Numerical Simulation Study of Support Pressure around the Fully Mechanized Caving Face

During the fully mechanized caving face re-recovery process, due to the influence of mining and the redistribution of surrounding rock stress, a higher advanced support pressure and lateral support pressure will be formed around the working surface. The superimposed advanced and lateral support pressure will have a greater impact on the advanced support of the working surface roadway. In order to improve the stability of the surrounding rock, the three Hebi mines were used as the subject of the study. At the same time, Universal Distinct Element Code software was used to study the pressure distribution pattern of over-support at the working face. Finally, the results of the study are used as theoretical support and reference for the support scheme.

Numerical Simulation Study of Support Pressure around the Fully Mechanized Caving Face

During the fully mechanized caving face re-recovery process, due to the influence of mining and the redistribution of surrounding rock stress, a higher advanced support pressure and lateral support pressure will be formed around the working surface. The superimposed advanced and lateral support pressure will have a greater impact on the advanced support of the working surface roadway. In order to improve the stability of the surrounding rock, the three Hebi mines were used as the subject of the study. At the same time, Universal Distinct Element Code software was used to study the pressure distribution pattern of over-support at the working face. Finally, the results of the study are used as theoretical support and reference for the support scheme.

An OpenFlow-Based Load Balancing Strategy in SDN

In today’s datacenter network,the quantity growth and complexity increment of traffic is unprecedented,which brings not only the booming of network development,but also the problem of network performance degradation,such as more chance of network congestion and serious load imbalance.Due to the dynamically changing traffic patterns,the state-of the-art approaches that do this all require forklift changes to data center networking gear.The root of problem is lack of distinct strategies for elephant and mice flows.Under this condition,it is essential to enforce accurate elephant flow detection and come up with a novel load balancing solution to alleviate the network congestion and achieve high bandwidth utilization.This paper proposed an OpenFlow-based load balancing strategy for datacenter networks that accurately detect elephant flows and enforce distinct routing schemes with different flow types so as to achieve high usage of network capacity.The prototype implemented in Mininet testbed with POX controller and verify the feasibility of our load-balancing strategy when dealing with flow confliction and network degradation.The results show the proposed strategy can adequately generate flow rules and significantly enhance the performance of the bandwidth usage compared against other solutions from the literature in terms of load balancing.

Microstructural evolution and thermal fatigue damage mechanism of second-phase dispersion strengthened tungsten composites under repetitive thermal loads

In a fusion reactor,plasma-facing tungsten(W)materials inevitably suffer severe thermal shock,and the performance of W materials under repetitive high heat loads is one of the key concerns for long-term stable operation of the reactor.In this work,the microstructural evolution and thermal fatigue resistance of two representative W-0.5 wt.%ZrC(WZC)and W-1.0 wt.% Y_(2)O_(3)(WYO)composites were investigated under cyclic heat loads.Due to the intrinsic properties of ZrC and Y_(2)O_(3)particles such as coefficients of thermal expansion,particle size and distributions in W grains,the WZC composite exhibited a better thermal shock resistance than WYO.After thermal loads with the absorbed power density(APD)≥22 MW/m^(2),WYO showed obvious grain growth,Y_(2)O_(3)particles shedding and degradation of mechanical properties.While,in the case of WZC,these damage behaviors only occurred when APD≥25 MW/m^(2).Furthermore,an interesting crack mechanism in W composites was revealed due to interface debonding and progressive shedding of second-phase particles from the W matrix.The microstructures and tensile properties of the thermally loaded WZC and WYO specimens were also investigated and the correlations between the microstructure evolution and performance degradation are demonstrated.The results are useful for evaluating the thermal fatigue resistance of oxide/carbide dispersion strengthened W composites and their application in future fusion reactors.