Within the framework of nonlinear eleetroelasticity, the stress field near to the crack tip in an infinite piezoelectric media subject to a far field uniform loading is studied by using an electrical strip saturation ...Within the framework of nonlinear eleetroelasticity, the stress field near to the crack tip in an infinite piezoelectric media subject to a far field uniform loading is studied by using an electrical strip saturation model and the complex variable method. And the emphasis is placed on the stress field near to the crack tip. The obtained solutions show that the normalized stress components at an arbitrary point near to the crack tip are determined by the angle of the point. Moreover, the stress components are independent of the distance from the point to the ori- gin of the coordinate. The distributions of in-plane stress components near to the crack tip are analyzed based on numerical results for PZT-SH. Compared with some related solutions, results show that the solutions are valid.展开更多
A new wing crack model subjected to hydraulic pressure and far-field stresses was proposed considering the effect of hydraulic pressure in wing crack and the connected part of the main crack on the stress intensity fa...A new wing crack model subjected to hydraulic pressure and far-field stresses was proposed considering the effect of hydraulic pressure in wing crack and the connected part of the main crack on the stress intensity factor at the wing crack tip. With the equivalent crack length Ieq of the wing crack introduced, the stress intensity factor Kl at the wing crack tip was as- sumed to the sum of two terms: on one hand a component K1^(1) for a single isolated straight wing crack of length 21, and subjected to hydraulic pressure in the wing crack and far-field stresses; on the other hand a component K1(2) due to the effective shear stress induced by the presence of the equivalent main crack. The lateral tensile stress and hydraulic high pressure are the key factors that induce crack propagation unsteadily. The new wing crack theoretical model proposed can supply references for the study on hydraulic fracture in fractured masses, hydraulic fracturing in rock masses.展开更多
Based on the characteristics of 1D waves,the stress uniformity process in specimens under different loading conditions of rectangular and half-sine input waves was analyzed in split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) test....Based on the characteristics of 1D waves,the stress uniformity process in specimens under different loading conditions of rectangular and half-sine input waves was analyzed in split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) test.The results show that the times of an elastic wave propa-gating from one end to the other in a specimen to attain stress equilibrium,is related to input wave-forms and relative mechanical impedance between the specimen and the input/output bars.Here-into,with the increae of the relative impedance,the times decreases under rectangular input waves loading,while it increases under half-sine input wave loading.The dimensionless stress value of specimen corresponding to the status of stress equilibrium increases with the increase of the rela-tive mechanical impedance.However,the dimensionless stress value under half-sine input wave loading is significantly lower than the value under rectangular input wave loading for specimen with low mechanical impedance,and the relative differentia of the dimensionless stress values under two loading conditions decreases with the increase of the relative mechanical impedance.In gen-eral,the forced state of specimen with relatively low mechanical impedance under half-sine input wave loading is evidently superior to the state under rectangular input wave loading in SHPB test,and the advantages of forced state under half-sine input wave loading turns weak with the increase of the relative mechanical impedance.展开更多
The diffusion and reaction phenomenon in a Fe-based catalyst pellet for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis was studied. It was considered that the pores of catalyst pellets were full of liquid wax under Fischer-Tropsch synthes...The diffusion and reaction phenomenon in a Fe-based catalyst pellet for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis was studied. It was considered that the pores of catalyst pellets were full of liquid wax under Fischer-Tropsch synthesis conditions. The re- actants diffused from the bulk gas phase to the external surface of the pellet, and then the reactants diffused through the wax inside the pellet and reacted on the internal surface formed along the pore passages of the pellet. On the basis of reaction kinetics and double a-ASF product distribution model, a diffusion and reaction model of catalyst pellet was established. The effects of diffusion and reaction interaction in a catalyst pellet, the bulk temperature, the reaction pressure and the pellet size on the reactivity were further investigated. The relationship between the internal diffusion effectiveness factor of spherical catalyst pellet and the Thiele modulus were also discussed. The bulk temperature and pellet size have significant effects on the reactivity, while the pressure shows only a slight influence on the reactivity. The internal diffusion effectiveness factor decreases with an increasing Thiele modulus.展开更多
Three common categories of bilateral asymmetry have been described: directional asymmetry, antisymmetry, and FA (fluctuating asymmetry). FA is the most subtle of the three types of asymmetry, and differs from the p...Three common categories of bilateral asymmetry have been described: directional asymmetry, antisymmetry, and FA (fluctuating asymmetry). FA is the most subtle of the three types of asymmetry, and differs from the patterns of the others in that paired structures tend to be symmetric in size. The analysis of FA allows to estimate the influence of stress factors on animal development and enables evaluation of resistance to stress. The aim of this work was to estimate the symmetry of skulls of a contemporary pure goat breed, as there is currently no study of FA as an estimate of individual quality for domestic goats. For this purpose, 11 landmarks were digitized in two dimensions from the crania of 24 adult goats (12 males and 12 females) belonging to the "White Rasquera" breed. The skulls showed nearly perfect bilateral symmetry. The low detected values of FA in skulls revealed a weak influence of developmental stress on this goat contemporary population and its strong ability to compensate stress.展开更多
A parameter that allows an evaluation of power quality transmitted, or distributed, between energy source and the final user is electric system power factor. Among other aspects, a bigger power factor, close to unit v...A parameter that allows an evaluation of power quality transmitted, or distributed, between energy source and the final user is electric system power factor. Among other aspects, a bigger power factor, close to unit value, relieves operational conditions of lines and cables, besides, it improves feeder's voltage behavior. Due to load variation along the day, the dynamic compensation of power factor allows maintaining this parameter close to the ideal. This paper brings a study about a reactive dynamic compensator based on the voltage control in a capacitive element, varying the reactive energy in accordance with the system demand, everything from the energy efficiency point of view. In distribution systems, the losses due to this variable compensation can be lower than in other compensation methods and also the voltage presents a better behavior, justifying its application.展开更多
Hydrogen sulfide(H2S) is a gasotransmitter playing a vital role in response to biotic and abiotic stress for plants. In order to understand the transcriptional regulation of the genes that are responsible for endogeno...Hydrogen sulfide(H2S) is a gasotransmitter playing a vital role in response to biotic and abiotic stress for plants. In order to understand the transcriptional regulation of the genes that are responsible for endogenous H2 S generation, the promoter sequences of L-cysteine desulfhydrase(LCD), D-cysteine desulfhydrase(DCD1,DCD2), desulfhydrase(DES) and nitrogen fixation synthetase(NFS1, NFS2) were analyzed. They are all found to contain a W-box, a characteristic core binding site for the plant WRKY transcription factors, which have important roles in the plant's responses to numerous stresses by modifying the expression patterns of their target genes. An electrophoretic mobility shift assay indicated that WRKY18 and WRKY60 interacted with the W-box in the promoters of the LCD, DCD1, DCD2, DES and NFS2 genes, whereas WRKY40 bound to the W-box of the NFS1 promoter. The expression levels of the LCD, DES and DCD1 genes were up-regulated, but the DCD2 was downregulated in the plants with WRKY18, WRKY40 or WRKY60 mutations. The plants with double and triple mutations of WRKY18, WRKY40 and WRKY60 had a higher rate of H2 S production during cadmium stress and were more resistant to the cadmium stress than the wild type or single mutants. These results suggest that WRKY transcription factors regulate the H2 S signaling pathway in plants, allowing them to cope with cadmium stress.展开更多
Phytochrome-dependent light signaling has been studied in several fungi.In Aspergillus nidulans lightstimulated phytochrome activates the high-osmolarity glycerol(HOG)signaling pathway and thereby controls the express...Phytochrome-dependent light signaling has been studied in several fungi.In Aspergillus nidulans lightstimulated phytochrome activates the high-osmolarity glycerol(HOG)signaling pathway and thereby controls the expression of a large number of genes,many of which are related to stress responses.In a genome-wide expression analysis in A.nidulans we found that phytochrome,fph A,is under strict expression control of the central regulator of the sulfur-starvation response,Met R.This transcriptional regulator is required for the expression of genes involved in inorganic sulfur assimilation.In the presence of organic sulfur,Met R is probably ubiquitinated and possibly degraded and the transcription of sulfur-assimilation genes,e.g.,sulfate permease,is turned off.The expression analysis described here revealed,however,that Met R additionally controls the expression of hundreds of genes,many of which are required for secondary metabolite production.We also show that met R mutation phenocopies fph A deletion,and five other histidine-hybrid kinases are down-regulated in the met R1 mutant.Furthermore,we found that light and phytochrome regulate the expression of at least three carbon–sulfur hydrolases.This work is a further step towards understanding the interplay between light sensing and metabolic pathways.展开更多
基金the Innovation Project for Graduates in Jiangsu Province~~
文摘Within the framework of nonlinear eleetroelasticity, the stress field near to the crack tip in an infinite piezoelectric media subject to a far field uniform loading is studied by using an electrical strip saturation model and the complex variable method. And the emphasis is placed on the stress field near to the crack tip. The obtained solutions show that the normalized stress components at an arbitrary point near to the crack tip are determined by the angle of the point. Moreover, the stress components are independent of the distance from the point to the ori- gin of the coordinate. The distributions of in-plane stress components near to the crack tip are analyzed based on numerical results for PZT-SH. Compared with some related solutions, results show that the solutions are valid.
基金Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2007CB209400) Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(10JJ3007)
文摘A new wing crack model subjected to hydraulic pressure and far-field stresses was proposed considering the effect of hydraulic pressure in wing crack and the connected part of the main crack on the stress intensity factor at the wing crack tip. With the equivalent crack length Ieq of the wing crack introduced, the stress intensity factor Kl at the wing crack tip was as- sumed to the sum of two terms: on one hand a component K1^(1) for a single isolated straight wing crack of length 21, and subjected to hydraulic pressure in the wing crack and far-field stresses; on the other hand a component K1(2) due to the effective shear stress induced by the presence of the equivalent main crack. The lateral tensile stress and hydraulic high pressure are the key factors that induce crack propagation unsteadily. The new wing crack theoretical model proposed can supply references for the study on hydraulic fracture in fractured masses, hydraulic fracturing in rock masses.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50490274,10472134).
文摘Based on the characteristics of 1D waves,the stress uniformity process in specimens under different loading conditions of rectangular and half-sine input waves was analyzed in split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) test.The results show that the times of an elastic wave propa-gating from one end to the other in a specimen to attain stress equilibrium,is related to input wave-forms and relative mechanical impedance between the specimen and the input/output bars.Here-into,with the increae of the relative impedance,the times decreases under rectangular input waves loading,while it increases under half-sine input wave loading.The dimensionless stress value of specimen corresponding to the status of stress equilibrium increases with the increase of the rela-tive mechanical impedance.However,the dimensionless stress value under half-sine input wave loading is significantly lower than the value under rectangular input wave loading for specimen with low mechanical impedance,and the relative differentia of the dimensionless stress values under two loading conditions decreases with the increase of the relative mechanical impedance.In gen-eral,the forced state of specimen with relatively low mechanical impedance under half-sine input wave loading is evidently superior to the state under rectangular input wave loading in SHPB test,and the advantages of forced state under half-sine input wave loading turns weak with the increase of the relative mechanical impedance.
基金Financial support from the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program,2010CB736203)
文摘The diffusion and reaction phenomenon in a Fe-based catalyst pellet for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis was studied. It was considered that the pores of catalyst pellets were full of liquid wax under Fischer-Tropsch synthesis conditions. The re- actants diffused from the bulk gas phase to the external surface of the pellet, and then the reactants diffused through the wax inside the pellet and reacted on the internal surface formed along the pore passages of the pellet. On the basis of reaction kinetics and double a-ASF product distribution model, a diffusion and reaction model of catalyst pellet was established. The effects of diffusion and reaction interaction in a catalyst pellet, the bulk temperature, the reaction pressure and the pellet size on the reactivity were further investigated. The relationship between the internal diffusion effectiveness factor of spherical catalyst pellet and the Thiele modulus were also discussed. The bulk temperature and pellet size have significant effects on the reactivity, while the pressure shows only a slight influence on the reactivity. The internal diffusion effectiveness factor decreases with an increasing Thiele modulus.
文摘Three common categories of bilateral asymmetry have been described: directional asymmetry, antisymmetry, and FA (fluctuating asymmetry). FA is the most subtle of the three types of asymmetry, and differs from the patterns of the others in that paired structures tend to be symmetric in size. The analysis of FA allows to estimate the influence of stress factors on animal development and enables evaluation of resistance to stress. The aim of this work was to estimate the symmetry of skulls of a contemporary pure goat breed, as there is currently no study of FA as an estimate of individual quality for domestic goats. For this purpose, 11 landmarks were digitized in two dimensions from the crania of 24 adult goats (12 males and 12 females) belonging to the "White Rasquera" breed. The skulls showed nearly perfect bilateral symmetry. The low detected values of FA in skulls revealed a weak influence of developmental stress on this goat contemporary population and its strong ability to compensate stress.
文摘A parameter that allows an evaluation of power quality transmitted, or distributed, between energy source and the final user is electric system power factor. Among other aspects, a bigger power factor, close to unit value, relieves operational conditions of lines and cables, besides, it improves feeder's voltage behavior. Due to load variation along the day, the dynamic compensation of power factor allows maintaining this parameter close to the ideal. This paper brings a study about a reactive dynamic compensator based on the voltage control in a capacitive element, varying the reactive energy in accordance with the system demand, everything from the energy efficiency point of view. In distribution systems, the losses due to this variable compensation can be lower than in other compensation methods and also the voltage presents a better behavior, justifying its application.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31300236,31372085 and31400237)Shanxi Province Science Foundation for Youths(2014021026-1)Scientific and Technological Innovation Programs of Higher Education Institutions in Shanxi(2013103)
文摘Hydrogen sulfide(H2S) is a gasotransmitter playing a vital role in response to biotic and abiotic stress for plants. In order to understand the transcriptional regulation of the genes that are responsible for endogenous H2 S generation, the promoter sequences of L-cysteine desulfhydrase(LCD), D-cysteine desulfhydrase(DCD1,DCD2), desulfhydrase(DES) and nitrogen fixation synthetase(NFS1, NFS2) were analyzed. They are all found to contain a W-box, a characteristic core binding site for the plant WRKY transcription factors, which have important roles in the plant's responses to numerous stresses by modifying the expression patterns of their target genes. An electrophoretic mobility shift assay indicated that WRKY18 and WRKY60 interacted with the W-box in the promoters of the LCD, DCD1, DCD2, DES and NFS2 genes, whereas WRKY40 bound to the W-box of the NFS1 promoter. The expression levels of the LCD, DES and DCD1 genes were up-regulated, but the DCD2 was downregulated in the plants with WRKY18, WRKY40 or WRKY60 mutations. The plants with double and triple mutations of WRKY18, WRKY40 and WRKY60 had a higher rate of H2 S production during cadmium stress and were more resistant to the cadmium stress than the wild type or single mutants. These results suggest that WRKY transcription factors regulate the H2 S signaling pathway in plants, allowing them to cope with cadmium stress.
基金supported by the German Science Foundation(DFG Fi459/19-1)。
文摘Phytochrome-dependent light signaling has been studied in several fungi.In Aspergillus nidulans lightstimulated phytochrome activates the high-osmolarity glycerol(HOG)signaling pathway and thereby controls the expression of a large number of genes,many of which are related to stress responses.In a genome-wide expression analysis in A.nidulans we found that phytochrome,fph A,is under strict expression control of the central regulator of the sulfur-starvation response,Met R.This transcriptional regulator is required for the expression of genes involved in inorganic sulfur assimilation.In the presence of organic sulfur,Met R is probably ubiquitinated and possibly degraded and the transcription of sulfur-assimilation genes,e.g.,sulfate permease,is turned off.The expression analysis described here revealed,however,that Met R additionally controls the expression of hundreds of genes,many of which are required for secondary metabolite production.We also show that met R mutation phenocopies fph A deletion,and five other histidine-hybrid kinases are down-regulated in the met R1 mutant.Furthermore,we found that light and phytochrome regulate the expression of at least three carbon–sulfur hydrolases.This work is a further step towards understanding the interplay between light sensing and metabolic pathways.