Thoracic sonography for pneumothorax: the clinical evaluation of an operational space medicine spin-off

The recent interest in the use of ultrasound (US) to detect pneumothoraces after acute trauma in North America was initially driven by an operational space medicine concern. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are at risk for pneumothoraces, and US is the only potential medical imaging available. Pneumothoraces are common following trauma, and are a preventable cause of death, as most are treatable with relatively simple interventions. While pneumothoraces are optimally diagnosed clinically, they are more often inapparent even on supine chest radiographs (CXR) with recent series reporting a greater than 50% rate of occult pneumothoraces. In the course of basic scientific investigations in a conventional and parabolic flight laboratory, investigators familiarized themselves with the sonographic features of both pneumothoraces and normal pulmonary ventilation. By examining the visceral–parietal pleural interface (VPPI) with US, investigators became confident in diagnosing pneumothoraces. This knowledge was subsequently translated into practice at an American and a Canadian trauma center. The sonographic examination was found to be more accurate and sensitive than CXR (US 96% and 100% versus US 74% and 36%) in specific circumstances. Initial studies have also suggested that detecting the US features of pleural pulmonary ventilation in the left lung field may offer the ability to exclude serious endotracheal tube malpositions such as right mainstem and esophageal intubations. Applied thoracic US is an example of a clinically useful space medicine spin-off that is improving health care on earth.     

阵风载荷减缓系统故障分析

阵风引起的额外载荷会引起飞机结构疲劳,降低结构使用寿命。采用非定常气动力有理函数拟合方法建立时域状态空间下的动力学系统,设计了阵风载荷减缓系统。研究了阵风载荷减缓系统3种典型故障模式(副翼偏转饱和、舵机卡死、副翼偏转延时)的力学建模方法,并对机翼在阵风减缓系统故障模式下的阵风响应进行分析。仿真结果表明,3种故障模式均不利于阵风载荷减缓系统对阵风载荷的减缓,对于一些特定情况,故障模式下的阵风载荷减缓系统不仅不能减缓阵风载荷,还会带来由副翼偏转不当引起的额外负载。     

绿色制造中的干切削技术

冷却润滑液的存储、使用以及废弃处理需要专门的物流系统,因而费用很高;冷却润滑液处理不当会对人的健康以及环境造成危害;工件经过湿加工后必须进行清洁处理,这都费时费力,同时增加了对系统的要求.基于上述原因,近年来干切削技术受到广泛关注.     

溅镀C轴倾斜的压电膜和切变波谐振器

作者对溅镀的压电膜能否应用于甚高频至微波频率的声波器件进行了研究。本文介绍了切变波谐振器用的C轴倾斜的氧化锌(ZnO)和氮化铝(AlN)膜的生长及特性。文中计算了某些膜的切变波激动的定向关系。这些膜在C轴取向与表面法线成大约45°时,可能激励出接近于纯的切变波。在其他角度,则只能激励准切变波和准纵向波。 C轴对膜法线倾斜方向合适的ZnO或AlN膜,是在配有辅助阳极的反应式直流面磁控管溅镀系统中生长的。这类膜可用扫描式电子显微镜(SEM)和体声波器件测量法进行鉴定。自Si基片法线倾斜的C轴晶粒柱形结构可在扫描式电子显微镜中清楚地看到。C轴倾斜角达45°,厚度达10微米的薄膜已经制做成功。在P~+Si基片上溅镀上ZnO和AlN可以制成复合谐振器。这类谐振器的Q值在200兆赫到500兆赫基频谐振范围内大约为5000。特别令人感兴趣的是可以对谐振频率进行温度补偿。在ZnO/Si和AlN/Si的复合结构上已制造出室温下串联谐振频率的绝对温度系数小于1×10~6/℃的谐振器。ZnO和AlN晶片谐振器的温度系数已测出为-36.2×10~-6/℃和-25×10~-6/℃。这表明P~+Si基片在切变膜时的温度系数大约是+9×10~6/℃、     

用摄动法对某直升机动力传动系统进行机械扭振动力学参数敏感性研究

本文采取摄动法对某直升机动力/传动/旋翼(尾桨)机械扭振系统进行了参数敏感性分析,并提出了扭振调频的指导性意见。     

战术应用卫星成像系统

战术成像显示试验系统（ＴＩＤＥＳ）的目标在于研制由战场指挥官控制、根据需要以合理成本发射的小型战术应用成像卫星。其成像有效载荷为两台改进型施密特相机，采用线性ＣＣＤ，在７００ｋｍ的极地太阳同步轨道上分辨率可达到５ｍ。实验表明，应用一些新技术，如采用新研制的编码本处理芯片（ＣＰＣ）的矢量量化（ＶＱ）技术将有能力在获取高质量图像的同时把图像压缩１２：１或更高，这就可减小从卫星到地面的数据传输带宽、星载     

熔化石英球体体积的确定

描述了对水的密度进行绝对测量的熔化石英球体体积的确定。此球体的直径用光学干涉仪测量,即将此球体放置在两个平行标准板之间,而其间距的精确值已知。通过测量每块标准板表面到球体之间的间隙而测得其直径。为了使用精确的分数法,采用了两种波长:频率稳定的 He-Ne 激光器为633nm 及 He-Cd 激光器为441nm。详细阐述了为干涉仪克服熔化石英表面的低反射性而采取的特殊安排。同时,也介绍了一种消除由于石英球体的透明性而引起的伪效应的方法。此直径(大约85mm)测得值的标准偏差为5～12nm,体积上就相当于0.16～0.43ppm(1ppm=1×10~(-6)),此体积的总不确定度估计为0.26～0.48ppm。     

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.     

基于混合遗传算法的多冲量最优变轨

针对航天器多冲量最优变轨问题,建立了多冲量最优变轨的数值优化模型,给出了一种遗传算法(GA)与序列二次规划算法(SQP)结合的混合优化算法.该算法不需初值猜测,全局和局部搜索能力强并且计算效率高.仿真计算了燃料最优交会和时间最短拦截问题,比较了GA,SQP以及混合遗传算法的性能.针对混合遗传算法得到的不同冲量次数变轨的优化结果,分析了冲量次数对变轨性能指标的影响.结果表明混合遗传算法综合性能最高,冲量次数对不同性能指标的影响不同.仿真算例验证了模型和算法的有效性.