Strong Dependency of Ion Acceleration on Ion Beam Divergency in Magnetized Collisionless Plasma Sheath

The ion acceleration inside the collisionless plasma sheath is investigated at the presence of external magnetic field. By using the fluid model, the number and momentum equations of the ions and the Boltzmann and Poisson equations are solved numerically in the case that the ion beam has a small divergency at the plasma sheath boundary. It is shown that the kinetic energy of the ions has a strong dependency to the magnitude of divergency when the magnetic field has a small component parallel to the sheath boundary.     

The effect of cold rolling regime on microstructure and mechanical properties of AISI 304L stainless steel

In this paper, the effect of different thickness reductions by cold rolling on the microstructure and mechanical properties of AISI 304L austenitic stainless steel were investigated. The hot rolled steel strips were subjected to cold rolling at 0 °C from 10 to 90% thickness reduction. Microstructures, strain-induced martensitic transformation and mechanical properties of the cold-rolled specimens were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Feritscope measurements, optical metallography, hardness and tensile tests. The resulting transformation curve showed a sigmoidal shape with the saturation value of strain-induced martensite of approximately 100%. A good agreement was found between the experimental results and the Olsen–Cohen model. The results indicated that formation of strain-induced martensite clearly resulted in a significant strengthening of the steel.     

Robust non-aggressive three-axis attitude control of spacecraft: dynamic sliding mode approach

Conventional sliding mode control (SMC) has been extensively applied in controlling spacecrafts because of its appealing characteristics such as robustness and a simple design procedure. Several methods such as second-order sliding modes and discontinuous controllers are applied for the SMC implementation. However, the main problems of these methods are convergence and error tracking in a finite amount of time. This paper combines an improved dynamic sliding mode controller and model predictive controller for spacecrafts to solve the chattering phenomenon in traditional sliding mode control. To this aim, this paper develops dynamic sliding mode control for spacecraft’s applications to omit the chattering issue. The proposed approach shows robust attitude tracking by a set of reaction wheels and stabilizes the spacecraft subject to disturbances and uncertainties. The proposed method improves the performance of the SMC for spacecraft by avoiding chattering. A set of simulation results are provided that show the advantages and improvements of this approach (in some sense) compared to SMC approaches.     

New procedure to calculate the Hansen solubility parameters of polymers

The simplest experimental method to determine the Hansen solubility parameters (HSPs) for a polymer is to evaluate whether or not it dissolves in selected solvents. Those solvents dissolving the polymer will have HSPs closer to those of the polymer than those that do not. A computer program or graphical method can then be used to find the HSP for the polymer. In this work, an improved method for calculating the HSP of polymers, based on the Nelder–Mead optimization algorithm, is presented. The results of this program fit the data very well. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 103: 31–36, 2007     

Alternative fuel and gasoline in an SI engine: A comparative study of performance and emissions characteristics

The strict regulation of environmental laws, the price of oil and its restricted resources, has made engine manufacturers use other energy resources instead of oil and its products. Despite the fact that nowadays alternative fuels are not currently widely used in vehicular applications, using these kinds of fuels will be definitely inevitable in the future. In this paper, a computer code is developed in Matlab environment and then its results are validated with experimental data. This simulated engine model could be used as an powerful tool to investigate the performance and emission of a given SI engine fueled by alternative fuels including hydrogen, propane, methane, ethanol and methanol. Also, the superior of alternative fuels is shown by comparing the performance and emissions of alternative fueled engines to those in conventional fueled engines. Eventually, it is concluded that volumetric efficiency of the engine working on hydrogen is the lowest (28% less that gasoline fueled engine), gasoline produce more power than the all being tested alternative fuels and BSFC of methanol is 91% higher than that of gasoline while BSFC of hydrogen is 63% less than gasoline.     

Prediction of the Brisance of Energetic Materials

The brisance parameter can be used to show the shattering power of an energetic compound and the speed to reach its peak pressure. It determines the effectiveness with which an explosive can fragment a shell. Nowadays, the sand test or sand crushing test is the preferred method for brisance measurements but there is no reliable method for the prediction of the brisance parameter. In this paper, a method for the prediction of the brisance through sand test for pure and mixed energetic materials as well as aluminized explosives is reported. It is based on the molecular structure of the desired compound and once the conclusion is established any experimental data is redundant. The calculated brisance relative to 2,4,6‐trinitrotoluene (=100) shows good agreement with the measured values.     

转速对6061-T6铝合金搅拌摩擦搭接焊接头力学性能的影响(英文)

采用场发射扫描电子显微镜(FE-SEM),研究转速对厚度为5 mm的6061-T6铝合金搅拌摩擦搭接焊接头的宏观和微观组织、硬度、搭接头剪切性能和失效模式的影响。结果表明:在最低的转速度下,上模板和下模板具有十分相似的硬度分布。采用EDX分析发现,焊核区的断裂面中含有Fe的化合物。