Mechanical behaviour of the upper layers of a sandy loam soil under shear loading

The mechanical behaviour of the upper layers of a sandy loam soil was studied under standard triaxial compression and direct shear box tests. Variations of soil material properties were investigated at four different initial dry bulk densities of 1410, 1520, 1610 and 1670 kg/m³. Soil deformation and volume change under the triaxial compression loading were also studied at these bulk densities. Results from the two tests showed increases in the soil mechanical properties with the initial dry bulk density. The internal friction angle values measured with the triaxial compression apparatus exceeded those measured with the direct shear box. In contrast, the soil cohesion values measured with the direct shear box exceeded those measured with the triaxial compression apparatus. Under the triaxial compression test, the loose soil samples underwent contraction and volume reduction, whereas the dense samples swelled and failure cracks appeared clearly at various planes. The soil contraction for the former case characterizes the occurrence of soil compaction, whereas the cracks propagation and volume increase in the latter case characterizes the breaking up and loosening of soil during tillage operations. For the loose and moderately compacted states, the engineering Poisson's ratio increased with the axial strain until loading was completed. It also increased at the compacted and very compacted states until reaching given loading stages, after which its value started to decrease. This shifting in the engineering Poisson's ratio during loading may provide another identification of the moment of soil failure occurrence, in addition to that of the maximum shear stress.     

Heat transfer from a vertical tube bundle under natural circulation conditions

A rectangular loop (thermosyphon) was used to measure the average heat transfer coefficients for water at atmospheric pressure under natural circulation conditions. A twenty-one tube bundle with tubes 1.65 m long and 9.55 mm in diameter, and a pitch-to-diameter ratio of 1.33, was used as a test heat exchanger in one of the vertical legs of the loop. A natural circulation flow in the loop developed due to buoyancy differences of the fluid in its two vertical legs. Flow visualization experiments were performed to determine the flow regimes associated with natural circulation flow longitudinal to a tube bundle. Empirical correlations for the average Nusselt number have been developed and are reported. Grid spacers arranged on tube bundles were shown to enhance heat transfer, especially for laminar flow, without any noticeable increase in pressure drop.     

两种高分辨率数值方法计算波前有非均匀流的变截面管内激波传播规律的比较

本文采用两种对间断解具有高分辨率的数值方法基于推广Riemann问题解的二阶Godunov型有限差分法和分裂算子的随机选取法,计算了微波在波前有非均匀定常流的一维变截面管道中的传播和波后流场特征,得到一致结果,用数值模拟方法揭示了这类运动的一些特殊规律。对比两种方法的计算过程和结果,可以看出,二阶Godunov型方法明显优于随机选取法。     

粘塑性薄壁管中复合应力波的传播特性研究

以本构关系一般理论为基础,导出了计及材料功硬化效应和应变率硬化效应的粘塑性薄壁管的本构关系及管中复合应力波的控制方程,应用有限差分方法研究了在压扭复合冲击载荷作用下粘塑性薄壁管中复合应力波的传播特性与演化规律,分析了复合应力波的耦合效应以及薄壁管中粘塑性参数和功硬化效应对复合应力波传播与演化规律的影响,并对有关现象进行了分析和解释。     

可压缩流体中封闭薄球壳的自由振动

通过引入位移函数，成功地研究了薄球壳在可压缩流体中的自由振动。发现存在两类自由振动：第一类与外界流体无关；第二类则受到流体性质的影响．证明了第二类振动的频率方程具有多项式形式并只存在复频率（除ｎ＝１时有Ω＝０）．求解ｎ＝０，１和２时的频率方程，并讨论参数的影响及给出根轨迹图。最后就小阻尼系数法作了对比分析。     

Maximum Order of Triangle‐Free Graphs with a Given Rank

The rank of a graph is defined to be the rank of its adjacency matrix. A graph is called reduced if it has no isolated vertices and no two vertices with the same set of neighbors. We determine the maximum order of reduced triangle‐free graphs with a given rank and characterize all such graphs achieving the maximum order.     

Circumference and Pathwidth of Highly Connected Graphs

Birmele [J Graph Theory 2003] proved that every graph with circumference t has treewidth at most . Under the additional assumption of 2‐connectivity, such graphs have bounded pathwidth, which is a qualitatively stronger conclusion. Birmele's theorem was extended by Birmele et al. [Combinatorica 2007] who showed that every graph without k disjoint cycles of length at least t has treewidth . Our main result states that, under the additional assumption of ‐connectivity, such graphs have bounded pathwidth. In fact, they have pathwidth . Moreover, examples show that ‐connectivity is required for bounded pathwidth to hold. These results suggest the following general question: for which values of k and graphs H does every k‐connected H‐minor‐free graph have bounded pathwidth? We discuss this question and provide a few observations.     

微重力条件下与容器连通的毛细管中的毛细流动研究

利用落塔的短时微重力条件, 实验研究了与容器连通的毛细管中的流体在微重力条件下的毛细流动过程, 并通过理论分析建立了相应的毛细管中弯月液面高度随时间变化的微分方程. 结果表明, 对于不同的接触角和不同的容器/毛细管参数, 由建立的理论公式得到的数值解结果都与实验结果在定量上较为一致. 此外, 实验中发现, 改变乙醇和去离子水混合液的比例可以明显地改变接触角参数, 但对毛细流动的影响很小, 建立的理论公式也对这一现象给出了合理的解释. 该研究对于预测和分析微流道及空间微重力条件下的毛细流动行为具有明显的应用价值.     

Q波段回旋行波管新型盒型输出窗的设计

利用等效电路理论,初步设计了窗片厚度为1.32mm的回旋行波管盒型输出窗,再加入感性膜片,更改窗片形状,最终设计出了能承受25kW平均功率、相对带宽达到14%、窗片厚度达到1.7mm的Q波段新型宽频带回旋行波管盒型输出窗;采用高频软件HFSS与有限元分析软件ANSYS协同仿真的新方法对回旋行波管盒型窗进行热特性研究表明,盒型窗理论上功率容量达到62kW平均功率,说明输出窗窗片承受25kW平均功率的可行性,窗片中心与边缘的温差为66℃,没有达到陶瓷窗片的临界温差158℃,验证了新型盒型窗设计的合理性。     

Experimental validation of an effective carbon number-based approach for the gas chromatography–mass spectrometry quantification of ‘compounds lacking authentic standards or surrogates’

For the quantitative analysis of ‘compounds lacking authentic standards or surrogates’ (CLASS) in environmental media, we previously introduced an effective carbon number (ECN) approach to develop an empirical equation for the prediction of their response factor (RF). In this research, a series of laboratory experiments were carried out to benchmark the reliability of an ECN approach for sorbent tube/thermal desorption/gas chromatography (GC)/mass spectrometry (MS) applications. First, the ECN values were determined using external calibration data from 25 reference volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using two MS dectectors (quadrupole (Q) and time-of-flight (TOF)). Then, a certified standard mixture of 54 VOCs was analyzed by each system as a simulated unknown sample. The analytical bias, assessed in terms of percentage difference (PD) between the certified and ECN-predicted mass values, averaged 19.2 ± 16.1% (TOF-MS) and 28.2 ± 27.6% (Q-MS). The bias using a more simplified carbon number (CN)-based prediction increased considerably, yielding 53.4 ± 53.3% (TOF-MS) and 61.7 ± 81.3% (Q-MS). However, the bias obtained using the ECN-based prediction decreased significantly to yield average PD values of 9.84 ± 7.28% (TOF-MS) and 16.8 ± 8.35% (Q-MS), if the comparison was limited to 26 (out of 54) VOCs with CN ≥ 4 (i.e., 25 aromatics and hexachlorobutadiene).