Experimental investigations on wear properties of Palm kernel reinforced composites for brake pad applications

The use of asbestos material is being avoided to manufacture the brake pads as it is harmful and toxic in nature. Further it leads to various health issues like asbestosis, mesothelioma and lung cancers. These brake pads can be replaced by natural fibers like Palm kernel (0–50%), Nile roses (0–15%) and Wheat (0–10%) with additives like aluminum oxide (5%–20%) and graphite powder (10%–35%). Phenolic resin of 35% is utilized as a binder. Particulated Nile roses are used to increase the friction coefficient and wheat powder is used to reduce the wear rate. Aluminum oxide and graphite are abrasive in nature. This helps to make brake pads with high friction co-efficient and less wear rate with low noise pollution. The wear of the proposed composites have been investigated at different speeds. Various tests like wear on pin-on-disc apparatus, hardness on the Rockwell hardness apparatus and oil absorption test have been conducted. Phenolic resin produces good bonding nature to fiber. Thus, Fibers found to have performed palatably among all commercial brake pads. The objective of the research indicates that Palm kernal shell could be a conceivable alternative for asbestos in friction coating materials.     

基于步进应力加速老化和改进Arrhenius模型的橡胶贮存寿命预测

为准确、快速地预测橡胶的贮存寿命,在步进高温应力加速老化试验的基础上,对不同加速温度下的加速系数进行计算,获得加速因子和绝对温度倒数的曲线,发现橡胶老化过程表现出非Arrhenius特性。针对非Arrhenius特性,引入幂指数因子,采用一种改进的Arrhenius模型对加速系数进行拟合。由对数反应速率与绝对温度倒数曲线的斜率,计算了改进Arrhenius模型在不同温度下的等效线性活化能,结果表明低温下活化能减小。建立低温下的老化寿命模型,对胶料在10℃,20℃和30℃下的老化寿命进行评估。评估结果表明,该模型可为相关高分子材料腐蚀过程中呈现的非Arrhenius特性的分析及寿命预测提供参考。     

功能型摩擦材料弹性接触的数学模型

功能型摩擦材料是一种多孔含油材料，在力的作用下，赫兹接触下的应力场已不能完全适用。为研究材料内部孔隙的变化，在材料接触模型和功能型摩擦材料的构成模型基础上，利用弹性力学的知识，建立了功能型摩擦材料接触区域孔隙变化的数学模型。同时讨论了孔隙在力和热作用下的行为，以及影响孔隙体积的因素。为研究功能型摩擦材料的服役机理提供依据。     

膨润土-砂混合型缓冲／回填材料液塑限试验

为研究掺砂率对高庙子膨润土一砂混合型缓冲／回填材料液塑限的影响,利用液塑限联合测定仪进行了试验研究,并运用最小二乘法对混合物液塑限试验数据进行了分析。试验结果表明膨润土一砂混合物的可塑性、液塑限值和塑性指数均随掺砂率的增大而降低。对试验结果进行分析,得到了考虑掺砂率影响的混合物液塑限经验公式。混合物的液塑限并不是随掺砂率增大成比例降低,而是液限的实测值小于理论值,塑限的实测值大于理论值。得到的不同掺砂率的膨润土一砂混合型缓冲／回填材料液塑限试验数据可为高放废物深地质处置库建设提供科学依据。     

EDITOR'S NOTE

The Nonproliferation Review (NPR) recently interviewed Ambassador Sergio de Queiroz Duarte of Brazil, who presided over the 2005 Seventh Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Ambassador Duarte discussed his views on the outcome of the conference and the future of the treaty. He provided NPR with valuable insights into the outcome of the conference and also shared his thoughts on some of the most pressing issues confronting the NPT today, including the Middle East, nuclear terrorism, elimination of the threat of highly enriched uranium in the civilian nuclear sector, proposals to limit access to the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear disarmament, and negative security assurances. Blaming the failed conference on a general lack of political commitment among states parties and their unwillingness to negotiate common solutions, Ambassador Duarte stressed that “the conference should face squarely its own failure without my attempting to disguise or sugarcoat the deep differences of view, which must be resolved with courage and determination by the states parties if they want the treaty to remain effective.”?He emphasized that if states fail to act on their overriding interest in upholding the NPT, especially if states parties continue to ignore or disregard their nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament obligations, some states might come to believe that their security interests are no longer served by the treaty. The future prospects of the NPT would then “look dire indeed.”     

聚合物材料热危险性分析

聚合物材料具有的易燃性或可燃性使其在实际应用中具有潜在的火灾危险性,正确分析评价聚合物材料的火灾危险性,对材料的安全使用和火灾预防与控制具有重要的作用。在综述文献的基础上,根据火灾危害的特征,对聚合物材料的引燃、热释放和火焰传播等热危险性进行了分析和总结,并提出了相应的预防对策。     

战场抢修器材最优筹措

建立了一个根据携带抢修器材的能力限制,综合分配参战部队应准备的各种抢修器材使平均战场抢修时闻最短的最优化模型,为制定战时抢修器材筹措计划、抢修人员的培训计划提供依据。该模型的结果也可为评价装备的战斗恢复力提供参考依据。     

装备物资混装配载效益化特征聚类分析

提出了通过对物资聚类分组来分步解决混装配载问题的思想,分析了装备物资混装配载中物资分类的办法,讨论了使用聚类分析法研究分类问题的特点,给出了一种基于系统聚类法的物资效益化特征分组方法。     

自蔓延高温合成技术的研究动态

对自蔓延高温合成技术(SHS)的最新研究动态进行了介绍,指出SHS技术作为一种制备和合成材料的新技术,以其高效、节能、经济、材料性能优良等优点,现已成为制备新材料的崭新途径,并提出自蔓延高温合成技术今后的研究方向。     

“E体化”军事物流的建设与发展

根据未来高技术战争和信息技术的发展趋势,提出了建设"E体化"军事物流的宏观战略构想,论述了"E体化"军事物流的理论内涵和现实意义,明确提出了"E体化"军事物流的战略目标以及目标实现的关键基础体系.