A Parallel Hybrid Testing Technique for Tri-Programming Model-Based Software Systems

Recently,researchers have shown increasing interest in combining more than one programming model into systems running on high performance computing systems(HPCs)to achieve exascale by applying parallelism at multiple levels.Combining different programming paradigms,such as Message Passing Interface(MPI),Open Multiple Processing(OpenMP),and Open Accelerators(OpenACC),can increase computation speed and improve performance.During the integration of multiple models,the probability of runtime errors increases,making their detection difficult,especially in the absence of testing techniques that can detect these errors.Numerous studies have been conducted to identify these errors,but no technique exists for detecting errors in three-level programming models.Despite the increasing research that integrates the three programming models,MPI,OpenMP,and OpenACC,a testing technology to detect runtime errors,such as deadlocks and race conditions,which can arise from this integration has not been developed.Therefore,this paper begins with a definition and explanation of runtime errors that result fromintegrating the three programming models that compilers cannot detect.For the first time,this paper presents a classification of operational errors that can result from the integration of the three models.This paper also proposes a parallel hybrid testing technique for detecting runtime errors in systems built in the C++programming language that uses the triple programming models MPI,OpenMP,and OpenACC.This hybrid technology combines static technology and dynamic technology,given that some errors can be detected using static techniques,whereas others can be detected using dynamic technology.The hybrid technique can detect more errors because it combines two distinct technologies.The proposed static technology detects a wide range of error types in less time,whereas a portion of the potential errors that may or may not occur depending on the 4502 CMC,2023,vol.74,no.2 operating environment are left to the dynamic technology,which completes the validation.

Delay-dependent stability and added damping of SDOF real-time dynamic hybrid testing

It is well-recognized that a transfer system response delay that reduces the test stability inevitably exists in real-time dynamic hybrid testing （RTDHT）. This paper focuses on the delay-dependent stability and added damping of SDOF systems in RTDHT. The exponential delay term is transferred into a rational fraction by the Pad6 approximation, and the delay-dependent stability conditions and instability mechanism of SDOF RTDHT systems are investigated by the root locus technique. First, the stability conditions are discussed separately for the cases of stiffness, mass, and damping experimental substructure. The use of root locus plots shows that the added damping effect and instability mechanism for mass are different from those for stiffness. For the stiffness experimental substructure case, the instability results from the inherent mode because of an obvious negative damping effect of the delay. For the mass case, the delay introduces an equivalent positive damping into the inherent mode, and instability occurs at an added high frequency mode. Then, the compound stability condition is investigated for a general case and the results show that the mass ratio may have both upper and lower limits to remain stable. Finally, a high-emulational virtual shaking table model is built to validate the stability conclusions.

Simulation of large-scale numerical substructure in real-time dynamic hybrid testing

A solution scheme is proposed in this paper for an existing RTDHT system to simulate large-scale finite element （FE） numerical substructures. The analysis of the FE numerical substructure is split into response analysis and signal generation tasks, and executed in two different target computers in real-time. One target computer implements the response analysis task, wherein a large time-step is used to solve the FE substructure, and another target computer implements the signal generation task, wherein an interpolation program is used to generate control signals in a small time-step to meet the input demand of the controller. By using this strategy, the scale of the FE numerical substructure simulation may be increased significantly. The proposed scheme is initially verified by two FE numerical substructure models with 98 and 1240 degrees of freedom （DOFs）. Thereafter, RTDHTs of a single frame-foundation structure are implemented where the foundation, considered as the numerical substructure, is simulated by the FE model with 1240 DOFs. Good agreements between the results of the RTDHT and those from the FE analysis in ABAQUS are obtained.

Flexible substructure online hybrid test system using conventional testing devices

This paper presents a substructure online hybrid test system that is extensible for geographically distributed tests. This system consists of a set of devices conventionally used for cyclic tests to load the tested substructures onto the target displacement or the target force. Due to their robustness and portability, individual sets of conventional loading devices can be transported and reconfigured to realize physical loading in geographically remote laboratories. Another appealing feature is the flexible displacement-force mixed control that is particularly suitable for specimens having large disparities in stiffness during various performance stages. To conduct a substructure online hybrid test, an extensible framework is developed, which is equipped with a generalized interface to encapsulate each substructure. Multiple tested substructures and analyzed substructures using various structural program codes can be accommodated within the single framework, simply interfaced with the boundary displacements and forces. A coordinator program is developed to keep the boundaries among all substructures compatible and equilibrated. An Interuet-based data exchange scheme is also devised to transfer data among computers equipped with different software environments. A series of online hybrid tests are introduced, and the portability, flexibility, and extensibility of the online hybrid test system are demonstrated.

Extended research on software hybrid testing combining reliability and directed testing

The software reliability testing has many disadvantages in practice, such as high complexity of constructing operational profiles and poor fault detection efficiency. Oppositely, the directed testing with a high fault detection rate is incapable of estimating reliability quantificationally. To solve this problem, a hybrid testing combining reliability and directed testing as well as a reliability model based on the order statistic （OS） model were presented by Mitchell. An extended research on Mitchell＇s work is proposed. Firstly, the most proper distribution of the fault＇s failure rate which tends to be Iognormal is suggested, and a detailed form of the OS model based on Iognormal and the corresponding parameter estimation method are proposed, respectively. Secondly, an im- plementing framework for the hybrid testing is proposed. Finally, the hybrid testing and the OS model are applied on a real website system. The experimental results indicate： the hybrid testing has more efficient fault detection power and lower testing cost than the reliability testing; compared with three traditional software reliabil ity growth models, the OS model has a best or pretty estimation or prediction power for each data set; and for the failure data set collected from hybrid testing, the OS model also achieves an ac- ceptable estimation result.

Substructure hybrid testing of reinforced concrete shear wall structure using a domain overlapping technique

An online hybrid test was carried out on a 40-story 120-m high concrete shear wall structure. The structure was divided into two substructures whereby a physical model of the bottom three stories was tested in the laboratory and the upper 37 stories were simulated numerically using ABAQUS. An overlapping domain method was employed for the bottom three stories to ensure the validity of the boundary conditions of the superstructure. Mixed control was adopted in the test. Displacement control was used to apply the horizontal displacement, while two controlled force actuators were applied to simulate the overturning moment, which is very large and cannot be ignored in the substructure hybrid test of high-rise buildings. A series of tests with earthquake sources of sequentially increasing intensities were carried out. The test results indicate that the proposed hybrid test method is a solution to reproduce the seismic response of high-rise concrete shear wall buildings. The seismic performance of the tested precast high-rise building satisfies the requirements of the Chinese seismic design code.

Geographically distributed hybrid testing & collaboration between geotechnical centrifuge and structures laboratories

Distributed Hybrid Testing（DHT） is an experimental technique designed to capitalise on advances in modern networking infrastructure to overcome traditional laboratory capacity limitations. By coupling the heterogeneous test apparatus and computational resources of geographically distributed laboratories, DHT provides the means to take on complex, multi-disciplinary challenges with new forms of communication and collaboration. To introduce the opportunity and practicability afforded by DHT, here an exemplar multi-site test is addressed in which a dedicated fibre network and suite of custom software is used to connect the geotechnical centrifuge at the University of Cambridge with a variety of structural dynamics loading apparatus at the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol. While centrifuge time-scaling prevents real-time rates of loading in this test, such experiments may be used to gain valuable insights into physical phenomena, test procedure and accuracy. These and other related experiments have led to the development of the real-time DHT technique and the creation of a flexible framework that aims to facilitate future distributed tests within the UK and beyond. As a further example, a real-time DHT experiment between structural labs using this framework for testing across the Internet is also presented.

Hybrid Model Testing Technique for Deep-Sea Platforms Based on Equivalent Water Depth Truncation

In this paper, an inner turret moored FPSO which works in the water of 320 m depth, is selected to study the socalled ＂passively-truncated ＋ numerical-simulation＂ type of hybrid model testing technique while the tnmcated water depth is 160 m and the model scale ）, = 80. During the investigation, the optimization design of the equivalent-depth truncated system is performed by using the similarity of the static characteristics between the truncated system and the full depth one as the objective function. According to the truncated system, the corresponding physical test model is made. By adopting the coupling time domain simulation method, the tnmcated system model test is numerically reconstructed to carefully verify the computer simulation software and to adjust the corresponding hydrodynamic parameters. Based on the above work, the numerical extrapolation to the full depth system is performed by using the verified computer software and the adjusted hydrodyrmmic parameters. The full depth system model test is then performed in the basin and the results are compared with those from the numerical extrapolation. At last, the implementation procedure and the key technique of the hybrid model testing of the deep-sea platforms are summarized and printed. Through the above investigations, some beneficial conclusions are presented.

Online hybrid test using a finite element program and an explicit integration scheme

A new online hybrid test system combined with substructuring techniques and incorporating finite element methods is developed.In the proposed system,numerical substructure analysis is conducted by ABAQUS/Explicit.An ABAQUS user subroutine is used as the interface between the main control program and ABAQUS to impose the target displacements and determine the reaction forces.No iteration is needed in this system,making it suitable for physical testing.As the approach also avoids the need to modify source code,it will be appealing to a number of real engineering applications.The proposed system adopts a separated-model framework,operator-splitting integration scheme,and data exchange through a socket mechanism.The earthquake responses of a simple steel moment-resisting frame are simulated,and the results obtained from the new system are compared to those obtained from the conventional analysis.It is found that the results obtained from the new system are accurate,demonstrating the applicability and efficiency of the proposed approach.The optimal test parameters are also studied to gain the most accurate results in the minimum time.

Shake table testing of a multi-tower connected hybrid structure

Many single-tower reinforced concrete core wall-steel frame （RCC-SF） buildings have been built in China, but there are no buildings of different-height multi-tower hybrid system. A multi-tower RCC-SF tall building was thus studied because of its structural complexity and irregularity. First, a 1/15 scaled model structure was designed and tested on the shake table under minor, moderate, and major earthquake levels. Then, the dynamic responses of the model structure were interpreted to those of the prototype structure according to the similitude theory. Experimental results demonstrate that, despite the complexity of the structure, the lateral deformation bends as the ＂bending type＂ and the RC core walls contribute more than the steel frames to resist seismic loads. The maximum inter-story drift of the complex building under minor earthquakes is slightly beyond the elastic limitation specified in the Chinese code, and meets code requirements under major earthquakes. From the test results some suggestions are provided that could contribute favorable effect on the seismic behavior and the displacement of the building.

Inference and optimal design on step-stress partially accelerated life test for hybrid system with masked data

Under Type-Ⅱ progressively hybrid censoring, this paper discusses statistical inference and optimal design on stepstress partially accelerated life test for hybrid system in presence of masked data. It is assumed that the lifetime of the component in hybrid systems follows independent and identical modified Weibull distributions. The maximum likelihood estimations(MLEs)of the unknown parameters, acceleration factor and reliability indexes are derived by using the Newton-Raphson algorithm. The asymptotic variance-covariance matrix and the approximate confidence intervals are obtained based on normal approximation to the asymptotic distribution of MLEs of model parameters. Moreover,two bootstrap confidence intervals are constructed by using the parametric bootstrap method. The optimal time of changing stress levels is determined under D-optimality and A-optimality criteria.Finally, the Monte Carlo simulation study is carried out to illustrate the proposed procedures.

Key stress extraction and equivalent test method for hybrid DC circuit breaker

Firstly, relevant stress properties of millisecond level breaking process and microsecond level commutation process of hybrid HVDC circuit breaker are studied in detail on the basis of the analysis for the application environment and topological structure and operating principles of hybrid circuit breakers, and key stress parameters in transient state process of two time dimensions are extracted. The established digital simulation circuit for PSCAD/EMTDC device-level operation of the circuit breaker has verified the stress properties of millisecond level breaking process and microsecond level commutation process. Then, equivalent test method, circuits and parameters based on LC power supply are proposed on the basis of stress extraction. Finally, the results of implemented breaking tests for complete 200 kV circuit breaker, 100 kV and 50 kV circuit breaker units, as well as single power electronic module have verified the accuracy of the simulation circuit and mathematical analysis. The result of this paper can be a guide to electrical structure and test system design of hybrid HVDC circuit breaker.

Test and numerical simulation of a new type of hybrid control technique

In this paper, a new hybrid control technique, based on a combination of base-isolation and semi-active variable stiffness/damping in a superstructure, is presented. To illustrate the efficiency of the proposed control system, model tests on a mini-electromagnetic shaking table and a numerical simulation were performed. The test and numerical calculation results indicate that this new hybrid control mode with additional damping and smaller additional stiffness can achieve a better control efficiency.

大棚苦瓜新品种比较试验

为满足种植者对苦瓜新品种的需求与苦瓜产业的可持续发展,以本课题组选育的2104、2105、2106等13个苦瓜新品种为试验材料,以福建省主栽品种如玉33号为对照(CK),开展大棚苦瓜新品种的比较试验,对苦瓜的长势、抗病性、产量等方面进行调查与研究,筛选出高产优质、抗病性强且商品性好的2114、2117与2105共3个苦瓜新品种,具有早中熟,瓜条长圆锥形或长棒状,瓜色油绿、绿白或浅绿,(短)纵条间钝瘤,抗病性较强的特点,产量均较如玉33号高,增产21.2%~38.7%,可作为苦瓜新品种在闽东南地区进行示范推广种植。

A Hybrid Simulation Test Platform for Verifying the Protection Settings of SPS

To verify the effectiveness and correctness of the protection settings in ring structure Shipboard Power System (SPS), a digital-physical hybrid simulation platform at China Ship Development and Design Center (CSDDC) has been built, which aims to give double verification effect of design scheme and physical device. The platform consists of eMEGAsim digital simulator, signal power amplifiers and digital-analog interface equipments. With this platform, the multiple protection device of ring structure grid can be accessed to form a close-loop test system. Since eMEGAsim model-simulated faults and actual protection device actions are on real time, the tripping settings of each device as well as their coordinate performance between multiple devices can be verified in this close-loop test.

钢-PVA纤维混凝土预制连梁抗震性能试验研究

为研究钢-聚乙烯醇混杂纤维混凝土(Steel-Polyvinyl Alcohol Hybird Fiber Concrete,简称SPHFC)预制连梁的抗震性能,对1个普通混凝土(RC)预制连梁试件和3个SPHFC预制连梁试件进行低周往复加载试验,分析预制连梁的破坏过程、破坏形态、滞回性能、刚度及耗能能力等抗震指标,研究连梁基体材料和截面宽度对其抗震性能的影响,阐明了SPHFC预制连梁的破坏机理.结果表明:RC预制连梁破坏时混凝土剥落现象严重,最终表现为剪切型破坏;SPHFC预制连梁破坏时几乎无混凝土剥落现象,充分发挥了纤维混凝土多裂缝开展的特点,最终发生弯剪型破坏;SPHFC预制连梁的承载力、延性、刚度和耗能能力均远高于RC预制连梁;分别增大SPHFC预制连梁基体强度或截面宽度,连梁承载力提高,延性和耗能能力略有降低.本文提出的新型SPHFC预制连梁各项抗震指标均显著优于普通RC预制连梁,且制作简便,轻质高强,便于预制吊装,可在装配式结构中推广应用.

钢-玄武岩混杂纤维混凝土压力管道有限元分析

重点研究了掺入钢-玄武岩的混杂纤维混凝土对水电站压力管道外包混凝土承载特性、开裂后裂缝形态以及钢衬和钢筋应力的影响.对10组不同掺量的钢-玄武岩混杂纤维钢筋混凝土试件进行轴向拉伸试验,获得了钢-玄武岩混杂纤维混凝土的相关力学性能参数.以三峡水电站钢衬钢筋混凝土压力管道结构为例,利用有限元软件对钢-玄武岩混杂纤维的掺入对压力管道钢材应力、管道外包混凝土裂缝扩展与裂缝宽度的影响进行分析.结合三峡水电站压力管道结构的大比尺模型试验结果,对比分析了钢衬钢筋钢-玄武岩混杂纤维混凝土压力管道与常规钢衬钢筋混凝土压力管道两种方案下的钢衬及钢筋应力.结果表明,掺入钢-玄武岩混杂纤维后压力管道结构整体受力更加均匀,且管道外包混凝土的裂缝数量和裂缝宽度也有显著的降低,同时压力管道的钢衬及钢筋应力明显降低.

环境载荷逆向识别与虚拟模型试验方法

提出一种应用于混合模型试验的环境载荷逆向识别与虚拟模型试验方法,可以逆向识别截断模型试验中的环境载荷,进而开展截断水深与全水深虚拟模型试验.环境载荷直接从物理模型试验中分离得到,因此该载荷考虑到了平台六自由度运动之间的耦合作用、破浪砰击等强非线性作用以及流体对浮体的黏性力作用.为验证方法准确性,开展风浪流模型试验,并将虚拟模型试验结果与物理模型试验数据进行比较.研究结果表明,环境载荷逆向识别方法可以准确识别风浪流模型试验的环境载荷.

工程结构混合试验软件HyTest的控制方法及应用

混合试验通过模拟与试验的结合,大大降低了对设备的要求及试验成本,得到了较快发展.为了提高试验的可靠性并降低试验难度,试验的加载控制误差需要得到有效控制,并把相关方法集成到试验软件平台.本文以混合试验软件HyTest的控制方法为中心,综述了外环控制、外环位移-内环力控制、三自由度控制方法及相关试验.试验数据检验了方法的有效性,并表明不同方法的特点.多种控制策略可供选择是HyTest突出特点之一。

基于CNN-LSTM混合神经网络的高速铁路地震响应预测

为了更好地挖掘高速铁路在地震时的响应信息,提高光纤光栅监测的效率及预测精度,该文针对地震响应数据的时序性及非线性的特点,提出卷积神经网络(CNN)和长短期记忆(LSTM)网络的混合神经网络模型预测方法.通过在高速铁路简支梁桥上布设准分布式光纤光栅采集地震时轨道板、钢轨、底座板、箱梁的响应数据,在每根光纤上布置7个光栅,利用两边光栅的响应数据预测中间点的光栅响应,将采集位置、历史数据及地震波形等信息作为特征图输入.利用CNN提取特征,再将提前提取出来的特征数据以时序方式作为LSTM网络的输入数据,最后LSTM网络进行地震应变响应预测.实验结果表明,LSTM网络在3层时效果最好,CNN-LSTM方法具有较高的预测精度,根均平方误差(R_(RMSE))、平均绝对误差(R_(MAE))、决定系数(R^(2))分别达到了0.3753、0.2968、0.9371.