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Grouping the similar processes is a good approach to improve the manufacturing efficiency, however, which is facing with two difficulties of the group automation and the constraints coupling. Regarding the numerical control (NC) machines and tasks as a grid system, this paper proposes a similarity-based tactic to solve the above difficulties. First, the methodology for analyzing the similarity among NC tasks is proposed to implement group automation taking the similarity principle as theory foundation. Second, based on the results drawn from the first step, the complex constraints including similarity constraints, delivery date constraints, and serial constraints are coupled to develop an integrated scheduling model. Finally, the integrated model is solved and the optimum solution is gotten using a specialized ants algorithm.

The wind speed simulation model was given in this paper, combined with the power system analysis software (PSD-BPA) transient calculation of wind generator models, it implemented the wind speed disturbance of wind farms and the entire network voltage analysis. Combining the practical power grid in china, research on the power grid voltage fluctuation of the level after the large-scale wind farms integrated the system, and relevant the conclusions: In the process of wind disturbance, there is no angle stability of synchronous generator in the system, doubly-fed induction generator could emit and absorb reactive power, and thus could be able to maintain voltage stability.

The hydraulic cylinder should be safety released in high-pressure situations, the release valve system is presented under such situation in this paper, which can release the high pressure from the hydraulic cylinder, in order to validate its feasibility, the simulation model of pressure release system is established in AMESim, the pressure release process of which is studied, the results show that the pressure relief system can release the high pressure of hydraulic cylinder smoothly, the pressure release system verifies the pressure control performance of control system, some of the parameters or factors of pressure release system are analyzed.

Considering the features of slope rock mass failure, this paper applies residual thrust method and linear programming theory on the basis of finite element method, to assess safety of each cell of slope rock mass in dangerous zone. According to the slip field method to determine three-dimensional slope slip surface, to deduce three-dimensional stability analysis method based on symmetry breaking, a C++ based 3D-slope program is developed for purposes of three-dimensional slope stability analysis. Finally get the most dangerous landslide geometry and its safety factor, In the paper, combining with the engineering examples, the calculating results are comfortable to the practical failure.

This paper describes the development of a software to perform three-dimensional crack propagation analyses. The software is based on the conventional finite element method with second order tetrahedral element and an automatic mesh generation software. Hexahedral finite elements have historically been used in fracture analyses and methodologies to compute the crack parameters have been developed for the hexahedral elements. In present research, the authors have developed a VCCM (virtual crack closure-integral method) for the second order tetrahedral finite element. Use of the tetrahedral element allows us to utilize an automatic mesh generation software. The direction and rate of crack propagation are predicted based on the stress intensity factors and the shape of crack is updated. Hence, a software package containing the modules for mesh generation, for finite element analysis, for stress intensity factor evaluation, for predicting the rate and the direction of crack propagation and for updating crack configuration, can be developed.

The temperature stability of scale factor (SF) has been analyzed and tested systematically for an optical voltage sensor (OVS) based on Pockels effect in this paper. The cardinal temperature sensitive parameters in sensor head and their impacts on SF are brought out by theoretical analysis and simulation method. Corresponding experiments are arranged to verify the validity of theoretical analysis. A real-time temperature compensation system is fabricated to reduce the error of SF in temperature fluctuation environment and its effectiveness is certified by experiment.

Buildings with masonry structures in rural areas of China have been the most severely damaged ones in earthquake disasters. This paper has analyzed the failure characteristics of rural masonry buildings in earthquake by summarizing the existing researches of the seismic resistance of masonry structures in rural areas, with its focus on the research of the intensity from VI to X. The constitutive relation model of damage developed by Yang Weizhong is used for the seismic analysis of rural masonry structures in combination with the failure criteria for masonry structures. The finite element software ANSYS is applied for the simulation and the results show that the damage of China's rural masonry structures regularly tends to weaken from the bottom to the top, with the seismic capacity of horizontal walls superior to longitudinal walls. As for vertical walls, due to their weak capacity, damage immediately occurs to them even in medium intensity earthquakes.

Yunnan province has rich natural resources with high species diversities because of its unique ecological environments, while the abundance of genera of seed plants endemic in Yunnan ranked the top one in China. But there are several shortcomings influence the research and the protection on genera of seed plants endemic in Yunnan. Firstly, the storage of relevant knowledge and data of genera of seed plants endemic in Yunnan is dispersion; secondly, the structure of the data system is poor; thirdly, the format and standard database is not unified. In order to improve the above shortcomings, this paper will built an ontology knowledge database for Yunnan genera of seed plants endemic based on ontology, geography ontology and ontology integration technologies. This new ontology knowledge database will apply new technologies and theoretical basis for the further macroscopic research on Yunnan genera of seed plants endemic. And it will apply scientific decision and research methods for optimization adjustment on distribution of genera of seed plants endemic in Yunnan.

The progression of application software and high-speed Internet access has, in general, the ability to commonly engage synesthetic experience. However, current synesthesia systems do not meet their full potential, as they are restricted by the simple display of non-intelligent two-dimensional form. This paper is going to present a system for enhancing visual and auditory attributes connection by augmenting the traditional sound visualization system with natural perceptual properties beyond two-dimensional space. A method of expanding the analysis capabilities of the system over changes in the frequencies and sound pressure levels of the live environmental sound stream was explored. With this method, a semantically rich four-dimensional form of sound containing information regarding audio properties and location could be generated. Some specific scenarios are discussed in order to explore visual form of natural perception of environmental sounds, multimedia voice and musical performance.

With the improvement of living standards, people living concept has changed, from the previous focus on practical, price and other factors, to put forward higher requirements on the natural ecological residential area landscape, environment greening. This paper first analyzes the residential district environmental landscape elements and design concepts, gives some principles of environmental landscape design in residential area, and finally puts forward the residential landscape design starting point.

This paper analyzes the dialectical relationship between the hazards and risks to find out the common things of ways and methods to control them and then analyze and discuss several classification of sources of danger to propose specific ways and methods to management of coal hazards. On this basis, we design and develop appropriate management system of coal hazards, in order to achieve effective management of risks.

This paper designed an analog control circuit which can automatically track the sun for PV bracket system to improve the solar cell photo-electricity conversion efficiency. The sunlight intensity can be real-time detected by sampling the short-circuit current of solar cell. The PV bracket system can be automatically adjusted to achieve a final horizontal angle and pitch angle by using the hysteresis comparator and dedicated motor driver chip, which always makes photovoltaic modules toward the sun's position. At the same time, the PV bracket system can be automatically reset by the hall switch when the sun reaches the sunset and the light intensity is less than the reference value. The experimental prototype is used to testify the correctness and reliability of the control system, which has better practicability and value to extend.

The development of ecological architectural theory in China and the revival of traditional feng-shui theory have become a huge driving force for the development of eco-building today. In this paper a comparative study of ancestral halls in east Hubei province is made from the perspective of building orientation, topography, building space and building materials and other elements related to both eco-building and feng-shui theory and a conclusion is reached that the essence of feng-shui theory is consistent to the ideology of contemporary ecological architectural theory, which the author hopes will provide some references and a scientific basis for the sustainable development of ecological buildings with Chinese characteristics in China.

Since thermocouple has an intrinsic disadvantage that its signal is very weak, many problems usually appear such as large noise and low temperature resolution when thermocouples are being used. Aiming this defect on thermocouple measurement, this paper proposes a solution of analog circuit design that provides the character of low noise and high SNR. This paper discusses the analog circuit design and calculation based on the S-type thermocouple which is often used for a very wide temperature range. This designed module can be applied to measurement instruments.

The evaluation of system efficiency for the special task or reasonableness of the business flow are usually required in the maintenance system of armored equipment. The paper analyzed the process of armored equipment maintenance system. Then a simulation model of a military maintenance process is built on Extend simulation software. By means of statistical experiments, some key results are obtained including the time in finishing the system process, queue length, waiting time and the utilization of the service platform in the process, which could provide solid evidence for evaluating the system efficiency to help make the equipment support plan.

The purpose of the present study is to carry out failure analysis of a scooter’s continuously variable transmission (CVT) system that is considered to be one of the key components of the scooter. In the study, several reliability analytical tools such as failure mode, effect and criticality analysis (FMECA) and fault tree analysis (FTA) are used to identify possible failure modes of the CVT system and its subsystems. The failure effects of components on the CVT system are emphasized in particular. Aside from the qualitative evaluation, simulation algorithms are developed to examine the performance of the CVT system and assess the reliability of the belt. Through the study, it is found that mechanical wear at both sides of the V-belt is the most serious problem that affects the CVT performance. The sliding collar of the driven pulley is another component that has to be observed carefully. Some design improvements are pointed out at the end of the paper.

Concrete interlocking block pavement is characterized of preferred durability, easy construction and maintenance and low construction cost. It can be widely applied in the rural highway. Based with the project of rural highway in Tongchuan Shaanxi province, the paper studies the mechanism of interlocking blocks, design of the pavement, and construction technology for field application. After one year service for open traffic, the interlocking block pavement is shown to have fascinating economy and service performance for the rural road.

Displacement is traditionally deemed to be equivalent to deformation. However, displacement is not exactly deformation, for example, the tip of a workpiece illustrates big displacement, but, it caused by the deformation of main body. In this paper, theory of active and passive deformation is proposed for the evaluation of the deformation of workpiece during heat treatment process and the corresponding algorithm was established. The deformation consists of active and passive deformation; the former is the actual deformation, while the latter is caused by the deformation of other areas. This algorithm was applied to the deformation analysis of a hydraulic turbine blade which is a large thin-walled workpiece. And the real deformation area of the blade is found.

This paper adopts general finite element software to analyse Luo River bridge-type inverted siphon structure, researching variation law of the inverted siphons stress and displacement in construction process and operational process. Research results further verified rationality and security of the design scheme, which provides reliable reference for construction and operational of inverted siphon structure.

In this paper, the keyhole of YAG laser welding 5A90 Al-Li alloy was observed and measured through the high speed camera. The characteristics of the keyhole and the effects of welding parameters were studied. The characteristics of the absorption of laser energy and the susceptivity for heat input in welding 5A90 were given. The results show that in this welding condition, the keyhole of laser welding 5A90 is nearly a taper and the highest temperature area is in the bottom. There are clear effects of heat input on the characteristics, especially the surface radius of keyhole and plasma/vapor in keyhole. Another phenomena is observed that sometime plasma/vapor could disappear in 0.3ms welding time, and this feature will be more remarkable as decrease of heat input. It shows that the absorption of energy is unsteady. It is known that when this instability reaches a certain value, an unsteady weld will be formed.

Some tests including tensile test, bending test and shear test have been done to fibre-reinforced sandwich core boards which are ready applied to high speed train. Fibre laying craftwork is introduced in the paper and the test results show that the uniformity of fibre laying craftwork is good. The laying fibres have effective enhanced axial strength and modulus of fibre-reinforced sandwich core board. The reinforce influence degree to modulus is greater than strength.

A large number of non-dispersible underwater concrete materials will be extensively used in works which span over rivers and sea, so it is important to study the performance of non-dispersible under water concrete structures. Non-dispersible underwater concrete is the concrete mixing with special additives-anti-washout admixture, which is a kind of water-soluble polymers with long-chain structure and strong absorption capacity. In the present paper, the axial and eccentric compression performance of non-dispersible underwater concrete columns were experimentally investigated. The failure modes and loading capacity of the columns of non-dispersible underwater concrete were mainly discussed. The experimental results showed that the compression performance of non-dispersible underwater reinforced concrete columns and the common reinforced ones are similar in some aspects.

Risk management is specific to the organization and its external and internal context. In this paper risk management and some concepts focusing specifically on such plants for dusty, granular and combustible products were introduced. Some examples were presented here for practical uses, which can be applied in dusty and complicated surroundings.

To further shorten the charging time, enhancing charging efficiency and extending battery charge cycle life, this paper presents a variable frequency pulse fast charging methods based on fuzzy control depolarization. This method uses perturbation and observation method tracking resonant frequency real-timely and then finds the maximum current corresponding to the resonant frequency to charge the battery while using fuzzy control technology to detect and eliminate polarization effects arising from the charge process to accelerate the charging speed and realize frequency-varied fast charging. Experiments showed that using the fuzzy control frequency-varied pulse charging technique improves the charging time, charging efficiency, and rising temperature of the Li-ion battery by about 6.9%, 2.4%, 17.3%, respectively, as compared with the currently used fast charging method of intermittent alternating current.

On the basic of multiple populations of immune algorithm and clonal selectionalgorithm, the purpose of this paper is to further improve the detectionefficiency and reducing the false alarm rate. This paper uses the kddcup99 dataset as the experimental data set, and chooses four types of attack data groupof experiment data set as initial population of multiple populations of clonalselection algorithm, through the algorithm to create the optimal model. Basedon the principle of normal data larger than the abnormal data, in turn,experimental data set matched with the normal data set and the optimal model bythe improved R matching algorithm. The results of this paper show that thedetection rate increased significantly

The stress response of fracture trauma section has certain inertia and pure lag, conventional PID control can not obtain optimal stress control accuracy. In allusion to this problem, this paper proposes using fuzzy adaptive PID control, aims at the optimal physiological stimulation stress (Jorgensen curve) in the course of fracture healing, conducts real-time control to the fracture trauma section stress. According to the established fracture trauma system model, the fuzzy self-adaptive PID controller has been designed, and conducts simulation research on real-time stress control in the Matlab/Simulink simulation environment. The simulation results show that the stress control accuracy of fuzzy self-adaptive PID control is obviously better than that of the classical PID control and classical fuzzy control, which can effectively control the stress of trauma section in fracture healing, to promote bone repair and bone growth towards the optimal level, and then to ensure the speed and quality of fracture healing.

In this paper, a new type of cylindral USM with two stators is researched. There is a brief analysis of the USM design including mechanical structure and driving circuits. Meanwhile the paper also introduces some of the experiment results of the USM tests.

This paper reports a review on the computational (finite element) software for creep damage analysis. Firstly, it summarizes the current state of how to obtain such computational capability then it concludes with a preference of in-house software. It further reviews the validation practice. Finally, it completes with an outlines of the approach to be used in the developing in-house FE software.

The domain ontology introduces a new theory and method into information resources management. This paper firstly analyzes the existing circumstances and questions of information resources management; then it discusses the relationship between the domain ontology and the information resources management and the former can have tremendous impact on the latter; finally it puts forward the domain ontology-based information resources management system architecture.

Safe analysis of the progressive slide is used to estimate the stability of arch dam. The space stochastic parameters are surveyed through considering the relativity of parameter. The stability reliability analysis can be divided into element, sub-structure or sub-system, system.etc. From element to system calculate abutment’s ability. Sub-structure is composed by elements parallel connection. System is composed by sub-structures in series. The substructure method is applied to study the interaction between arch dam and its abutment. In this paper, the weakness part of abutment was found by cracking analysis of the progressive slide, and the safe evaluation was given.

Generally, there is a high background noise and long reverberation time and poor speech intelligibility in exhibition space due to its big crowd and often commercial promotional activities so that communication is very hard, commercial activities broadcasting system is also difficult to ensure that customers can clearly hear the propaganda content. In this paper, through measured background noise of the new exhibition center in Chengdu, we found the acoustic problem in exhibition space, then we did simulation analysis in some exhibition building and took some acoustical process to get a good sound field.

This paper presents a micro-wideband radar experimental system design. Wideband signal source and high-speed data sampling and processing module of the system is discussed in detail. Designed radar experimental system weighs 4.5Kg, with signal bandwidth of 1GHz and effective distance of 5km. The system can realize wideband radar echo real-time sampling and processing functions. On-board Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging experiment is done. The imaging resolution of the system is 0.3m, this result is satisfactory. It shows that the system can meet the requirements of a unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) platform. The design and test results are significant to miniaturization of wideband radar system.

Today, many organizations have realized an important of pre-development process in order to compete with competitor through drastically introduce new product in the market. In view of that, understanding critical factors that contribute to successful pre-development process implementation is becoming the more important. However, most of past studies were conducted in large organization, very little has been done in small and medium enterprise (SMEs). SMEs have certain limitation in terms of their financial, human, technical, and resources that could hinder their progress towards implementing pre-development process. This paper reviews and analyses CSFs developed by previous authors in order to propose a set of CSFs which were thought to be critical for SMEs. After that the questionnaire developed in this study will be analysis using factors analysis and reliability test in order to examine construct validity and reliability. An initial draft of the questionnaire was developed based on the literature. The questionnaire was pre-tested by academicians and industry practitioners. After that the questionnaire was piloted at 55 food and beverage manufacturing SMEs to check its reliability by using Cronbach’s alpha value. In addition, principle component analysis was carried out to test the construct validity. All the factors in the survey instrument had a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of more than 0.7 which may be considered satisfactory. Through factor analysis, all KMO values were found above acceptable value of 0.50. All Bartlett’s Test in this analysis was found to be significant. Therefore the instrument is valid and reliable and considered as satisfactory. Nine CSFs, which are believed suitable for SMEs have been proposed in this paper. Through systematic identification and validation, it is hope that the set of CSFs could be used as guides for SMEs to implement pre-development process successfully.

For the flexible roll forming of the control system, this paper introduces a method that machine vision bind to the flexible roll forming control system. The detection method for sheet metal forming is image acquisition, image processing and other means for the extraction of sheet metal forming in some time section contour curve. Compare extraction section contour curve with the moment theory section contour curve in the control system, get the deviation value and feedback to the control system that interpolation arithmetic to realize closed loop control.

Web Service matchmaking ensured the availability of the discovered service, is a critical issue for Web Service discovery. In this paper we proposed a Semantic Inner Product based Web Service Matchmaking method (SIP-WSM). SIP-WSM merged the structural and semantic information into the Semantic Inner Product of element in WSDL document to realize a loosely structured matchmaking on semantic level. Experiment result shows that SIP-WSM performs better.

This paper examines the impact of debt financing on overinvestment in Chinese listed companies. Using an accounting-based framework to measure over-investment and free cash flow, we find evidence that, debt financing can’t mitigate overinvestment in Chinese listed manufacturing companies. Further tests examine whether firm’s governance structures are associated with overinvestment. The evidence suggests that governance factors also can’t mitigate over-investment in China. Reasons lie that hard constraint of debt financing doesn’t play its role in China. There also exists assets maturity and debt maturity mismatching problems in Chinese manufacturing listed companies.

The problem of a piezoelectric screw dislocation emitted from a blunt crack is dealt with in this paper. For an arbitrary distribution of the residual dislocation, the series-form solutions are derived. The results show that the force acting on the dislocation decreases with the value of the dielectric constant within the crack increasing. And the increase of the dielectric constant within the crack helps dislocation emission effectively.

Rapid development of automotive industry brings increasing demand for die forgings made from non-ferrous metals. Market economy stimulates drop forges to produce forged pieces of highest quality and dimension precision with the accent on reduction in production costs. Precision die forging without flash belongs to progressive and economical technologies of die forgings production. This paper describes an experiment of precision forging in closed die of magnesium alloy type AZ 31. Given alloy type Mg-Al-Zn is suitable for bulk forming and is characterized by good hot formability. Achieved results may be applied in practice at production of longitudinal shaped forgings e.g. levers and connecting rods. In order to verify a design of closed die forging technology regarding the lever-shaped forged piece, simulation program MSC.SuperForge was used. Numeric simulation was significantly helpful at optimization of semi-product shape and dimensions and confirmed correct plastic flow of material in closed die cavity. The objective of this contribution was to point out current trends in searching for economical measures at production of die forgings from alloys of non-ferrous metals.

Regenerative braking is one of the key technologies to improve the energy efficiency of electric automobile, but there is no available scientific method to evaluate the effectiveness of regenerative braking for electric automobile. The paper research regenerative system conformation and control strategy .An efficiency evaluation index of regenerative braking system is introduced based on brake energy flow model.

The aim of this paper is to study cognitive load in the virtual maintenance training. This paper first introduces the concept of virtual maintenance training, looks back the study history of actuality and sketches the current development in the virtual maintenance training. And then, it studies cognitive load in the virtual maintenance training. In this part, this paper talks about the impact of cognitive load on the virtual maintenance training and analyzes the sources of cognitive load and the strategy to reduce cognitive load. At the same time, it points out the measurement methods for the cognitive load in the virtual maintenance training. In the last part, the research foreground for cognitive load in the virtual maintenance training is proposed.

In view of the problem of low detection precision exists in traditional quantitative detection system of broken wire for steel rope, the paper proposed a design scheme of quantitative detection system of broken wire for steel rope based on RBF neural network. The RBF Neural Network was introduced to establish the model of discerning quantitative broken steel wires. Experimental results showed that the method performed well in the identification of damage.

Tensegrity structures are of interest to architecture and engineering as a practical means to explore lightweight and rapidly deployable modular structures that have a high degree of geometric freedom and formal potency. The notion of tensegrity structures with 3D ‘compressed’ components is accreted by authors in 2009 [1]. This extended class of tensegrity overcomes some of the difficulties of typically ones by providing increased rigidity and more controlled structural behaviour. These two characteristics make 3D compression member tensegrity structures more suitable for practical use in building instant stand up structures. In this paper, the Authors introduce a method to create instant built structures with 3D Compression Members including the modules creation, digital form finding and assembling procedures. Exmple of a speculative design for a footbridge and a high rise building is demonstrated.

In this paper, fully monolithic tunable millimeter-wave filters using defected ground structures (DGS) are proposed using the CPW-based periodic structures with novel multiple-contact MEMS switches. Millimeter-wave low-pass filters were designed, fabricated, and tested. The cascaded CPW-based periodic structures, with low-pass intrinsic filtering characteristics, are reconfigured into a self-similar single unit cell by the operation of the novel multiple-contact MEMS switches with single actuation. In the first order tuning, the 3-dB cut-off frequency changes from 8.2GHz to10.5GHz, and the second order tuning is 8.2GHz to 16.8GHz. The tested results show that the pass-band ripple is less than 1.2dB and the maximal out-of-band rejection is better than 27dB. The chip size of the low-pass filter is 2.5mm×1.2mm.

Mobilization production is an effective model to respond to emergency situation, which can organize all kinds of production resources and enlarge production capacity in short time. The design of mobilization production plan needs numerous data and to be revised repeatedly. Therefore, it is very difficult for the traditional design approach to work out right results and forecast the performance of mobilization production plan. A parametric simulation modeling approach is presented in this paper to solve those problems. The approach separates the control logic from modeling elements through creating simulation database, typical model base and control logic base. A model generator is built to automatically create the finial simulation model based on those kinds of bases. The simulation software of AutoMod is applied to realize the modeling process above. Finally, a case study is presented to illustrate the application of the proposed approach.

This paper reports numerical simulations of fluid mixing in a rotating microchannel with a microchamber fabricated on a CD-like substrate. The sample fluids are driven by the centrifugal force and brought in contact at a Y-shaped junction, and then the mixing flow moves through a straight channel with a circular chamber where the main course of mixing takes place. The CD-like micromixer is rotated clockwise at speeds ranging from 300 to1200 rpm. With increasing rotational speed, the mixing efficiency is found dropping in the lower range (≤ 540 rpm), where the diffusion still dominates the mixing, and then grows progressively to reach as much as 90%. The progressively growth in the higher speed range significantly improves the slightly descending and flat distribution for a straight mixing channel without a circular chamber. This significant enhancement of mixing is due mainly to the vortices generated in the circular chamber and the strong transverse flow induced by the Coriolis force.

A problem of quadrotor’s control system based on DSP is investigated in this paper. STMS320F28335 is used as the main processer, due to its advantages of high-speed processing capability and powerful floating point processing capability. The inertial measurement unit is selected for inner-loop attitude control, while the optical flow sensor is adopted for outer-loop attitude compensation. Infrared range finder is choosed for altitude control with PID method. Quadrotor uses XBee-Pro wireless module to contact with ground station and sends statement information in accordance with the Mavlink protocol. Test results show that the control system is reliable and can meet the requirement of the attitude control system.

This paper mainlyintroduces the basic optical principles of light. Using He-Ne laser and pinhole configure collimated illumination, measuring the index of refraction by minimum deviation method, and measuring the birefringence use of wedge method by transmission optical microscope. In addition, give the results and discussion of the whole experiments.

This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation into the Ultimate Elastic Wall Stress (UEWS) of ±55° filament wound composite pipes. The UEWS test appears to provide an attractive alternative to the current method, and has proved to be one of the most effective in term of accuracy and speed. Moreover, it has been found to be sensitive to changes in key manufacturing and raw material parameters. The pipes were subjected to biaxial loading, which was achieved by combinations of hoop and axial stress. Loads were applied as groups of cycles which, were gradually increased until the UEWS had been determined. Various ratios of hoop to axial stress were applied to the pipes, ranging from pure axial to pure hoop loading at room temperature and at 65°C. These ratios were investigated by applying different pressures in both the main and small chambers built inside the pipe, and therefore it was unnecessary to add any external loads to the pipe wall. Tests were also conducted to observe leakage through the pipe wall. The main failure mode observed was weepage through the pipe wall, which was due to intensive matrix microcracking. The results from the UEWS tests are presented in the form of failure envelopes showing the effects of testing at an elevated temperature. Finally, degradation in the elastic properties of the pipe wall is also discussed and plotted against wall stress.

This paper illustrates the internal force calculation of the railway steel truss girder under the action of lateral load q by using the finite element method for truss segment. Load q is distributed with partition coefficients a1, a2 respectively on the top and bottom longitudinal bracing in conventional way and calculated as planar articulate. When two forces calculated respectively by using the spatial analysis and planar structure method are equal, lateral force distribution coefficient a1, a2 can be obtained. In the end of this paper we take examples of simple through beam of 48m, 64m, 80m, 144m, 192m, continuous through beam of 2×64m,3×64m, dual continuous deck beam of 2×64m and dual simple through beam of 64m and get the partition coefficient of the floor system plane, 0.77, and the other plane is 0.39.

This paper examines the bearing capacity and stability of a catenary axis uniform cross-section multi-span stone arch bridge with solid spandrels after strengthening and widening, in the light of the Code for Design of Highway Masonry Bridges and Culverts (JTG D61-2005) published by the Ministry of Communications of the People's Republic of China. Taking the West Ulanhot Large Bridge built in cold area of Inner Mongolia in 1960s as an example, the effect of dead load, live load and temperature variation after and before strengthening as well as multi-arch action were considered. Through calculating the bearing capacity and stability of stone multiple arch bridge, compared with the results of loading test and follow-up survey on operation condition for many years, the safety and effectiveness of strengthening scheme are evaluated.