The three-dimension model for the rock-breaking mechanism of disc cutter and analysis of rock-breaking forces

To study the rock deformation with threedimensional model under rolling forces of disc cutter,by carrying out the circular-grooving test with disc cutter rollingaround on the rock,the rock mechanical behavior underrolling disc cutter is studied,the mechanical model of disccutter rolling around the groove is established,and the theory of single-point and double-angle variables is proposed.Based on this theory,the physics equations and geometricequations of rock mechanical behavior under disc cutters oftunnel boring machine(TBM) are studied,and then the balance equations of interactive forces between disc cutter androck are established.Accordingly,formulas about normalforce,rolling force and side force of a disc cutter are derived,and their validity is studied by tests.Therefore,a newmethod and theory is proposed to study rock-breaking mechanism of disc cutters.     

Migration of settling particles in a horizontal viscous flow through a vertical slot with porous walls

Particle migration in a horizontal flow of dilute suspension through a vertical slot with porous walls is studied using the two-continua approach. The lateral migration is induced by two opposite effects: an inertial lift force due to particle settling and directed toward the slot centre-line, and a drag due to leak-off entraining particles toward the walls. An expression for the inertial lift on a settling particle in a horizontal channel flow found recently is generalized to the case of a low leak-off velocity. The evolution of an initial uniform particle concentration profile is studied within the full Lagrangian approach. Four migration regimes are found differing by the direction of particle migration and numbers of equilibrium positions. Conditions of the regime change and a critical value of dimensionless leak-off velocity for particle deposition on the walls are obtained analytically. Suspension flows with zones where the particle concentration is zero or increases infinitely, are studied numerically.     

Photonic crystal-based all-optical arithmetic circuits without SOA-based switches

Various proposed optical computing devices involve nonlinear optical operation and use semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based switches as fundamental elements for logic operations. Due to the nonlinear operation, these devices suffer from high power that causes problems in very large-scale optical integration. In this paper, a method is proposed to implement arithmetic operations using a photonic crystal (PhC) cell and eliminate the SOA-based switches altogether. The proposed method is employed on designing an all-optical full adder/subtractor circuit that requires only beam combiners and photonic crystal NOT gates.     

Group properties and exact solutions for two-dimensional flow of a non-newtonian fluid

The Group Properties and the associated Lie Algebra are developed for the equations of motion of the unsteady two-dimensional flow of a non-Newtonian fluid in cartesian coordinates. Then by using the full one-parameter infinitesimal transformation group and its subgroups a number of exact solutions are obtained.     

全谱火焰光度法检测硫、磷、氮、砷、氯元素

火焰光度分析技术是一种能够快速灵敏检测硫、磷等元素的成熟方法。在环境检测,农残检测,工农业生产领域得到广泛应用。通过对传统火焰光度检测器的改进设计,采用光栅和CCD传感器阵列作为检测器的光电转换器件,拓展了检测化合物的种类,成功实现了对H2S,PH3,NH3,AsH3,Cl2为代表的硫、磷、氮、砷、氯五种元素的实时检测。由原来依靠特征波长检测拓展到利用物质火焰光度光谱信息进行定性定量分析。结合化学计量学的方法有望成为一种能够同时检测多类有毒有害气体的快速现场检测技术。     

Application of negligible and full depletion micro-extraction in environmental sciences

Negligible depletion micro-extraction (nd-ME) and full depletion micro-extraction (fd-ME) have been developed for specific purposes in environmental studies. Nd-ME is mainly designed to measure the free concentration and therefore evaluate the bioavailability of analytes in environmental matrices, and achieved by using large ratio of sample to extraction phase or extraction phase with low distribution coefficients for analytes. On the contrary, fd-ME is adopted to avoid matrix effects by determining the total amount of the analyte in the samples, and performed by using very low ratio of sample to extraction phase or extraction phase with extremely large distribution coefficients for analytes. In this review article, we highlight the basic concepts and applications of nd-ME and fd-ME in environmental sciences.     

Rapid determination of furfural in biomass hydrolysate by full evaporation headspace gas chromatography

This paper reports a full evaporation (FE) headspace gas chromatographic (HS-GC) method for rapid determination of furfural in the biomass hydrolysate. The data show that a near-complete mass transfer of furfural in the sample from biomass hydrolysate to the vapor phase (headspace) was achieved within 3 min at 105°C when a very small (<40 μL) sample was added to a 20 mL headspace sample vial. The acid-catalyzed furfural decomposition under these conditions was negligible. The furfural in the vapor phase was then determined by HS-GC using a flame ionization detector. The results showed that the method has an excellent measurement precision (RSD<0.5%) and accuracy (recovery=100.2±1.7%) for furfural quantification in carbohydrate hydrolysate samples. The method requires no sample pretreatment, so it is simple, rapid and accurate, and suitable for applications in lignocellulosic biomass conversion to fuel ethanol or other high value-added products.     

Effect of SiO2/Si3N4 dielectric distributed Bragg reflectors (DDBRs) for Alq3/NPB thin-film resonant cavity organic light emitting diodes

In this article, we report on the effect of SiO₂/Si₃N₄ dielectric distributed Bragg reflectors (DDBRs) for Alq₃/NPB thin-film resonant cavity organic light emitting diode (RCOLED) in increasing the light output intensity and reducing the linewidth of spontaneous emission spectrum. The optimum DDBR number is found as 3 pairs. The device performance will be bad by further increasing or decreasing the number of DDBR. As compared to the conventional Alq₃/NPB thin-film organic light emitting diode (OLED), the Alq₃/NPB thin-film RCOLED with 3-pair DDBRs has the superior electrical and optical characteristics including a forward voltage of 6 V, a current efficiency of 3.4 cd/A, a luminance of 2715 cd/m² under the injection current density of 1000 A/m², and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 12 nm for emission spectrum over the 5-9 V bias range. These results represent that the Alq₃/NPB thin-film OLED with DDBRs shows a potential as the light source for plastic optical fiber (POF) communication system.     

On multiserver feedback retrial queue with finite buffer

This paper deals with a multiserver feedback retrial queueing system with finite waiting position and constant retrial rate. This system is analyzed as a quasi-birth-and-death (QBD) process and the necessary and sufficient condition for stability of the system is investigated. Some important system performance measures are obtained using matrix geometric method. The effect of various parameters on the system performance measures are illustrated numerically. Finally, the algorithmic development of the full busy period for the model under consideration is discussed.