Improvements in and actual performance of the Plant Experiment Unit onboard Kibo,the Japanese experiment module on the international space station

In 2004, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency developed the engineered model of the Plant Experiment Unit and the Cell Biology Experiment Facility. The Plant Experiment Unit was designed to be installed in the Cell Biology Experiment Facility and to support the seed-to-seed life cycle experiment of Arabidopsis plants in space in the project named Space Seed. Ground-based experiments to test the Plant Experiment Unit showed that the unit needed further improvement of a system to control the water content of a seedbed using an infrared moisture analyzer and that it was difficult to keep the relative humidity inside the Plant Experiment Unit between 70 and 80% because the Cell Biology Experiment Facility had neither a ventilation system nor a dehumidifying system. Therefore, excess moisture inside the Cell Biology Experiment Facility was removed with desiccant bags containing calcium chloride. Eight flight models of the Plant Experiment Unit in which dry Arabidopsis seeds were fixed to the seedbed with gum arabic were launched to the International Space Station in the space shuttle STS-128 (17A) on August 28, 2009. Plant Experiment Unit were installed in the Cell Biology Experiment Facility with desiccant boxes, and then the Space Seed experiment was started in the Japanese Experiment Module, named Kibo, which was part of the International Space Station, on September 10, 2009 by watering the seedbed and terminated 2 months later on November 11, 2009. On April 19, 2010, the Arabidopsis plants harvested in Kibo were retrieved and brought back to Earth by the space shuttle mission STS-131 (19A). The present paper describes the Space Seed experiment with particular reference to the development of the Plant Experiment Unit and its actual performance in Kibo onboard the International Space Station. Downlinked images from Kibo showed that the seeds had started germinating 3 days after the initial watering. The plants continued growing, producing rosette leaves, inflorescence stems, flowers, and fruits in the Plant Experiment Unit. In addition, the senescence of rosette leaves was found to be delayed in microgravity.     

机务维修系统非例行维修平台的设计研究

非例行维修是航空公司机务维修方案的重要组成部分。由于非例行维修的不确定性,需要调研航空公司的业务流程和运行特点,分析具体的设计需求,开发出有效的现代化非例行维修管理平台。运用Delphi工具及Oracle数据库开发出航空公司非例行机务维修平台,以非单生命周期数据流转为核心,建立起航空公司对于非例行维修的管理平台,并介绍实现平台功能的几项关键技术。实际情况表明平台能够对航空公司的维修管理进行有效的控制,缩短维修时间,降低维修成本。     

飞船环控生保系统主要故障模型分析及飞控对策

研究了载人飞船环控生保系统主要故障模型及飞控对策，根据系统工作原理建立了影响飞行安全的主要故障模型，如舱体泄漏、气源消耗过量和CO2净化失效等，应用该类模型对飞行数据进行实时处理，判断或预测故障，同时给出飞控对策。该方法已成功应用于首次载人飞行。     

指数寿命型可靠性增长试验的Bayes分析

该文论述了指数寿命型可靠性增长试验中的Bayes分析方法。文中首先给出了可靠性分析的模型，然后运用历次阶段性试验中的可靠性增长数据建立动态参数模型，在此基础上给出各阶段可靠性增长试验中失效率的Bares估计。     

固体推进剂贮存可靠寿命的Monte Carlo仿真计算

用Monte carlo统计模拟方法对火箭发动机固体推进剂随环境温度变化的力学性能进行了分析,提出了力学性能的可靠寿命仿真计算的方法,并对延伸率的老化可靠寿命进行了计算。     

长寿命通信卫星的可靠性研究

通信（广播）卫星是典型的有长寿命要求的卫星。在广泛调查国内外通信卫星工程资料的基础上，考察了它们的轨道性能与寿命情况，并分析了影响卫星寿命和可靠性的因素，空间环境是影响卫星性能和寿命的一个重要因素。对为了避免和减少环境效应影响的工程方法进行了探究。结合工程实际问题研究了长寿命卫星的设计策略，并对需进一步研究的课题作了探索。     

某大跨径轻型钢结构强度分析

本文以广西北海机场航站楼这一大跨径轻钢结构为例，提出一种较为方便的方法解决整体结构及局部结构的强度问题。研究表明，该方法简单易行；为保证整个结构的安全，对于存在截面突变的节点(或区域)进行局部分析是非常必要的。     

用改进的均方根法估算谱载下疲劳裂纹起始寿命

根据变幅疲劳的基本特性，对估算谱载下疲劳裂纹起始寿命的均方根法作了改进。三种谱载下十一组变幅疲劳试验数据的评价结果表明，改进的均方根法在保留均方根法原有的仅依赖于等幅疲劳试验数据、计算方便的优点的同时，计算精度有了明显提高。     

航空铝合金材料低温裂纹扩展研究现状与展望

铝合金材料由于具有强度高和易加工等优势,已广泛应用于航空工程领域,低温是航空铝合金材料使 用中不可避免的环境因素,低温下航空铝合金材料的裂纹扩展行为得到国内外学者和工程界的广泛关注和大 量研究。本文综述航空铝合金材料的低温裂纹扩展进展,梳理航空铝合金材料的低温裂纹扩展试验研究状况, 归纳低温断裂失效机理,总结低温裂纹扩展模型表征和寿命评估方法,并展望进一步研究方向,为航空铝合金 材料工程设计和应用提供帮助。     

A new fatigue life prediction model considering the creep-fatigue interaction effect based on the Walker total strain equation

The performance of high-temperature components of aero-engines under the Creep-Fatigue Interaction (CFI) behavior gets more attention recently. In this research, the creep-fatigue tests of two superalloys of Powder Metallurgy (PM) FGH96 and direct aging GH4169 were performed at 650 °C with different types of dwell, and the fracture morphology of FGH96 specimens was observed by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) to analyze the creep-fatigue fracture feature and crack initiation. Additionally, according to phenomenology, the effect of dwell was introduced to develop a new uniaxial fatigue life prediction model based on the total strain equation, which has capability to take dwell time and load ratio into account together. The equations were utilized to model the test data of PM FGH96 and GH4169, together with data of another superalloy PM FGH95 conducted previously. A prominent prediction ability of the model in creep-fatigue life prediction of different superalloys has been manifested. Most data points of test data and estimated data are located within two times scatter band, which is ideal in engineering.