The Two-step Reverse Martensitic Transformations of TiNi Shape Memory Alloy Based on Solution-treatment and Aging

A TiNi-alloy is solution-treated in a vacuum furnace of 6.7×10-3 Pa at 1 223 K for 3.6 ks, and then aged at 773 K for 1.8 ks. The differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements show that after the heat-treatment, takes place a two-step reverse Martensitic transformation, from which results the two-stage recovery strain in a prestrained Martensitic TiNi-alloy wire during heating. The Vickers microhardness indentation test in cross-sectional areas of the TiNi-alloy wire indicates the compositional heterogeneity between its sur-face layers and its inside. The fact that the sizes of the indentation in surface layers smaller than those in the inside bears witness to the existence of slightly harder surface layers. It is believed that these phenomena are related to the compositional fluctuation caused by the evaporation and oxidization of Ti-element during the solution-treatment and heterogeneity formed during the subsequent aging treat-ment.     

（SIM＋SME）训练方法中的Cu-Zn-Al合金形状记忆效应研究

研究了(SIM SME)训练法中的Cu-Zn-Al合金单向形状记忆效应η_ο和双向形状记忆效应η_τ。结果表明:随训练次数增加,位错增加,晶格原子有序度降低,单向形状记忆效应先急剧下降,然后缓慢下降和趋于稳定。基本稳定时的单向形状记忆效应不到初时值的50％。伴随位错增加,引入更多择优取向位错,促使形成更多择优取向马氏体,导致双向形状记忆效应急剧上升,训练9次之内出现峰值,然后缓慢上升和趋于稳定。基本稳定时的双向形状记忆效应相当于峰值的64％～88％。同时,随训练次数增加,单向记忆的动作敏感性下降,然后趋于稳定。与初期动作敏感性值相比,1号合金基本稳定时下降58％。在元件设计中应注意动作敏感性下降问题和形状记忆效应下降问题。     

TiNi基形状记忆合金薄膜的相变特征研究

利用磁控溅射的方法在单晶Si和非晶SiO2基片上制备了TiNi和TiNiCu形状记忆合金薄膜,并利用示差扫描量热法和基片曲率法研究了薄膜的相变特征及应力随温度的变化.研究结果表明450℃溅射形成的记忆合金薄膜具有良好的形状记忆效应,在微电子机械系统有很好的应用前景.TiNi薄膜降温时出现R相变,因而发生两步相变,而TiNiCu薄膜中马氏体和奥氏体间直接转变.基片以及薄膜成份对相变点有很大的影响.单晶Si片作为基片时,记忆合金薄膜和基片间有很好的结合力,而SiO2作为基片时,记忆合金薄膜容易剥落.     

基于加速响应面逼近的改进CSSO优化过程研究

实现基于响应面的并行子空间优化过程(CSSO-RS),关键在于如何高效率高精度的构造近似响应面.本文针对如何快速提高响应面近似精度的问题,提出了方案数据库探测加点策略和限制记忆法构造响应面策略两种加速响应面逼近的措施.用经典测试函数和飞机总体设计优化两个算例研究表明,这两种策略能够有效加快响应面的逼近速度,使CSSO-RS过程的优化效率得到较大改善.     

李萨如图在磁记忆二维定量检测中的应用

依据磁记忆二维检测原理,将磁信号法向分量存在过零点,切向分量存在最大值联合起来检测,并引入李萨如图分析法,对用法向分量和切向分量合成的类李萨如图以及将法向分量和切向分量微分后合成的李萨如图进行比较分析,得出可以利用微分后合成的李萨如图封闭区域面积的大小来判断应力集中程度及用在不同的应力集中程度下李萨如图面积数量级作为阈值的结论.从而可为利用李萨如图分析法对磁记忆二维检测进行定量分析的进一步研究提供试验分析依据.     

Navigational Aids and Spatial Memory Impairment: The Role of Divided Attention

Navigational aids impair spatial memory for experienced environments, but the cognitive mechanisms underlying impairment remain an open question. Recent evidence implicates divided attention, but to date no study has directly manipulated divided attention in navigational aid contexts. The present study addresses this need. Participants navigated virtual towns with aid presence and divided attention factorially crossed in a within-participants design. They then completed spatial memory assessments. Divided attention alone impaired spatial memory. Navigational aid presence impaired spatial memory when attention was undivided, replicating previous findings, but did not to a greater extent when attention was divided. These findings suggest that navigational aids divide attention sufficiently to impair spatial memory.     

Path visualization: a method for objective measurement of spatial visualization

ABSTRACT

The ability to mentally represent spatial information is a fundamental cognitive process. To many people, this process feels a bit like visual perception, hence the term ‘spatial visualization’. In this paper, we describe a method for measuring the accuracy of spatial visualization, specifically visualization of a complex path in imaginary space. A critical feature of this method (called Path Visualization) is that it relies on the detection of intersections in a visualized path. Intersection detection is an inherently spatial task that requires a spatial representation. In this paper, we show how the Path Visualization method works, and how it can be customized to address several key research issues in human spatial cognition.     

Contributing Factors to Temporal and Spatial Associations in Mental Representations of Maps

Abstract

The present work explores an interactive model of spatial and temporal information in map memory. In four experiments, participants learned a map with temporal and spatial information confounded or unconfounded. Attentional and representational levels of information were made apparent through tasks that tap spatial, temporal, or other information. Learning criteria emphasizing sequential order or location imposed differential weighting of the information types in memory. Results indicate that map memory is spatial, but also interacts with the order in which map locations are encountered. Findings show flexibility in allocating attention and information indexing of location and sequential order information in map learning.     

The interaction of symmetry and verbal codability in children's reconstruction of spatial configurations

Although the physical organization of spatialinformation clearly influences how it is recognized,recalled, and mentally transformed, few studies haveexplored how different levels of organizationinteract. This study focused on 4- and 6-year-oldchildren's memory for spatial configurations andexamined the relative influence of two levels oforganization: symmetry (vertical, horizontal, or none)and codability (verbal or nonverbal). We predictedthat the influence of symmetry would be lesspronounced among the older children for whom thepatterns were more codable. The results partiallysupported this prediction: Older children'sreconstructions were accurate regardless of patternsymmetry; younger children's reconstructions ofvertically-symmetric patterns were more accurate thantheir reconstructions of horizontally-symmetric andasymmetric patterns. Taken together, the resultsrevealed an interaction between age and symmetry onthe accuracy of children's reconstructions, suggestingthat younger children were more sensitive than olderchildren to differences in pattern symmetry. Thus,different levels of organization may influencechildren's ability to recall spatial information andthe relative influence of these levels may changeduring development.