Microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of new multi-phase NiAl-based alloy during heat treatments

Microstructural evolution and the relationship between microstructure and property during heat treatments in a new NiAl-based alloy(Ni-26.6Al-13.4Cr-8.1Co-4.3Ti-1.3W-0.9Mo,molar fraction,%))were investigated.The as-cast alloy is composed of NiAl matrix and Cr3Ni2 phase with poor ductility.The Cr3Ni2 phase is distributed as a network along the NiAl grain boundaries.Subsequent heat treatment(1 523 K,20 h,air cooling+1 123 K,16 h,furnace cooling)leads to the dissolution of Cr3Ni2 phase and the precipitation of lath-shaped Ni3Al phase andα-Cr particles,resulting in the improvement of compressive properties and fracture toughness at room temperature.Followed by long-term thermal exposure(1 173 K,8 500 h),it is found that the residual Cr3Ni2 phase keeps stable while theα-Cr particles coarsen and a great mass of lath-shaped Ni3Al precipitates are degenerated,which compromises most of the above improvements of mechanical properties through heat treatment.

Adaptive resource allocation for multi-user multi-server power-line communication OFDM systems

The bits and power allocation model of adaptive power-rate mixture for multi-user multi-server power-line communication systems was analyzed with the restrictions of maximal total power,fixed rate for each real time (RT) user,minimal rate for each non-real time (NRT) user,maximal bits and power for each subcarrier in each orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. An algorithm of resource dynamic allocation in the first OFDM symbol of each frame and resource optimal adjustment in the latter OFDM symbol of each frame was proposed. In the first OFDM symbol of every frame,resource is firstly assigned for RT users so as to minimize their total used power until satisfying their fixed rates; secondly the remainder resource of power and subcarriers are assigned for NRT users so as to minimize their total used power until satisfying their minimal rates also; lastly the remainder resource is again assigned for NRT users according to the proportional fairness strategy so as to maximize their total assigning rate. In the latter OFDM symbol of each frame,bits are swapped and power is adjusted for every user based on the resource allocation results of anterior OFDM symbol. The algorithm is tested in the typical power-line channel scenarios and the simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm has better performances than the classical multi-user resource allocation algorithms and it realizes the multiple aims of multi-user multi-server resource allocation for power-line communication systems.

Voltage control for static var compensator using novel optimal nonlinear PI

Static var compensators （SVCs） are used for voltage and reactive power control in power systems. In this paper, we will consider the structure of SVCs that mainly consists of Y-connection of mechanically-switched capacitor （MSC） and delta connection of thyrister-controlled reactor （TCR）. First, the control model of SVC was established in this paper. Then, a novel optimal nonlinear voltage controller for SVCs is proposed. The proposed SVC voltage controller consists of a nonlinear function and a conventional PI controller. The improved simplex method （SPX） is presented to adjust and optimize the parameters of the nonlinear PI controller in real-time, and to make transient state response procedure of SVC optimum. The integration of time multiplied absolute error （ITAE） is adopted as the optimized objective function of SPX. Simulation and engineering application results show that the proposed voltage control method is able to track reference voltage value of SVC immediately. It also demonstrates that the whole SVC control System can synthetically compensate reactive power.