Inelastic constitutive equation of plasma-sprayed ceramic thermal barrier coatings

Ceramic thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are a very important technology for protecting the hot parts of gas turbines (GTs) from a high-temperature environment. The coating stress generated in the operation of GTs brings cracking and peeling damage to the TBCs. Thus, it is necessary to evaluate precisely such coating stress in a TBC system. We have obtained a stress-strain curve for a freestanding ceramic coat specimen peeled from a TBC coated substrate by conducting the bending test. The test results have revealed that the ceramic coating deforms nonlinearly with the applied loading. In this study, an inelastic constitutive equation for the ceramic thermal barrier coatings deposited by APS is developed. The obtained results are as follows: (1) the micromechanics-based constitutive equation was formulated with micro crack density formed at splat boundary, and (2) it was shown that the numerical results for a nonlinearly deformed beam simulated by the developed constitutive equation agreed with the experimental results obtained by cantilever bending tests.     

Co(-Fe)-B-Si-Nb块体非晶合金

利用团簇线方法和微合金化原理研究了Co基Co(-Fe)-B-Si-Nb多组元合金体系中块体非晶合金的形成。首先,确定Co-B-Si三元体系为基础体系,利用团簇线(体现在三元体系中为二元特殊团簇与第三组元的连线)在Co-B-Si体系中确定基础合金成分;然后添加少量的Nb对基础三元成分进行合金化以提高合金的玻璃形成能力。利用铜模吸铸法制备直径为3mm的合金棒,结果表明能够形成块体非晶的合金成分为(Co8B3-Si)100-xNbx(x=4～5at%),其中,Co8B3为密堆附半八面体的阿基米德反棱柱团簇结构。并且这些非晶成分可近似地用(团簇)1(胶粘原子)1模型表达,为(Co8B3)1M1(M=(Si,Nb)),即非晶成分由一个团簇连接一个胶粘原子组成,其中胶粘原子M为Si和Nb原子的组合。最后用Fe替代部分Co可进一步提高合金的玻璃形成能力,得到的Co-Fe-B-Si-Nb五元块体非晶合金具有很好的软磁性能,其饱和磁化强度(Ms)最大可达0.98T,矫顽力(Hc)低于6A/m。     

均匀同轴电缆的瞬态响应的研究

一、前言均匀同轴电缆因其优良性能在现代测量技术中获得了广泛的应用。早期是研究正弦电信号的传输,寻求电缆传输特性的稳态解。近来,需测诸如亚微秒宽度、纳秒变化沿的单次脉冲,则要研究其瞬态解,目前已有若干研究结果。巴纳研究理想同轴电缆端接失配电阻的传输特性,得阶跃响应的解析解。Zaengle则研究端接混合元件的情况,给出了阶跃响应的计算机解,而非解析解。Wigington研究了低损电缆匹配端接时的传输特性的解析解。     

Trends disrupted—patent information in an era of change

Patent analysts predict trends in research and the business environment by studying the numbers and classifications of patents issued to companies around the world. Those attempts are often affected by the changes taking place in international treaties, governments, patent laws, patent classification systems, and corporate mergers and acquisitions. This paper describes some of the changes in the patent information environment that have disrupted the trends predicted by patent analyses in the past.     

Looking for narrow interfaces in automatic differentiation using graph drawing

Automatic differentiation is a powerful technique for evaluating derivatives of functions given in the form of a high-level programming language such as Fortran, C, or C++. This technique is superior, in terms of accuracy, to numerical differentiation because it avoids the truncation error involved in divided difference approximations. In automatic differentiation, the program is treated as a potentially very long composition of elementary functions to which the chain rule of differential calculus is applied over and over again. Because of the associativity of the chain rule, there is room for different strategies computing the same numerical results but whose computational cost may vary significantly. Several strategies exploiting high-level structure of the underlying computer code are known to reduce computational cost as opposed to blindly applying automatic differentiation. An example includes “interface contraction” where one takes advantage of the fact that the number of variables passed between subroutines is small compared with the number of propagated directional derivatives. Unfortunately, these so-called narrow interfaces are not immediately available. The present study investigates the use of the VCG graph drawing tool to recognize narrow interfaces in the computational graph, a certain directed acyclic graph used to represent data dependences of variables in the underlying computer code.