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    Shattered Rim and Shelling of High-Speed Railway Wheels in The Very-High-Cycle Fatigue Regime Under Rolling Contact Loading

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    Due to the improvement of the wear property, rolling contact fatigue including shattered rim and shelling are the main failure causes of the high-speed railway wheels. In this paper, shattered rim and shelling occurred on the service wheels of the China Railway High-speed (CRH) trains were systematically investigated. The recorded data of the last ten years CRH operation indicated that all shattered rims and shelling were detected with serving \u3e106 km (corresponding to the fatigue life 107–109 cycles) which is very-high-cycle fatigue (VHCF). The crack initiationregion of shattered rim located at the depth of 10–25 mm from the tread, while that of shelling located at the depthsurfaces, i.e., similar VHCF features in uniaxial loading including the defect, fish-eye, and crack propagation region and unique VHCF features of the three dimensional crack surface feature, beach bands uniformly distributed in the crack propagation region, absence of fine granular area (FGA). The VHCF model considering the stress distribution, defect size and hardness were applied to discuss the failure mechanism of the shattered rim and shelling

    Investigation of the Scanning Microarc Oxidation Process

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    Scanning microarc oxidation (SMAO) is a coating process which is based on conventional microarc oxidation (MAO). The key difference is that deposition in SMAO is achieved by using a stainless steel nozzle to spray an electrolyte stream on the substrate surface as opposed to immersing the workpiece in an electrolyzer. In the present study, SMAO discharge characteristics, coating morphology, and properties are analyzed and compared to results obtained from MAO under similar conditions. Results show that MAO and SMAO have comparable spark and microarc lifetimes and sizes, though significant differences in incubation time and discharge distribution were evident. Results also showed that the voltage and current density for MAO and SMAO demonstrate similar behavior but have markedly different transient and steady-state values. Results obtained from coating A356 aluminum sheet show that oxide thickness and growth rate in SMAO are strongly dependent on interelectrode spacing and travel speed. Analysis of the SMAO coating morphology and structure showed that a denser and slightly harder layer was deposited in comparison to MAO and is attributed to reduced porosity and increased formation of α-Al2O3. Preliminary results indicate that SMAO represents a viable process for coating of aluminum surfaces

    Information Entropy-based Social Capital Measure Method of Online Influential Users

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    Measuring online user influence is a major research topic in social marketing performance maximization. In this study, we comprehensively investigate how online influential users gain, accumulate, and use their social capital from the perspective of information resource management and social capital measurement. First, we define the social capital of online influential users and the attribute characters and relationships reflected fully by personality and sociality index data. We then construct a social capital measurement indicator system and information entropy model of online users. After the calculations of this model, we finally forma social capital measure method of online influential users. The rationality and validity of proposed model are tested by experimental study on real datasets

    Entropy Weight Measure Model of Online Influential Users’ Relative Social Capital

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    Based on the perspectives of information resource management and social capital measurement, this paper studies how influential users acquire, accumulate, and use their social capital in social networks to explore the general rules, which enterprises use influential users’ relative competitiveness in their topic areas of expertise to advertise precisely. The paper describes the social capital differences among influential users by introducing and calculating users’ relative social capital. Results show that user’s social capital values in different fields are dissimilar, and the scope and intensity of social capital among different users are relative. The proposed method is proved to be effective and reasonable

    Information-Theoretic Limits of Integrated Sensing and Communication with Correlated Sensing and Channel States for Vehicular Networks

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    In connected vehicular networks, it is vital to have vehicular nodes that are capable of sensing about surrounding environments and exchanging messages with each other for automating and coordinating purpose. Towards this end, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), combining both sensing and communication systems to jointly utilize their resources and to pursue mutual benefits, emerges as a new cost-effective solution. In ISAC, the hardware and spectrum co-sharing leads to a fundamental tradeoff between sensing and communication performance, which is not well understood except for very simple cases with the same sensing and channel states, and perfect channel state information at the receiver (CSIR). In this paper, a general point-to-point ISAC model is proposed to account for the scenarios that the sensing state is different from but correlated with the channel state, and the CSIR is not necessarily perfect. For the model considered, the optimal tradeoff is characterized by a capacity-distortion function that quantifies the best communication rate for a given sensing distortion constraint requirement. An iterative algorithm is proposed to compute such tradeoff, and a few non-trivial examples are constructed to demonstrate the benefits of ISAC as compared to the separation-based approach
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