A new mesogenic mixture with antiferroelectric phase only at a broad temperature range

New compounds (S)-4?-(1-methylheptyloxycarbonyl)biphenyl-4-yl 4-[3-(2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,5-nonafluoropentyloxy)prop-1-oxy]benzoates were synthesised and characterised. Their mesomorphic properties were tested by means of polarising optical microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. The multicomponent antiferroelectric high tilt mixture with long pitch has been also formulated and characterised. The helical pitch of prepared mixture was estimated with selective reflection method.     

Layered Multi-mode Optimal Control Strategy for Multi-MW Wind Turbine

The control strategy is one of the most important renewable technology, and an increasing number of multi- MW wind turbines are being developed with a variable speed-variable pitch （ VS-VP ） technology. The main objective of adopting a VS-VP technology is to improve the fast response speed and capture maximum energy. But the power generated by wind turbine changes rapidly because of the continuous fluctuation of wind speed and direction. At the same time, wind energy conversion systems are of high order, time delays and strong nonlinear characteristics because of many uncertain factors. Based on analyzing the all dynamic processes of wind turbine, a kind of layered multi-mode optimal control strategy is presented which is that three control strategies： bang-bang, fuzzy and adaptive proportional integral derivative （PID） are adopted according to different stages and expected performance of wind turbine to capture optimum wind power, compensate the nonlinearity and improve the wind turbine performance at low, rated and high wind speed.     

变距供送螺杆数学模型的研究

以3段式变距螺杆为研究对象,通过对原数学模型仿真,找到螺杆螺旋线存在干涉的原因。依据供送容器的输送方式,推导供送变距螺杆新数学模型,仿真发现新数学模型可消除供送过程中出现的“挤瓶”现象。采用实测和仿真结合的方法,通过现场测试数据和仿真提取数据比对,验证了新数学模型的正确性。     

Electro-optic and dielectric properties of new binary ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystalline mixtures

Several new binary liquid crystalline mixtures have been designed and their properties were studied by complementary methods. It has been shown that even both pure components used for the mixture design possess the ferroelectric behaviour; the induced antiferroelectric smectic phase has been detected for one of the prepared mixtures. The phase diagram has been constructed and the existence of the antiferroelectric phase was confirmed by switching time and dielectric spectroscopy measurements. Some of the resulted mixtures possess very high values of the tilt angle that reaches close below 45° degrees at saturation. Values of spontaneous polarisation were found within 50–200 nC/cm² in dependence of the mixture’s composition. Due to specific properties, the obtained mixtures might be interesting for further design of multicomponent mixtures and formulation of the advanced nanocomposite systems.     

Stochastic piecewise affine control with application to pitch control of helicopter

In this paper, at first the stability condition which gives an upper stochastic bound for a class of Stochastic Hybrid Systems (SHS) with deterministic jumps is derived. Here, additive noise signals are considered that do not vanish at equilibrium points. The presented theorem gives an upper bound for the second stochastic moment or variance of the system trajectories. Then, the linear case of SHS is investigated to show the application of the theorem. For the linear case of such stochastic hybrid systems, the stability criterion is obtained in terms of Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) and an upper bound on state covariance is obtained for them. Then utilizing the stability theorem, an output feedback controller design procedure is proposed which requires the Bilinear Matrix Inequalities (BMI) to be solved. Next, the pitch dynamics of a helicopter is approximated with a set of linear stochastic systems, and the proposed controller is designed for the approximated model and implemented on the main nonlinear system to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed theorem and the control design method.     

The effect of task on determination of habitual pitch

The purpose of this study was to investigate if there was an effect of task on determination of habitual pitch, or speaking fundamental frequency (SFF). Seven tasks commonly used to elicit habitual pitch in clinical voice evaluations were compared. Three groups of normal subjects (N = 36) were examined (adult males, adult females, and male and female prepubescent children). For the adult male (n = 12) and pediatric (n = 12) subjects, no significant effect of task was found. For the adult female (n = 12) subjects, a statistically significant (P < .001) effect of task was found. All tasks were found to have high (>0.90) test-retest reliability for all subjects. Implications of the use of one task for determination of habitual pitch are discussed, as is the possibility of a task effect on determination of other voice parameters.     

棒料高速变节距柔性交接装置设计与优化

针对目前棒料高速柔性交接装置工作可靠性不高,上下游机节距不能根据需要调整,从而限制了下游机速度提高等问题,提出了一种棒料变节距柔性交接装置的工作原理,对棒料交接过程及运动干涉情况进行了分析.为提高棒料柔性交接的可靠性,对装置结构参数进行了多目标优化,改善了棒料轴向制动过程,减小了交接相对速度差和凸轮最大压力角,并通过仿真分析验证了优化设计的合理性.该装置交接定位准确、稳定,轴向制动平缓,变节距技术和装置为设计速度更高的下游机创造了有利条件,具有较高的实用价值.     

中间相沥青纤维基自粘结炭材料的成型与微观形貌研究

实验采用热重分析模拟中间相沥青纤维的预氧化过程,然后利用热机械分析对沥青纤维径向热压变形行为及热压自粘结过程进行了研究,并借助扫描电镜观察自粘结沥青纤维板和自粘结炭纤维板的微观形貌．当沥青纤维氧化增重量为2.1%时,纤维径向变形率可达36%,易于自粘结成型,所得自粘结板表面平整,纤维接触面紧密粘结．当氧化增重量为1.3%时,热压使沥青纤维的微晶取向破坏而融化,不能自粘结成型.当氧化增重量大于3.3%时,沥青纤维的径向变形率很小,自粘结性能差．     

大口径激光玻璃环抛光学沥青抛光胶

研制了四种不同沥青和松香含量的光学沥青抛光胶,对其形貌、针入度、玻璃化转变温度、软化点和粘度等参量进行了表征。从组成和结构分析了抛光胶三种物理状态变化原因,将玻璃化转变温度和软化点作为其临界转变温度。实验研究了四种抛光胶对大口径激光玻璃的抛光效果,发现抛光胶中沥青和松香的质量分数分别为30%和70%时,抛光效果比较理想,在像散和表面疵病控制方面能够满足要求,可作为大口径激光玻璃抛光专用胶。     

中继法解决再入航天器通信黑障问题优化研究

中继法是目前解决航天器再入通信黑障问题的一种可行方案,建立了背风面等离子鞘套模型,分析航天器再入俯仰角对信号在鞘套中的传输影响,并在航天器再入初始俯仰角下对比了S频段和Ka频段信号在背风面等离子鞘套的传输情况。结果表明:俯仰角越大,信号电磁波在等离子鞘套中的衰减越小;相同俯仰角下Ka频段传输性能明显优越于S频段信号,Ka频段信号相比于S频段信号,在背风面的透射率至少提高55%、衰减值至少降低33.69 dB,建议选用Ka频段信号作为中继卫星与再入航天器之间的通信频段并提出中继优化方案,为进一步解决航天器再入过程中的通信黑障问题提供思路。