Helium/hydrogen synergistic effect in reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel investigated by slow positron beam

Here, we investigated the irradiation defect in reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steels by slow positron beam. Three ion-irradiation experiments were carried out: (i) He²⁺ irradiation, (ii) H⁺ irradiation and (iii) He²⁺ irradiation followed by H⁺ irradiation, at temperature 450?°C. The presences of vacancy defects, represented by ?S_He+H parameter, induced by sequential irradiations was larger than the sum of defects, ?S_He parameter + ?S_H parameter, caused by single He ions and single H ions. The synergistic effect of He and H was confirmed clearly from the perspective of positron annihilation spectroscopy.     

The application of dimension split method in the three‐dimensional heat equation

A dimension splitting method (DSM) with Crank–Nicolson time discrete strategy for a three‐dimensional heat equation is proposed. The basic idea is to simulate the three‐Dimensional problem by numerically solving a series of two‐dimensional problems in parallel fashion. Convergence and error estimation for the DSM scheme are derived in the paper. Numerical experiments demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the DSM scheme. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Wayside acoustic defective bearing detection based on improved Dopplerlet transform and Doppler transient matching

The diagnosis of train bearing defects plays a significant role in maintaining the safety of railway transport. However, the phenomenon of Doppler Effect in the acoustic signal recorded by the wayside Acoustic Defective Bearing Detector (ADBD) system leads to the difficulty for fault diagnosis of train bearings with a high moving speed. This paper proposes a double-searching solution based on improved Dopplerlet transform and Doppler transient matching to overcome the difficulty in wayside acoustic bearing diagnosis. In the solution, the first searching procedure is to extract necessary parameters of Doppler Effect under the situation with very low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) based on an improved Dopplerlet transform. Using the obtained parameters, the Doppler Effect can be embedded into the constructed periodic Laplace wavelet transient models. Subsequently, the second searching procedure is conducted to search fault impact period of the defective bearing through an operation, called Doppler transient matching, which is to calculate the correlation coefficient between the Doppler transient model and the filtered raw signal with the Doppler Effect. The proposed double-searching algorithm can adapt to the real Doppler Effect situation and extract the exact fault impact period from the Doppler distorted signal, and thus shows powerful capability to analyze wayside acoustic signals from train bearings. The proposed wayside acoustic diagnostic scheme is verified by means of a simulated Doppler distorted signal with a very low SNR (−20 dB) and the experiments conducted on train bearings. The results indicate that the proposed algorithm is effective and has obvious advantages for ADBD system.     

装备保障能力评估方法综述

装备保障能力评估是提升武器装备战备完好率的重要手段,能有效地促进装备保障能力建设的科学发展和部队战斗力的提升。论文首先介绍了装备保障能力相关理论的发展情况,整理了装备保障能力评估的基本思路,然后从多元统计理论、不确定性理论、多属性评估法、数据挖掘技术、交叉学科理论及组合模型等方面介绍了当前评估方法的发展现状,梳理和总结了各方法的建模基本思想并比较其优缺点,结合研究现状指出了评估理论存在的问题,最后对下一步研究方向进行了归纳。     

Optically Active Hybrid Materials Constructed from Helically Substituted Polyacetylenes

Functional materials derived from synthetic helical polymers are attracting increasing interest. Helically substituted polyacetylenes (HSPAs) are especially interesting as typical artificial helical polymers. In recent years, we designed and prepared a series of functional materials based on HSPAs and inorganic materials. The target is to establish some novel hybrid materials that combine the superior properties of both. The examined inorganic materials include silica, graphene, and magnetic Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles. Such new functional materials hold great promise and are expected to find practical applications, for instance, as chiral absorbents, chiral sensors, chiral selectors for inducing enantioselective crystallization, chiral catalysts towards asymmetric catalysis, and chiral carriers for enantioselective release. The Personal Account summarizes our major achievements in preparing optically active hybrid materials. We hope it will speed up progress in chiral‐related research areas.     

A unified modeling approach for amorphous shape memory polymers and shape memory polymer based syntactic foam

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) and shape memory polymer composites have drawn considerable attention in recent years for their shape memory effects. A unified modeling approach is proposed to describe thermomechanical behaviors and shape memory effects of thermally activated amorphous SMPs and SMP‐based syntactic foam by using the generalized finite deformation multiple relaxation viscoelastic theory coupled with time–temperature superposition property. In this paper, the thermoviscoelastic parameters are determined from a single dynamic mechanical analysis temperature sweep at a constant frequency. The relaxation time strongly depends on the temperature and the variation follows the time–temperature superposition principle. The horizontal shift factor can be obtained by the Williams–Landel–Ferry equation at temperatures above or close to the reference temperature (T_r), and by the Arrhenius equation at temperatures below T_r. As the Arruda–Boyce eight‐chain model captures the hyperelastic behavior of the material up to large deformation, it is used here to describe partial material behaviors. The thermal expansion coefficient of the material is regarded as temperature dependent. Comparisons between the model results and the thermomechanical experiments presented in the literature show an acceptable agreement. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

II、III期直肠癌术前与术后放化疗疗效比较的Meta分析

目的通过Meta分析比较术前与术后放化疗对II、III期直肠癌的疗效。方法检索2014年12月前发表的有关II、III期直肠癌术前与术后放化疗疗效比较的文献,纳入本研究的文献为随机对照试验（RCT）,提取其短期及长期临床疗效指标进行分析。结果共包括1642例直肠癌患者的5项RCT纳入本研究。术前放化疗组患者较术后放化疗组5年局部复发率低（OR＝0.60,95%CI:0.41~0.88,P=0.008）,两组5年远处转移率（OR=0.87,95%CI:0.67~1.11,P=0.26）、5年无病生存率（HR=0.84,95%CI:0.70~1.00,P=0.05）及总生存率（HR=0.90,95%CI:0.75~1.08,P=0.27）比较均无统计学差异,术前放化疗组毒性反应发生率较术后放化疗组低（OR=0.64,95%CI:0.50~0.82,P＜0.01）。结论采用术前放化疗的患者较术后放化疗的患者对直肠癌复发及毒性反应发生风险小,但远处转移及远期预后无明显差别。     

Controlling Thermal Entanglement in a Three-qubit Spin System

In this paper, thermal entanglement in three-qubit spin system has been addressed. The results show that spin-spin exchange interaction, the effective external magnetic field, next-nearest-neighbouring interaction have notable effects on the time evolution of the state and thermal entanglement So we can control thermal entanglement by changing the above parameters.     

Metal–Organic Framework Crystal–Glass Composite Membranes with Preferential Permeation of Ethane

Metal–organic framework (MOF) glass is an easy to process and self-supported amorphous material that is suitable for fabricating gas separation membranes. However, MOF glasses, such as ZIF-62 and ZIF-4 have low porosity, which makes it difficult to obtain membranes with high permeance. Here, a self-supported MOF crystal–glass composite (CGC) membrane was prepared by melt quenching a mixture of ZIF-62 as the membrane matrix and ZIF-8 as the filler. The conversion of ZIF-62 from crystal to glass and the simultaneous partial melting of ZIF-8 facilitated by the melt state of ZIF-62 make the CGC membrane monolithic, eliminating non-selective grain boundaries and improving selectivity. The thickness of CGC membrane can be adjusted to fabricate a membrane without the need of a support substrate. CGC membranes exhibit a C₂H₆ permeance of 41 569 gas permeation units (GPU) and a C₂H₆/C₂H₄ selectivity of 7.16. The CGC membrane has abundant pores from the glassy state of ZIF-62 and the crystalline ZIF-8, which enables high gas permeance. ZIF-8 has preferential adsorption for C₂H₆ and promotes C₂H₆ transport in the membrane, and thus the GCG membrane exhibits ultrahigh C₂H₆ permeance and good C₂H₆/C₂H₄ selectivity.     

Highly Efficient FeIII-initiated Self-cycled Fenton System in Piezo-catalytic Process for Organic Pollutants Degradation

Piezo-catalytic self-Fenton (PSF) system has been emerging as a promising technique for wastewater treatment, while the competing O₂ reductive hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) production and Fe^III reduction seriously limited the reaction kinetics. Here, we develop a two-electron water oxidative H₂O₂ production (WOR−H₂O₂) coupled with Fe^III reduction over a Fe^III/BiOIO₃ piezo-catalyst for highly efficient PSF. It is found that the presence of Fe^III can simultaneously initiate the WOR−H₂O₂ and reduction of Fe^III to Fe^II, thereby enabling a rapid reaction kinetics towards subsequent Fenton reaction of H₂O₂/Fe^II. The Fe^III initiating PSF system offers exceptional self-recyclable degradation of pollutants with a degradation rate constant for sulfamethoxazole (SMZ) over 3.5 times as that of the classic Fe^II-PSF system. This study offers a new perspective for constructing efficient PSF systems and shatters the preconceived notion of Fe^III in the Fenton reaction.