Material and structure made by additive manufacturing(AM)have received much attention lately due to their flexibility and ability to customize complex structures.This study first implements multiple objective topology...Material and structure made by additive manufacturing(AM)have received much attention lately due to their flexibility and ability to customize complex structures.This study first implements multiple objective topology optimization simulations based on a projectile perforation model,and a new topologic projectile is obtained.Then two types of 316L stainless steel projectiles(the solid and the topology)are printed in a selective laser melt(SLM)machine to evaluate the penetration performance of the projectiles by the ballistic test.The experiment results show that the dimensionless specific kinetic energy value of topologic projectiles is higher than that of solid projectiles,indicating the better penetration ability of the topologic projectiles.Finally,microscopic studies(scanning electron microscope and X-ray micro-CT)are performed on the remaining projectiles to investigate the failure mechanism of the internal structure of the topologic projectiles.An explicit dynamics simulation was also performed,and the failure locations of the residual topologic projectiles were in good agreement with the experimental results,which can better guide the design of new projectiles combining AM and topology optimization in the future.展开更多
Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs)comprise various sensors to monitor and collect various vital signals,such as blood pressure,pulse,heartbeat,body temperature,and blood sugar.A dense and mobile WBAN often suffers fro...Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs)comprise various sensors to monitor and collect various vital signals,such as blood pressure,pulse,heartbeat,body temperature,and blood sugar.A dense and mobile WBAN often suffers from interference,which causes serious problems,such as wasting energy and degrading throughput.In reality,not all of the sensors in WBAN need to be active at the same time.Therefore,they can be divided into different groups so that each group works in turn to avoid interference.In this paper,a Nest-Based WBAN Scheduling(NBWS)algorithm is proposed to cluster sensors of the same types in a single or multiple WBANs into different groups to avoid interference.Particularly,we borrow the graph coloring theory to schedule all groups to work using a Time Division for Multimodal Sensor(TDMS)group scheduling model.Both theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed NBWS algorithm performs better in terms of frequency of collisions,transmission delay,system throughput,and energy consumption compared to the counterpart methods.展开更多
Dear Editor,The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-Cas(CRISPR-Cas)systems,including type II Cas9 and type V Cas12 systems,which serve in the adaptive immunity of prokaryotes against viruses,have...Dear Editor,The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-Cas(CRISPR-Cas)systems,including type II Cas9 and type V Cas12 systems,which serve in the adaptive immunity of prokaryotes against viruses,have been developed into genome-editing tools(Anzalone et al.,2020;Doudna,2020).Compared with type II systems,the type V systems including V-A to V-K showed more functional diversity(Yan et al.,2019).Amongst them,Cas12i has a relatively smaller size(1,033-1,093 aa),compared to SpCas9 and Cas12a,and has a 5'-TTN protospacer adjacent motif(PAM)preference(Yan et al.,2019).展开更多
Two grades of Dyneema composite laminates with the commercial designations of HB26 and HB50 were cut into blocks with or without an edge crack and compressed in the lon- gitudinal fiber direction. The cracked and uncr...Two grades of Dyneema composite laminates with the commercial designations of HB26 and HB50 were cut into blocks with or without an edge crack and compressed in the lon- gitudinal fiber direction. The cracked and uncracked specimens show similar compressive responses including failure pattern and failure load. The two grades of Dyneema composites exhibits different failure modes： a diffuse, sinusoidal buckling pattern for Dyneema HB50 due to its weak matrix constituent and a kink band for Dyneema~ HB26 due to its relatively stronger matrix constituent. An effective finite element model is used to simulate the collapse of Dyneema composites, and the sensitivity of laminate compressive responses to the overall effective shear modulus, interlaminar shear strength, thickness and imperfection angle are investigated. The change of failure mode from kink band to sinusoidal buckling pattern by decreasing the interlaminar shear strength is validated by the finite element analyses.展开更多
基金sponsored by the National Key Research and Development Program of China[Grant Nos.2020YFC0826804 and 2022YFC3320504]the National Natural Science Foundation of China[Grant No.11772059]。
文摘Material and structure made by additive manufacturing(AM)have received much attention lately due to their flexibility and ability to customize complex structures.This study first implements multiple objective topology optimization simulations based on a projectile perforation model,and a new topologic projectile is obtained.Then two types of 316L stainless steel projectiles(the solid and the topology)are printed in a selective laser melt(SLM)machine to evaluate the penetration performance of the projectiles by the ballistic test.The experiment results show that the dimensionless specific kinetic energy value of topologic projectiles is higher than that of solid projectiles,indicating the better penetration ability of the topologic projectiles.Finally,microscopic studies(scanning electron microscope and X-ray micro-CT)are performed on the remaining projectiles to investigate the failure mechanism of the internal structure of the topologic projectiles.An explicit dynamics simulation was also performed,and the failure locations of the residual topologic projectiles were in good agreement with the experimental results,which can better guide the design of new projectiles combining AM and topology optimization in the future.
基金the Ningbo International Science and Technology Cooperation Programme(2016D10008)the Ningbo Key Science and Technology plan(2025)projects(2018B10075,2019B10125,2019B10028)+2 种基金the Marine Biotechnology and Marine Engineering Discipline Group(422004582)the Project of Research and Development of Intelligent Resource Allocation and Sharing Platform for Marine Electronic Information Industry(2017GY116)the Key science and technology projects of Zhejiang Province(2020C03064).
文摘Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs)comprise various sensors to monitor and collect various vital signals,such as blood pressure,pulse,heartbeat,body temperature,and blood sugar.A dense and mobile WBAN often suffers from interference,which causes serious problems,such as wasting energy and degrading throughput.In reality,not all of the sensors in WBAN need to be active at the same time.Therefore,they can be divided into different groups so that each group works in turn to avoid interference.In this paper,a Nest-Based WBAN Scheduling(NBWS)algorithm is proposed to cluster sensors of the same types in a single or multiple WBANs into different groups to avoid interference.Particularly,we borrow the graph coloring theory to schedule all groups to work using a Time Division for Multimodal Sensor(TDMS)group scheduling model.Both theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed NBWS algorithm performs better in terms of frequency of collisions,transmission delay,system throughput,and energy consumption compared to the counterpart methods.
文摘Dear Editor,The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-Cas(CRISPR-Cas)systems,including type II Cas9 and type V Cas12 systems,which serve in the adaptive immunity of prokaryotes against viruses,have been developed into genome-editing tools(Anzalone et al.,2020;Doudna,2020).Compared with type II systems,the type V systems including V-A to V-K showed more functional diversity(Yan et al.,2019).Amongst them,Cas12i has a relatively smaller size(1,033-1,093 aa),compared to SpCas9 and Cas12a,and has a 5'-TTN protospacer adjacent motif(PAM)preference(Yan et al.,2019).
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11242015,11172071)
文摘Two grades of Dyneema composite laminates with the commercial designations of HB26 and HB50 were cut into blocks with or without an edge crack and compressed in the lon- gitudinal fiber direction. The cracked and uncracked specimens show similar compressive responses including failure pattern and failure load. The two grades of Dyneema composites exhibits different failure modes： a diffuse, sinusoidal buckling pattern for Dyneema HB50 due to its weak matrix constituent and a kink band for Dyneema~ HB26 due to its relatively stronger matrix constituent. An effective finite element model is used to simulate the collapse of Dyneema composites, and the sensitivity of laminate compressive responses to the overall effective shear modulus, interlaminar shear strength, thickness and imperfection angle are investigated. The change of failure mode from kink band to sinusoidal buckling pattern by decreasing the interlaminar shear strength is validated by the finite element analyses.
