The research goal is to develop a new solar water heater system(SWHS) that uses a solar bubble pump instead of an electric pump.The pump is powered by the steam produced from an evacuated tube collector.Therefore,heat...The research goal is to develop a new solar water heater system(SWHS) that uses a solar bubble pump instead of an electric pump.The pump is powered by the steam produced from an evacuated tube collector.Therefore,heat could be transferred downward from the collector to a hot water storage tank.The designed system consists of two sets of heat-pipe evacuated tube collectors,a solar bubble pump installed at an upper level and a water storage tank with a heat exchanger at a lower level.Discharge heads of 1 and 5 m were tested.The bubble pump could operate at the collector temperature of about 90-100 ℃ and vapor gage pressure of 80-90 kPa.It is found that water circulation within the SWHS depends on the incident solar intensity and system discharge head.Experimental investigations are conducted to obtain the system thermal efficiencies from the hourly,daily and long-term performance tests.The thermal performance of the proposed system is compared with conventional solar water heaters.The results show that the proposed system achieves system characteristic efficiency of 10% higher than that of the conventional systems using electric pump if taking the consumption of electric power into account.And the former is a zero carbon system.展开更多
With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT),the issue of trust in distributed routing systems has attracted more research attention.The existing trust management frameworks,however,suffer from some possible...With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT),the issue of trust in distributed routing systems has attracted more research attention.The existing trust management frameworks,however,suffer from some possible attacks in hostile environments,such as false accusation,collusion,on-off,and conflicting behavior.Therefore,more comprehensive models should be proposed to predict the trust level of nodes on potential routes more precisely,and to defeat several kinds of possible attacks.This paper makes an attempt to design an attack-resistant trust management model based on beta function for distributed routing strategy in IoT.Our model can evaluate and propagate reputation in distributed routing systems.We first describe possible attacks on existing systems.Our model is then proposed to establish reliable trust relations between self-organized nodes and defeat possible attacks in distributed routing systems.We also propose a theoretical basis and skeleton of our model.Finally,some performance evaluations and security analyses are provided to show the effectiveness and robustness of our model compared with the existing systems.展开更多
Investigation of seismic performance of buildings with STRP (scrap tire rubber pad) seismic isolators by means of pseudo-dynamic tests and numerical simulation is presented. The isolated building is numerically mode...Investigation of seismic performance of buildings with STRP (scrap tire rubber pad) seismic isolators by means of pseudo-dynamic tests and numerical simulation is presented. The isolated building is numerically modeled, while the base isolation layer is considered as the experimental substructure in the pseudo-dynamic tests. The test result verifies that the STRP isolator shows acceptable shear deformation performance predicted by the design methods, and demonstrated that seismic isolation using STRP works as a protective measure to provide enhanced seismic performance of the building indicated by the reduction of top floor absolute acceleration, drift and base shear as designated.展开更多
This paper proposes an innovative low-cost isolator with lightweight and cost-effective features for use in low-rise residential buildings.The low-cost laminated isolator is formed by plastic shims with unsaturated po...This paper proposes an innovative low-cost isolator with lightweight and cost-effective features for use in low-rise residential buildings.The low-cost laminated isolator is formed by plastic shims with unsaturated polyester fiber reinforcement between rubber layers.Performance tests are systematically carried out to characterize the isolator in terms of mechanic behavior(e.g.,compression,shear,and their relationship),dynamic properties(e.g.,damping),and ultimate states.A design guideline and associated criteria of the low-cost isolator are also provided and discussed in this study.To investigate more detailed behavior,a finite element model of the isolator is developed in ABAQUS and calibrated by the experimental data.The research presented in this paper makes significant contributions to the evaluation of the peak stress and strain demands on isolator’s components and provides technical support for the design and manufacturing of this new type of isolator.展开更多
This paper proposes a multi-layer multi-agent model for the performance evaluation of powersystems,which is different from the existing multi-agent ones.To describe the impact of the structureof the networked power sy...This paper proposes a multi-layer multi-agent model for the performance evaluation of powersystems,which is different from the existing multi-agent ones.To describe the impact of the structureof the networked power system,the proposed model consists of three kinds of agents that form threelayers:control agents such as the generators and associated controllers,information agents to exchangethe information based on the wide area measurement system (WAMS) or transmit control signals tothe power system stabilizers (PSSs),and network-node agents such as the generation nodes and loadnodes connected with transmission lines.An optimal index is presented to evaluate the performance ofdamping controllers to the system's inter-area oscillation with respect to the information-layer topology.Then,the authors show that the inter-area information exchange is more powerful than the exchangewithin a given area to control the inter-area low frequency oscillation based on simulation analysis.展开更多
基金Project(2011-0021376) supported by Basic Science Program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) Funded by the Ministry of Education,Science and Technology of Korea
文摘The research goal is to develop a new solar water heater system(SWHS) that uses a solar bubble pump instead of an electric pump.The pump is powered by the steam produced from an evacuated tube collector.Therefore,heat could be transferred downward from the collector to a hot water storage tank.The designed system consists of two sets of heat-pipe evacuated tube collectors,a solar bubble pump installed at an upper level and a water storage tank with a heat exchanger at a lower level.Discharge heads of 1 and 5 m were tested.The bubble pump could operate at the collector temperature of about 90-100 ℃ and vapor gage pressure of 80-90 kPa.It is found that water circulation within the SWHS depends on the incident solar intensity and system discharge head.Experimental investigations are conducted to obtain the system thermal efficiencies from the hourly,daily and long-term performance tests.The thermal performance of the proposed system is compared with conventional solar water heaters.The results show that the proposed system achieves system characteristic efficiency of 10% higher than that of the conventional systems using electric pump if taking the consumption of electric power into account.And the former is a zero carbon system.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61100219the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.2012JBM010the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60833002
文摘With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT),the issue of trust in distributed routing systems has attracted more research attention.The existing trust management frameworks,however,suffer from some possible attacks in hostile environments,such as false accusation,collusion,on-off,and conflicting behavior.Therefore,more comprehensive models should be proposed to predict the trust level of nodes on potential routes more precisely,and to defeat several kinds of possible attacks.This paper makes an attempt to design an attack-resistant trust management model based on beta function for distributed routing strategy in IoT.Our model can evaluate and propagate reputation in distributed routing systems.We first describe possible attacks on existing systems.Our model is then proposed to establish reliable trust relations between self-organized nodes and defeat possible attacks in distributed routing systems.We also propose a theoretical basis and skeleton of our model.Finally,some performance evaluations and security analyses are provided to show the effectiveness and robustness of our model compared with the existing systems.
文摘Investigation of seismic performance of buildings with STRP (scrap tire rubber pad) seismic isolators by means of pseudo-dynamic tests and numerical simulation is presented. The isolated building is numerically modeled, while the base isolation layer is considered as the experimental substructure in the pseudo-dynamic tests. The test result verifies that the STRP isolator shows acceptable shear deformation performance predicted by the design methods, and demonstrated that seismic isolation using STRP works as a protective measure to provide enhanced seismic performance of the building indicated by the reduction of top floor absolute acceleration, drift and base shear as designated.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China("973"Project)(Grant No.2012CB723304)Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University(Grant No.IRT13057)+1 种基金the Ministry of Education Program for New Century Excellent Talents(Grant No.NCET-11-0914)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51278138)
文摘This paper proposes an innovative low-cost isolator with lightweight and cost-effective features for use in low-rise residential buildings.The low-cost laminated isolator is formed by plastic shims with unsaturated polyester fiber reinforcement between rubber layers.Performance tests are systematically carried out to characterize the isolator in terms of mechanic behavior(e.g.,compression,shear,and their relationship),dynamic properties(e.g.,damping),and ultimate states.A design guideline and associated criteria of the low-cost isolator are also provided and discussed in this study.To investigate more detailed behavior,a finite element model of the isolator is developed in ABAQUS and calibrated by the experimental data.The research presented in this paper makes significant contributions to the evaluation of the peak stress and strain demands on isolator’s components and provides technical support for the design and manufacturing of this new type of isolator.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants Nos. 50707035, 50595411, 60425307, 60221301 and 50607005, in part by the 111 project (B08013)Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT0515)in part by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-05-0216)
文摘This paper proposes a multi-layer multi-agent model for the performance evaluation of powersystems,which is different from the existing multi-agent ones.To describe the impact of the structureof the networked power system,the proposed model consists of three kinds of agents that form threelayers:control agents such as the generators and associated controllers,information agents to exchangethe information based on the wide area measurement system (WAMS) or transmit control signals tothe power system stabilizers (PSSs),and network-node agents such as the generation nodes and loadnodes connected with transmission lines.An optimal index is presented to evaluate the performance ofdamping controllers to the system's inter-area oscillation with respect to the information-layer topology.Then,the authors show that the inter-area information exchange is more powerful than the exchangewithin a given area to control the inter-area low frequency oscillation based on simulation analysis.