Lake surface water temperature （SWT） is an important indicator of lake state relative to its water chemistry and aquatic ecosystem,in addition to being an important regional climate indicator.However,few literatures...Lake surface water temperature （SWT） is an important indicator of lake state relative to its water chemistry and aquatic ecosystem,in addition to being an important regional climate indicator.However,few literatures involving spatial-temporal changes of lake SWT in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,including Qinghai Lake,are available.Our objective is to study the spatial-temporal changes in SWT of Qinghai Lake from 2001 to 2010,using Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer （MODIS） data.Based on each pixel,we calculated the temporal SWT variations and long-term trends,compared the spatial patterns of annual average SWT in different years,and mapped and analyzed the seasonal cycles of the spatial patterns of SWT.The results revealed that the differences between the average daily SWT and air temperature during the temperature decreasing phase were relatively larger than those during the temperature increasing phase.The increasing rate of the annual average SWT during the study period was about 0.01℃/a,followed by an increasing rate of about 0.05℃/a in annual average air temperature.The annual average SWT from 2001 to 2010 showed similar spatial patterns,while the SWT spatial changes from January to December demonstrated an interesting seasonal reversion pattern.The high-temperature area transformed stepwise from the south to the north regions and then back to the south region from January to December,whereas the low-temperature area demonstrated a reversed annual cyclical trace.The spatial-temporal patterns of SWTs were shaped by the topography of the lake basin and the distribution of drainages.展开更多
Only the fatigue initiation is considered by the safe-life design approach,while fatigue crack propagation is paid more attention by the damage tolerance approach.The reasonable fatigue design method and durability as...Only the fatigue initiation is considered by the safe-life design approach,while fatigue crack propagation is paid more attention by the damage tolerance approach.The reasonable fatigue design method and durability assessment standard should give these two phases equivalent concerns.To develop a unified model of fatigue initiation and crack propagation,a great deal of baseline fatigue properties of a material should be obtained by fatigue experiments.However,there is lack of thorough and comprehensive experiment study on the fatigue properties of 2024-T4 aluminum alloy,which is widely used as load-bearing components in aircraft industry.In this paper,strain-controlled uniaxial,torsion,and combined axial-torsion fatigue experiments are conducted on 2024-T4 aluminum alloy in ambient air.Fully reversed uniaxial and pure torsion experiments employ solid cylindrical specimens.Fatigue experiments under the fully reversed shear loading with a static axial stress,proportional axial-torsion loading,and 90°out-of-phase axial-torsion nonproportional loading are conducted by using thin-walled tubular specimens.The experimental results show that the mean stress has a significant influence on the fatigue strength of the material.A tensile mean stress decreases the fatigue life dramatically,while a compressive mean stress increases the fatigue life.The strain-life fatigue results obtained from the fully reversed uniaxial fatigue experiments can be represented by one smooth curve of a three-parameter equation.However,two fitting curves are needed for characterizing the results of the fully reversed pure torsion fatigue tests because of the existence of an obvious kink.The baseline fatigue properties of 2024-T4 aluminum alloy obtained from the fatigue experiments have applications for the fatigue design and safe assessment of engineering components.展开更多
An efficient despeclding algorithm is proposed based on stationary wavelet transform （SWT） for synthetic aperture radar （SAR） images. The statistical model of wavelet coefficients is analyzed and its performance i...An efficient despeclding algorithm is proposed based on stationary wavelet transform （SWT） for synthetic aperture radar （SAR） images. The statistical model of wavelet coefficients is analyzed and its performance is modeled with a mixture density of two zero-mean Gaussian distributions. A fuzzy shrinkage factor is derived based on the minimum mean square error （MMSE） criteria with Bayesian estimation. In the case above, the ideas of region division and fuzzy shrinkage arc adopted according to the interscale dependencies among wavelet coefficients. The noise-free wavelet coefficients are estimated accurately. Experimental results show that the algorithm proposed is superior to the refined Lee filter, wavelet soft thresbolding shrinkage and SWT shrinkage algorithms in terms of smoothing effects and edges preservation.展开更多
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB417001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41271125)
文摘Lake surface water temperature （SWT） is an important indicator of lake state relative to its water chemistry and aquatic ecosystem,in addition to being an important regional climate indicator.However,few literatures involving spatial-temporal changes of lake SWT in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,including Qinghai Lake,are available.Our objective is to study the spatial-temporal changes in SWT of Qinghai Lake from 2001 to 2010,using Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer （MODIS） data.Based on each pixel,we calculated the temporal SWT variations and long-term trends,compared the spatial patterns of annual average SWT in different years,and mapped and analyzed the seasonal cycles of the spatial patterns of SWT.The results revealed that the differences between the average daily SWT and air temperature during the temperature decreasing phase were relatively larger than those during the temperature increasing phase.The increasing rate of the annual average SWT during the study period was about 0.01℃/a,followed by an increasing rate of about 0.05℃/a in annual average air temperature.The annual average SWT from 2001 to 2010 showed similar spatial patterns,while the SWT spatial changes from January to December demonstrated an interesting seasonal reversion pattern.The high-temperature area transformed stepwise from the south to the north regions and then back to the south region from January to December,whereas the low-temperature area demonstrated a reversed annual cyclical trace.The spatial-temporal patterns of SWTs were shaped by the topography of the lake basin and the distribution of drainages.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.50975260)Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.Z1091027)
文摘Only the fatigue initiation is considered by the safe-life design approach,while fatigue crack propagation is paid more attention by the damage tolerance approach.The reasonable fatigue design method and durability assessment standard should give these two phases equivalent concerns.To develop a unified model of fatigue initiation and crack propagation,a great deal of baseline fatigue properties of a material should be obtained by fatigue experiments.However,there is lack of thorough and comprehensive experiment study on the fatigue properties of 2024-T4 aluminum alloy,which is widely used as load-bearing components in aircraft industry.In this paper,strain-controlled uniaxial,torsion,and combined axial-torsion fatigue experiments are conducted on 2024-T4 aluminum alloy in ambient air.Fully reversed uniaxial and pure torsion experiments employ solid cylindrical specimens.Fatigue experiments under the fully reversed shear loading with a static axial stress,proportional axial-torsion loading,and 90°out-of-phase axial-torsion nonproportional loading are conducted by using thin-walled tubular specimens.The experimental results show that the mean stress has a significant influence on the fatigue strength of the material.A tensile mean stress decreases the fatigue life dramatically,while a compressive mean stress increases the fatigue life.The strain-life fatigue results obtained from the fully reversed uniaxial fatigue experiments can be represented by one smooth curve of a three-parameter equation.However,two fitting curves are needed for characterizing the results of the fully reversed pure torsion fatigue tests because of the existence of an obvious kink.The baseline fatigue properties of 2024-T4 aluminum alloy obtained from the fatigue experiments have applications for the fatigue design and safe assessment of engineering components.
基金A Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (J63104020156) National Defence Foundation of China
文摘An efficient despeclding algorithm is proposed based on stationary wavelet transform （SWT） for synthetic aperture radar （SAR） images. The statistical model of wavelet coefficients is analyzed and its performance is modeled with a mixture density of two zero-mean Gaussian distributions. A fuzzy shrinkage factor is derived based on the minimum mean square error （MMSE） criteria with Bayesian estimation. In the case above, the ideas of region division and fuzzy shrinkage arc adopted according to the interscale dependencies among wavelet coefficients. The noise-free wavelet coefficients are estimated accurately. Experimental results show that the algorithm proposed is superior to the refined Lee filter, wavelet soft thresbolding shrinkage and SWT shrinkage algorithms in terms of smoothing effects and edges preservation.
