Effect of sintering temperature and holding time on structure and properties of Li_(1.5)Ga_(0.5)Ti_(1.5)(PO_4)_(3)electrolyte with fast ionic conductivity

Li_(1.5)Ga_(0.5)Ti_(1.5)PO_(4))_(3)(LGTP)is recognized as a promising solid electrolyte material for lithium ions.In this work,LGTP solid electrolyte materials were prepared under different process conditions to explore the effects of sintering temperature and holding time on relative density,phase composition,microstructure,bulk conductivity,and total conductivity.In the impedance test under frequency of 1-10^(6) Hz,the bulk conductivity of the samples increased with increasing sintering temperature,and the total conductivity first increased and then decreased.SEM results showed that the average grain size in the ceramics was controlled by the sintering temperature,which increased from(0.54±0.01)μm to(1.21±0.01)μm when the temperature changed from 750 to 950°C.The relative density of the ceramics increased and then decreased with increasing temperature as the porosity increased.The holding time had little effect on the grain size growth or sample density,but an extended holding time resulted in crack generation that served to reduce the conductivity of the solid electrolyte.

Characterization of Hydroxyapatite Extracted from Crab Shell Using the Hydrothermal Method with Varying Holding Times

Hydroxyapatite(HA)is a bio ceramic commonly utilized in bone tissue engineering due to its bioactive and osteoconductive properties.Crab shells are usually disregarded as waste material despite their significant CaCO_(3) content,and have not been widely utilized in the synthesis of HA.This study aims to synthesize and analyze HA derived from crab shells using the hydrothermal method with different durations of holding time.This study utilized precipitated calcium carbonate(PCC)derived from crab shells.With a hydrothermal reactor set at 160℃ and varying holding times of 14(HA_14),16(HA_16),and 18(HA_18)h,a PCC and(NH4)2HPO4 mixture was used to synthesize HA.The synthesis results were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy(SEM),fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR),and X-ray diffraction(XRD)tests.This study has accomplished the synthesis of HA from crab shells.Nonetheless,the final product of synthesis still contained CaCO_(3) as an impurity.The prolonged hydrothermal holding time of 14 to 18 h resulted in a reduction of impurities while increasing the percentage of crystal weight and crystallite size of HA.Specimen CH_18 is the best-quality product generated in this study.This specimen produced HA with the highest percentage of crystal weight and crystallite size compared to the other specimens.Furthermore,specimen CH_18 exhibited the lowest concentration of impurities.The Ca/P ratio in this specimen was also the closest to 1.67.The Ca/P ratio,crystallite size,and crystal weight percentage of this specimen are 1.54,19.06 nm,and 99.1%,respectively.

Application of a 2 Parameter Weibull Distribution in Modeling of State Holding Time in HIV/AIDS Transition Dynamics

This study investigates the application of the two-parameter Weibull distribution in modeling state holding times within HIV/AIDS progression dynamics. By comparing the performance of the Weibull-based Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) model, Cox Proportional Hazards model, and Survival model, we assess the effectiveness of these models in capturing survival rates across varying gender, age groups, and treatment categories. Simulated data was used to fit the models, with model identification criteria (AIC, BIC, and R2) applied for evaluation. Results indicate that the AFT model is particularly sensitive to interaction terms, showing significant effects for older age groups (50 - 60 years) and treatment interaction, while the Cox model provides a more stable fit across all age groups. The Survival model displayed variability, with its performance diminishing when interaction terms were introduced, particularly in older age groups. Overall, while the AFT model captures the complexities of interactions in the data, the Cox model’s stability suggests it may be better suited for general analyses without strong interaction effects. The findings highlight the importance of model selection in survival analysis, especially in complex disease progression scenarios like HIV/AIDS.

Hybrid Flow Shop with Setup Times Scheduling Problem

The two-stage hybridflow shop problem under setup times is addressed in this paper.This problem is NP-Hard.on the other hand,the studied problem is modeling different real-life applications especially in manufacturing and high performance-computing.Tackling this kind of problem requires the development of adapted algorithms.In this context,a metaheuristic using the genetic algorithm and three heuristics are proposed in this paper.These approximate solutions are using the optimal solution of the parallel machines under release and delivery times.Indeed,these solutions are iterative procedures focusing each time on a particular stage where a parallel machines problem is called to be solved.The general solution is then a concatenation of all the solutions in each stage.In addition,three lower bounds based on the relaxation method are provided.These lower bounds present a means to evaluate the efficiency of the developed algorithms throughout the measurement of the relative gap.An experimental result is discussed to evaluate the performance of the developed algorithms.In total,8960 instances are implemented and tested to show the results given by the proposed lower bounds and heuristics.Several indicators are given to compare between algorithms.The results illustrated in this paper show the performance of the developed algorithms in terms of gap and running time.

Effect of pyrolysis temperature and hold time on the characteristic parameters of adsorbent derived from sewage sludge

According to the Doehlert's matrix method, the adsorbent derived from sewage sludge was prepared through chemical activation under controlling the pyrolysis temperature and hold time. The characteristic parameters including the total yield, adsorption of methylene blue, adsorption of iodine, BET surface area, micro-pore volume are 35%—49%, 16.5—38 mg/g, 285—362 mg/g, 185—359 m2/g, and 0.112—0.224 m3/g, respectively. According to the experimental data, the multi-linear regression method was adopted to fit the relations between the characteristic parameters and influential factors. At final, through optimization method, the optimal adsorbent is obtained when using 62 min as hold time and 1105K as pyrolysis temperature. Under the conditions, the adsorbent was produced and compared the characteristic parameters with model forecast value, the coherence is satisfied.

Effects of Calcining Temperature and Holding Time on the Synthesis of Aluminum Titanate

We aim in this research at synthesizing high-purity aluminium titanate with sludge from the aluminium profile factory by shock cooling method, and mainly discuss the effect of calcining reaction temperature and holding time on crystalline, microstructure and content of aluminum titanate materials to determine the preferred calcining temperature and holding time. XRD and SEM methods were utilized to characterize the crystalline and microstructure of each specimen, Rietveld Quantification software was used for the determination of different crystalline contents of specimens, and Philips plus software was applied to determine the cell parameters of aluminium titanate in different specimens. According to the experimental results, preferred calcining temperature is determined as 1400℃ and preferred holding time is 2 h, at which the grains of aluminum titanate grow completely and the purity of aluminum titanate is 97.2wt%.

Effect of Holding Time on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Dual-Phase Steel during Intercritical Annealing

Continuous annealing simulation tests were conducted by using a continuous annealing thermomechanical simulator. Holding times of 5, 60, 180, and 480 seconds for an intercritical annealing temperature of 820℃ were adopted to investigate the evolution of the mierostructure and mechanical properties of ferrite-bainite dual-phase steel. The ferrite-bainite dual-phase steel was characterized by high strength and low yield ratio due to the presence of the constituents （polygonal ferrite, bainite, martensite and retained austenite） of the steel microstructure. Specimen 3 exhibits the highest value of A50 （7.67%） and a product of Rm × A50 （10453MPa%） after a 180s holding. This is likely attributed to the presence of a C-enriched retained anstenite in the microstructure. And the effect of martensite islands and carbide precipitate is thought to be able to contribute in strengthening the present steel. It is expected that equilibrium of anstenite fraction would be reached for reasonable intercritical holding period, regardless of the heating temperature. The results suggest that long increasing holding times may not be needed because the major phase of the microstructure does not change very significantly. It is favorable for industrial production of DP steels to shorten holding times. Key words： ferrite-bainite dual-phase steel; holding time; martensite islands; mechanical properties

Single Machine Scheduling with Time-Dependent Learning Effect and Non-Linear Past-Sequence-Dependent Setup Times

This paper studies a single machine scheduling problem with time-dependent learning and setup times. Time-dependent learning means that the actual processing time of a job is a function of the sum of the normal processing times of the jobs already scheduled. The setup time of a job is proportional to the length of the already processed jobs, that is, past-sequence-dependent (psd) setup time. We show that the addressed problem remains polynomially solvable for the objectives, i.e., minimization of the total completion time and minimization of the total weighted completion time. We also show that the smallest processing time (SPT) rule provides the optimum sequence for the addressed problem.

Scheduling a three-machine no-wait flowshop with separated setup time

In many practical flowshop production environments, there is no intermediate storage space available to keep partially completed jobs between any two machines. The workflow has to be continuous, implying that the no-wait conditions must be abided, which is typical in steel and plastic production. We discuss the three-machine no-wait flowshop scheduling problem where the setup times are considered as separated from processing times and sequence independent. The scheduling goal is to minimize the total flowtime. An optimal property and two heuristic algorithms for this problem are proposed. Evaluated over a large number of problems, the proposed heuristics are found that they can yield good solutions effectively with low computational complexity, and have more obvious advantage for the large size problem compared with the existing one.

No-Wait Flowshops to Minimize Total Tardiness with Setup Times

The m-machine no-wait flowshop scheduling problem is addressed where setup times are treated as separate from processing times. The objective is to minimize total tardiness. Different dispatching rules have been investigated and three were found to be superior. Two heuristics, a simulated annealing (SA) and a genetic algorithm (GA), have been proposed by using the best performing dispatching rule as the initial solution for SA, and the three superior dispatching rules as part of the initial population for GA. Moreover, improved versions of SA and GA are proposed using an insertion algorithm. Extensive computational experiments reveal that the improved versions of SA and GA perform about 95% better than SA and GA. The improved version of GA outperforms the improved version of SA by about 3.5%.

An Inventory Model for Deteriorating Items with Exponential Declining Demand and Time-Varying Holding Cost

In the present paper, a total optimal cost of an inventory model with exponential declining demand and constant deterioration is considered. The time-varying holding cost is a linear function of time. Shortages are not allowed. The items (like food grains, fashion apparels and electronic equipments) have fixed shelf-life which decreases with time during the end of the season. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate the model and the sensitivity analysis of various parameters is carried out.

A Hybrid Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times

A hybrid estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) with iterated greedy (IG) search (EDA-IG) is proposed for solving the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times (UPMSP-SDST). For makespan criterion, some properties about neighborhood search operators to avoid invalid search are derived. A probability model based on neighbor relations of jobs is built in the EDA-based exploration phase to generate new solutions by sampling the promising search region. Two types of deconstruction and reconstruction as well as an IG search are designed in the IG-based exploitation phase. Computational complexity of the algorithm is analyzed, and the effect of parameters is investigated by using the Taguchi method of design-of-experiment. Numerical tests on 1640 benchmark instances are carried out. The results and comparisons demonstrate the effectiveness of the EDA-IG. Especially, the bestknown solutions of 531 instances are updated. In addition, the effectiveness of the properties is also demonstrated by numerical comparisons. © 2014 Chinese Association of Automation.

An Improved Ant Colony Algorithm for a Single-machine Scheduling Problem with Setup Times

Motivated by industrial applications we study a single-machine scheduling problem in which all the jobs are mutu- ally independent and available at time zero.The machine processes the jobs sequentially and it is not idle if there is any job to be pro- cessed.The operation of each job cannot be interrupted.The machine cannot process more than one job at a time.A setup time is needed if the machine switches from one type of job to another.The objective is to find an optimal schedule with the minimal total jobs’completion time.While the sum of jobs’processing time is always a constant,the objective is to minimize the sum of setup times.Ant colony optimization(ACO)is a meta-heuristic that has recently been applied to scheduling problem.In this paper we propose an improved ACO-Branching Ant Colony with Dynamic Perturbation(DPBAC)algorithm for the single-machine schedul- ing problem.DPBAC improves traditional ACO in following aspects:introducing Branching Method to choose starting points;im- proving state transition rules;introducing Mutation Method to shorten tours;improving pheromone updating rules and introduc- ing Conditional Dynamic Perturbation Strategy.Computational results show that DPBAC algorithm is superior to the traditional ACO algorithm.

Effect of holding time on microstructure and mechanical properties of Al-40 wt.%Si alloys fabricated by combination of gas atomization and spark plasma sintering

Hypereutectic Al-40 wt.%Si alloys were fabricated by the combination of gas atomization and spark plasma sintering(SPS) technology. The effects of holding time(15-60 min) on phase composition, microstructure, density,mechanical properties of Al-Si alloys were investigated by XRD, SEM, a hydrostatic balance, an automatic micro hardness tester and a universal tensile testing machine. The results showed that homogenous distribution of ultrafine primary Si and high density of alloys can be obtained at holding time of 30 min. Compared with primary Si(3.7 μm)fabricated by gas atomization, the average size increased from 5.17 to 7.72 μm with the increase of holding time during SPS process. Overall, the relative density, maximum tensile strength and Vickers hardness of 94.9%, 205 MPa and HV;196.86 were achieved at holding time of 30 min, respectively. In addition, all the diffraction peaks were corresponded to α-Al or β-Si and no other phase can be detected. Finally, the densification process of SPS was also discussed.

Identical Machine Scheduling Problem with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times: MILP Formulations Computational Study

This work aims to give a systematic construction of the two families of mixed-integer-linear-programming (MILP) formulations, which are graph- based and sequence-based, of the well-known scheduling problem. Two upper bounds of job completion times are introduced. A numerical test result analysis is conducted with a two-fold objective 1) testing the performance of each solving methods, and 2) identifying and analyzing the tractability of an instance according to the instance structure in terms of the number of machines, of the jobs setup time lengths and of the jobs release date distribution over the scheduling horizon.

A Linear Programming Approach for Parallel Cell Scheduling with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times

In this study, we consider the problem of scheduling a set of jobs with sequence-dependent setup times on a set of parallel production cells. The objective of this study is to minimize the total completion time. We note that total customer demands for each type should be satisfied, and total required production time in each cell cannot exceed the capacity of the cell. This problem is formulated as an integer programming model and an interface is designed to provide integrity between data and software. Mathematical model is tested by both randomly generated data set and real-world data set from a factory that produce automotive components. As a result of this study, the solution which gives the best alternative production schedule is obtained.

深吸气屏气技术对乳腺癌术后放疗靶区剂量及摆位误差的影响

目的:探讨深吸气屏气技术对乳腺癌术后放疗患者靶区剂量及摆位误差的影响,为临床治疗提供参考依据。方法:于2021年01月至2023年07月入组60例需要行乳腺癌术后放射治疗的患者,将患者随机分为深吸气屏气组和对照组(自由呼吸组),深吸气屏气组30例,对照组30例,均采用容积调强放射治疗(volumetric modulated arc therapy,VMAT)技术进行计划设计,比较两组计划临床靶区(clinical target volume,CTV)、计划靶区(planning target volume,PTV)的体积及剂量学差异,肺的V_(20)、V_(5)及平均剂量,心脏V_(20)、V_(30)、V_(40)及平均剂量,脊髓的平均剂量、最大剂量,健侧乳腺平均剂量,深吸气屏气前后肺体积变化,靶区适形度指数(conformability index,CI)及靶区均匀性指数(homogeneity index,HI)。结果:将纳入的两组放疗计划方案进行对比,两组的摆位误差无统计学差异(P>0.05)。在保乳术后患者中,深吸气屏气组靶区PTV接受的平均剂量D_(mean)、最小剂量D_(min)、D_(95)、D_(5)相较于对照组增大,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05);两组的CTV体积、PTV体积、D_(5)0、D_(max)、HI及CI之间比较,差异无统计学意义(P>0.05)。在根治术后患者中,PTV的平均剂量D_(mean)、最大剂量D_(max)、最小剂量D_(min)、D_(95)、D_(5)、D_(5)0与对照组比较,差异无统计学意义(P>0.05);两组的CTV体积、PTV体积、HI及CI之间比较,差异也无统计学意义(P>0.05)。在保乳术后和根治术后患者中,深吸气屏气组的双肺V_(5)、V_(20)及患侧肺V_(5)、V_(20)、平均剂量D_(mean)相较于对照组减小,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05);双肺D_(mean)两组之间比较,差异无统计学意义(P>0.05)。深吸气屏气组的心脏V_(20)、V_(30)、V_(40)、心脏D_(mean)均较对照组下降,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。两组的脊髓D_(max)、D_(mean)和健侧乳腺D_(mean)差异无统计学意义(P>0.05)。在深吸气屏气患者中,深吸气后左、右肺的体积与深吸气前比较,有统计学差异(P<0.05)。结论:应用深吸气屏气技术进行乳腺癌术后辅助放射治疗能够改善保乳术后患者靶区剂量分布,明显降低心脏、肺等危及器官的受照剂量。

退火处理对热轧Al/Mg/Al复合板界面微观组织与性能的影响

采用1 mm Al+3 mm Mg+1 mm Al的组坯方式,轧制温度为400℃,压下率为35%,热轧得到6061/AZ31B/6061复合板。在退火温度为200℃的条件下,研究了不同退火时间对复合板拉伸性能、界面结合、微观组织以及表面残余应力的影响。在保温时间分别为0、0.5、1和1.5 h情况下,分别进行拉伸实验、能谱分析、微观组织观察和残余应力测试。结果表明,当轧制压下率为35%时,6061铝合金和AZ31B镁合金能够通过热轧方法得到很好的复合;随着退火时间的增加,6061/AZ31B/6061复合板的拉伸强度、伸长率和界面扩散厚度显著增加,且铝合金表面残余应力也增大。

重熔对Al-Ti-La中间合金中Ti_(2)Al_(20)La相的影响

通过扫描电镜、X射线衍射和电子探针等分析研究了重熔过程中不同保温时间和温度对Al-Ti-La中间合金中Ti_(2)Al_(20)La相的含量、形态尺寸和稳定性的影响。结果表明:在750℃下,随着保温时间的延长,Ti_(2)Al_(20)La相的溶解度逐渐增大,含量由未处理的20.776%下降至13.72%,形态由块状演变为圆整和细小的片状,长宽比由2.33下降至1.52;在1000℃下,保温15 min后溶解度较大,含量降低至4.5%,形态演变为尖锐的长条状,长宽比上升至2.55;溶解产生的La原子与Al在晶界处形成La-Al金属间化合物(IMC),Ti原子在基体中的分布密度随保温时间的延长和保温温度的升高而增高,以游离态均匀分布在基体中。

环形热管蓄冷保温箱空载均温性能研究

针对传统蓄冷箱箱内温度均匀性差的问题,提出环形热管结构蓄冷保温箱的设计,建立了空载均温性能的三维数值仿真模型,并进行了试验验证,对比分析了环形热管保温箱与常规结构蓄冷保温箱蓄冷板不同布置方式(四周布置、侧面+顶部+底部布置、中间布置)保温时间和温度均匀性的差异。结果发现,与常规结构蓄冷箱相比,环形热管结构的蓄冷保温箱的温度场、速度场均表现出较好的均匀性,其温度不均匀度为1.13,保冷时间为23 h。内部的环形热管在箱内形成环形流场,加强了对流换热,使整体温度均匀性更好。