Performance of columns packed with the new shell particles,Kinetex-C18

The performance of the new Kinetex-C₁₈ column was investigated. Packed with a new brand of porous shell particles, this column has an outstanding efficiency. Once corrected for the contribution of the instrument extra column volume, the minimum values of the reduced plate heights for a number of low molecular weight compounds (e.g., anthracene and naphtho[2,3-a]pyrene) were between 1.0 and 1.3, breaking the legendary record set 3 years ago by Halo-C₁₈ packed columns. The liquid-solid mass transfer of proteins (e.g., insulin and lyzozyme) is exceptionally fast on Kinetex-C₁₈ much faster than on the Halo-C₁₈ column. The different contributions of dispersion and mass transfer resistances to the column efficiency were determined and discussed. The possible reasons for this extremely high column efficiency are discussed.     

Anomalies in evaporative light scattering detection

A two-dimensional (2-D) “heart-cutting” HPLC system was used to fractionate oligostyrenes into the respective diastereoisomers. For samples of known composition, the response of an ultraviolet (UV) absorbance detector followed the anticipated pattern. The response of an evaporative light-scattering (ELSD) detector on the other hand indicated quite different concentrations for the two diastereoisomers, relative to what was anticipated and what was indicated by the UV detector. Whereas approximately the same concentration was indicated by UV, ELSD in some cases indicated no detection of the later eluting isomer. The magnitude of the errors depended on both the molecular weight and the tacticity of the diastereomers. These anomalies appear to be an artifact of power transform functions imbedded within the firmware processor of the ELSD, invisible to the user.     

爆炸磁压缩发生器爆炸管运动研究

 报导了对爆炸磁压缩发生器(MFCG)的爆炸管进行的爆轰试验结果。用电子学方法测试了爆炸管采用的粉状RDX炸药的爆轰速度;采用高速分幅摄影方法,观测了爆炸管在管内RDX炸药爆轰产物驱动下的膨胀运动过程,测试了膨胀角、对称性和膨胀速度。试验表明,爆炸管在膨胀至 3倍初始半径内未发现破裂现象,其性能满足MFCG的设计要求。     

主动约束层阻尼振动控制研究进展

主动约束层阻尼(Active Constrained Layer Damping, ACLD)是以可控的压电材料代替被动约束层中不可控的约束层,通过可控的约束层主动地控制黏弹性材料的剪切变形以进一步增大其对振动能量耗散的主动阻尼形式,它充分结合了主动控制与被动阻尼作用各自的优势,使得其在结构振动控制方面显示出极好的应用价值.本文首先解释了ACLD的基本结构和阻尼机理,然后综述了最近几年有关ACLD在结构建模,控制方案及结构优化等方面的最新研究进展,最后指出了应用前景并总结了进一步研究的问题.      

The effect of long-range dependence on modelling extremes with the generalised extreme value distribution

Two effects arise for the modelling of block maxima from dependent time series: a reduced rate of convergence for the block maxima probability distribution towards the generalised extreme value distribution, and an increase in uncertainty of the parameter estimates compared to independent or short range dependent records. These effects are exemplified with a simulation study using a white noise, a short-range and a long-range dependent process. The two issues raised turned out to be relatively unproblematic for short-range dependent processes. For long-range dependent processes, especially the increased parameter uncertainty poses a problem. Incautious use of standard procedures would lead to a severe underestimation of the parameter uncertainty which implies a misconception of accuracy for derived quantities, such as return levels which are frequently used for risk assessment and dimensioning of hydraulic structures.     

SHOCK COMPRESSION BEHAVIOR OF BROMOFORM

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Effects of viscosity on shock-induced damping of an initial sinusoidal disturbance

A lack of reliable data treatment method has been for several decades the bottleneck of viscosity measurement by disturbance amplitude damping method of shock waves.In this work the finite difference method is firstly applied to obtain the numerical solutions for disturbance amplitude damping behavior of sinusoidal shock front in inviscid and viscous flow.When water shocked to 15 GPa is taken as an example,the main results are as follows:(1) For inviscid and lower viscous flows the numerical method gives results in good agreement with the analytic solutions under the condition of small disturbance(a0/λ=0.02);(2) For the flow of viscosity beyond 200 Pa s(η=κ) the analytic solution is found to overestimate obviously the effects of viscosity.It is attributed to the unreal pre-conditions of analytic solution by Miller and Ahrens;(3) The present numerical method provides an effective tool with more confidence to overcome the bottleneck of data treatment when the effects of higher viscosity in experiments of Sakharov and flyer impact are expected to be analyzed,because it can in principle simulate the development of shock waves in flows with larger disturbance amplitude,higher viscosity,and complicated initial flow.     

Large eddy simulation of a shocked gas cylinder instability induced turbulence

The Navier-Stokes equations for compressible fluid are solved with the operator splitting technique and LES (large eddy simulation) with the Smagorinsky model. A computational code MVFT (multi-viscosity-fluid and turbulence) is developed to study hydrodynamic instability and the induced turbulent mixing for multi compressible fluid. In order to validate the code MVFT,the LANL's shock tube experiment of shocked SF6 gas cylinder is simulated with the initial state of SF6 gas cylinder described by dissipative ...     

The assessment of π-π selective stationary phases for two-dimensional HPLC analysis of foods: Application to the analysis of coffee

Differences between alkyl, dipole-dipole, hydrogen bonding, and π-π selective surfaces represented by non-resonance and resonance π-stationary phases have been assessed for the separation of ‘Ristretto’ café espresso by employing 2DHPLC techniques with C18 phase selectivity detection. Geometric approach to factor analysis (GAFA) was used to measure the detected peaks (N), spreading angle (β), correlation, practical peak capacity (n_p) and percentage usage of the separations space, as an assessment of selectivity differences between regional quadrants of the two-dimensional separation plane. Although all tested systems were correlated to some degree to the C18 dimension, regional measurement of separation divergence revealed that performance of specific systems was better for certain sample components. The results illustrate that because of the complexity of the ‘real’ sample obtaining a truly orthogonal two-dimensional system for complex samples of natural origin may be practically impossible.