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- Fu, Jiapeng, et al.
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Identification of the running status of membrane walls in an opposed fired model boiler under varying heating loads
- 2020
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Ingår i: Applied Thermal Engineering. - : Elsevier. - 1359-4311 .- 1873-5606. ; 173, s. 1-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To understand the running status of membrane walls in an opposite firing boiler, a scale-down model furnace was established, and the temperature, heat flux, strain and stress distributions are investigated under four heating loads. Results show that the average membrane wall temperature and heat flux present a continuous increase from 42 oC and 16 W/m2 to 96 oC and 50 W/m2, respectively, with the heating load increase from 25% to full load. The average strain and stress also rise from 88.7 µm and 0.094 MPa to 152.5 µm and 0.148 MPa when the heating load increases from 25% to 50%, but then they keep stable when further increasing the heating load. General distribution patterns of each tested parameter are found relatively similar under varying heating loads. High strain and stress distributions are always detected at the middle left zone of side walls and the middle of the rear wall, where wall temperatures are measured high. External fixed constraints and high-temperature thermal strain is found jointly affecting the strain and stress distribution of the membrane wall. A simplified mechanism of how the strain and stress on boiler membrane walls evolve is proposed after comprehensive discussion of the measurement results.
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- Huang, Zhifeng, et al.
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Three-dimensional posture optimization for biped robot stepping over large ditch based on a ducted-fan propulsion system
- 2020
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Ingår i: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. - 2153-0858 .- 2153-0866. ; , s. 3591-3597
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The recent progress of an ongoing project utilizing a ducted-fan propulsion system to improve a humanoid robot's ability to step over large ditches is reported. A novel method (GAS) based on the genetic algorithm with smoothness constraint can effectively minimize the thrust by optimizing the robot's posture during 3D stepping. The significant advantage of the method is that it can realize the continuity and smoothness of the thrust and pelvis trajectories. The method enables the landing point of the robot's swing foot to be not only in the forward but also in a side direction. The methods were evaluated by simulation and by being applied on a prototype robot, JetHR1. By keeping a quasistatic balance, the robot could step over a ditch with a span of 450 mm (as much as 97% of the length of the robot's leg) in 3D stepping.
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- Wei, Jiapeng, et al.
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Kinetic models reveal the interplay of protein production and aggregation
- 2024
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Ingår i: Chemical Science. - 2041-6520.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Protein aggregation is a key process in the development of many neurodegenerative disorders, including dementias such as Alzheimer's disease. Significant progress has been made in understanding the molecular mechanisms of aggregate formation in pure buffer systems, much of which was enabled by the development of integrated rate laws that allowed for mechanistic analysis of aggregation kinetics. However, in order to translate these findings into disease-relevant conclusions and to make predictions about the effect of potential alterations to the aggregation reactions by the addition of putative inhibitors, the current models need to be extended to account for the altered situation encountered in living systems. In particular, in vivo, the total protein concentrations typically do not remain constant and aggregation-prone monomers are constantly being produced but also degraded by cells. Here, we build a theoretical model that explicitly takes into account monomer production, derive integrated rate laws and discuss the resulting scaling laws and limiting behaviours. We demonstrate that our models are suited for the aggregation-prone Huntington's disease-associated peptide HttQ45 utilizing a system for continuous in situ monomer production and the aggregation of the tumour suppressor protein P53. The aggregation-prone HttQ45 monomer was produced through enzymatic cleavage of a larger construct in which a fused protein domain served as an internal inhibitor. For P53, only the unfolded monomers form aggregates, making the unfolding a rate-limiting step which constitutes a source of aggregation-prone monomers. The new model opens up possibilities for a quantitative description of aggregation in living systems, allowing for example the modelling of inhibitors of aggregation in a dynamic environment of continuous protein synthesis.
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