Conversion factor analysis of self-balanced loading test of cast-in-situ piles based on analogue test method

Based on the characteristics of pile-soil interaction and the Mohr-Coulomb strength theory,a new method of determining the side friction at a pile-soil interaction is proposed.Combined with the actual engineering cases,the effectiveness of the analogue test method is verified by comparing it with the traditional anchor pile method and self-balanced method.Taking the self-balanced test of the bridge pile foundation in the Songhua River as an example,the conversion factor of sandy soil and weathered mudstone are confirmed by the analogue test method.The results show that the conversion factor of sandy soil and weathered mudstone in the Songhua River area should consider the geological conditions and the construction technology,etc.The standard values are relatively conservative.It is suggested that the engineering application should be properly revised.The recommended range of the conversion factor of sandy soil in this area is 0.65 to 0.85,and that of weathered mudstone is 1.0.

Direct conversion of methane to methanol by electrochemical methods

A convenient method for methane(CH_(4))direct conversion to methanol(CH_(3)OH)is of great significance to use methane-rich resources,especially clathrates and stranded shale gas resources located in remote regions.Theoretically,the activation of CH_(4) and the selectivity to the CH_(3)OH product are challenging due to the extreme stability of CH_(4) and relatively high reactivity of CH_(3)OH.The state-of-the-art‘methane reforming-methanol synthesis’process adopts a two-step strategy to avoid the further reaction of CH_(3)OH under the harsh conditions required for CH_(4) activation.In the electrochemical field,researchers are trying to develop conversion pathways under mild conditions.They have found suitable catalysts to activate the C–H bonds in methane with the help of external charge and have designed the electrode reactions to continuously generate certain active oxygen species.These active oxygen species attack the activated methane and convert it to CH_(3)OH,with the benefit of avoiding over-oxidation of CH_(3)OH,and thus obtain a high conversion efficiency of CH_(4) to CH_(3)OH.This mini-review focuses on the advantages and challenges of electrochemical conversion of CH4 to CH_(3)OH,especially the strategies for supplying electro-generated active oxygen species in-situ to react with the activated methane.

A NEW SIMULATING ALGORITHM FOR BALL MILLS--CONVERSION COEFFICIENT METHOD

The conversing relation among the Bond Work Index Wp specific output of mill and the energy efficiency of grinding were developed using dimensional analysis.The relations of which were proved and the value of the coversion coefficient i was also obtained using a new installed device for measuring grindability of ores.With the new simulating algorithm,the mill specifications,output and size distribution of griding products of industrial mills can be calculated based on laboratory measuring results.This algorithm is more accurate and simpler than any of the others.

Intense up-conversion emissions of yb3＋/Dy3＋ co-doped A12O3 nanopowders prepared by non-aqueous sol-gel method＊

yb3＋/Dy3＋ co-doped A1203 nanopowders have been prepared by the non-aqueous sol-gel method and their up- conversion photoluminescence spectra are measured under excitation by a 980-nm semiconductor laser. The results show that there are comparatively abundant spectra of up-conversion emissions centered at 378, 408, 527 and 543, and 663 nm, corresponding to 4C9/2→ 6H13/2, 4C9/2→ 6Hll/2, 4115/2 → 6H13/2, and 4F9/2 →6Hll/2 transitions of Dy3＋, respectively. Two-photon and three-photon processes are involved in ultraviolet, violet, green, and red up-conversion emissions. The energy transition between Yb3＋ and Dy3＋ is discussed.

Preparation of Hierarchically Trimodal-Porous ZSM-5 Composites through Steam-assisted Conversion of Macroporous Aluminosilica Gel with Two Different Quaternary Ammonium Hydroxides

This article presents a detailed structural study of a new spherical Mg Cl2-supported Ti Cl4 Ziegler-Natta catalyst for isotactic propylene polymerization, and researches on the relationship between catalyst structure and polymer properties. The spherical support with the chemical composition of CH3CH2 OMg OCH(CH2Cl)2 has been synthesized from a new dispersion system and is used as the supporting material to prepare Ziegler-Natta catalyst. The XRD analysis indicates that the catalyst is fully activated with δ-Mg Cl2 in the active catalyst. The far-IR spectrometric results confirm again the presence of δ-Mg Cl2 in the active catalyst. Textural property of the active catalyst exhibits high surface area coupled with high porosity. The high activity in propylene polymerization is mainly ascribed to the full activation and the porous structure of the catalyst. Scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive spectrometer mapping results indicate a uniform titanium distribution throughout the catalyst particles. Particle size analysis shows that the catalyst has a narrow particle size distribution. The perfect spherical shape, uniform titanium distribution and narrow particle size distribution of the catalyst confirm the advantage of polymer particles production with less fines. The solid state 13 C NMR and mid-IR spectroscopic analyses indicate that there exists strong complexation between diisobutyl phthalate and Mg Cl2, which leads to the high isotacticity of polypropylene.

Catalytic Conversion of Alcohol to Corresponding Alkyl Chlorides

1-chloro-octane, 1-chloro-dedocane and 1-chloro-hexadecane are synthesized from the corresponding alcohols. The reactions are catalyzed by N, N-dimethyl formamide and dodecyltrimethyl animonium chloride, not only the reaction time has been reduced, but also the yield improved from 10%～20%.

Numerical Research of Mode Conversion in an Inhomogeneous Plasma

The linear mode conversion of electromagnetic waves in the hot, unmagnetized inhomogeneous plasma is studied numerically for different density profiles, and the dependence of the absorption coefficient on the incident angles and the wave frequencies are obtained for different electrons＇ temperature. The results show that the shapes of the density profiles and the electron＇s temperature create a certain effect on the coefficients of absorption, which reaches its peak value （about 50%） for appropriate parameters. Effective absorption occurs in a limited range of parameter q.

Studies on Conversion of K in Potash Feldspar into Water-soluble Form

The studies for raising potash feldspar utilization ratio by physical, biological and chemical methods are carried out in laboratory and the results are presented. It is shown that calcinatory and biological methods have positive effects on conversion of K in potash feldspar into water-soluble form, but the conversion is low; chemical method can change most of insoluble potassium into available form, and might be significant in industry to some extent.

Geometric Conversion Approach for the Numerical Evaluation of Hypersin gular and Nearly Hypersingular Boundary Integrals over Curved Surface Boundary Elements

With the aid of the properties of the hypersingular kernels, a geometric conversion approach was presented in this paper. The conversion leads to a general approach for the accurate and reliable numerical evaluation of the hypersingular surface boundary integrals encountered in a variety of applications with boundary element method. Based on the conversion, the hypersingularity in the boundary integrals could be lowered by one order, resulting in the simplification of the computer code. Moreover, an integral transformation was introduced to damp out the nearly singular behavior of the kernels by the distance function defined in the local polar coordinate system for the nearly hypersingular case. The approach is simple to use, which can be inserted readily to computer code, thus getting rid of the dull routine deduction of formulae before the numerical implementations, as the expressions of these kernels are in general complicated. The numerical examples were given in three dimensional elasticity, verifying the effectiveness of the proposed approach, which makes it possible to observe numerically the behavior of the boundary integral values with hypersingular kernels across the boundary.

Synthesis and Characterization of IR Up-Conversion Material SrS∶Eu, Sm

Europium and samarium co-doped strontium sulfide (SrS∶Eu, Sm) infrared up-conversion phosphor was synthesized through calcining the precursor, which prepared by wet-method with strontium carbonate (SrCO_3), sulphur (S), europium oxide (Eu_2O_3) and samarium oxide (Sm_2O_3) as the starting materials, lithium fluoride (LiF) as the fluxing agent, at 750～1200 ℃ in carbon-reducing atmosphere. XRD analysis shows that SrS crystal structure is formed at 750 ℃, most completely at 1100 ℃. The IR up-conversion luminescence properties were characterized by excitation, emission, up-conversion excitation, up-conversion emission and thermoluminescence spectra. The spectral analysis associated with the physical model of up-conversion luminescence shows that the IR up-conversion luminescence is resulted from electron trapping process of Sm 3+ energy level. The thermoluminescence peak does not appear below 500 ℃ indicating the trapping energy level is appropriately deep, 800～1400 nm near infrared light can be the release light to realize up-conversion luminescence.

Electrokinetic flow and energy conversion in a curved microtube

Curved channels are ubiquitous in microfluidic systems.The pressure-driven electrokinetic flow and energy conversion in a curved microtube are investigated analytically by using a perturbation analysis method under the assumptions of the small curvature ratio and the Reynolds number.The results indicate that the curvature of the microtube leads to a skewed pattern in the distribution of the electrical double layer(EDL)potential.The EDL potential at the outer side of the bend is larger than that at the inner side of the bend.The curvature shows an inhibitory effect on the magnitude of the streaming potential field induced by the pressure-driven flow.Since the spanwise pressure gradient is dominant over the inertial force,the resulting axial velocity profile is skewed into the inner region of the curved channel.Furthermore,the flow rate in a curved microtube could be larger than that in a straight one with the same pressure gradient and shape of cross section.The asymptotic solutions of the axial velocity and flow rate in the absence of the electrokinetic effect are in agreement with the classical results for low Reynolds number flows.Remarkably,the curved geometry could be beneficial to improving the electrokinetic energy conversion(EKEC)efficiency.

On the Conversion of Parts of Speech in English-Chinese Translation

Conversion refers to the transformation of parts of speech in some words while maintaining the original content unchanged in order to make the translated text sound smooth and fluent as well as more idiomatic in the target language. In E-C translation, conversion of pars of speech is one of the most important translation methods. Several different forms about conversion of parts of speech are introduced through analyzing the differences and usages between the two languages so that a better version in E-C translation can be got.

Two-Stream Approximation to the Radiative Transfer Equation:A New Improvement and Comparative Accuracy with Existing Methods

Mathematical modeling of the interaction between solar radiation and the Earth's atmosphere is formalized by the radiative transfer equation(RTE), whose resolution calls for two-stream approximations among other methods. This paper proposes a new two-stream approximation of the RTE with the development of the phase function and the intensity into a third-order series of Legendre polynomials. This new approach, which adds one more term in the expression of the intensity and the phase function, allows in the conditions of a plane parallel atmosphere a new mathematical formulation of γparameters. It is then compared to the Eddington, Hemispheric Constant, Quadrature, Combined Delta Function and Modified Eddington, and second-order approximation methods with reference to the Discrete Ordinate(Disort) method(δ –128 streams), considered as the most precise. This work also determines the conversion function of the proposed New Method using the fundamental definition of two-stream approximation(F-TSA) developed in a previous work. Notably,New Method has generally better precision compared to the second-order approximation and Hemispheric Constant methods. Compared to the Quadrature and Eddington methods, New Method shows very good precision for wide domains of the zenith angle μ 0, but tends to deviate from the Disort method with the zenith angle, especially for high values of optical thickness. In spite of this divergence in reflectance for high values of optical thickness, very strong correlation with the Disort method(R ≈ 1) was obtained for most cases of optical thickness in this study. An analysis of the Legendre polynomial series for simple functions shows that the high precision is due to the fact that the approximated functions ameliorate the accuracy when the order of approximation increases, although it has been proven that there is a limit order depending on the function from which the precision is lost. This observation indicates that increasing the order of approximation of the phase function of the RTE leads to a better precision in flux calculations. However, this approach may be limited to a certain order that has not been studied in this paper.

RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF ENTROPY METHOD FOR SYSTEM CONSISTED OF IDENTICAL EXPONENTIAL UNITS

The reliability assessment of unit-system near two levels is the mostimportant content in the reliability multi-level synthesis of complex systems. Introducing theinformation theory into system reliability assessment, using the addible characteristic ofinformation quantity and the principle of equivalence of information quantity, an entropy method ofdata information conversion is presented for the system consisted of identical exponential units.The basic conversion formulae of entropy method of unit test data are derived based on the principleof information quantity equivalence. The general models of entropy method synthesis assessment forsystem reliability approximate lower limits are established according to the fundamental principleof the unit reliability assessment. The applications of the entropy method are discussed by way ofpractical examples. Compared with the traditional methods, the entropy method is found to be validand practicable and the assessment results are very satisfactory.

Coupling between finite element method and material point method for problems with extreme deformation

As a Lagrangian meshless method, the material point method （MPM） is suitable for dynamic problems with extreme deformation, but its efficiency and accuracy are not as good as that of the finite element method （FEM） for small deformation problems. Therefore, an algorithm for the coupling of FEM and MPM is proposed to take advantages of both methods. Furthermore, a conversion scheme of elements to particles is developed. Hence, the material domain is firstly discretized by finite elements, and then the distorted elements are automatically converted into MPM particles to avoid element entanglement. The interaction between finite elements and MPM particles is implemented based on the background grid in MPM framework. Numerical results are in good agreement with that of both FEM and MPM

In situ calibrating optical tweezers with sinusoidal-wave drag force method

We introduce a corrected sinusoidal-wave drag force method （SDFM） into optical tweezers to calibrate the trapping stiffness of the optical trap and conversion factor （CF） of photodetectors. First, the theoretical analysis and experimental result demonstrate that the correction of SDFM is necessary, especially the error of no correction is up to 11.25% for a bead of 5μm in diameter. Second, the simulation results demonstrate that the SDFM has a better performance in the calibration of optical tweezers than the triangular-wave drag force method （TDFM） and power spectrum density method （PSDM） at the same signal-to-noise ratio or trapping stiffness. Third, in experiments, the experimental standard deviations of calibration of trapping stiffness and CF with the SDFM are about less than 50% of TDFM and PSDM especially at low laser power. Finally, the experiments of stretching DNA verify that the in situ calibration with the SDFM improves the measurement stability and accuracy.

Preparation of YVO_4:RE(RE=Yb^(3+)/Er^(3+),Yb^(3+)/Tm^(3+))nanoparticles viamicroemulsion-mediated hydrothermal method

A microemulsion-mediated hydrothermal method for synthesis of YVO4:RE(RE=Yb 3+/Er 3+,Yb 3+/Tm 3+)nanoparticles by hydrothermal treatment of quaternary microemulsion medium consisting of Na3VO4/NaOH and RE(NO3)3 aqueous solution, surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide(CTAB),cosurfactant n-hexanol and oil phase n-heptane was report.The confinement of microemulsion droplets acting as microreactors during the reaction process allows the formation of small size YVO4:RE nanoparticles with relatively narrow size distribution and less aggregation.The structure,size and shape of YVO4:RE nanoparticles were investigated by means of X-ray diffractometry(XRD)and transmission electron microscopy(TEM).Compared with the conventional solid annealing diffusion method,the microemulsion-mediated hydrothermal method shows superiority in obtaining YVO4:RE nanoparticles with controllable size,narrow size distribution and less aggregation.The microemulsion-mediated hydrothermal method may be potentially applicable for synthesis of other rare earth doped up-converting luminescence nanomaterials.

对中国高校平均学分绩点制度的思考与建议

随着中国高等教育国际化进程的持续推进,源于欧美高校成绩评价体系的平均学分绩点已成为中国高校学业水平评价的主要指标。由于其与学生的评奖评优、免试研究生推荐、境内外升学等切身利益密切相关,从而引发了广泛的关切。针对当前中国高校在课程百分制成绩与绩点的转换方法上存在的利与弊进行了思考,并基于学习成效的科学评价,提出了推动中国高校与欧美高校在学生学业水平评价体系上接轨的建议。

聚醚砜基过滤膜制备与应用研究进展

为了探究聚醚砜作为有机膜材料的性能及应用潜力,总结了聚醚砜基过滤膜的制备工艺及应用情况。介绍了聚醚砜材料的特点和性能,分析了聚醚砜过滤膜各类制备方法的优缺点,包括相转化法、静电纺丝法和涂覆法,总结了聚醚砜基过滤膜在生物医用领域、水处理领域、电池领域及其他领域应用进展。认为:尽管已有研究表明聚醚砜基过滤膜制备方法多元、应用领域广泛,但高功能化、高性能化方面仍是聚醚砜过滤膜研究和产业化发展需要攻克的重点。

全球岩石圈地磁梯度张量场椭球谐模型构建方法与评估

岩石圈磁梯度张量场模型可以更好地保留短波长磁场信息,更准确地表示磁异常,在辅助导航、目标定位等领域成为新的研究热点.因地球表面更接近于旋转椭球体,采用传统的球谐函数建立全球岩石圈磁场模型时,布里渊球形内极区附近有计算不收敛现象.针对该问题,本文提出了椭球坐标系下的无奇异岩石圈梯度张量模型构建方法.重新推导了半归格化约束下,球谐系数至椭球谐系数的转换关系;基于最小二乘法和积分法计算了岩石圈磁梯度张量场模型的椭球谐系数,并建立了无奇异性岩石圈磁梯度张量模型.分别计算5 km海拔高度下和300 km海拔高度下,133阶的全球岩石圈磁梯度张量场分布,验证了椭球谐建模方法可以解决布里渊球形内的部分不收敛问题.最后,采用傅里叶变换,将磁矢量Bz分量转换为磁梯度张量对模型进行评估,验证了本文方法的准确性.全球岩石圈椭球谐模型构建方法将适用于高分辨率和高精度的模型建立.