怎样减小振动对SC切石英晶体振荡器的影响

要给现代化通讯、导航及雷达系统提供必要的频谱纯度,就必须减小石英谐振器的加速灵敏度(γ),例如从γ=10~(-10)/g 减小到γ=10~(-12)/g。为了实现这一目的,当前正在研究几种(仅与谐振器有关的)无源法。专门设计的单谐振器和双谐振器是无源法应用的两个实例。应用电子线路的有源法已经进行了研究,它能进一步使振动影响减到1/50。然而,用来实现这种方法的变容二极管的非线性限制了可能达到的最终减小量。本文介绍一种可供使用的有源法。这种方法的原理是应用 SC 切晶体的线性电压～频率特性,而要点在于把相位适当的振动模拟信号电压直接加在晶体电极上。用几块不同的SC 切晶体所做的一系列试验都确认了这种有源法的效果。把晶体振荡器略加修改,是为了加入补偿电压,而不会改变振荡器的电路原理。补偿测试范围:加速度1至14g,振动频率50至500Hz;补偿电压大小取决于γ的初值,可从-20至+20V(峰-峰值)。初步实验结果表明,在不连续的频率上γ值几乎能降低三个数量级,在50到500Hz 连续频率范围能降低一个数量级。     

CELSS nutrition system utilizing snails

At the 40th IAF Congress in Malaga, a nutrition system for a lunar base CELSS was presented. A lunar base with a total of eight crew members was envisaged. In this paper, four species of plants--rice, soybean, lettuce and strawberry--were introduced to the system. These plants were sufficient to satisfy fundamental nutritional needs of the crew members. The supply of nutrition from plants and the human nutritional requirements could almost be balanced. Our study revealed that the necessary plant cultivation area per crew member would be nearly 40 m3 in the lunar base. The sources of nutrition considered in the study were energy, sugar, fat, amino acids, inorganic salt and vitamins; however, calcium, vitamin B2, vitamin A and sodium were found to be lacking. Therefore, a subsystem to supply these elements is of considerable value. In this paper, we report on a study for breeding snails and utilizing meat as food. Nutrients supplied from snails are shown to compensate for the above mentioned lacking elements. We evaluate the snail breeder and the associated food supply system as a subsystem of closed ecological life support system.     

Leg venous hemodynamics and leg volumes during a 42 day -6 degrees head-down bedrest

Seven healthy subjects were submitted to a 42-day head down bedrest, where leg venous compliance (venous distensibity index VDI) and leg volumes were assessed by mercury strain gauge plethysmography with venous occlusion and optoelectronic plethysmography, respectively. Plethysmographic and volometric measurements were made, before, during (at days 1, 4, 7, 14, 21, 26, 34 and 41), and after bedrest (days 1, 4, 7, 11 and 30 of the recovery period). Results showed a continuous decrease in leg volumes throughout bedrest, when VDI increased until day 26 of bedrest, and then decreased afterwards. The recovery period was characterized by a rapid return of VDI to prebedrest levels while leg volumes progressively normalised. These results showed that leg venous compliance changes are not always dependant upon skeletal muscle changes, and that factors other than size of muscle compartment are able to determine increases in leg venous compliance during long-term bedrest.     

Spatial orientation during locomotion [correction of locomation] following space flight

To investigate changes in spatial orientation ability and walking performance following space flight, 7 astronaut subjects were asked pre- and post-flight to perform a goal directed locomotion paradigm which consisted of walking a triangular path with and without vision. This new paradigm, involving inputs from different sensory systems, allows quantification of several critical parameters, like orientation performance, walking velocities and postural stability, in a natural walking task. The paper presented here mainly focusses on spatial orientation performance quantified by the errors in walking the previously seen path without vision. Errors in length and reaching the corners did not change significantly from pre- to post-flight, while absolute angular errors slightly increased post-flight. The significant decrease in walking velocity and a change in head-trunk coordination while walking around the corners of the path observed post-flight may suggest that during re-adaptation to gravity the mechanisms which are necessary to perform the task have to be re-accomplished.     

Influence of graviceptives cues at different level of visual information processing: the effect of prolonged weightlessness

We evaluated the influence of prolonged weightlessness on the performance of visual tasks in the course of the Russian-French missions ANTARES, Post-ANTARES and ALTAIR aboard the MIR station. Eight cosmonauts were subjects in two experiments executed pre-flight, in-flight and post-flight sessions.

In the first experiment, cosmonauts performed a task of symmetry detection in 2-D polygons. The results indicate that this detection is locked in a head retinal reference frame rather than in an environmentally defined one as meridional orientations of symmetry axis (vertical and horizontal) elicited faster response times than oblique ones. However, in weightlessness the saliency of a retinally vertical axis of symmetry is no longer significantly different from an horizontal axis. In the second experiment, cosmonauts performed a mental rotation task in which they judged whether two 3-D objects presented in different orientations were identical. Performance on this task is basically identical in weightlessness and normal gravity.     

Lower body negative pressure (LBNP) as a countermeasure for long term spaceflight

The article presents the current status of lower body negative pressure (LBNP) as a countermeasure for preventing orthostatic intolerance after space flight or bed rest. Devices discussed include the Chibis vacuum suit, the Anthrorack device, a collapsible device, and an inflatable device. Two bed rest studies examined the effect of LBNP and exercise on orthostatic tolerance; plasma volume; vasopressin, plasma renin activity, and catecholamines; and side effects.     

恒幅加载下7475-T7351铝合金的疲劳裂纹扩展行为

 本文进行了7475-T7351铝合金板材中心开裂试样恒幅加载宽范围应力比下的疲劳裂纹扩展试验。考虑到裂纹张开应力的确定是基于裂纹闭合概念进行裂纹扩展寿命预测的基础,且在工程应用中需要方便地确定有效应力强度因子变程△K_(ett)。本文通过疲劳裂纹扩展速率da/dN的试验数据导出了所研究材料的裂纹张开应力的经验表达式,进而用有效应力强度因子变程△K_(ett)来联系试验数据,得到对于不同应力比下裂纹扩展行为的统一描述。试验发现,无量纲裂纹张开应力S_(op)/S_(max)随所加最大毛应力水平的提高而降低。 断口分析表明,对于所试验的材料由拉伸型平断口向剪切型斜断口的转变主要受△K_(ett)控制,并注意到由拉伸型向剪切型裂纹增长的过渡对应着S_(op)/S_(max)增加的趋势。     

铸造高温合金熔炼工艺中的冶金原则

文中介绍了苏联铸造高温合金工艺中冶金原则的发展。除去合金化元素之外,杂质元素和微量添加元素是决定合金组织和性能的最重要因素之一。文中详细讨论了在不同条件下它们对合金高温性能的影响。结论中提出改进铸造高温合金冶炼工艺的若干有效的措施。