Parameter calibration of the tensile-shear interactive damage constitutive model for sandstone failure

The tensile-shear interactive damage(TSID)model is a novel and powerful constitutive model for rock-like materials.This study proposes a methodology to calibrate the TSID model parameters to simulate sandstone.The basic parameters of sandstone are determined through a series of static and dynamic tests,including uniaxial compression,Brazilian disc,triaxial compression under varying confining pressures,hydrostatic compression,and dynamic compression and tensile tests with a split Hopkinson pressure bar.Based on the sandstone test results from this study and previous research,a step-by-step procedure for parameter calibration is outlined,which accounts for the categories of the strength surface,equation of state(EOS),strain rate effect,and damage.The calibrated parameters are verified through numerical tests that correspond to the experimental loading conditions.Consistency between numerical results and experimental data indicates the precision and reliability of the calibrated parameters.The methodology presented in this study is scientifically sound,straightforward,and essential for improving the TSID model.Furthermore,it has the potential to contribute to other rock constitutive models,particularly new user-defined models.

An Envy-Free Online UAV Charging Scheme with Vehicle-Mounted Mobile Wireless Chargers

In commercial unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)applications,one of the main restrictions is UAVs’limited battery endurance when executing persistent tasks.With the mature of wireless power transfer(WPT)technologies,by leveraging ground vehicles mounted with WPT facilities on their proofs,we propose a mobile and collaborative recharging scheme for UAVs in an on-demand manner.Specifically,we first present a novel air-ground cooperative UAV recharging framework,where ground vehicles cooperatively share their idle wireless chargers to UAVs and a swarm of UAVs in the task area compete to get recharging services.Considering the mobility dynamics and energy competitions,we formulate an energy scheduling problem for UAVs and vehicles under practical constraints.A fair online auction-based solution with low complexity is also devised to allocate and price idle wireless chargers on vehicular proofs in real time.We rigorously prove that the proposed scheme is strategy-proof,envy-free,and produces stable allocation outcomes.The first property enforces that truthful bidding is the dominant strategy for participants,the second ensures that no user is better off by exchanging his allocation with another user when the auction ends,while the third guarantees the matching stability between UAVs and UGVs.Extensive simulations validate that the proposed scheme outperforms benchmarks in terms of energy allocation efficiency and UAV’s utility.

基于细胞自动机的城市洪水模拟及风险分析

在城市化的快速发展和极端暴雨天气频发背景下,世界很多城市遭遇暴雨内涝侵袭。而城市洪水模拟计算呈现出计算范围大、模拟精度高等特点,对模型要求越来越高。本文选取英国伦敦为研究区域,采用基于细胞自动机的二维洪水模型CADDIES-2D进行洪水模拟,并采用基于情景模拟的方法评估了伦敦Waterloo区域洪水风险。结果表明,基于细胞自动机的二维洪水模型CADDIES-2D计算效率高,具有较高的实用性和有效性,可用于城市洪水风险分析,提高城市防灾减灾水平。

Trends of sea surface temperature and sea surface temperature fronts in the South China Sea during 2003–2017

The trends of the sea surface temperature(SST) and SST fronts in the South China Sea(SCS) are analyzed during2003–2017 using high-resolution satellite data. The linear trend of the basin averaged SST is 0.31°C per decade,with the strongest warming identified in southeastern Vietnam. Although the rate of warming is comparable in summer and winter for the entire basin, the corresponding spatial patterns of the linear trend are substantially different between them. The SST trend to the west of the Luzon Strait is characterized by rapid warming in summer, exceeding approximately 0.6°C per decade, but the trend is insignificant in winter. The strongest warming trend occurs in the southeast of Vietnam in winter, with much less pronounced warming in summer. A positive trend of SST fronts is identified for the coast of China and is associated with increasing wind stress. The increasing trend of SST fronts is also found in the east of Vietnam. Large-scale circulation, such as El Ni?o, can influence the trends of the SST and SST fronts. A significant correlation is found between the SST anomaly and Ni?o3.4 index, and the ENSO signal leads by eight months. The basin averaged SST linear trends increase after the El Ni?o event(2009–2010), which is, at least, due to the rapid warming rate causing by the enhanced northeasterly wind. Peaks of positive anomalous SST and negatively anomalous SST fronts are found to co-occur with the strong El Ni?o events.

Lattice-Based Searchable Encryption Scheme against Inside Keywords Guessing Attack

To save the local storage,users store the data on the cloud server who offers convenient internet services.To guarantee the data privacy,users encrypt the data before uploading them into the cloud server.Since encryption can reduce the data availability,public-key encryption with keyword search(PEKS)is developed to achieve the retrieval of the encrypted data without decrypting them.However,most PEKS schemes cannot resist quantum computing attack,because the corresponding hardness assumptions are some number theory problems that can be solved efficiently under quantum computers.Besides,the traditional PEKS schemes have an inherent security issue that they cannot resist inside keywords guessing attack(KGA).In this attack,a malicious server can guess the keywords encapsulated in the search token by computing the ciphertext of keywords exhaustively and performing the test between the token and the ciphertext of keywords.In the paper,we propose a lattice-based PEKS scheme that can resist quantum computing attacks.To resist inside KGA,this scheme adopts a lattice-based signature technique into the encryption of keywords to prevent the malicious server from forging a valid ciphertext.Finally,some simulation experiments are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme and some comparison results are further shown with respect to other searchable schemes.

Analytical Solutions of a Symmetrical Dynamic Crack Model of Bridging Fibers in Unidirectional Composites

When composite materials occur crack, their fibrous locations will produce bridging fibers. A symmetrical dynamic crack model of bridging fibers in unidirectional composite materials are not probed as deeply by virtue of the complexity, cockamamie and difficulty in mathematical operations. In the light of the theory of complex variable functions, the problems discussed can be facilely translated into Remann-Hilbert problems. Analytical solutions of the displacements, stresses and stress intensity factors under the action of variable loads Pt6/x6, Px6/t5 are attained, respectively. After those analytical solutions were used by superposition theorem, the solutions of arbitrary complex problems were acquired.

Analytical Solutions of Dynamic Crack Models of Bridging Fiber Pull-Out in Unidirectional Composite Materials

An elastic analysis of an internal central crack with bridging fibers parallel to the free surface in an infinite orthotropic anisotropic elastic plane was analyzed, and the crack extension should occur in the format of self-similarity. When the fiber strength is over its maximum tensile stress, the fiber breaks. By means of complex variable functions, the problem considered can be easily translated into Reimann-Hilbert mixed boundary value problem. Utilizing the built dynamic model of bridging fiber pull-out in unidirectional composite materials, analytical solutions of the displacements, stresses and stress intensity factors under the action of increasing loads Pt5/x5, Px5/t4 are obtained, respectively. After those analytical solutions were used by superposition theorem, the solutions to arbitrary complex problems were acquired.

Boring holes in Au nanoplates by active surface etching

In contrast to the conventional etching that makes nanoparticles rounder and our previous sharpening etching mode that causes serrated edges,here,we developed a new boring etching mode that targets the faces of Au nanoplates to make holes.The critical factors are the pre-incubation step with the ligand 2-mercapto-5-benzimidazolecarboxylic acid(MBIA)and the subsequent removal of excess ligands in the solution.Thus,etching is focused onto the few sites with initial loss of ligands,which cannot be quickly replaced.The choice of ligand MBIA is also of importance,as it carries negative charge and repels each other.Its inability of forming a dense layer probably plays a critical role in the site-selectivity for faces,because ligands at the higher curvature edges and corners are expected to have less repulsion.The etching results from the comproportionation reaction between Au3+and Au0 in the nanoplates,where Br-coordination to Au and the extra stabilization from cetyltrimethylammonium bromide(CTAB)are essential.We believe that the ability of boring holes is an important tool for future synthetic designs.

Novel perspective in transplantation therapy of mesenchymal stem cells:targeting the ferroptosis pathway

Ex vivo culture-amplified mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs)have been studied because of their capacity for healing tissue injury.MSC transplantation is a valid approach for promoting the repair of damaged tissues and replacement of lost cells or to safeguard surviving cells,but currently the efficiency of MSC transplantation is constrained by the extensive loss of MSCs during the short post-transplantation period.Hence,strategies to increase the efficacy of MSC treatment are urgently needed.Iron overload,reactive oxygen species deposition,and decreased antioxidant capacity suppress the proliferation and regeneration of MSCs,thereby hastening cell death.Notably,oxidative stress(OS)and deficient antioxidant defense induced by iron overload can result in ferroptosis.Ferroptosis may inhibit cell survival after MSC transplantation,thereby reducing clinical efficacy.In this review,we explore the role of ferroptosis in MSC performance.Given that little research has focused on ferroptosis in transplanted MSCs,further study is urgently needed to enhance the in vivo implantation,function,and duration of MSCs.

The optical and molecular signatures of DOM under the eutrophication status in a shallow,semi-enclosed coastal bay in southeast China

We applied stable carbon isotopes,ultraviolet-visible absorption(UV-Vis),fluorescence excitation-emission matrices spectroscopy(EEMs),and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry(FT-ICR-MS)to investigate the chemical composition and sources of the dissolved organic matter(DOM)in both the water column and pore water in Xiangshan Bay,a representative semi-enclosed and eutrophic bay in Zhejiang Province,China.One protein-like fluorescent component(C1)and two humic-like fluorescent components(C2 and C3)were identified by PARAFAC modeling.The concentration of dissolved organic carbon(DOC),the relative intensities of C2,C3,and black carbon-like compounds are all negatively correlated with salinity,indicating that there is a dilution effect of terrestrial signals by seawater in Xiangshan Bay.The differences in light penetration ability of Xiangshan Bay cause different degrees of photo-degradation,which may play an important role in the transformation of organic matter in Xiangshan Bay.The weak correlation between the C1 fluorescent component and salinity indicates that autochthonous sources cannot dominate the protein-like FDOM in the Xiangshan Bay drainage area.Multiple sources(such as anthropogenic inputs and release of pore water)also affect the distribution of the protein-like fluorescent component under eutrophication conditions.The relative proportion of the protein-like fluorescent component in Xiangshan Bay is on a medium level in China and anthropogenic inputs may be a significant source of DOM in coastal bays.

Simulation study on interaction coefficient of DEM in non-spherical large size (5-30 mm) coal particles

The pneumatic conveying system of coal particles can greatly reduce the dust and improve the environmental quality at underground mining workface and the surrounding of coal enterprises.The particle shape and the interaction coefficients between particles and the contact surface play important roles in the pneumatic conveying and CFD-DEM simulation.In order to build the semblable shape models and obtain the accurate interaction coefficients of large coal particles,this article establishes the con tact model by the particle overlap method and describes the mathematical model of the shape characteristics for large coal particle.The particle models are simulated by adopting the multi-index mixed orthogonal experiments.The accumulation density,the porosity and the error between simulation and experiment are taken as the indexes,and the particle models and the particle contact coefficients are taken as the orthogonal test factors.As a result,three more accurate particle models and their interaction coefficients are obtained,which provide the model basis for the pneumatic conveying of large coal particles.