Electric Tilt ＆ Telescopic Column Driven by EPS Motor

In order to improve driver convenience, electronic tilt ＆ tele column is applied to a full sized car. To operate electronic tilt ＆ tele, it needs two motors and one electronic controller. Because of high cost component parts, it is difficult to apply to a midsize car. Meanwhile, to cope with regulations of fuel efficiency and emission, motor driven power steering system is applied to a full sized car from a small car. But MDPS （Markov decision processes） also consist of high cost component parts （motor and electronic controller）. This paper proposed the MDPS motor-driven electronic tilt ＆ tele column system which has single motor and an integrated electronic controller and introduced the detailed design study and evaluation results.

A feasible route to produce 1.1 GPa ferritic-based low-Mn lightweight steels with ductility of 47%

High- and medium-Mn (H/M-Mn) base lightweight steels are a class of ultrastrong structural materials with high ductility compared to their low-Mn counterparts with low strength and poor ductility.However, producing these H/M-Mn materials requires the advanced or high-tech manufacturing techniques, which can unavoidably provoke labor and cost concerns. Herein, we have developed a facilestrategy that circumvents the strength–ductility trade-off in low-Mn ferritic lightweight steels, by employing low-temperature tempering-induced partitioning (LTP). This LTP treatment affords a typical Fe-2.8Mn-5.7Al-0.3C (wt.%) steel with a heterogeneous size-distribution of metastable austenite embeddedin a ferrite matrix for partitioning more carbon into smaller austenite grains than into the larger austenite ones. This size-dependent partitioning results in slip plane spacing modification and lattice strain,which act through dislocation engineering. We ascribe the simultaneous improvement in strength andtotal elongation to both the size-dependent dislocation movement in austenite grains and the controlleddeformation-induced martensitic transformation. The low-carbon-partitioned large austenite grains increase the strength and ductility as a consequence of the combined martensitic transformation andhigh dislocation density-induced hardening and by interface strengthening. Additionally, high-carbonpartitioned small austenite grains enhance the strength and ductility by planar dislocation glide (inthe low strain regime) and by cross-slipping and delayed martensitic transformation (in the high strainregime). The concept of size-dependent dislocation engineering may provide different pathways for developing a wide range of heterogeneous-structured low-Mn lightweight steels, suggesting that LTP maybe desirable for broad industrial applications at an economic cost.

Flux Optimization During Tapping in BOF Process

An integrated Plate Mill has started it’s operation on July 7, 2010 in Gwangyang Steelworks, POSCO. The production capability is about 2.5 million tons per year and the main stream consists of Blast Furnace, Hot metal pretreatment (KR), Converter, Bubbling Station, RH/VTD and Continuous Casting. Particularly, it is possible to control sulfur concentration at excellent level in BOF without any further treatment in LF or VTD, which is attained by unique KR process and scrap usage strategy in BOF. In this paper, desulfurization efficiency and steel cleanliness was introduced by optimizing flux amount during tapping in BOF process. In addition, the effect of the flux addition on the refractory of ladle was investigated based on EPMA analyses with the viewpoint of phase diagram. The cleanliness of each sample was examined using optical emission spectrometry and oxygen nitrogen determinator.

Morphomics via next-generation electron microscopy

The living body is composed of innumerable fine and complex structures.Although these structures have been studied in the past,a vast amount of information pertaining to them still remains unknown.When attempting to observe these ultra-structures,the use of electron microscopy(EM)has become indispensable.However,conventional EM settings are limited to a narrow tissue area,which can bias observations.Recently,new trends in EM research have emerged,enabling coverage of far broader,nano-scale fields of view for two-dimensional wide areas and three-dimensional large volumes.Moreover,cutting-edge bioimage informatics conducted via deep learning has accelerated the quantification of complex morphological bioimages.Taken together,these technological and analytical advances have led to the comprehensive acquisition and quantification of cellular morphology,which now arises as a new omics science termed‘morphomics’.

Nature:科学家鉴别出调节机体睡眠的两个关键基因

近日，刊登在国际杂志Nature上的一项研究报告中，来自西南医学中心等机构的研究人员通过研究鉴别出了两个关键的核心基因，这两个基因能够帮助调节机体深度睡眠和做梦的水平，相关研究或为阐明相关的基因控制睡眠的网络提供新的线索。此前研究者通过对小鼠进行研究发现了能够控制机体快速眼动睡眠的基因，同时该基因还能够诱导深度睡眠。而第二个基因能够控制机体对快速眼动睡眠的需求量，相关研究为科学家们提供了一个关键的切入点来帮助解释睡眠工作的机制，同时研究者还鉴别出了治疗睡眠障碍的潜在靶点。