A bottoming cycle system based on CO₂ Brayton cycle is proposed to recover the engine exhaust heat. Its performance is compared with the conventional air Brayton cycle under five typical engine conditions. The results show that CO₂ Brayton cycle proves to be superior to the air Brayton cycle in terms of the system net output power, thermal efficiency and recovery efficiency. In most cases, the recovery efficiency of CO₂ Brayton cycle can be higher than 9% and the system has a better performance at the engine’s high operating load. The thermal efficiency can be as large as 24.83% under 100% operating load, accordingly, the net output power of 14.86 kW is obtained.

In order to diminish the impacts of external disturbance such as parking speed fluctuation and model uncertainty existing in steering kinematics, this paper presents a parallel path tracking method for vehicle based on preview back propagation (BP) neural network PID controller. The forward BP neural network can adjust the parameters of PID controller in real time. The preview time is optimized by considering path curvature, change in curvature and road boundaries. A fuzzy controller considering barriers and different road conditions is built to select the starting position. In addition, a kind of path planning technology satisfying the requirement of obstacle avoidance is introduced. In order to solve the problem of discontinuous curvature, cubic B spline curve is used for curve fitting. The simulation results and real vehicle tests validate the effectiveness of the proposed path planning and tracking methods.

The motion track of belt spindle is important for the radial error of belt spindle. An analytical modeling method for the motion track of belt spindle under the combined effects of bending moment-torque-thermal deformation is proposed in this paper. Three running phases of belt spindle have been analyzed and modeled: the start-up phase with leaping change due to the change in force and bending moment, the accelerating phase with axis deflection, and the constant speed phase with axis regression because of the combined effects of bending moment-torque-thermal deformation. The simulation and test were completed on the belt spindle of SKVM850 machine tool, which illustrates the variation law of the radial error of belt spindle during the whole running phases.

A numerical simulation method based on inverse discrete Fourier transform(IDFT)is presented for generating Gaussian rough surface with a desired autocorrelation function(ACF). The probability density function of the height distribution of the generated Gaussian surface and the root-mean-square height of the rough surface are also considered. It is found that the height distribution of the generated surface follows the Gaussian distribution, the deviation of the root-mean-square height of the modeled rough surface from the desired value is smaller than that of Patir’s method, and the autocorrelation function of the modeled surface is also in good agreement with the desired autocorrelation function. Compared with Patir’s method, the modeled surface generated by the IDFT method is in better agreement with the desired autocorrelation function, especially when the correlation length is relatively large.

The Kirchhoff thin elastic rod models are always the important basis to explore the configuration mechanism of the flexible structures in both the macroscopic and microscopic scale. As a continuum model of DNA, a thin elastic rod subjected to interfacial interactions is used to investigate the helical equilibrium configuration of DNA in salt solution. In this paper, the Kirchhoff’s equations in the presence of interfacial traction and the free energy density functions of different configurations are studied. The transition formula of the free energy between B-DNA and ZDNA is obtained, and the results show that the free energy of the transition is mainly determined by the salt concentration, which agrees well with the experimental data.

A single phase of zirconium diboride(ZrB₂)powder was successfully synthesized by sol-gel method in Zr-B-C-O system, using zirconium oxychloride(ZrOCl₂·8H₂O), nano-scale boron and sucrose(C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁)as the starting materials and propylene oxide(PO)as complexing agent at a low temperature. Simultaneously, the experimental and theoretical studies of ZrB₂ synthesized by boro/carbothermal reduction from novel sol-gel technology were discussed. The results indicated that the pure rod-like ZrB2 powder without residual ZrO₂ phase could be obtained with a B/Zr molar ratio of 3.5 at 1 400°C in argon atmosphere. Besides, in this study, a kinetic model for the Zr-B-C-O system producing ZrB₂ by boro/carbothermal reaction was established based on thermodynamic analysis. It was also observed that, with the increase of reaction temperature, the reaction which produced ZrB₂ powders changed from the borothermal reaction to boro/carbothermal reaction in the Zr-B-C-O system.

Passivity degradation of Alloy 800 in simulated crevice chemistries was systematically investigated using cyclic polarization curve, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy(EIS), Mott-Schottky analysis, Auger electron spectroscopy(AES)and atomic absorption spectrometry(AAS). Cyclic polarization showed that the pitting potential in a thiosulfate solution was much lower than in either a chloride solution or a sulfate-chloride solution. Mott-Schottky results revealed that passive films showed n-type semiconductivity, and the presence of thiosulfate in chloride solution led to an increased donor density in the passive film. EIS spectra indicated that thiosulfate enhanced the film dissolution rate in chloride solutions. Moreover, thiosulfate enhanced the pitting propagation rate in chloride solution by stabilizing the metastable pits and forming sulfide within the pits.

In order to modify inorganic particles as chromatic electrophoretic particles, an approach was designed and used to prepare Fe₂O₃ red electrophoretic particles. These Fe₂O₃-cationic hybrid nanoparticles(Fe₂O₃-CHNPs)were prepared through Fe₂O₃ core covered with polymer shell which was composed of SiO₂ and P(DMAEMA-co-HMA) by using atom transfer radical polymerization(ATRP)technique. The SiO₂-coating could introduce the functional group on the surfaceof inorganic particles, through which the polymer shell could be formed by using ATRP technique. The results of Fourier transform infrared spectra(FT-IR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS)and thermal gravimetric analysis(TGA)confirmed the chemical compositions of Fe₂O₃-CHNPs; the images of transmission electron microscopy(TEM)indicated the core-shell structure of Fe₂O₃-CHNPs; the measurements of dynamic light scattering(DLS)showed a 253.7 nm average particle size with narrow size distribution; and the zeta potential measurements identified the high chargeability of Fe₂O₃-CHNPs. Furthermore, the resulting nanoparticles were successfully applied in the electrophoretic display cell, which demonstrated that it was an effective approach to preparing chromatic electrophoretic particles.

This work focused on exploring a computational fluid dynamics(CFD)method to predict the macro-mixing characteristics including the mean flow field and impeller capacity for a 45° down-pumping pitched blade turbine( PBT)in stirred tanks. Firstly, the three typical mean flow fields were investigated by virtue of three components of liquid velocity. Then the effects of impeller diameter(D)and off-bottom clearance(C)on both the mean flow field and three global macro-mixing parameters concerning impeller capacity were studied in detail. The changes of flow patterns with increasing C/D were predicted from these effects. The simulation results are consistent with the experimental results in published literature.

In this study, methanethiol(MT)-degradation bacteria were cultivated by using MT, methanol and trimethylamine as carbon sources under anaerobic conditions. It was found that the batch bacteria used MT and methanol as carbon sources grew faster than those used trimethylamine. The enriched bacteria used MT and methanol as the carbon sources were respectively inoculated in different biotrickling filters. The biological conversion performance of MT under anaerobic conditions was investigated in biotrickling filters. The results showed that the performance of the biotrickling filter inoculated with the bacteria enriched using MT was better than that inoculated with the bacteria enriched using methanol. When the inlet concentration of MT was 0.005vol%(50,ppm), the empty bed residence time was 50 s, pH value was 8.0, and the flow rate of the nutrient solution was 10 L/h, the removal efficiency of MT reached 95.3%. Adding methanol stimulated the growth of the biomass and the degradation of MT, but caused that some bacteria only degrading methanol outcompeted the bacteria only degrading MT. The concentration of sodium bicarbonate in the nutrient solution needed to be controlled lower than 30 g/L, otherwise, it would be harmful to the degradation of MT.

In this paper, the influential design factors of wide-shallow composite bucket foundation for 3 MW offshore wind turbine are systematically studied by numerical simulation. The results show that the bucket diameter is larger than 27 m in general, and the range of 7–12 m is appropriate for cylinder height. In particular, the bucket foundation with diameter of 30 m and cylinder height of 10 m is suitable for most soils. Under ultimate loads, the bucket diameter and elasticity modulus of soil have major effects on the deformability of bucket foundation, while the influence of friction coefficient between the bucket and soil is relatively slight.

In order to improve the seismic performance, deformation ability and ultimate load-carrying capacity of columns with rectangular cross section, engineered cementitious composite (ECC) is introduced to partially substitute concrete in the edge zone of reinforced concrete columns and form reinforced ECC/concrete composite columns. Firstly, based on the assumption of plane remaining plane and the simplified constitutive models, the calculation method of the load-carrying capacity of reinforced ECC/concrete columns is proposed. The stress and strain distributions and crack propagation of the composite columns in different states of eccentric compressive loading are analyzed. Then, nonlinear finite element analysis is conducted to study the mechanical performance of reinforced ECC/concrete composite columns with rectangular cross section. It is found that the simulation results are in good agreement with the theoretical results, indicating that the proposed method for calculating the load-carrying capacity of concrete/ECC composite columns is valid. Finally, based on the proposed method, the effects of ECC thickness, compressive strength of concrete and longitudinal reinforcement ratio on the mechanical performance of reinforced ECC/concrete composite columns are analyzed. Calculation results indicate that increasing the thickness of ECC layer or longitudinal reinforcement ratio can effectively increase the ultimate load-carrying capacity of the composite column with both small and large eccentricity, but increasing the strength of concrete can only increase the ultimate loadcarrying capacity of the composite column with small eccentricity.

A new concept of rare axis based on statistical facts is proposed, and an evaluation algorithm is designed thereafter. For the nested regular expressions containing rare axes, the proposed algorithm can reduce its evaluation complexity from polynomial time to nearly linear time. The distributed technique is also employed to construct the navigation axis indexes for resource description framework (RDF) graph data. Experiment results in DrugBank and BioGRID show that this method can improve the query efficiency significantly while ensuring the accuracy and meet the query requirements on Web-scale RDF graph data.

After a necessary condition is given, 3-rainbow coloring of split graphs with time complexity O(m) is obtained by constructive method. The number of corresponding colors is at most 2 or 3 more than the minimum number of colors needed in a 3-rainbow coloring.