汽车EPS系统的行车工况补偿控制策略

针对汽车在常见转向工况时转向的操纵性和安全性不足问题,提出将常见工况补偿控制策略融合到汽车EPS助力控制中,将汽车速度、汽车质量、方向盘左右晃动考虑在内,设计了高速避让、低速满载、颠簸路面3种补偿控制策略;并理论分析加入高速避让、低速满载、颠簸路面3种补偿策略后,方向盘、齿条位移和汽车横摆角速度增减值的变化;最后,通过搭建汽车EPS系统模型和二自由度汽车模型进行仿真验证。仿真结果表明,采用补偿控制策略后,汽车在高速、低速大重量及于凹凸不平的路面行驶时,助力电机目标电流的获取与汽车行驶的内外环境紧密相连,且可随行车条件的改变而适时改变,使汽车EPS系统具有了更好的操纵性和安全性。     

带肋薄壁方钢管混凝土柱温度场试验研究与分析

为研究带肋薄壁钢管混凝土柱在火灾下的温度分布,进行3根足尺带肋薄壁方钢管混凝土柱升温试验。建立方钢管混凝土柱温度场有限元模型,模型计算结果与实验结果符合较好。利用模型分析了典型的温度场分布规律,并研究了各参数对构件温度场的影响规律。结果表明:构件截面温度场在四面受火状态下呈双轴对称分布,且角部温度较高。加劲肋对构件温度场的影响仅限于焊接点附近,加劲肋间距和含钢率对构件整体温度场影响微小;截面边长、受火时间和受火方式是影响构件温度场的主要因素。     

火灾后圆钢管约束钢筋再生混凝土轴压短柱 力学性能分析

利用ABAQUS软件建立了火灾后圆钢管约束钢筋再生混凝土轴压短柱的非线性有限元模型,在确定混凝土和钢材的本构基础上,对其火灾后剩余承载力和轴压刚度进行了数值计算,并与已有相关试验数据进行比对分析。分析了升温时间、截面直径、材料强度、骨料取代率、含钢率和配筋率等参数对火灾后剩余承载力和轴压刚度的影响规律。结果表明:升温时间和截面直径是影响火灾后试件剩余承载力和轴压刚度的主要因素;提出了该类试件火灾后剩余承载力和轴压刚度的简化计算公式,可为工程实际应用提供参考。     

Environmental contaminants and productivity in an extinct heronry at Charleston Harbor,South Carolina,U.S.A., 1984

Our objectives were to collect information on contaminant levels and productivity of wading birds at the Drum Island heronry in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, before diversion of the Cooper River took place in 1985. The diversion was expected to reduce water flow by 80% into the Harbor, thereby concentrating industrial effluents near the heronry with potentially harmful effects. Hatching success of white ibises (Eudocimus albus) in 1984 averaged 66% and 1.0 chick per nest survived to three weeks post-hatch. Fresh eggs collected from a sample of nests contained only background levels of DDT, DDE, and Dieldrin; no PCBs, diphenyl ethers, or styrenes were detected. Pesticide residues in eggs were not correlated (P>0.05) with productivity in corresponding nests. Heavy metals and selenium in tissues of wading bird chicks were also representative of background levels. Follow-up studies after the diversion of the Cooper River were not feasible because the heronry was abandoned beginning in 1985. However, our baseline results will be useful in determining potential contaminant effects due to diversion of the Cooper River should wading birds return to Drum Island in the future.     

Prenatal sonographic detection of intra-abdominal extralobar pulmonary sequestration: Report of three cases and literature review

Three cases of intra-abdominal extralobar pulmonary sequestration detected antenatally by ultrasound are reported. One case was associated with a large left diaphragmatic hernia. Sonographically, all the cases were found in the left supra-renal region presenting as a well-defined echogenic mass with cystic hypoechoic areas. The condition should be considered in the differential diagnosis of all antenatally detected upper abdominal echogenic masses, particularly when associated with a diaphragmatic hernia. Postnatal ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy in one case yielded respiratory type epithelium and this procedure could provide a reasonably confident diagnosis of the lesion.     

Preconception and preimplantation diagnosis for cystic fibrosis

Preimplantation diagnosis provides couples at high genetic risk the possibility of avoiding genetic disease without the need for prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion of the affected pregnancy. Following extensive background work on the reliability of genetic diagnosis in a single cell, we offered on a research basis preimplantation diagnosis to five couples at risk for offspring with the delta-F508 mutation (the major mutation causing cystic fibrosis). There was no detrimental effect from polar body removal on either fertilization or preimplantation development. Genetic analysis, undertaken in 22 polar bodies and 15 corresponding blastomeres, identified 21 embryos of which ten were transferred.     

SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY AS INFLUENCED BY VEGETATION AND BEDROCK IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES1

ABSTRACT We hypothesized that sediment from small watersheds with uniform bedrock and a single vegetative community would have uniform chemical characteristics for the sand and fine (silt and clay) size fractions. Channel sediment was collected from three vegetative communities (spruce-fir, mixed conifer, and Ponderosa pine), each on four bedrock types (basalt, limestone, sandstone, and granite), and analyzed for digestable Ca, Mg, Na, K, Cu, Mn, Fe, Zn; total N and P; extractable Ca, Mg, K; cation exchange capacity; and organic matter. With the exception of organic matter content in the sand size fraction, either vegetation, bedrock, or their interaction were significant in explaining the observed variation for all analyses in both size fractions. Replicate studies of sites with similar bedrock and vegetation combinations are needed to determine if each watershed has similar or unique sediment chemistry.