fast encapsulation of metal microparticles in SiO2 via an interface-confined sol-gel method

Although the traditional Stoˇber process-based methods are widely used for encapsulation of metal nanoparticles in SiO₂, these time-consuming methods are not effective for coating metal microparticles with a uniform SiO₂ layer of desired thickness. Herein, an ultrasound-assisted, interface-confined sol–gel method is proposed for fast encapsulation of metal microparticles in SiO₂, and the encapsulation of Sn microparticles is chosen as an example to illustrate its feasibility. The proposed method involves covering metal microparticles with liquid films that contain water, alcohol, surfactant (Span-80) and catalyst (NH₄F) and then ultrasonically dispersing these particles into cyclohexane, where tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) is added. To ensure the hydrolysis-condensation reactions of TEOS occurring at the particle-cyclohexane interface so that the formed SiO₂ is coated on the particles, the microparticles should be well dispersed into cyclohexane with the liquid films being not broken away from their surfaces. It is found that the assistance of probe sonication and the addition of surfactant are crucial to achievement of a good dispersion of metal microparticles in cyclohexane. And using high-viscosity alcohol (namely glycerol), controlling the volume ratio of water to alcohol and the amount of water, and choosing a suitable ultrasonic power are essential for preventing the formation of free SiO₂ (namely SiO₂ that is not coated on the particles), which is a result that the liquid films escape from the particle surfaces under ultrasonic cavitation. Our results have also revealed that the thickness of SiO₂ layer can be adjusted by changing the reaction time or the total amount of water. In particular, the thickness of SiO₂ layer can be easily raised by simply repeating the encapsulation procedure. Compared with the traditional Stoˇber process-based methods, the proposed method is time-saving (reaction time: about 30 min vs. more than 12 h) and extremely effective for coating microparticles with a continuous, uniform SiO₂ layer of desired thickness.