简介:TheJournalofBionicsEngineeringaimstopublishhighqualityoriginalpapersontheimportantsubjectsofbionicengineeringandrelatedtopics.Itisaninternationalforumofhighqualityformultidisciplinarycommunicationsontopicswhichwillinclude:thefundamentalunderstandingofanimalsandplantsforbionicandbiomimeticengineering;mechanical,manufacturing,materials,chemical,medicalandagriculturalengineering;informationandcontroltechnology;constructionandmechanics;locomotion;design;textiletechnology;architecture,buildingdesignsandplanningofthebuiltenvironment;andsystemsintegrationrelatingdirectlytobionicsandbiomimetics.
简介:-Thispaperdiscussestheapplicationoffractaldimensionandfractalsinoceanengineering.Tohandlesomeoceanenvironmentproblems,theexistingfractalmethod,inwhichthefractaldimensionisaconstant,canbeused.Forsomecomplicatedproblemsinoceanengineering,thispaperpresentstheconceptofthevariabledimensionfractals(D=f(r)),i.e.,thefractaldimensionDisthefunctionofcharacteristicscalerinsteadofaconstant.Byusingvariabledimensionfractals,severaldeformationandstressstatesofoffshorestructuresaredescribed.
简介:Inhighlypopulatedurbancenters,traditionalseismicsurveysourcescannolongerbeproperlyappliedduetorestrictionsinmoderncivilianlifestyles.Theambientvibrationnoise,includingbothmicroseismsandmicrotremor,thougharegenerallyweakbutavailableanywhereandanytime,canbeanidealsupplementarysourceforconductingseismicsurveysforengineeringseismologyandearthquakeengineering.Thisisfundamentallysupportedbyadvanceddigitalsignalprocessingtechniquesforeffectivelyextractingtheusefulinformationoutfromthenoise.Thus,itcanbeessentiallyregardedasapassiveseismicmethod.Inthispaperwefirstmakeabriefsurveyoftheambientvibrationnoise,followedbyaquicksummaryofdigitalsignalprocessingforpassiveseismicsurveys.ThentheapplicationsofambientnoiseinengineeringseismologyandearthquakeengineeringforurbansettingsareillustratedwithexamplesfromBeijingmetropolitanarea.Forengineeringseismologytheexampleistheassessmentofsiteeffectinalargeareaviamicrotremorobservations.Forearthquakeengineeringtheexampleisforstructuralcharacterizationofatypicalreinforcedconcretehigh-risebuildingusingbackgroundvibrationnoise.Byshowingtheseexampleswearguethattheambientnoisecanbetreatedasanewsourcethatiseconomical,practical,andparticularlyvaluabletoengineeringseismologyandearthquakeengineeringprojectsforseismichazardmitigationinurbanareas.
简介:Electricalconductionbehaviorofpristineandiodinedopedpolyetherimides(PEI)hasbeeninvestigatedunderbothtransientandsteadystateconditionsintheoperatingtemperaturerange50-200℃atvariouselectricfieldsof12-60kV/cm.Thetransientcurrentsshowthehyperbolicdecaycharacter,andthedecayexponentp(ameasureofcurrentdecayrate)decreaseswithtemperature(7)anddopingconcentration.Theoriginoftransientcurrentshasbeenattributedtothedipolarnatureofcarbonyl((?)C=O)groupsandtheetherlinkagespresentinthemainchainofPEI.Thelowfieldsteadystateconductionisohmicinnature.Themagnitudesofionicjumpdistance(a)valuesdonotfavoranionictypeofconductionasapossibleconductionmechanisminpristineaswellasiodinedopedPEI.TheSchottkycoefficientsestimationsdonotshowthepossibilityofSchottkytypeorPoole-Frenkeltypeconductionmechanismsinthelowtemperatureregion(<120℃),however,inthehightemperatureregion(>120℃)thereisacertainpossibilityofPoole-Frenkeltypeconductionmechanisminbothpristineandiodinedopedsamples.Thedualslopeinthe1gIversus1/Tcurvesforiodinedopedsamplesindicatesthepresenceofmorethanonetypeoftrappinglevels.
简介:Electricaldischargemachining(EDM)process,atpresentisstillanexperienceprocess,whereinselectedparametersareoftenfarfromtheoptimum,andatthesametimeselectingoptimizationparametersiscostlyandtimeconsuming.Inthispaper,artificialneuralnetwork(ANN)andgeneticalgorithm(GA)areusedtogethertoestablishtheparameteroptimizationmodel.AnANNmodelwhichadaptsLevenberg-Marquardtalgorithmhasbeensetuptorepresenttherelationshipbetweenmaterialremovalrate(MRR)andinputparameters,andGAisusedtooptimizeparameters,sothatoptimizationresultsareobtained.Themodelisshowntobeeffective,andMRRisimprovedusingoptimizedmachiningparameters.