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A new absorbing foam concrete: preparation and microwave absorbing properties

  • Xingjun, Lv;Mingli, Cao;Yan, Li;Xin, Li;Qian, Li;Rong, Tang;Qi, Wang;Yuping, Duan
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.103-111
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    • 2015
  • The foam concrete was fabricated by adding the foaming agent which composite ordinary Portland cement with plant and animal protein into cement paste, and the electromagnetic wave absorption properties were studied for the first time as well. The studies showed that the electromagnetic waves can be absorbed by multiple reflections and scattering within the porous material. Thickness and filling ratio have a great influence on the electromagnetic wave absorbing properties in 2-18 GHz of the foam concrete, the greater the thickness, the better the performance of absorption; filling ratio was about 52 vol.%, the absorbing properties achieved the best.

A Review of Structural Testing Methods for ASIC based AI Accelerators

  • Umair, Saeed;Irfan Ali, Tunio;Majid, Hussain;Fayaz Ahmed, Memon;Ayaz Ahmed, Hoshu;Ghulam, Hussain
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.103-111
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    • 2023
  • Implementing conventional DFT solution for arrays of DNN accelerators having large number of processing elements (PEs), without considering architectural characteristics of PEs may incur overwhelming test overheads. Recent DFT based techniques have utilized the homogeneity and dataflow of arrays at PE-level and Core-level for obtaining reduction in; test pattern volume, test time, test power and ATPG runtime. This paper reviews these contemporary test solutions for ASIC based DNN accelerators. Mainly, the proposed test architectures, pattern application method with their objectives are reviewed. It is observed that exploitation of architectural characteristic such as homogeneity and dataflow of PEs/ arrays results in reduced test overheads.

Korean Engineering Firms' Competitiveness Change for the Last Decade

  • Jung, Mincheol;Kim, Handon;Choi, Seeun;Cho, Hyunsang;Oh, Donggeun;Kim, Jimin;Jang, Hyounseung
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.599-607
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    • 2022
  • Recently, there has been a steady decrease in the proportion of the construction sector among Korean engineering firms. Thus it is essential for Korean engineering firms in the construction sector, which lack experience in overseas ventures, to identify and improve their competitiveness for successful overseas expansion. Therefore, in this study, changes in Korean engineering firms' capabilities for the last decade were analyzed to promote entry into overseas road and water resource engineering markets. Competency factors that require urgent improvement were derived based on Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) as a tool for quantitative measurement. As a result, the factor that shows low performance compared to the importance is an overall understanding of the target country in the road and water resource areas. Knowledge of regulatory issues on design, the ability of time management software, and knowledge of the regulatory problems on construction safety are also insufficient. This study can be used as a research methodology to identify competitiveness that Korean engineering firms have to strengthen when they advance into overseas markets in roads, water resources, and other areas.

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Modeling, Preparation, and Elemental Doping of Li7La3Zr2O12 Garnet-Type Solid Electrolytes: A Review

  • Cao, Shiyu;Song, Shangbin;Xiang, Xing;Hu, Qing;Zhang, Chi;Xia, Ziwen;Xu, Yinghui;Zha, Wenping;Li, Junyang;Gonzale, Paulina Mercedes;Han, Young-Hwan;Chen, Fei
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.56 no.2
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    • pp.111-129
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    • 2019
  • Recently, all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) have attracted increasing interest owing to their higher energy density and safety. As the core material of ASSBs, the characteristics of the solid electrolyte largely determine the performance of the battery. Thus far, a variety of inorganic solid electrolytes have been studied, including the NASICON-type, LISICON-type, perovskite-type, garnet-type, glassy solid electrolyte, and so on. The garnet Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) solid electrolyte is one of the most promising candidates because of its excellent comprehensively electrochemical performance. Both, experiments and theoretical calculations, show that cubic LLZO has high room-temperature ionic conductivity and good chemical stability while contacting with the lithium anode and most of the cathode materials. In this paper, the crystal structure, Li-ion transport mechanism, preparation method, and element doping of LLZO are introduced in detail based on the research progress in recent years. Then, the development prospects and challenges of LLZO as applied to ASSBs are discussed.

Multi-channel analyzer based on a novel pulse fitting analysis method

  • Wang, Qingshan;Zhang, Xiongjie;Meng, Xiangting;Wang, Bao;Wang, Dongyang;Zhou, Pengfei;Wang, Renbo;Tang, Bin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.54 no.6
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    • pp.2023-2030
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    • 2022
  • A novel pulse fitting analysis (PFA) method is presented for the acquisition of nuclear spectra. The charging process of the feedback capacitor in the resistive feedback charge-sensitive preamplifier is equivalent to the impulsive pulse, and its impulse response function (IRF) can be obtained by non-linear fitting of the falling edge of the nuclear pulse. The integral of the IRF excluding the baseline represents the energy deposition of the particles in the detector. In addition, since the non-linear fitting process in PFA method is difficult to achieve in the conventional architecture of spectroscopy system, a new multi-channel analyzer (MCA) based on Zynq SoC is proposed, which transmits all the data of nuclear pulses from the programmable logic (PL) to the processing system (PS) by high-speed AXI-Stream in order to implement PFA method with precision. The linearity of new MCA has been tested. The spectrum of 137Cs was obtained using LaBr3(Ce) scintillator detector, and was compared with commercial MCA by ORTEC. The results of tests indicate that the MCA based on PFA method has the same performance as the commercial MCA based on pulse height analysis (PHA) method and excellent linearity for γ-rays with different energies, which infers that PFA method is an effective and promising method for the acquisition of spectra. Furthermore, it provides a new solution for nuclear pulse processing algorithms involving regression and iterative processes.

Application of advanced spectral-ratio radon background correction in the UAV-borne gamma-ray spectrometry

  • Jigen Xia;Baolin Song;Yi Gu;Zhiqiang Li;Jie Xu;Liangquan Ge;Qingxian Zhang;Guoqiang Zeng;Qiushi Liu;Xiaofeng Yang
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.8
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    • pp.2927-2934
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    • 2023
  • The influence of the atmospheric radon background on the airborne gamma spectrum can seriously affect researchers' judgement of ground radiation information. However, due to load and endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-borne gamma-ray spectrometry is difficulty installing upward-looking detectors to monitor atmospheric radon background. In this paper, an advanced spectral-ratio method was used to correct the atmospheric radon background for a UAV-borne gamma-ray spectrometry in Inner Mongolia, China. By correcting atmospheric radon background, the ratio of the average count rate of U window in the anomalous radon zone (S5) to that in other survey zone decreased from 1.91 to 1.03, and the average uranium content in S5 decreased from 4.65 mg/kg to 3.37 mg/kg. The results show that the advanced spectral-ratio method efficiently eliminated the influence of the atmospheric radon background on the UAV-borne gamma-ray spectrometry to accurately obtain ground radiation information in uranium exploration. It can also be used for uranium tailings monitoring, and environmental radiation background surveys.

A field determination method of D-T neutron source yields based on oxygen prompt gamma rays

  • Xiongjie Zhang;Bin Tang ;Geng Nian;Haitao Wang ;Lijiao Zhang ;Yan Zhang ;Rui Chen ;Zhifeng Liu ;Jinhui Qu
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.7
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    • pp.2572-2577
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    • 2023
  • A field determination method for small D-T neutron source yield based on the oxygen prompt gamma rays was established. A neutron-gamma transport equation of the determination device was developed. Two yield field determination devices with a thickness of 20 mm and 50 mm were made. The count rates of the oxygen prompt gamma rays were calculated using three energy spectra processing approaches, which were the characteristic peak of 6.13 MeV, the overlapping peak of 6.92 MeV and 7.12 MeV, and the total energy area. The R-square of the calibration curve is better than 94% and the maximum error of the yield test is 5.21%, demonstrating that it is feasible to measure the yield of D-T neutron source by oxygen prompt gamma rays. Additionally, the results meet the requirements for field determination of the conventional D-T neutron source yield.

Propagation characteristics of longitudinal wave, shear wave and bending wave in porous circular nanoplates

  • Shan, Wubin;Deng, Zulu;Zhong, Hao;Mo, Hu;Han, Ziqiang;Yang, Zhi;Xiang, Chengyu;Li, Shuzhou;Liu, Peng
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.76 no.4
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    • pp.551-559
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    • 2020
  • On the basis of nonlocal strain gradient theory, considering the material properties of porous FGM changing with thickness and the influence of moment of inertia, the wave equation of FG nano circular plate is derived by using the first-order shear deformation plate theory, by introducing dimensionless parameters, we transform the equations into dimensionless wave equations, and the dispersion relations of bending wave, shear wave and longitudinal wave are obtained by Laplace and Hankel integral transformation method. The influence of nonlocal parameter, porosity volume fraction, strain gradient parameters and power law index on the propagation characteristics of bending wave, shear wave and longitudinal wave in FG nano circular plate.