317 research outputs found
Study of Emotion Recognition Based on Electrocardiogram and RBF neural network
AbstractThis paper compares the emotional pattern recognition method between standard BP neural network classifier and RBF neural network classifier. The experiment introduces wavelet transform to analyze the Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, and extracts maximum and standard deviation of the wavelet coefficients in every level. Then we construct the coefficients as eigenvectors and input them into BP and RBF neural network, then take a comparison of their experimental results. The result of experiment also show that the wavelet coefficients as the eigenvector can be effective characterization of ECG. The classification of the samples with BP neural network gets overall recognition rate of 87.5%, but RBF gets overall recognition rate of 91.67%. So compared with BP neural network, RBF has a better recognition rate for emotional pattern recognition
Reasonable mechanical model on shallow tunnel excavation to eliminate displacement singularity caused by unbalanced resultant
When considering initial stress field in geomaterial, nonzero resultant of
shallow tunnel excavation exists, which produces logarithmic items in complex
potentials, and would further lead to a unique displacement singularity at
infinity to violate geo-engineering fact in real world. The mechanical and
mathematical reasons of such a unique displacement singularity in the existing
mechanical models are elaborated, and a new mechanical model is subsequently
proposed to eliminate this singularity by constraining far-field ground surface
displacement, and the original unbalanced resultant problem is converted into
an equilibrium one with mixed boundary conditions. To solve stress and
displacement in the new model, the analytic continuation is applied to
transform the mixed boundary conditions into a homogenerous Riemann-Hilbert
problem with extra constraints, which is then solved using an approximate and
iterative method with good numerical stability. The Lanczos filtering is
applied to the stress and displacement solution to reduce the Gibbs phenomena
caused by abrupt change of the boundary conditions along ground surface.
Several numerical cases are conducted to verify the proposed mechanical model
and the results strongly validate that the proposed mechanical model
successfully eliminates the displacement singularity caused by unbalanced
resultant with good convergence and accuracy to obtain stress and displacement
for shallow tunnel excavation. A parametric investigation is subsequently
conducted to study the influence of tunnel depth, lateral coefficient, and free
surface range on stress and displacement distribution in geomaterial.Comment: 45 pages, 14 figure
Synthesis and Optical Performances of a Waterborne Polyurethane-Based Polymeric Dye
A waterborne polyurethane-based polymeric dye (WPU-CFBB) was synthesized by anchoring 1, 4-bis(methylamino)anthraquinone (CFBB) to waterborne polyurethane chains. The number molecular weight, glass transition temperature, and average emulsion particle size for the polymeric dye were determined, respectively. This polymeric dye exhibited intriguing optical behaviors. The polymeric dye engendered two new absorption bands centered at about 520 nm and 760 nm if compared with CFBB in UV-vis spectra. The 760 nm peak showed hypsochromic shift with the decrease of average particle sizes. The polymeric dye dramatically demonstrated both hypsochromic and bathochromic effects with increasing temperature. The fluorescence intensity of the polymeric dye was much higher than that of CFBB. It was found that the fluorescence intensities would be enhanced from 20°C to 40°C and then decline from 40°C to 90°C. The fluorescence of the polymeric dye emulsion was very stable and was not sensitive to quenchers
Parallel generalized solutions of mixed boundary value problem on partially fixed unit annulus subjected to arbitrary traction
This paper provides two parallel solutions on the mixed boundary value
problem of a unit annulus subjected to a partially fixed outer periphery and an
arbitrary traction acting along the inner periphery using the complex variable
method. The analytic continuation is applied to turn the mixed boundary value
problem into a Riemann-Hilbert problem across the free segment along the outer
periphery. Two parallel interpreting methods of the unused traction and
displacement boundary condition along the outer periphery together with the
traction boundary condition along the inner periphery respectively form two
parallel complex linear constraint sets, which are then iteratively solved via
a successive approximation method to reach the same stable stress and
displacement solutions with the Lanczos filtering technique. Finally, four
typical numerical cases coded by \texttt{FORTRAN} are carried out and compared
to the same cases performed on \texttt{ABAQUS}. The results indicate that these
two parallel solutions are both accurate, stable, robust, and fast, and
validate that these two parallel solutions are numerically equivalent
A novel decision-making model for selecting a construction project delivery system
It is crucial for the owner of a construction project to select an appropriate project delivery system (PDS) during early decision-making stages of the project. Due to project uncertainty or a lack of project information, the parameters of a PDS are difficult to measure and quantify. Therefore, there are still major challenges to the objective selection of PDSs. This research proposes a novel systematic decision-making model to select the appropriate PDS by using the combination of case-based reasoning (CBR) and robust nonparametric production frontier method. The Bayesian-Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) supported Z-order-m method is interpreted into the case retrieves process of traditional CBR method in order to eliminate the deteriorative internal and external influence for PDS selection. The case study was based on questionnaire survey conducted in China and used to test the validation of the proposed model. The findings reveal that the systematic decision-making model can overcome some problems of the traditional methods and improve the accuracy of PDS selection. As a result, this research has both theoretical and practical implications for the construction industry
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