High Performance ZrNbAl Alloy with Low Thermal Expansion Coefficient

Thermal expansion is a common phenomenon in both metals and alloys, which is important for metallic material applications in modern industry, especially in nuclear and aerospace industries. A lower thermal expansion coefficient may cause lower thermal stress and higher accuracy. A new Zr-based alloy is developed and presented.The XRD diffraction results demonstrate that only a close-packed hexagonal phase（α or α＇ phase） exists in the microstructure. The thermal expansion and mechanical properties are studied. According to the experimental results, the new Zr-based alloy presents a low thermal expansion coefficient and good mechanical properties.Also,its thermal expansion coefficient is stable through solution treatment.

Exact Generator and its High Order Expansions in Time-Convolutionless Generalized Master Equation:Applications to Spin-Boson Model and Exictation Energy Transfer

The time-convolutionless （TCL） quantum master equation provides a powerful tool to simulate reduced dynanfics of a quantum system coupled to a bath. The key quantity ill the TCL master equation is the so-called kernel or generator, which describes eflhcts of the bath degrees of freedom. Since the exact TCL generators are usually hard to calculate analytically, most applications of the TCL generalized master equation have relied on approximate generators using second and fourth order perturbative expansions. By using the hierarchical equation of motion （HEOM） and extended HEOM methods, we present a new approach to calculating the exact TCL generator and its high order perturbative expansions. The new approach is applied to the spin-boson model with diflhrent sets of parameters, to investigate the convergence of the high order expansiolls of the TCL generator. We also discuss circumstances where the exact TCL generator becomes singular for the spin-boson model, and a model of excitation energy transfer in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex.

Effect of Solid Solution Treatment on Microstructure of Fe-Ni Based High Strength Low Thermal Expansion Alloy

The influence of solid solution treatments on the dissolution of carbides precipitates,the grain size,and the hardness of high strength low expansion alloy were investigated through XRD analysis,microstructure observations,and theoretical computation.It was seen that most primary Mo2C type carbide band dissolved in a temperature range of 1 100-1 150 ℃.When the temperature was over 1 200 ℃,the grain size increased remarkably,which led to the reduction of hardness.

Quality oriented multimode processes monitoring based on a novel hierarchical common and specific structure with different order information

Due to higher demands on product diversity,flexible shift between productions of different products in one equipment becomes a popular solution,resulting in existence of multiple operation modes in a single process.In order to handle such multi-mode process,a novel double-layer structure is proposed and the original data are decomposed into common and specific characteristics according to the relationship between variables among each mode.In addition,both low and high order information are considered in each layer.The common and specific information within each mode can be captured and separated into several subspaces according to the different order information.The performance of the proposed method is further validated through a numerical example and the Tennessee Eastman(TE)benchmark.Compared with previous methods,superiority of the proposed method is validated by the better monitoring results.