某型飞机后边条焊接盒段优化研究

某型飞机后边条焊接盒段是用于安装平尾的重要受力构件,由材料为30CrMnSiA的板弯件、机加件及加强筋焊接组合而成。由于盒段焊缝数量多、零件壁厚薄,故在组合焊接时容易出现焊接变形、变形后校形困难等问题,使焊缝质量难以保证。本文对焊接盒段结构方案进行了优化研究,在最终选定的结构优化方案中,其盒段壁板为整体机加成型,大量采用机械连接,焊缝数量少,焊接形式简单,缩短了盒段的焊接周期,改善了焊接盒段生产的工艺性,满足了该型号飞机的批产要求。     

空间科学实验平台气液回路方案

空间科学实验平台是为突破单一化实验装置设计模式而研制的一种多用途空间科学实验平台. 根据空间科学实验平台内气液回路设计的相关问题, 给出了回路系统中主要设备的相关设计方法, 包括循环风机、气-液换热器、冷板, 并根据传热效率和系统安全性的考虑, 对流体工质的选择提出建议. 初步分析结果及国际类似研究证明, 气液回路技术结合其他主动及被动热控制措施, 可以很好地满足空间实验平台内部仪器设备及样本的不同温度控制要求.      

Modeling gravity effects on water retention and gas transport characteristics in plant growth substrates

Growing plants to facilitate life in outer space, for example on the International Space Station (ISS) or at planned deep-space human outposts on the Moon or Mars, has received much attention with regard to NASA’s advanced life support system research. With the objective of in situ resource utilization to conserve energy and to limit transport costs, native materials mined on Moon or Mars are of primary interest for plant growth media in a future outpost, while terrestrial porous substrates with optimal growth media characteristics will be useful for onboard plant growth during space missions. Due to limited experimental opportunities and prohibitive costs, liquid and gas behavior in porous substrates under reduced gravity conditions has been less studied and hence remains poorly understood. Based on ground-based measurements, this study examined water retention, oxygen diffusivity and air permeability characteristics of six plant growth substrates for potential applications in space, including two terrestrial analogs for lunar and Martian soils and four particulate substrates widely used in reduced gravity experiments. To simulate reduced gravity water characteristics, the predictions for ground-based measurements (1 − g) were scaled to two reduced gravity conditions, Martian gravity (0.38 − g) and lunar gravity (0.16 − g), following the observations in previous reduced gravity studies. We described the observed gas diffusivity with a recently developed model combined with a new approach that estimates the gas percolation threshold based on the pore size distribution. The model successfully captured measured data for all investigated media and demonstrated the implications of the poorly-understood shift in gas percolation threshold with improved gas percolation in reduced gravity. Finally, using a substrate-structure parameter related to the gaseous phase, we adequately described the air permeability under reduced gravity conditions.