Household Activity Pattern Problem with Autonomous Vehicles

Networks and Spatial Economics - The pace of changes in automating cars has sped up in the last few decades. Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) will dramatically change the future of transportation, and...     

辅助电流对Cu/Al大功率超声波焊接的影响

为获得更高质量的Cu/Al异质金属接头，开展了Cu/Al电流辅助大功率超声波焊接工艺试验，研究了辅助电流对Cu/Al超声波焊接的界面温度、材料塑性流动、界面中间相分布及接头力学性能的影响。结果表明，复合焊件成型良好，其接头抗拉剪力为3030 N，接头的断裂模式为韧性-脆性复合断裂。在同样的焊接时间0.2 s内，随着电流的增大，Cu/Al界面温度增加，金属塑性流动以及界面扩散也随之增强，这说明辅助电流能明显促进界面冶金；相比长时间0.4 s的超声波焊接，辅助电流能在保证界面温度、材料塑性变形的前提下，能明显减薄了界面IMC层的厚度，这是电流增强Cu/Al接头的主要物理机制。研究结果为优化Cu/Al复合焊接头强度提供了参考。     

基于未确知测度理论的巷道围岩稳定性研究

金属矿山地下围岩的稳定程度是矿山开采设计、安全生产的重要影响因素，而围岩稳定性受到多种因素影响和制约，且该类因素多具有不确定性、非线性和隐蔽性，无法进行定量表征，因此，给围岩稳定性评价带来了挑战。为对江西省某地下钽铌矿山围岩稳定性进行客观、准确评价，结合未确知测度理论的优点，构建了该矿山417 m中段围岩稳定性评价的综合模型。采用差异系数法对G_1法和熵值法计算出的主观、客观权值进行优化组合，确定评价对象的多指标综合未确知测度；结合矿山实际情况，考虑各影响因素，筛选出以岩石质量指标RQD、岩石单轴抗压强度、岩体完整性系数、地应力、隙壁状态和地下水状况6项因素作为评价指标；最后基于最小未确知测度距离判别准则，对该矿417 m中段围岩稳定性进行了评价，得出该中段围岩的稳定性等级为III级（基本稳定）的结论。研究结果可为该矿山后续开采设计和施工提供一定的指导。     

Selection of optimal target reliability in RBDO through reliability-based design for market systems (RBDMS) and application to electric vehicle design

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization - Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) allows decision-makers to achieve target reliability in product performance under engineering...     

High-frequency dual mode pulsed wave Doppler imaging for monitoring the functional regeneration of adult zebrafish hearts

Adult zebrafish is a well-known small animal model for studying heart regeneration. Although the regeneration of scars made by resecting the ventricular apex has been visualized with histological methods, there is no adequate imaging tool for tracking the functional recovery of the damaged heart. For this reason, high-frequency Doppler echocardiography using dual mode pulsed wave Doppler, which provides both tissue Doppler (TD) and Doppler flow in a same cardiac cycle, is developed with a 30 MHz high-frequency array ultrasound imaging system. Phantom studies show that the Doppler flow mode of the dual mode is capable of measuring the flow velocity from 0.1 to 15 cm s⁻¹ with high accuracy (p-value = 0.974 > 0.05). In the in vivo study of zebrafish, both TD and Doppler flow signals were simultaneously obtained from the zebrafish heart for the first time, and the synchronized valve motions with the blood flow signals were identified. In the longitudinal study on the zebrafish heart regeneration, the parameters for diagnosing the diastolic dysfunction, for example, E/Em < 10, E/A < 0.14 for wild-type zebrafish, were measured, and the type of diastolic dysfunction caused by the amputation was found to be similar to the restrictive filling. The diastolic function was fully recovered within four weeks post-amputation.     

A collaborative contour detector by gradient and active contours for ultrasound kidney images

In the process of urinary system disease diagnosis, a complete kidney contour is crucial to estimate its size, area, volume and other properties. These properties can effectively help doctors diagnosis and prepare treatment plans. However, ultrasound images suffer from low signal-to-noise ratio, speckle, missing boundaries and other artefacts. Traditional contour detection algorithms can hardly extract a continuous and accurate kidney contour. To solve the problem, we propose a collaborative contour detector by gradient and active contour. It not only can make sure that the extracted contour is continuous and accurate but also is simple and suitable to use in practice. Both the simulated experiments and clinical experiments show that the proposed algorithm achieves a good performance in ultrasound kidney images and can effectively assist doctors in diagnosis.     

Resource and Power Allocation for OFDM-Based Device-to-Device Communications in a Multicell Environment

Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics - We investigate the optimal resource and power allocation for device-to-device (D2D) communications in a multicell environment. When D2D links...