Study properties of soft subgrade soil stabilized by sewage sludge/lime and nano-SiO₂

Lin, Deng-Fong,Luo, Huan-Lin,Chen, Chien-Ta,Cai, Ming-Du Techno-Press 2016 Geomechanics & engineering Vol.10 No.6

The pozzolanic characteristics of a sludge incinerated into ash were determined in this study. Lime is commonly used as a stabilizer for the treatment of soils, whereas sewage sludge ash (SSA) is often applied with lime to improve soft subgrade soil. In this study, a cohesive soil categorized as A-4 (low-plasticity clay) by AASHTO classifications was mixed with SSA/lime with a 3:1 ratio. Nano-$SiO_2$ was also added to the soil. To identify changes in the workability, strength, permeability, and shear strength of the soft subgrade soil, basic soil tests were conducted, and the microstructure of the treated soil was analyzed. The results indicate that SSA/lime mixtures improve the properties of soft subgrade soil and transform the soil from "poor subgrade soil" to "good to excellent subgrade soil" with a CBR > 8. Additionally, the addition of 2% nano-$SiO_2$ increases the unconfined compressive strength of soft subgrade soil treated with SSA/lime mixture by approximately 17 kPa. However, the swelling of the treated soil increased by approximately 0.1% after the addition of nano-$SiO_2$ and lime. Thus, soil swelling should be considered before lime and nano-$SiO_2$ are applied to soft subgrade soil.

Atomic - scale Observation of Surface Reactions and Chemical vapor Deposition in Real Time and Real Space

Deng-Sung Lin 한국진공학회 2001 한국진공학회 학술발표회초록집 Vol.- No.-

Improving Bricks (kaolin) Performance by adding Incinerator Bottom Ash and Adjusting Kiln Calcination Temperatures

( Deng-fong Lin ),( Huan-lin Luo ),( Wei-zhu Wang ),( Jia-wen Chen ) 한국폐기물자원순환학회(구 한국폐기물학회) 2019 ISSE 초록집 Vol.2019 No.-

The bottom ash (BA) is the residuals of the municipal trashes after incinerated in an incinerator plant. The BA is usually collected and landfilled as the final disposal treatment. However, it becomes harder finding locations for Taiwan as an island with a very scarce land for the landfill treatment. Moreover, the amount of the BA recycled was far behind the amount produced in which leading to a hard problem for central and local governments. How to properly recycle or reuse of the BA becomes an urgent need. From the results obtained by many different researchers, the use of the BA as a ceramic material may help improve the strength of related products. In this study, the BA was applied as part of the replacement for kaolin in the manufacture of the brick specimens. To investigate the effects of the kiln temperature on the brick specimens and evaluate the related properties of the specimens, the kiln temperatures were set at 850, 900, and 950℃. The municipal solid waste incineration BA was applied as part of kaolin replacement in the manufacture of bricks. Test results showed that the shrinkage increment of bricks tended to be smooth when the BA replacement was larger than 10%. Moreover, the results of loss on ignition indicated that the organic and inorganic matters and heavy metal were mostly burned off at the kiln temperature of 900℃ or above. The compressive strengths of bricks increased with the increase amount of BA replacement. The study of the micro structure observations showed that the silicification of the brick specimen bodies reduced with the increase amount of the BA replacement. Moreover, the results obtained from XRD indicated that the peak intensities of the SiO₂ in the brick specimens decreased with increase amount of the BA replacement. This study suggested that the optimal amount of BA replacement and the kiln temperature were 20% and 950℃, respectively.

Finite-time Control for Discrete-Time Switched Systems with Time Delay

Lin-Lin Hou,Guang-Deng Zong,Yu-Qiang Wu 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2012 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.10 No.4

The problem of finite-time state feedback control is considered in this paper for a class of discrete-time switched systems with time delay. Firstly, the concepts of finite-time stability and finite-time boundedness are extended to discrete-time switched systems with time delay, respectively. Then, by re-sorting to the average dwell time approach and Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional technology, some new delay-dependent criteria guaranteeing finite-time boundedness and stability are developed. The state feedback controller is also obtained by virtue of a cone complement linearization (CCL) method. Finally, a numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed results.

THE LONG-TERM HEMISPHERIC VARIATION OF POLAR FACULAE

Deng, Lin-Hua,Qu, Zhong-Quan,Liu, Ting,Huang, Wen-Juan The Korean Astronomical Society 2011 Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society Vol.44 No.6

In this paper, the long-term hemispheric variation of the polar faculae is investigated. It is found that, (1) both the N-S asymmetry and N-S asynchrony of the polar faculae exhibit a long-term persistence, which suggests that they should not be regarded as a stochastic phenomenon; (2) both the N-S asynchrony and N-S asymmetry of the polar faculae are functions of the latitude, implying that the N-S asynchrony of the polar faculae is related to the N-S asymmetry of the polar faculae; (3) from a long-term view, the dominant hemisphere of the polar faculae seems to have close connection with the phase-leading hemisphere of the polar faculae.

High Performance 32-bit Embedded AES for Wireless Network Router Applications

등린(Deng Lin),유영갑(Younggap You) 大韓電子工學會 2010 電子工學會論文誌-TC (Telecommunications) Vol.47 No.11

본 논문은 고성능32비트 AES구조를 제시한다. 재배열 구조는 5단 파이프라인을 사용한다. 그 안에 ShiftRows/InvShiftRows 모듈은 4단 파이프라인을 사용하고 MixColumn/InvMixColumn 모듈은 1단 파이프라인을 사용한다. Shift rows와 inverse shift rows 같은 구조를 사용한다. Mix column 과 inverse mix column 도 같은 구조를 사용한다. 그리고 RCON구조를 단순화 하여 사이즈를 줄였다. 제안된 구조는 verilogHDL 을 이용하여 구현 하였다. 이 회로의 처리량은 415Mbits/s 이고 크기는 0.18㎛ CMOS 공정에서 13,764 게이트 이다. 재배열 구조는 무선 네트워크 라우터에서 사용할 수 있다. This paper presents a high performance 32-bit single core AES architecture. The proposed architecture employs a 5-stage pipeline: four stages in the ShiftRows/InvShiftRows module, and one stage in the MixColumn/InvMixColumn module. Circuit size reduction has been achieved through merging of the shift rows and inverse shift rows. The mix column and inverse mix column share the same resources. Three 32-bit registers replace the conventional ten 32-bit registers in the RCON architecture. The proposed architecture has been implemented in Verilog HDL, and yields 415 Mbits/s throughput with the circuit size of 13764 gate equivalents on the 0.18㎛ CMOS process technology. This high performance architecture is suitable for wireless network router applications.

Simulation analysis and evaluation of decontamination effect of different abrasive jet process parameters on radioactively contaminated metal

Zhong Lin,Deng Jian,Zuo Zhe-wen,Huang Can-yu,Chen Bo,Lei Lin,Lei Ze-yong,Lei Jie-heng,Zhao Mu,Hua Yun-fei 한국원자력학회 2023 Nuclear Engineering and Technology Vol.55 No.11

A new method of numerical simulating prediction and decontamination effect evaluation for abrasive jet decontamination to radioactively contaminated metal is proposed. Based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics and Discrete Element Model (CFD-DEM) coupled simulation model, the motion patterns and distribution of abrasives can be predicted, and the decontamination effect can be evaluated by image processing and recognition technology. The impact of three key parameters (impact distance, inlet pressure, abrasive mass flow rate) on the decontamination effect is revealed. Moreover, here are experiments of reliability verification to decontamination effect and numerical simulation methods that has been conducted. The results show that: 60Co and other homogeneous solid solution radioactive pollutants can be removed by abrasive jet, and the average removal rate of Co exceeds 80%. It is reliable for the proposed numerical simulation and evaluation method because of the well goodness of fit between predicted value and actual values: The predicted values and actual values of the abrasive distribution diameter are Ф57 and Ф55; the total coverage rate is 26.42% and 23.50%; the average impact velocity is 81.73 m/s and 78.00 m/s. Further analysis shows that the impact distance has a significant impact on the distribution of abrasive particles on the target surface, the coverage rate of the core area increases at first, and then decreases with the increase of the impact distance of the nozzle, which reach a maximum of 14.44% at 300 mm. It is recommended to set the impact distance around 300 mm, because at this time the core area coverage of the abrasive is the largest and the impact velocity is stable at the highest speed of 81.94 m/s. The impact of the nozzle inlet pressure on the decontamination effect mainly affects the impact kinetic energy of the abrasive and has little impact on the distribution. The greater the inlet pressure, the greater the impact kinetic energy, and the stronger the decontamination ability of the abrasive. But in return, the energy consumption is higher, too. For the decontamination of radioactively contaminated metals, it is recommended to set the inlet pressure of the nozzle at around 0.6 MPa. Because most of the Co elements can be removed under this pressure. Increasing the mass and flow of abrasives appropriately can enhance the decontamination effectiveness. The total mass of abrasives per unit decontamination area is suggested to be 50 g because the core area coverage rate of the abrasive is relatively large under this condition; and the nozzle wear extent is acceptable

Study the Thermal Behaviours for Asphalt Concrete Mixed with Basic Oxygen Furnace Slags

( Huan-lin Luo ),( Deng-fong Lin ),( Show-ing Shieh ),( Yi-hong Liu ),( Yu-kai Wang ) 한국폐기물자원순환학회(구 한국폐기물학회) 2019 ISSE 초록집 Vol.2019 No.-

In Taiwan, the basic oxygen furnace (BOF) slags are characterized as porous material and with better heat insulation than that of the natural aggregates. The BOF slags have been applied to the pavement as parts of the natural aggregate replacement. The asphalt concrete (AC) with the BOF slags replacements were well recognized and performed. In this study, parts of natural aggregates were replaced by the BOF slags in the AC helping resolve the gradual shortage of the natural resources and save energy and reduce the produce of carbon. In this study, parts of the natural aggregates were replaced by the coarse and fine BOF slags in the construction of AC. Because the thermal insulation and heat absorption are different between BOF slags and natural aggregates, the infrared thermal conductivity measuring instrument was applied to obtain the surface temperatures presented as thermal infrared images in AC. Then, the infrared temperature distribution images were obtained by using the image transformation techniques. The results show that the thermal conductivity for the AC containing with fine BOF slag was larger than that for the coarse BOF slag. The BOG slag replacement in AC helped improve the thermal insulation in AC. Moreover, the temperature was more uniformly distributed for AC with the fine BOF slag than that for the coarse BOF slag replacement. However, the coarse BOF slag was better in the preserve of energy for AC than that of the fine BOF slag.

Identification of novel rheumatoid arthritis-associated MiRNA-204-5p from plasma exosomes

Wu Long-Fei,Zhang Qin,Mo Xing-Bo,Lin Jun,Wu Yang-Lin,Lu Xin,He Pei,Wu Jian,Guo Yu-Fan,Wang Ming-Jun,Ren Wen-Yan,Deng Hong-Wen,Lei Shu-Feng,Deng Fei-Yan 생화학분자생물학회 2022 Experimental and molecular medicine Vol.54 No.-

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by infiltration of immune cells in the synovium. However, the crosstalk of immune cells and synovial fibroblasts is still largely unknown. Here, global miRNA screening in plasma exosomes was carried out with a custom microarray (RA patients vs. healthy controls = 9:9). A total of 14 exosomal miRNAs were abnormally expressed in the RA patients. Then, downregulated expression of exosomal miR-204-5p was confirmed in both the replication (RA patients vs. healthy controls = 30:30) and validation groups (RA patients vs. healthy controls = 56:60). Similar to the findings obtained in humans, a decreased abundance of exosomal miR-204-5p was observed in mice with collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). Furthermore, Spearman correlation analysis indicated that plasma exosomal miR-204-5p expression was inversely correlated with disease parameters of RA patients, such as rheumatoid factor, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and C-reactive protein. In vitro, our data showed that human T lymphocytes released exosomes containing large amounts of miR-204-5p, which can be transferred into synovial fibroblasts, inhibiting cell proliferation. Overexpression of miR-204-5p in synovial fibroblasts suppressed synovial fibroblast activation by targeting genes related to cell proliferation and invasion. In vivo assays found that administration of lentiviruses expressing miR-204-5p markedly alleviated the disease progression of the mice with CIA. Collectively, this study identified a novel RA-associated plasma exosomal miRNA-204-5p that mediates the communication between immune cells and synovial fibroblasts and can be used as a potential biomarker for RA diagnosis and treatment.

A new conjugate gradient algorithm for solving dynamic load identification

Lin J. Wang,Qi C. Deng,You X. Xie 국제구조공학회 2017 Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An Int'l Jou Vol.64 No.2

In this paper, we propose a new conjugate gradient method which possesses the global convergence and apply it to solve inverse problems of the dynamic loads identification. Moreover, we strictly prove the stability and convergence of the proposed method. Two engineering numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and speediness of the present method which is superior to the Landweber iteration method. The results of numerical simulations indicate that the proposed method is stable and effective in solving the multi-source dynamic loads identification problems of practical engineering.