锂离子电池性能退化的应力模型研究

为评估高温、充电电流与放电电流等应力条件对锂离子电池性能退化的影响,本文通过加速试验获取数据,分析了各应力造成电池性能退化的趋势与机理,研究并构建了导致电池性能退化的单应力模型,验证表明模型具有结构简单、精度高、通用性强等优点。这既为分析应力对性能与寿命的影响提供定量依据,也为未来开展多应力耦合的退化模型研究提供了数据支撑。     

基于温度应力试验的电子产品可靠性仿真分析

本文针对某伺服机构控制器电路板采用故障物理方法进行失效分析,然后在不同温度应力下开展该电子产品温升试验和热仿真,之后基于Coffin-Manson模型进行产品焊点疲劳寿命仿真并求解各元器件寿命分布,最后构建竞争失效模型进行电路板寿命预计。通过温度应力试验得到了关键元器件温升值在（23～31）℃范围内,基于CRAFE热仿真得到了产品各元器件温度,应用Coffin-Manson模型得到了元器件寿命分布,运用竞争失效方法计算了产品失效概率函数,评估了产品工作10年的可靠度为0.94,在可靠度指标为0.9时其工作寿命为12.11年。本文基于温度应力试验和热仿真,通过进行故障物理分析和元器件竞争失效分析有效评估了电子产品工作寿命,对其他类似电子产品可靠性分析提供了一定参考。     

基于广义马尔可夫过程的多部件并联可修复系统稳态可用度分析

基于广义马尔可夫过程的可修复系统可用度解析表达式求解较难。因此,值得探索,本文所研究的并联可修复系统由n个同型部件构成,且部件平均故障间隔时间分布服从指数分布,故障后修复时间分布服从一般连续型分布。运用补充变量法,建立基于广义马尔可夫过程的可修复系统可用度计算模型,得到系统的偏微分-积分方程组,经过拉普拉斯变换,得到系统可用度稳态解析表达式。     

光伏空调谐波抑制研究

本文结合光伏直驱电力系统,构建了系统简单的仿真模型,通过对这一光伏/市电混合供电系统及其控制策略进行并网谐波测试分析。通过对仿真结果分析,验证了运用MATLAB/SIMULINK软件建立光伏/市电混合系统模型对并网谐波仿真的可参考性,并且对光伏/市电混合供电系统不同工作模式下并网谐波分析,得到不同工作模式下并网谐波的趋势以及差异,为相关应用提供一些参考。     

新型太阳能单相光伏逆变器应用性能研究

为提升太阳能光伏并网发电向电网输送电流的质量,对新型太阳能单相光伏逆变器的应用性能展开研究。通过分析太阳能光伏发电的构成情况,创建包含太阳能光伏电池、逆变器、Boost DC/DC电路及操控电路的单相光伏并网系统,对系统核心部分的并网逆变器进行设计,选用LLCL型滤波器降低逆变器输出电流内的谐波分量并衰弱开关频率位置的高次谐波,通过加入电网电压前馈控制的方式消除电网电压对并网电流的干扰,并结合网侧电流外环PI控制对电流内环进行控制,提升整体系统稳定性。仿真实验结果表明,采用所研究逆变器的新型太阳能单相光伏并网系统具有较好的动态性能,滤波性能优越,输出并网电流稳定,说明该逆变器应用性能好。     

基于Wiener过程的霍尔电流传感器可靠性预测

霍尔电流传感器的退化机理复杂，退化具有波动性，非线性等特征，对高可靠、长寿命的霍尔电流传感器准确进行寿命预测是一个难点。本研究通过对霍尔电流传感器进行加速退化试验，利用性能退化数据，预测了传感器的可靠性及寿命。首先分析了霍尔电流传感器工作原理和退化机理，确定将输出电流漂移作为其性能退化参数。然后由试验数据推导得到Wiener过程漂移参数和扩散参数的约束关系，结合阿伦尼乌斯模型推导得到漂移参数和扩散参数的加速模型。从而得到霍尔电流传感器在正常工作温度条件下的可靠度函数和可靠寿命。将结果与基于加速退化轨迹法的可靠性预测结果进行对比，验证了本方法的可行性。     

旁路二极管对热斑效应的抑制效果仿真研究

在光伏电池产业迅速发展的背景下,光伏电池板在阴影遮蔽时产生的热板效应也逐渐受到关注。本文首先分析了热板效应产生的原理,基于PSCAD仿真平台建立了光伏发电系统的等效模型,并根据工程实际选取合适的参数。继而对无阴影遮挡电池板和有阴影遮挡时的光伏电池板进行仿真研究,对比后分析得出加装旁路二极管对热斑效应的抑制效果。     

模拟件虚拟振动试验技术探讨

本文在有限元分析的基础上进行模拟件模态分析,并开展模态试验对有限元模型进行修正,在此基础上得到传递函数,并进行振动控制仿真,将振动仿真结果与实际振动结果进行比对。     

宽带随机振动试验条件的加速因子

研究基于疲劳损伤等效的宽带随机振动试验条件的加速因子。首先回顾了基于窄带模型的随机振动试验条件的加速因子表达式,然后应用随机振动疲劳损伤的频域估计方法——基于窄带模型的修正方法（WL方法、α0.75方法和TB方法等）,得到了宽带随机振动试验条件加速因子计算的通用表达式。数值模拟分析表明,基于窄带模型的加速因子表达式对于比例载荷的宽带随机振动也是适用的,而对于非比例载荷,则需要应用文中提出的通用表达式才可以获得宽带随机振动的加速因子。     

锂离子电池循环寿命测试探讨

分析了现有标准中的锂离子电池循环寿命测试方法,并针对现有方法测试周期过长的问题探讨了拟合曲线法、大电流加速法以及大电流拟合曲线法等可以缩短测试周期的全新测试方法。     

AN APPLICATION RUNOFF MODEL STRATEGY FOR UNGAGED WATERSHEDS1

ABSTRACT: Mathematical models for predicting watershed surface flow responses are available, most of which are elaborate nonlinear numerical surface and channel flow models linked with infiltration models. Such models may be used to make predictions for ungaged areas, assuming an acceptable fitting of the model to the topography and roughness of the real system. For some application purposes, these models are impractical because of their complexity and expensive computer solutions. A procedure is developed that uses a complex model of an ungaged area to derive a simpler parametric nonlinear system model for repetitious simulation with input sequences. The predicted flow outputs are obtained with the simpler model at significant savings of money and time. The procedures for constructing a complex kinematic model of a 40 acre (161,880 m²) reference watershed and deriving the simpler system model are outlined. The results of predictions from both models are compared with a selected set of measured events, all having essentially the same initial conditions. Peak discharges ranged from 3 to 118 ft³/sec (0.085 to 3.34 m³/sec), which includes the largest event of record. The inherent limitations of lumped systems models are demonstrated, including the bias caused by their inability to model infiltration losses after rainfall ceases. Computer costs and times for the models were compared. The derived simple model has a cost advantage when repeated use of a model is required. Such an applications hydrologic model has an engineering tradeoff of reduced accuracy, and lumping bias, but is more economical for certain design purposes.     

Conversion of temperate forests into heaths: Role of ecosystem disturbance and ericaceous plants

Fire and logging in nutrient-poor temperate forests with certain ericaceous understory plants may convert the forests into heaths. The process of disturbance-induced heath formation is documented by using examples ofCalluna in western Europe,Kalmia in Newfoundland, andGaultheria (salal) in coastal British Columbia. In a cool, temperate climate, rapid vegetative growth ofCalluna, Kalmia, and salal following disturbance results in increasing organic accumulation (paludification), nutrient sequestration, soil acidification, and allelochemicals. These are thought to be the main reasons to conifer regeneration failure in disturbed habitats. If continuation in forest is a land-use objective, then temperate forests with an ericaceous understory should not be logged unless effective silvicultural methods are devised to control the ericaceous plants and restore forest regeneration. Preharvest vegetation control may be considered as an option. Failure to control the understory plants may lead to a long-term vegetation shift, from forest to heathland, particularly in nutrient-poor sites. Successful methods of controllingKalmia andGaultheria, however, have yet to be developed. While theKalmia- andGaultheria- dominated heathlands are undesirable in Canada and the Pacific Northwest, a wide range ofCalluna heathlands of western Europe are being conserved as natural and seminatural vegetation.     

Using Paleo Reconstructions to Improve Streamflow Forecast Lead Time in the Western United States

In water stressed regions, water managers are exploring new horizons that would help in long‐range streamflow forecasts. Oceanic‐atmospheric oscillations have been shown to influence streamflow variability. In this study, long‐lead time streamflow forecasts are made using a multiclass kernel‐based data‐driven support vector machine (SVM) model. The extended streamflow records based on tree ring reconstructions were used to provide a longer time series data. Reconstructed data were used from 1658 to 1952 and the instrumental record was used from 1953 to 2007. Reconstructions for oceanic‐atmospheric oscillations included the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, and North Atlantic Oscillation. Streamflow forecasts using all four oscillations were made with one‐year to five‐year lead times for 21 gages in the western United States. This is the first study that uses both instrumental and reconstructed data of oscillations in SVM model to improve streamflow forecast lead time. SVM model was able to provide “satisfactory” to “very good” forecasts with one‐ to five‐year lead time for the selected gages. The use of all the oscillation indices helped in achieving better predictability compared to using individual oscillations. The SVM modeling results are better when compared with multiple linear regression model forecasts. The findings are statistical in nature and are expected to be useful for long‐term water resources planning and management.     

Urban ecological systems: scientific foundations and a decade of progress

Urban ecological studies, including focus on cities, suburbs, and exurbs, while having deep roots in the early to mid 20th century, have burgeoned in the last several decades. We use the state factor approach to highlight the role of important aspects of climate, substrate, organisms, relief, and time in differentiating urban from non-urban areas, and for determining heterogeneity within spatially extensive metropolitan areas. In addition to reviewing key findings relevant to each state factor, we note the emergence of tentative "urban syndromes" concerning soils, streams, wildlife and plants, and homogenization of certain ecosystem functions, such as soil organic carbon dynamics. We note the utility of the ecosystem approach, the human ecosystem framework, and watersheds as integrative tools to tie information about multiple state factors together. The organismal component of urban complexes includes the social organization of the human population, and we review key modes by which human populations within urban areas are differentiated, and how such differentiation affects environmentally relevant actions. Emerging syntheses in land change science and ecological urban design are also summarized. The multifaceted frameworks and the growing urban knowledge base do however identify some pressing research needs.     

Neighbourhood characteristics and urban gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area: staffing and voluntarism,food production,infrastructure, and sustainability practices

Urban gardens are important sources of sustenance for communities with limited access to food. Hence, this study focuses on food production in gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area in Northwest Ohio. We administered surveys to 150 garden managers from November 2014 to February 2015 in our attempt to better understand how neighbourhood racial composition and poverty levels are related to staffing and voluntarism, food production and distribution, the development of infrastructure, and the adoption of sustainability practices in urban gardens. The results from 30 gardens are presented in this paper. We used Geographic Information Systems to map the gardens and overlay the map with 2010 census data so that we could conduct demographic analyses of the neighbourhoods in which the gardens were located. Though the gardens were small – two acres or less – up to 46 varieties of food were grown in a single garden. Gardens also operated on small budgets. Food from the gardens was gifted or shared with friends, family, and neighbourhood residents. Gardens in predominantly minority neighbourhoods tended to have fewer institutional partners, less garden infrastructure, and had adopted fewer sustainable practices than gardens in predominantly White neighbourhoods. Nonetheless, residents of predominantly minority and high-poverty neighbourhoods participated in garden activities and influenced garden operations. Volunteering and staffing were racialised and gendered.     

Predicting deer-vehicle collisions in an urban area

Collisions with deer and other large animals are increasing, and the resulting economic costs and risks to public safety have made mitigation measures a priority for both city and wildlife managers. We created landscape models to describe and predict deer-vehicle collision (DVCs) within the City of Edmonton, Alberta. Models based on roadside characteristics revealed that DVCs occurred frequently where roadside vegetation was both denser and more diverse, and that DVCs were more likely to occur when the groomed width of roadside right-of-ways was smaller. No DVCs occurred where the width of the vegetation-free or manicured roadside buffer was greater than 40 m. Landscape-based models showed that DVCs were more likely in more heterogeneous landscapes where road densities were lower and speed limits were higher, and where non-forested vegetation such as farmland was in closer proximity to larger tracts of forest. These models can help wildlife and transportation managers to identify locations of high collision frequency for mitigation. Modifying certain landscape and roadside habitats can be an effective way to reduce deer-vehicle collisions.     

BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ESTUARINE/COASTAL POLLUTION1

ABSTRACT: Sustained interest in and concern about the health status of the aquatic environment has resulted in extensive research focused on (1) effects of pollution on survival, growth, and reproduction of resource species at all life stages; (2) diseases of fish and shellfish, as they may be related to pollution and as they may serve as indicators of environmental stress; and (3) contaminant body burdens in fish and shellfish - their effects on the aquatic animals and their potential effects on humans. Effects, lethal and sublethal, of pollutants on life history stages of fish and shellfish have been documented, as have impacts on local stocks in badly degraded habitats, but as yet there has been no adequate quantitative demonstration of effects on entire aquatic species - probably because of the difficulty in sorting out relative effects of the many environmental factors that influence abundance. Sublethal effects, especially those that result in disease, have been examined intensively, and some diseases and disease syndromes have been associated statistically with pollution. Other pollution indicators (biochemical, physiological, genetic, behavioral, and ecological) have also received some attention, as have body burdens of contaminants in aquatic species. Research, especially that conducted during the past decade, has done much to clarify the many pathways and toxic effects of contaminants on aquatic animals, and has also helped to identify mechanisms for survival of fish and shellfish in the presence of environmental changes caused by human activities.     

Biodiversity and biotechnology

The maintenance of biodiversity is urged from many quarters and on grounds ranging from aesthetic considerations to its usefulness, particularly for biotechnology. But regardless of the grounds for preserving biodiversity, writers are generally in agreement that it should be preserved. But, in examining the various references biodiversity, such as species diversity, genetic diversity, and habitat diversity, it is apparent that we cannot aim to preserve biodiversityas such, since there are a number of conflicts in any such undertaking. In preserving one aspect of biodiversity, we damage another aspect. Five arguments which attempt to ground our moral concern for biodiversity are reviewed and critiqued, not only for their consistency but also for their power to move us to action. The final section of the paper shows how conflicts in the values of personal and environmental health can impair ethical action and especially policy formation.An earlier version of this paper was read at the conference on Agriculture, Food, and Human Values: Tradition and Change, Orlando, Florida, October 7–9, 1987.     

Journalists' views of advertiser pressures on agricultural news

All major journalism ethical codes explicitly state that journalists should protect editorial copy from undue influence by outside sources. However, much of the previous research on agricultural information has concentrated on what information various media communicate (gatekeeping studies) or communication's role in increasing innovation adoption (diffusion studies). Few studies have concentrated specifically on organizational and structural constraints that might adversely affect agricultural journalists' ethical standards; those that have, focus largely on farm magazines. A study of newspaper reporters who cover agricultural news found that the most pressing ethical concern is the effect of advertiser (agri-business) pressure on editorial copy, and that their concerns in general parallel those of farm magazine writers and editors. The majority reported being in situations in which they might be exposed to advertiser pressure, including pressures to change or withhold editorial copy. Large minorities suggested that advertising pressures affect the overall environment in which agricultural journalists work, and more than one in ten said they allow advertiser pressures to influence editorial decisions. The newspaper reporters who cover agricultural beats showed slightly more resistance to advertiser pressure than did farm magazine editors in a parallel study.     

Definition Procedures Have Little Effect on Performance of Environmental Classifications of Streams and Rivers

Mapped environmental classifications are defined using various procedures, but there has been little evaluation of the differences in their ability to discriminate variation in independent ecological characteristics. We tested the performance of environmental classifications of the streams and rivers of France that had been defined from the same environmental data using geographic regionalization and numerical classification of individual river valley segments. Test data comprised invertebrate assemblages, water chemistry, and hydrological indexes obtained from sites throughout France. Classification performance was measured by analysis of similarity (ANOSIM). Geometric regions defined by a regular grid and without regard to environmental variables and a posteriori classifications based on clustering the test datasets defined lower and upper bounds of performance for a given number of classes. Differences in classification performances were generally small. The ANOSIM statistics for the a posteriori classifications were around twice that of all environmental classifications, including geometrically defined regions. The hydro-ecoregions performed slightly better for the invertebrate data and the network classification performed slightly better for the chemistry and hydrological data. Our results indicate that environmental classifications that are defined using different procedures can be comparable in terms of their ability to discriminate variation of ecological characteristics and that alleged differences in performance arising from different classification procedures can be small relative to unexplained variation. We conclude that definition procedures might have little effect on the performance of large-scale environmental classifications and decisions over which procedures to use should be based primarily on pragmatic considerations.