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    Thermal insulation effect of green facades based on calculation of heat transfer and long wave infrared radiative exchange

    Widiastuti, RatihZaini, JulianaCaesarendra, WahyuKokogiannakis, Georgios...
    18页
    查看更多>>摘要:Vertical greenery systems offer an alternative method to reduce heat transfer through building envelope. This study conducted three experiments of green facades with different leaf coverage areas i.e. Bare Wall (BW) model, 50% leaf coverage area (GF-50%), and 90% leaf coverage area (GF-90%) to investigate its effect to overall heat transfer, radiative heat transfer, and Long Wave Infrared Radiative (LWIR) exchange on the wall. Calculation on the average of overall heat transfer showed BW model gained 2.10 W/m2 heat from outdoor environment. While GF-50% and GF-90% received 1.81 W/m2 and 1.46 W/m2, respectively. The contribution of leaf coverage area indicated BW absorbed 4% and 7% radiation heat transfer higher than GF-50% and GF-90%, respectively. The LWIR exchange of GF-90% was 6.76 W/m2 and 10.18 W/m2 lower than other. The findings lead to conclusion that increasing leaf coverage area of green facade can improve thermal insulation capacity of building wall.

    Coupled specimen and fiber dimensions influence measurement on the properties of fiber-reinforced soil

    Tabakouei, A. RezaNarani, S. S.Abbaspour, M.Aflaki, E....
    11页
    查看更多>>摘要:The coupled influence of fiber length and specimen dimensions on the results of unconfined compressive strength (UCS) tests is measured in this study. Three types of fiber, namely waste tire textile fibers (WTTF), date palm (DP) and polypropylene fibers (PP) in three different lengths have been prepared and added to a sandy soil. Three different specimen diameters of 71, 100 and 151 mm were tested. The results prove that the type and length of fiber, and diameter of the specimen strongly affect the results. Specimens with a diameter of 100 and 150 mm show identical trend with a much more limited difference compared to the specimens with a diameter of 71 mm. The effect of fiber length is observed to be a function of specimen dimension and type of fiber. In all cases, fiber length is most influential in smaller specimens. This parameter is most and least influential in DP and WTTF, respectively.

    Feature points extraction of defocused images using deep learning for camera calibration

    Huo, JunzhouMeng, ZhichaoZhang, HaidongChen, Shangqi...
    14页
    查看更多>>摘要:Camera calibration is difficult when the focus plane is in a dangerous place or where people are not easy to reach. Therefore, this paper proposes a calibration method which can be used in the out-of-focus area of the camera. Firstly, a circular calibration pattern based on phase coding is made. Next, a deep learning-based phase recovery network (Phase-Net) is built, and then the recovered phase diagram is corrected for ellipse eccentricity to obtain the feature points needed for camera calibration. The proposed method only needs one shot to recover the phase, which overcomes the problem that the defocusing calibration method based on the phase shift principle needs multiple patterns to recover the phase. Simulation and experiments demonstrate that the maximum mean reprojection error is 0.11 pixels, and the relative error between the calibration results of this method and phase shifting method is 1.54%. The obtained results validate the effectiveness of Phase-Net in engineering applications.

    Multi-objective optimization to minimize pumping power and flow non-uniformity at the outlets of a distributor manifold using CFD simulations and ANN rapid predictions

    Shahri, Mohammad FarahiNezhad, Alireza Hossein
    13页
    查看更多>>摘要:Minimizing the pumping power and the flow non-uniformity at the outlets are two important goals in the design of liquid metal distributor manifolds. In the present study, a multi-objective optimization for a distributor manifold under the influence of an external magnetic field has been performed for the first time. In the first phase, the pumping power and the non-uniformity coefficient in terms of the different input variables are obtained using CFD simulations. An efficient artificial neural network (ANN) has been developed in the second phase to measure the expected outputs according to the design variables. Finally in the third phase, the proposed ANN and a multi-objective genetic algorithm are used for a Pareto-based optimization study. LINMAP and TOPSIS techniques identify the best points of Pareto front data. The former reduce pumping power by about 12% and the latter lessen the non-uniformity coefficient by approximately 25% relative to each other.

    Defect detection in welding radiographic images based on semantic segmentation methods

    Xu, H.Yan, Z. H.Ji, B. W.Huang, P. F....
    20页
    查看更多>>摘要:In order to remove the limitations of human interpretation, many computer-aided algorithms have been developed to automatically detect defects in radiographic images. Compared with traditional detection algorithms, deep learning algorithms have the advantages of strong generalization ability and automatic feature extraction, and have been applied in welding defect detection. However, these algorithms still need further research in the acquisition and cleaning of welding radiographic image data, the selection and optimization of deep neural networks, and the generalization and interpretation of network models. Therefore, this paper proposes an automatic welding defect detection system based on semantic segmentation method. Firstly, a dataset of radiographic images of welding defects, called RIWD, is set up, and the corresponding data preprocessing and annotation methods are designed for the training and evaluation of the algorithm. Secondly, an end-to-end FPN-ResNet-34 semantic segmentation network-based defect detection algorithm is implemented, and the network architecture is experimentally demonstrated to be suitable for defect features extraction and fusion. Thirdly, to improve the detection performance of the algorithm, an optimization strategy for the network is designed according to the data characteristics of defects, which includes data augmentation based on combined image transformations and class balancing using a hybrid loss function with dice loss and focal loss. Finally, to ensure the reliability of the algorithm, the generalization ability of the algorithm is tested using external validation, and the defect features learned by the network are visualized by post-interpretation technique. The experimental results show that our method can correctly discriminate defect types and accurately describe defect boundaries, achieving 0.90 mPA, 0.86 mR, 0.77 mF1 and 0.73 mIoU, which can be applied to automatically interpret radiographic images.

    Enhancement of measurement accuracy of discontinuous specular objects with stereo vision deflectometer

    Zhang, ZonghuaWang, YueminGao, FengXu, Yongjia...
    8页
    查看更多>>摘要:Phase measurement deflectometry (PMD) is widely used for specular surface measurement. However, when the measured surface is discontinuous, its measurement accuracy will decrease due to the slope integration process in PMD model. This paper proposes a method to realize high-precision measurement of discontinuous specular object using stereo vision deflectometer (SVD). The discontinuous surface is separated into continuous areas by region segmentation method to avoid the integration error of PMD. Then, slope integration is conducted in each continuous surface region to achieve high measurement accuracy. The absolute position of a height reference point (HRP) of each continuous surface is calculated to evaluate the relative positions between different surfaces. The performance of the proposed method is verified by measuring two sample specular objects with discontinuous surfaces. The experimental results show that the continuous surfaces can achieve nanometer level form measurement accuracy, while the absolute height measurement accuracy is in micrometer level.

    Bearing performance degradation assessment based on the continuous-scale mathematical morphological particle and feature fusion

    Yan, XiaoliTang, GuijiWang, Xiaolong
    13页
    查看更多>>摘要:The partial differential equations (PDEs) driven mathematical morphology operation relates the differential evolution of the whole signal in scale space to the continuous-scale morphological operations applied to signal space. In this paper, an algorithm based on continuous-scale mathematical morphological particle (CMMP) and feature fusion is proposed for bearing performance degradation assessment. Firstly, the bearing performance degradation features are extracted based on the PDEs-driven CMMP. The CMMP features at different scales perform variously on the bearings at different degradation stages. Subsequently, the CMMP features are divided into three categories according to their sensitivity to degradation of bearing. After that, the embedded hidden Markov model (EHMM) is introduced to fuse three kinds of features into the global model. Finally, the entire life-cycle failure data sets of bearing are assessed by the proposed method and the comparing method. The results validate the superiority of the proposed method.

    A model of the response of the MGS-6 gravity sensor to tilting

    Pyrchla, KrzysztofPajak, MalgorzataGolyga, JuliaPyrchla, Jerzy...
    8页
    查看更多>>摘要:The reliable interpretation of the measurements made by the Micro-g marine gravimetric system (MGS-6) depends on how the temporary changes of the scale coefficients such as gravimeter scale factor, vertical cross-coupling (VCC) effect, tiltmeter cross and tiltmeter long are compensated for during the signal analysis. The listed coefficients cannot be determined from readings during the measurements or by analysing the final data. The method presented here can be used to periodically check individual scale factors before starting shipborne measurements. This article focuses on determining the scale coefficients of the gravimeter: VCC effect, tiltmeter cross and tiltmeter long based on the MGS-6 gravity sensor's response to tilt. An unique non-linear model of Lacoste & Romberg gravimeter response to tilt was developed. In this paper, the measurement of the tilt angle of the object based on the photogrammetric elaboration of metric photographs is presented, using the principles of one-image photogrammetry.

    Universal ultra-sensitive refractive index sensor based on an integrated SiO2 asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interference filter (AMZIF)

    Yin, RuiCao, LingxinHuang, QingjieYang, Hongliang...
    6页
    查看更多>>摘要:This paper proposes an integrated universal ultra-sensitive refractive index sensor that is applicable for many kinds of liquid. The sensor is SiO2 asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interference filter (AMZIF) with a reference window and a sensing window on different arms. The formula derivation shows that the sensitivity of AMZIF is directly proportional to the arm length, and its measurement range can be expanded by reducing the diffraction order. The sensor is fabricated using standard planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology, and the tested sensitivity reaches 21193.3 nm per refractive index unit (nm/RIU). With appropriate reference material, the universal AMZIF sensor can measure the refractive index of any liquid whose refractive index is between 1.33 similar to 1.45 and the sensitivity remains above 20000 nm/RIU.

    Low-frequency acoustic source localization based on the cross-spectral time reversal method corrected in wavenumber domain

    Li, YuanwenLi, MinFeng, DaofangPan, Wei...
    14页
    查看更多>>摘要:Near-filed acoustic holography can break the half wavelength limit by reversing the propagation matrix and achieve high-resolution for low-frequency source localization, but it will encounter the ill-posed problem. The subwavelength focusing also can be obtained by correcting the wavenumber spectrum of monopole time-reversed field into that of dipole time-reversed field through near field measurement, which can avoid the ill-posed problem. To further improve the identification accuracy of low-frequency sources in the strong noise environment, a cross-spectrum time reversal method corrected in wavenumber domain is proposed (CS-TR). First, a cross-spectrum time reversal function based on pressure measurement on a plane in the near field is constructed to obtain the initial time-reversed result. Then, the cross-spectrum time-reversed field is transformed into wave-number domain, and the filter term that contains evanescent waves is corrected to make the result contains more evanescent waves which can improve the localization resolution of low-frequency sources. The essence of the cross-spectrum of the focusing result is to calculate the cross-correlation of signals from all directions, which can not only increase the content of evanescent waves during the correction process in wavenumber domain, but also can highlight the energy difference between signal and noise, making the localization capability significantly improved for low-frequency sources. Numerical simulation and experimental results show that the CS-TR method can significantly improve the spatial resolution at low frequencies. Multiple acoustic sources at 100 Hz were effectively identified when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was 0 dB, and the spatial resolution reached 1/34 wavelength.