Volume Compatibility of Interlayer Treatment Materials with Roller-Compacted Concrete

Xiaoliang Zhu,Yuxin Gao,Wenjing Song,Jingjing Xu,Chengyang Li,Zhaoheng Guo,Fang Chen,Rui Zhang 대한토목학회 2022 KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering Vol.26 No.3

Interlayer is the weakest plane of the entire roller-compacted concrete (RCC) structure and is easily deteriorated under the pressure of water and other environmental factors. Shearing force induced by the different shrinkage in interlayer part is the main reason for that poor performance of the RCC. In this paper, the deformation of RCC concrete and interlayer treatment mortar with supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs, including fly ash and silica fume) and double expansive resources admixtures (HME, containing calcium sulphoaluminate (CSA) and CaO) were studied. Deformation of concrete (produced RCC) and interlayer treatment materials was modeled and compared. Porosity characters of interlayer treatment materials and water absorption of interlayer-treated RCC samples were tested. Results showed that the HME significantly reduced the shrinkage of mortar and the deformation difference degree between layers was shortened. Modified interlayer treatment materials with HME could modify the macroscopic properties of RCC, the low porosity of interlayer and water absorption of interlayer-treated RCC was resulted. The suitable HME content is necessary in interlayer treatment materials and which could improve the performance of RCC.

The effect of lanthanum on the solidification curve and microstructure of Al-Mg alloy during eutectic solidification

Xie, Shikun,Yi, Rongxi,Guo, Xiuyan,Pan, Xiaoliang,Xia, Xiang Techno-Press 2015 Advances in materials research Vol.4 No.2

The influence of rare earth lanthanum (La) on solidification cooling range, microstructure of aluminum-magnesium (Al-Mg) alloy and mechanical properties were investigated. Five kinds of Al-Mg alloys with rare earth content of La (i.e., 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 wt.%) were prepared. Samples were either slowly cooled in furnace or water cooled. Results indicate that the addition of the rare earth (RE) La can significantly influence the solidification range, the resultant microstructure, and tensile strength. RE La can extend the alloy solidification range, increase the solidification time, and also greatly improve the flow performance. The addition of La takes a metamorphism effect on Al-Mg alloy, resulting in that the finer the grain is obtained, the rounder the morphology becomes. RE La can significantly increase the mechanical properties for its metamorphism and reinforcement. When the La content is about 1.5 wt.%, the tensile strength of Al-Mg alloy reaches its maximum value of 314 MPa.

Thermal deformation prediction for spindle system of machining center based on multi-source heterogeneous information fusion

Yushen Chen,Xiaolei Deng,Xiaoliang Lin,Shupeng Guo,Shaofei Jiang,Jianqiang Zhou 대한기계학회 2023 JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Vol.37 No.8

In order to predict the thermal deformation of CNC machine tool spindle system more accurately, a method based on multi-source heterogeneous information fusion is proposed. Aiming at the problem that it is difficult to obtain the global information of thermal deformation with a single type of information source, the effective prediction of thermal deformation of spindle system in machining center is realized under the fusion of temperature and vibration signals. First, the combined denoising method of empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and wavelet threshold is used to preprocess the vibration data. Then, the time-domain, frequencydomain, and time-frequency features of vibration signals are extracted, and the feature dimension is reduced based on correlation analysis and kernel principal component analysis (KPCA). After dimensionality reduction, the vibration data and temperature information are fused in the eigenmatrix. The nonlinear prediction of thermal deformation is studied by support vector regression for grid search parameter optimization (GS-SVR) and support vector regression for particle swarm optimization (PSO-SVR) methods. In order to realize the information acquisition of multi-channel temperature, vibration, and verify the effectiveness of the prediction model in the case of information fusion, a specific machining center is taken as the research object and experiments are performed based on multi-channel and heterogeneous signal acquisition. Finally, the prediction results based on different information sources are compared and analyzed. The results show that the thermal deformation of the machine tool obtained by the multi-source heterogeneous information fusion method is consistent with the actual test results. As compared with the predicted performance using only temperature information, the mean square error (MSE) decreased by 0.1663 μm. Therefore, the temperature - vibration information fusion model has higher accuracy in terms of predicting the thermal deformation of the spindle system model.

Strength and Mechanism of Carbonated Solidified Clay with Steel Slag Curing Agent

Man Li,Qiang Wang,Jingdong Yang,Xiaoliang Guo,Wenjun Zhou 대한토목학회 2021 KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Vol.25 No.3

Industrial wastes, such as steel slag and desulfurized gypsum, are piled up in large quantities and only a very small portion is recycled, adversely impacting natural ecosystems. Meanwhile, environmental problems caused by CO2 have increasingly received attention. Hence, this study introduces a novel environmentally friendly composite, formed by sodium hydroxide (used as an activator), desulfurized gypsum and steel slag (S-GS). The main objective of this study is to evaluate the potential use of S-GS for solidifying clay under the condition of carbonation curing. Besides, the samples’ characteristics are investigated according to the tests of unconfined compressive strength (UCS), pH, carbonation depth, quality loss and scanning electron microscope (SEM). It is found that the UCS of solidified clay decreases with the increasing water content while it increases first and then decreases with the increasing desulfurized gypsum content, reaching the maximum when the water content is 0.5 times the liquid limit and the content of desulfurized gypsum is 8%. Moreover, compared with the standard curing, carbonation curing can stimulate the activity of S-GS to improve the UCS of samples more effectively. With the increasing carbonation curing time, the mass loss rate and carbonation depth of samples increase while the pH value decreases. Additionally, based on the normalized analysis, the carbonation time has the most significant effect on the UCS. Furthermore, the SEM results indicate that formation of Calcium carbonate and Magnesium carbonate are primary reasons for improving the UCS of the stabilised clay during carbonization. This research promotes steel slag and desulfurized gypsum as green stabilisers for soil stabilization, and the method of carbonation curing contributes to the higher UCS, which also greatly shortens the curing time.

A Novel MAP Kinase Gene in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), GhMAPK, is Involved in Response to Diverse Environmental Stresses

Wang, Meimei,Zhang, Ying,Wang, Jian,Wu, Xiaoliang,Guo, Xingqi Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biol 2007 Journal of biochemistry and molecular biology Vol.40 No.3

The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade is one of the major and evolutionally conserved signaling pathways and plays pivotal role in the regulation of stress and developmental signals in plants. Here, a novel gene, termed Gossypium hirsutum MAPK (GhMAPK), was isolated from cotton. The full-length cDNA of GhMAPK encodes for a 372 amino acid protein that contains all 11 of the MAPK conserved subdomains and the phosphorylationactivation motif, TEY. Amino acid sequence alignment revealed that GhMAPK shared high identity with group-C MAPK in plants and showed 83~89% similarities with MAPKs from Arabidopsis, apricot, pea, petunia, and tobacco. Southern blot analysis indicated that the GhMAPK belonged to a multygene family in cotton. Two introns were found within the region of genomic sequence. Northern blot analysis revealed that the transcripts of GhMAPK accumulated markedly when the cotton seedlings were subjected to various abiotic stimuli such as wounding, cold (4$^{\circ}C$), or salinity stress; Furthermore, GhMAPK was upregulated by the exogenous signaling molecules, such as salicylic acid (SA) and hydrogen peroxide ($H_2O_2C$), as well as pathogen attacks. These results indicate that the GhMAPK, which has a high degree of identity with group-C plant MAPKs, may also play an important role in response to environmental stresses.

RUNX1 Ameliorates Rheumatoid Arthritis Progression through Epigenetic Inhibition of LRRC15

Jian-ning Zhao,Hao Ding,Xiaoliang Mei,Lintao Li,Peng Fang,Ting Guo 한국분자세포생물학회 2023 Molecules and cells Vol.46 No.4

Leucine-rich repeat containing 15 (LRRC15) has been identified as a contributing factor for cartilage damage in osteoarthritis; however, its involvement in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the underlying mechanisms have not been well characterized. The purpose of this study was to explore the function of LRRC15 in RA-associated fibroblastlike synoviocytes (RA-FLS) and in mice with collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) and to dissect the epigenetic mechanisms involved. LRRC15 was overexpressed in the synovial tissues of patients with RA, and LRRC15 overexpression was associated with increased proliferative, migratory, invasive, and angiogenic capacities of RA-FLS and accelerated release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. LRRC15 knockdown significantly inhibited synovial proliferation and reduced bone invasion and destruction in CIA mice. Runt-related transcription factor 1 (RUNX1) transcriptionally represses LRRC15 by binding to core-binding factor subunit beta (CBF-β). Overexpression of RUNX1 significantly inhibited the invasive phenotype of RA-FLS and suppressed the expression of proinflammatory cytokines. Conversely, the effects of RUNX1 were significantly reversed after overexpression of LRRC15 or inhibition of RUNX1-CBF-β interactions. Therefore, we demonstrated that RUNX1-mediated transcriptional repression of LRRC15 inhibited the development of RA, which may have therapeutic effects for RA patients.