By combining sequencing batch reactor (SBR) activated sludge process and constructed wetland (CW), this study is to achieve the domestic wastewater treatment. Our purpose was to determine the optimum operating paramet...By combining sequencing batch reactor (SBR) activated sludge process and constructed wetland (CW), this study is to achieve the domestic wastewater treatment. Our purpose was to determine the optimum operating parameters of the combined process. The process involved advantages and shortages of SBR and CW. Under normal temperature, the 3rd cycle (SBR’s operation cycle is 8 h: inflow for 1 h, limited aeration for 3 h, sediment for 1 h, outflow for 1 h, and idling for 2 h; CW’s hydraulic retention time (HRT) is 24.8 h and hydraulic loading is 24.5 m3/m2 d) was the best cyclic mode. The effluents can meet the standard GB/T18921-2002: "The reuse of urban recycling water: water quality standard for scenic environment use". In the 3rd cycle, the efficiency of CW was the maximum, and energy consumption of SBR was the minimum. Under the condition of low dissolved oxygen, the removing efficiency of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia was not affected obviously. Simultaneously, nitrification and denitrification phenomena occured and phosphorus was absorbed obviously.展开更多
This paper proposes a novel seismometer-type absolute displacement sensor aimed at detecting earthquake waves with a large magnitude and long period. However, since the measuring range of the displacement sensor is hi...This paper proposes a novel seismometer-type absolute displacement sensor aimed at detecting earthquake waves with a large magnitude and long period. However, since the measuring range of the displacement sensor is higher than its natural frequency, it is difficult to detect low frequency vibrations below 1 Hz using a conventional a seismic-type displacement sensor. In order to provide an absolute displacement detection which is capable of lowering the natural frequency and enlarging the detectable amplitude without causing structural defects, the relative signals of displacement, velocity, and acceleration between a detected object and the auxiliary mass of the sensor are fed back into the sensor. In addition, phase lag compensation is inserted to adjust phase angles, which are of a frequency of 1 Hz. According to simulation results, a detection range from 0.1 Hz to 50 Hz is expected. It has been demonstrated that the developed sensor with a small size and light weight has a detection range of from 0.5 Hz to 50 Hz for absolute displacement and velocity. As an additional advantage, the measurement displacement amplitude has been expanded to about 20 dB. This sensor is available to use for the active control method. of flexible structures like high rise buildings using the LQ control展开更多
This article examines Block A,the first block-style building in Heybeliada Sanatorium in Istanbul.The purpose of this research is to understand its architectural and spatial development and discuss how in fact it was ...This article examines Block A,the first block-style building in Heybeliada Sanatorium in Istanbul.The purpose of this research is to understand its architectural and spatial development and discuss how in fact it was a“prototype”of Turkish sanatoria.Approached with a three-step methodology(documentation/evaluation/results)this research conducts architectural and spatial analysis on Block A.Primary sources like architectural documentation and restitution drawings,the writings of the institution’s head doctor Tevfik Ismail Gökçe,periodicals on tuberculosis(TB),as well as pertinent literature are utilized.The findings demonstrate that Block A’s development(1924—1945)was the result of knowledge transfer that introduced the universal sanatorium design principles,spatial experiments,adaptation to sociocultural norms,and trial-and-error processes.Not only it had a major impact on shaping of the second block-type building in the complex,the“model”Block B,but it also became exemplary of the subsequent Turkish sanatoria.The originality of this article is its exploration of the changing and evolving Block A in its resonation with the cultural tensions of Turkey’s modernization process.This was established via the assessment of budgetary issues,medical developments and climatic experiments,the social issue of scarcity of TB beds in the country,spatial practices to separate the sexes as reflections of local traditions and culture in the shaping of spaces.展开更多
The reduction of frictional power losses in power transmitting gears takes a crucial role in the design of energy-and resource-efficient drivetrains.Water-containing lubricants like glycerol and polyalkylene glycols h...The reduction of frictional power losses in power transmitting gears takes a crucial role in the design of energy-and resource-efficient drivetrains.Water-containing lubricants like glycerol and polyalkylene glycols have shown great potential in achieving friction within the superlubricity regime with coefficients of friction lower than 0.01 under elastohydrodynamic lubrication.Additionally,a bio-based production of the base stocks can lead to the development of green lubricants.However,one challenge associated with the application of water-containing lubricants to gearboxes is the evaporation of water and its impact on the lubricant properties.In this study,the influence of water evaporation on elastohydrodynamic friction and film thickness was investigated for three water-containing polyalkylene glycols.Two nominal water contents of 20 wt%and 40 wt%and two viscosities were considered.The results show that the friction increases continuously with higher evaporated water content,while the overall friction level remains low in nearly water-free states.A similar trend is observed for film thickness,where the strong increase in viscosity results in a notable increase in film thickness.Nevertheless,the sensitivity of friction and film thickness to water evaporation is low for small amounts of evaporated water.This allows generous thresholds for permissible variations in water content.展开更多
In recent years,the addition of carbon nanotubes to construction materials has attracted considerable interest,due to the improvement of mechanical,electrical,and thermal properties of cement.The incor-poration of car...In recent years,the addition of carbon nanotubes to construction materials has attracted considerable interest,due to the improvement of mechanical,electrical,and thermal properties of cement.The incor-poration of carbon nanotubes into a cement matrix causes an increase of several mechanical properties of up to 170%even with low carbon nanotubes concentrations.The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of the type of functionalization and number of walls of carbon nanotubes on the interaction between these nanostructures and a cement surface and thus,on the improvement of their mechan-ical properties.Thus,single-walled and double-walled carbon nano-tubes were used to investigate the influence of the number of walls.The effect of carbon nanotube functionalization was studied using carbon nanotubes functionalized with carboxyl and carboxylate groups.The experimental results demonstrate that the incorporation of carbon nanotubes into the cement matrix improves the mechanical properties of the resulting material.Functionalized carbon nanotubes perform better than pristine carbon nanotubes.Electrostatic attrac-tions play a central role in establishing strong interactions between the carbon nanotubes and the cement surface.The presence of neutral polar groups on the carbon nanotube surface also improves this interaction.The number of walls seems to be less important.展开更多
Social Media have increasingly provided data about the movement of people in cities making them useful in understanding the daily life of people in different geographies.Particularly useful for travel analysis is when...Social Media have increasingly provided data about the movement of people in cities making them useful in understanding the daily life of people in different geographies.Particularly useful for travel analysis is when Social Media users allow(voluntarily or not)tracing their movement using geotagged information of their communication with these online platforms.In this paper we use geotagged tweets from 10 cities in the European Union and United States of America to extract spatiotemporal patterns,study differences and commonalities among these cities,and explore the nature of user location recurrence.The analysis here shows the distinction between residents and tourists is fundamental for the development of city-wide models.Identification of repeated rates of location(recurrence)can be used to define activity spaces.Differences and similarities across different geographies emerge from this analysis in terms of local distributions but also in terms of the worldwide reach among the cities explored here.The comparison of the temporal signature between geotagged and non-geotagged tweets also shows similar temporal distributions that capture in essence city rhythms of tweets and activity spaces.展开更多
基金Funded by Sustainable Water Management Improves Tomorrow’s City’s Health (SWITCH018530)
文摘By combining sequencing batch reactor (SBR) activated sludge process and constructed wetland (CW), this study is to achieve the domestic wastewater treatment. Our purpose was to determine the optimum operating parameters of the combined process. The process involved advantages and shortages of SBR and CW. Under normal temperature, the 3rd cycle (SBR’s operation cycle is 8 h: inflow for 1 h, limited aeration for 3 h, sediment for 1 h, outflow for 1 h, and idling for 2 h; CW’s hydraulic retention time (HRT) is 24.8 h and hydraulic loading is 24.5 m3/m2 d) was the best cyclic mode. The effluents can meet the standard GB/T18921-2002: "The reuse of urban recycling water: water quality standard for scenic environment use". In the 3rd cycle, the efficiency of CW was the maximum, and energy consumption of SBR was the minimum. Under the condition of low dissolved oxygen, the removing efficiency of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia was not affected obviously. Simultaneously, nitrification and denitrification phenomena occured and phosphorus was absorbed obviously.
文摘This paper proposes a novel seismometer-type absolute displacement sensor aimed at detecting earthquake waves with a large magnitude and long period. However, since the measuring range of the displacement sensor is higher than its natural frequency, it is difficult to detect low frequency vibrations below 1 Hz using a conventional a seismic-type displacement sensor. In order to provide an absolute displacement detection which is capable of lowering the natural frequency and enlarging the detectable amplitude without causing structural defects, the relative signals of displacement, velocity, and acceleration between a detected object and the auxiliary mass of the sensor are fed back into the sensor. In addition, phase lag compensation is inserted to adjust phase angles, which are of a frequency of 1 Hz. According to simulation results, a detection range from 0.1 Hz to 50 Hz is expected. It has been demonstrated that the developed sensor with a small size and light weight has a detection range of from 0.5 Hz to 50 Hz for absolute displacement and velocity. As an additional advantage, the measurement displacement amplitude has been expanded to about 20 dB. This sensor is available to use for the active control method. of flexible structures like high rise buildings using the LQ control
基金This project is titled Architecture of Convalescence:Mapping the Sanatorium Heritage of Turkey and it was awarded by the Turkish Architects'Association 1927(Mimarlar Dernegi 1927)with the Modern Architecture Research Award in 2022.
文摘This article examines Block A,the first block-style building in Heybeliada Sanatorium in Istanbul.The purpose of this research is to understand its architectural and spatial development and discuss how in fact it was a“prototype”of Turkish sanatoria.Approached with a three-step methodology(documentation/evaluation/results)this research conducts architectural and spatial analysis on Block A.Primary sources like architectural documentation and restitution drawings,the writings of the institution’s head doctor Tevfik Ismail Gökçe,periodicals on tuberculosis(TB),as well as pertinent literature are utilized.The findings demonstrate that Block A’s development(1924—1945)was the result of knowledge transfer that introduced the universal sanatorium design principles,spatial experiments,adaptation to sociocultural norms,and trial-and-error processes.Not only it had a major impact on shaping of the second block-type building in the complex,the“model”Block B,but it also became exemplary of the subsequent Turkish sanatoria.The originality of this article is its exploration of the changing and evolving Block A in its resonation with the cultural tensions of Turkey’s modernization process.This was established via the assessment of budgetary issues,medical developments and climatic experiments,the social issue of scarcity of TB beds in the country,spatial practices to separate the sexes as reflections of local traditions and culture in the shaping of spaces.
基金based on the research project CHEPHREN(Nos.03EN4005A and 03EN4029A)supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action(BMWK)supervised by Project Management Jülich(PtJ).
文摘The reduction of frictional power losses in power transmitting gears takes a crucial role in the design of energy-and resource-efficient drivetrains.Water-containing lubricants like glycerol and polyalkylene glycols have shown great potential in achieving friction within the superlubricity regime with coefficients of friction lower than 0.01 under elastohydrodynamic lubrication.Additionally,a bio-based production of the base stocks can lead to the development of green lubricants.However,one challenge associated with the application of water-containing lubricants to gearboxes is the evaporation of water and its impact on the lubricant properties.In this study,the influence of water evaporation on elastohydrodynamic friction and film thickness was investigated for three water-containing polyalkylene glycols.Two nominal water contents of 20 wt%and 40 wt%and two viscosities were considered.The results show that the friction increases continuously with higher evaporated water content,while the overall friction level remains low in nearly water-free states.A similar trend is observed for film thickness,where the strong increase in viscosity results in a notable increase in film thickness.Nevertheless,the sensitivity of friction and film thickness to water evaporation is low for small amounts of evaporated water.This allows generous thresholds for permissible variations in water content.
基金This work was supported by the Universidad Europea de Madrid[UEM2018].
文摘In recent years,the addition of carbon nanotubes to construction materials has attracted considerable interest,due to the improvement of mechanical,electrical,and thermal properties of cement.The incor-poration of carbon nanotubes into a cement matrix causes an increase of several mechanical properties of up to 170%even with low carbon nanotubes concentrations.The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of the type of functionalization and number of walls of carbon nanotubes on the interaction between these nanostructures and a cement surface and thus,on the improvement of their mechan-ical properties.Thus,single-walled and double-walled carbon nano-tubes were used to investigate the influence of the number of walls.The effect of carbon nanotube functionalization was studied using carbon nanotubes functionalized with carboxyl and carboxylate groups.The experimental results demonstrate that the incorporation of carbon nanotubes into the cement matrix improves the mechanical properties of the resulting material.Functionalized carbon nanotubes perform better than pristine carbon nanotubes.Electrostatic attrac-tions play a central role in establishing strong interactions between the carbon nanotubes and the cement surface.The presence of neutral polar groups on the carbon nanotube surface also improves this interaction.The number of walls seems to be less important.
基金partially funded by the DAAD Project(No.57474280)Verkehr-SuTra:Technologies for Sustainable Transportation,within the Programme:A New Passage to India—Deutsch-Indische Hochschulkooperationen ab 2019the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research,Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung(BMBF),project FuturTrans:Indo-German Collaborative Research Center on Intelligent Transportation Systemsby the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No.815069(project MOMENTUM(Modelling Emerging Transport Solutions for Urban Mobility)).
文摘Social Media have increasingly provided data about the movement of people in cities making them useful in understanding the daily life of people in different geographies.Particularly useful for travel analysis is when Social Media users allow(voluntarily or not)tracing their movement using geotagged information of their communication with these online platforms.In this paper we use geotagged tweets from 10 cities in the European Union and United States of America to extract spatiotemporal patterns,study differences and commonalities among these cities,and explore the nature of user location recurrence.The analysis here shows the distinction between residents and tourists is fundamental for the development of city-wide models.Identification of repeated rates of location(recurrence)can be used to define activity spaces.Differences and similarities across different geographies emerge from this analysis in terms of local distributions but also in terms of the worldwide reach among the cities explored here.The comparison of the temporal signature between geotagged and non-geotagged tweets also shows similar temporal distributions that capture in essence city rhythms of tweets and activity spaces.
