The DIPPR® databases

The Design Institute for Physical Property Data® (DIPPR), one of the Sponsored Research groups of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), has been in existence for 15 years and has supported a total of 14 projects, some completed, some ongoing. Four of these projects are database projects for which the primary product is a database of carefully evaluated property data. These projects are Data Compilation; Evaluated Data on Mixtures; Environmental, Safety, and Health Data Compilation; and Difusivities and Thermal Properties of Polymer Solutions. This paper lists the existing DIPPR projects; discusses DIPPR's structure and modes of dissemination of results; describes DIPPR's supporters and its unique characteristics; and finally, discusses the origin, nature, and content of the four database projects.Paper presented at the Twelfth Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, June 19–24, 1994, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.     

Influence of deposition and annealing parameters on some properties of YBCO films prepared by spray pyrolysis

Superconducting YBCO films were prepared by chemical deposition of aerosol generated from nitrate solutions by pneumatic and ultrasonic atomizers. Single crystalline YSZ and MgO substrates were used. Two different substrate temperatures were applied, with the chemical composition of starting solutions being adjusted accordingly. Deposited precursor films were thermally processed under two basically different conditions, i.e., either in atmospheric O₂ atT900°C, or in atT600°C. The influence of these different deposition and annealing parameters onT _c andJ _c values, microstructure, and surface morphology is reported. By optimizing our technological procedure, a real possibility exists to prepare (by means of aerosol deposition) YBCO films withJ _c values of at least 10⁴–10⁵ A/cm², at processing temperatures (both deposition and annealing as well) not exceeding 600–700°C.     

Reasoning about action and change

Reasoning about change is a central issue in research on human and robot planning. We study an approach to reasoning about action and change in a dynamic logic setting and provide a solution to problems which are related to the Frame problem. Unlike most work on the frame problem the logic described in this paper is monotonic. It (implicitly) allows for the occurrence of actions of multiple agents by introducing non-stationary notions of waiting and test. The need to state a large number of frame axioms is alleviated by introducing a concept of chronological preservation to dynamic logic. As a side effect, this concept permits the encoding of temporal properties in a natural way. We compare the relative merits of our approach and non-monotonic approaches as regards different aspects of the frame problem. Technically, we show that the resulting extended systems of propositional dynamic logic preserve (weak) completeness, finite model property and decidability.     

基于多统计模型和人耳听觉特性的麦克风阵列后滤波语音增强算法

针对麦克风阵列后滤波语音增强算法的不足, 结合人耳的听觉掩蔽效应, 提出了改进的后滤波语音增强算法. 提出了最大化目标语音存在概率来确定信号子空间维度的方法, 在噪声子空间上, 利用条件概率估计出噪声功率谱. 基于人耳的听觉掩蔽效应, 提出了后滤波器的一种合理的设计方法. 实验证明, 所提的噪声估计方法比传统方法更加准确, 所提的后滤波算法比传统的后滤波算法更好, 在多项语音评价指标上, 都取得了更好的实验效果.     

中原地区民间美术造型的审美研究

本文从多个方面研究中原民间美术造型审美,总结出中原民间美术造型观的审美特性:即来源于自然生活,却超越客观具体事物,体现中国哲学的"观象悟道"的真实性和为满足民间大众审美"寓吉于喜,寓说教于趣"的要求的自娱性,并在此的基础上探究其美学价值。     

室内艺术设计的工作思维模型

室内艺术设计现象背后的本质是设计思维,通过对人的思维模式进行梳理、归纳和总结得出:人面对单一事物时应用模仿、继承或反叛思维,面对复合事物时应用加法和减法思维这一基本思维模式。并且针对室内空间艺术的三级属性的设计实现,探索和建立了室内艺术设计一般的工作思维模型。     

First-principles calculations of binary Al compounds: Enthalpies of formation and elastic properties

Systematic first-principles calculations of energy vs. volume (E-V) and single crystal elastic stiffness constants (c_ij’s) have been performed for 50 Al binary compounds in the Al-X (X = Co, Cu, Hf, Mg, Mn, Ni, Sr, V, Ti, Y, and Zr) systems. The E-V equations of state are fitted by a four-parameter Birch-Murnaghan equation, and the c_ij’s are determined by an efficient strain-stress method. The calculated lattice parameters, enthalpies of formation, and c_ij’s of these binary compounds are compared with the available experimental data in the literature. In addition, elastic properties of polycrystalline aggregates including bulk modulus (B), shear modulus (G), Young’s modulus (E), B/G (bulk/shear) ratio, and anisotropy ratio are calculated and compared with the experimental and theoretical results available in the literature. The systematic predictions of elastic properties and enthalpies of formation for Al-X compounds provide an insight into the understanding and design of Al-based alloys.     

Thermodynamic description of the Al-Li-Zn system

The Al-Li-Zn system was critically assessed using the CALPHAD technique. The solution phases (liquid, bcc, fcc and hcp) were described by the substitutional solution model. The compounds Al₂Li₃ and Al₄Li₉ in the Al-Li system had homogeneity ranges of Zn and were treated as (Al,Zn)₂Li₃ and (Al,Zn)₄Li₉ in the Al-Li-Zn system, respectively. The compounds αLi₂Zn₃, βLi₂Zn₃, αLi₂Zn₅, βLi₂Zn₅ and αLiZn₄ in the Li-Zn system had no solubility of the third component Al in the Al-Li-Zn system. A two-sublattice model (Al,Li,Zn)_0.2(Al,Li,Zn)_0.8 was applied to describe the compound βLiZn₄ in the Al-Li-Zn system in order to cope with the order-disorder transition between hexagonal close-packed solution (hcp-A3) and βLiZn₄ with the Mg-type structure. The ternary compound τ₂ with a NaTl-type structure (B32) had the same structure with the compounds AlLi in the binary Al-Li system and LiZn in the binary Li-Zn system. In the present work, the three compounds AlLi, LiZn and τ₂ were treated as one phase by a two-sublattice model (Al,Li,Zn)_0.5(Al,Li,Zn)_0.5 in order to cope with the order-disorder transition between B32(AlLi, LiZn and τ₂) and body-centered cubic solid solution (bcc-A2). The ternary intermetallic compounds τ₁ and τ₃ in the Al-Li-Zn system were treated as the formula Li(Al,Zn)₂ and (AlLi,Zn)Zn₃, respectively. A set of self-consistent thermodynamic parameters describing the Gibbs energy of each individual phase as a function of composition and temperature in the Al-Li-Zn system was obtained.     

Calculation of phase equilibria for an alloy nanoparticle in contact with a solid nanowire

Phase equilibria in a system constituted of an alloy nanoparticle in contact with a solid nanowire have been modelled based on the minimization of a Gibbs free energy function. The Gibbs free energy consists of a bulk, surface and interface contribution. The bulk contribution is taken from CALPHAD thermodynamic databases and the surface properties from the literature. The effect of particle size and surface and interfacial properties on the liquidus line of the Au-Ge and In-Si systems has been studied. The results are compared to the bulk phase diagram and phase equilibria calculated for nano-systems with different geometries.