Analysis and design for the comprehensive ballistic and blast resistance of polyurea-coated steel plate

Fragments and blast waves generated by explosions pose a serious threat to protective structures.In this paper,the impact resistance of polyurea-coated steel plate under complex dynamic loading is analyzed and designed for improving comprehensive ballistic and blast resistance using the newly established computational evaluating model.Firstly,according to the thickness and placement effects of the coating on the impact resistance,the steel-core sandwich plates are designed,which are proved to own outstanding comprehensive ballistic and blast resistance.Besides,the distribution diagram of ballistic and blast resistance for different polyurea-coated steel plates is given to guide the design of protective structures applying in different explosion scenarios.Furthermore,the dynamic response of designed plates under two scenarios with combined fragments and blast loading is studied.The results show that the synergistic effect of the combined loading reduces both the ballistic and blast resistance of the polyurea-coated steel plate.Besides,the acting sequence of the fragments and blast affects the structural protective performance heavily.It is found that the first loading inducing structural large deformation or damage is dominant.When fragments impact first,the excellent unit-thickness ballistic performance of the structural front part is strongly needed for improving the comprehensive ballistic and blast resistance.

An Intelligent Identification Approach of Assembly Interface for CAD Models

Kinematic semantics is often an important content of a CAD model(it refers to a single part/solid model in this work)in many applications,but it is usually not the belonging of the model,especially for the one retrieved from a common database.Especially,the effective and automatic method to reconstruct the above information for a CAD model is still rare.To address this issue,this paper proposes a smart approach to identify each assembly interface on every CAD model since the assembly interface is the fundamental but key element of reconstructing kinematic semantics.First,as the geometry of an assembly interface is formed by one or more adjacent faces on each model,a face-attributed adjacency graph integrated with face structure fingerprint is proposed.This can describe each CAD model as well as its assembly interfaces uniformly.After that,aided by the above descriptor,an improved graph attention network is developed based on a new dual-level anti-interference filtering mechanism,which makes it have the great potential to identify all representative kinds of assembly interface faces with high accuracy that have various geometric shapes but consistent kinematic semantics.Moreover,based on the abovementioned graph and face-adjacent relationships,each assembly interface on a model can be identified.Finally,experiments on representative CAD models are implemented to verify the effectiveness and characteristics of the proposed approach.The results show that the average assembly-interface-face-identification accuracy of the proposed approach can reach 91.75%,which is about 2%–5%higher than those of the recent-representative graph neural networks.Besides,compared with the state-of-the-art methods,our approach is more suitable to identify the assembly interfaces(with various shapes)for each individual CAD model that has typical kinematic pairs.

汽车后视镜-A柱区域气动噪声源特征识别

本文旨在对汽车后视镜-A柱区域气动噪声源的特征进行识别。首先,以涡声理论为基础,利用汽车气动噪声源主要为偶极子声源的声学特征,将气动声源等效为无数微球形声源组成。接着,利用声辐射和流场物理量之间的关系,结合气动数值仿真技术,建立了偶极子声源的识别方法,对汽车后视镜-A柱区域的气动噪声源进行识别。最后,基于物理量和声源的关系,揭示了偶极子声源的产生机理。结果表明,后视镜-A柱区域的主要偶极子声源出现在部件外形表面的棱线和转折位置,其物理量随空间的变化剧烈是产生气动声源的主要原因。涡量是声源强度的主要贡献者,但涡量ω和速度夹角θ对声源强度也有影响。

NBCe1 Na+-HCO3-cotransporter ablation causes reduced apoptosis following cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury in vivo

AIM To investigate the hypothesis that cardiomyocytespecific loss of the electrogenic NBCe1 Na^+-HCO3^- cotransporter is cardioprotective during in vivo ischemiareperfusion(IR)injury.METHODS An NBCe1 (Slc4a4 gene) conditional knockout mouse(KO)model was prepared by gene targeting.Cardiovascular performance of wildtype (WT) and cardiac-specific NBCe1 KO mice was analyzed by intraventricular pressure measurements,and changes in cardiac gene expression were determined by RNA Seq analysis.Response to in vivo IR injury was analyzed after 30 min occlusion of the left anterior descending artery followed by 3 h of reperfusion. RESULTS Loss of NBCe1 in cardiac myocytes did not impair cardiac contractility or relaxation under basal conditions or in response toβ-adrenergic stimulation,and caused only limited changes in gene expression patterns,such as those for electrical excitability.However,following ischemia and reperfusion,KO heart sections exhibited significantly fewer apoptotic nuclei than WT sections.CONCLUSION These studies indicate that cardiac-specific loss of NBCe1 does not impair cardiovascular performance,causes only minimal changes in gene expression patterns,and protects against IR injury in vivo.

A synergetic strategy of NIR-Ⅱ squaraine dyes with ultrahigh photothermal conversion efficiency for photothermal therapy

Recent research on photothermal therapy(PTT) has sparked significant interest in the development of new organic photothermal agents(PTAs),ranging from single-molecule to aggregated levels.However,controlling aggregation pathways for PTAs with ultrahigh photothermal conversion efficiency(PCE) remains a major challenge.Herein,a two-pronged approach utilizing “Haggregation” and “intramolecular motion” was employed to enhance the PCE of an acceptor-substituted squaraine dye(NSQs).The C2vmolecular symmetry of the NSQs,which possess a ground state dipole moment(μg),promotes H-dimeric aggregates through dipole-dipole counteraction.Peripheral triphenylethylene or diphenylamine groups were added to this H-dimeric nanoplatform.This was done to enhance intramolecular motions for heat generation and also to extend conjugation,which redshifted the optical absorption and balanced the blue-shift induced by H-aggregation.With this technique,an organic PTA with NIR-II absorption was developed,and its nanoparticle achieved a remarkable PCE of 86.3% under 1,064 nm laser excitation.Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy and quantum mechanical calculations demonstrated the accelerated internal conversion process in NIR-II PTAs for rapid heat generation.The NSQs nanoparticles exhibit superior photothermal therapeutic properties for in vivo photoacoustic imaging-guided PTT,demonstrating the potential of bottom-up design to enable synergistic engineering strategies towards efficient phototheranostic agents.

Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Radial Sand Ridge System of Jiangsu Coast, East China: Implication for Sediment Provenance

The radial sand ridge system （RSRS） located at Jiangsu coast of China attracts much attention on its origin and mechanic of formation for its special structure and potential land resource. Due to complicated hydrodynamic condition, the Jiangsu RSRS is a hot debated on its potential sources, Yangtze River or Yellow River？ We collected ten sand samples from surface sediments along the west coast of Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea from the modern Yellow River estuary to Yangtze River estuary in summer, 2013. The samples are analyzed by method of detrital zircon age for source identification of the RSRS sediments. The U-Pb age spectra of detrital zircon grains of the samples show a wide range from Cenozoic to Late Archean with several age peaks. Comparing the age spectra between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, the detrital zircons have younger age （〈100 Ma） group in the Yangtze River. These age distribution of the Jiangsu coastal RSRS sediments are similar to that of the Yangtze River, but different from the Yellow River. The samples located adjacent to the old Yellow River Delta show more wide-range age distribution, implying a compounded origination from the both rivers. Based on these findings it is proposed that, contrary to common opinion, the main sediment source of the Jiangsu RSRS is the Yangtze River, rather than the Yellow River. By implication, there should be evidence of hydrodynamic mechanics of oceanic currents and tidal motion. This aspect awaits confirmation in future research.

轻质层对提高陶瓷复合装甲弹道阻力影响的理论与数值分析

陶瓷复合装甲主要由陶瓷层和背板层组成,广泛应用于冲击防护.然而,目前仍缺乏背板层在提高陶瓷复合装甲系统防弹性能方面的定量认识和分析.本文以B4C/UHMWPE双层装甲体系为例,从理论上系统地研究了UHMWPE层在提高陶瓷复合装甲弹道阻力方面的增强机理和适合UHMWPE厚度的选取.开发并验证了预测双层装甲系统剩余速度的理论模型.具体而言,分别从理论上获得与塑性、断裂和摩擦相关的耗散能以及由弹性应变能和动能组成的储存能.理论结果表明,随着UHMWPE层厚度的增加,耗散能单调增加,而储存能则先增加后减少,并会出现一个转折点,这是由于储存能的主导机制由系统固有的最大储存能转变为剩余动能.此外,对于给定的弹道阻力,根据存储能的转变提出了为降低面密度的最佳UHMWPE厚度的参考值,这与陶瓷厚度、冲击速度和弹丸质量有关.本文的研究有助于指导陶瓷复合装甲的轻量化设计.