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A wind turbine foundation having a central pedestal, a bottom support slab, and a plurality of prefabricated radial reinforcing ribs. The pedestal and support slab are poured in situ at the site. When the concrete cures the support slab is united to the prefabricated ribs and the ribs are also united to the pedestal. The result is a continuous monolithic foundation wherein loads are carried across the structure vertically and laterally through the continuous structure by doweled and spliced reinforcing steel bars which are integrally cast into the pedestal, ribs and support slab. The slab thus behaves structurally as a continuous slab reducing deflections, improving fatigue conditions and increasing the stiffness of the foundation as well as allowing for the benefits of an economical design.

The ends of carbon plates reinforcing supporting elements, such as concrete beams, are divided into at least two splines having approximately the same thickness and are glued in the appropriate retaining slots of a terminal element. The splines form an angle in relation to each other. This assembly is then glued to the traction side of the supporting element, whereby the carbon plates are directly prestressed by the terminal elements in relation to the supporting element. The terminal element can be inserted into an appropriate groove in the supporting element or glued directly on the surface of the supporting element and/or doweled, optionally by using a transverse tensioning device.

A threaded metallic joint has the thread surface of pin (100) and box (200) covered with a coating comprising a first layer (24) laid on the overall surface of the pin member (100), and a second layer (25) laid on part of the surfaces of either one of the pin or box members. In a first aspect, the coating comprises a first layer with high friction and anti-seize properties laid on the overall surface of the pin member (100), and a second layer (25) with low friction properties laid on specific parts of the surfaces of either one of the pin or box members. Preferably the specific surfaces are those which are in reciprocal radial contact during make-up until pin and box reach the point where shoulders (9, 10) abut. The second layer may contain polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). In a second aspect the first layer with a high friction and anti-seize properties laid on the overall surface of the box member (200).

A method for the layer-by-layer assembly of a free standing thin film includes the steps of preparing a support with a suitable substrate; forming a thin film having a plurality of layers onto the substrate utilizing a layer-by-layer assembly process; removing the substrate and thin film from the support; and separating the substrate from the thin film. Various compounds improving the strength, flexibility, tension and other mechanical properties may be included in the assembly to improve the structural quality of the film. Similar effect may also be achieved by cross-linking the applied layers.

A method for making a blade includes stacking a plurality of modular segments having formed conduits, threading and tensioning cables through the conduits of the stacked segments, and clamping the cables to hold the modular segments together.

The invention relates to a prefabricated assembled superposed plate type concrete shear wall and a construction method thereof. The prefabricated assembled superposed plate type concrete shear wall comprises superposed wall plates and a cast-in-place concrete core wall, wherein each superposed wall plate is formed by superposing two prefabricated concrete single wall plates which are of the same specification and are symmetrically arranged at an equal interval; supporting plate steel bar supports are arranged between the two single wall plates; node connection reinforcement steel bars are arranged on end nodes of the superposed wall plates; the superposed wall plates are fixedly integrated with the cast-in-place concrete core wall; and the superposed wall plates, the cast-in-place concrete core wall, the supporting plate steel bars and the node connection reinforcement steel bars are fixedly connected with one another to form the shear wall structure. The invention also provides a construction method for the shear wall structure. By the construction method, when an extensive form building mode is changed, and structural members of a house are standardized and modularized, engineering construction is high in speed, and materials are saved; and the overall structural performance is high.

The invention relates to a preparation method of cerium oxide nanoballs, and belongs to the technical field of the preparation processes of the inorganic nanomaterials. The key points of the method of the invention include: stirring and mixing cerium salt and a certain amount of surfactant at room temperature, dissolving the mixture in a mixed solution of water and an organic solvent and ultrasonically processing the mixture for 5 to 10 minutes, wherein the cerium salt is optimally cerium nitrate; the surfactant is most preferably polyvinylpyrrolidone; and the belonged organic solvent is most preferably diglycol; then transferring the mixed solution into a high pressure reaction kettle to perform a solvothermal reaction; heating the mixed solution to perform reaction for 24 to 28 hours at the temperature of 100 to 200 DEG C so as to obtain the cerium oxide nanoball sol; evaporating the sol at the temperature of 1500 o 180 DEG C to dryness; and forging the obtained powder for 1 to 4 hours at the temperature of 400 to 600 DEG C; and finally obtaining the cerium oxide nanoballs in the shape of yellow solid powder. The nanoballs have a particle size ranging from 30 to 160nm and high performance and can be applied in fields of ultraviolet light shielding, mechanical polishing and automobile exhaust catalyzation and the like.

A goggle is provided that can comprise a goggle frame and a bend control component. The goggle frame can define opposing lateral portions and a central portion. The goggle frame can comprise a bridge disposed at the central portion of the goggle frame. The goggle frame can be generally flexible upon exertion of a bending force on the goggle frame. The bend control component can extend along the bridge of the goggle frame. The bend control component can be configured to enhance flexural strength of the goggle at a bridge thereof for reducing preferential bending of the goggle frame at the bridge. In some embodiments, the bend control component is formed separately from the goggle frame. In other embodiments, the bend control component can be secured to the frame using fasteners and/or one or more protrusions and corresponding recesses.

The invention provides an electrode material in a hollow tubular structure, and the electrode material is in the hollow tubular structure which consists of a composite hydroxide/copper hydroxide/copper-contained metal substrate. The chemical formulation of the composite hydroxide is MxM'y(OH)2, wherein M is Ni2+ or Co2+, M' is Co2+, Al3+, or Fe3+. According to the invention, a method of solution dipping and constant potential deposition, and a copper hydroxide nanowire array grows on the copper-contained metal substrate in an in-situ manner. The composite hydroxide is deposited on a copper hydroxide nanorod in electrolyte containing mixed metal salt solution in a manner of electro-deposition through employing the method of constant potential deposition. Meanwhile, electrochemical corrosion enables the copper hydroxide nanorod to be dissolved in a process of electro-deposition, thereby obtaining the hollow tubular structure of the composite hydroxide/copper hydroxide/copper-contained metal substrate. The electrode material is good in super-capacitance performance, and can be used for a super-capacitor.

A composite lap joint for the assembly of a first and a second floor board from a plurality of boards, used to make the floor for a vehicular trailer, each board composed of a layer of wood at the top side and a layer of fiber reinforced composite at the bottom side, wherein the composite layer is at least partly bonded to the wood layer; the composite layer of a first board forming a lip, wherein the lip is a lateral extension of the composite layer and the lip is disposed under the bottom side recess of an adjacent second board to form a composite joint, whereby the joint provides improved flexibility, moisture sealing ability at the seam of the joint and higher strength to the edges of the boards.

The present invention discloses a plane braking device for electric winches and electric winch which disposes a section of hollow gear shaft, a section of core shaft, a fixing ring, a wedge shape support, a stopping piece, a braking plate, an elastic element, a wedge shape piece B, a wedge shape piece A, a braking clutch base and so on in a gear box of an electric winch. When a motor works, the section of core shaft of the motor drives the braking clutch base and the wedge shape pieces A, B to rotate, until a gap is formed between the adjacent braking plate and stopping piece between the braking clutch base and the wedge shape piece B, so that the braking effect disappears. When the motor stops suddenly, a heavy load lifted by a tight wire drum provides a reverse pulling force so that the wedge shape piece B produces a reverse thrust force to push the friction planes of the braking plate and the stopping piece, so the plane braking effect is achieved quickly. Based on the plane braking plate, the present invention can increase the braking area and the braking force and achieve safe braking. Furthermore, when there is wear of parts in long usage, so it only needs to replace the braking plate made of friction materials, which can simplify maintenance, reduce the parts costs and ensure service life of the gear box.

A multi-phase steel sheet having microstructure having in combination ferrite, martensite of between 3% and 65% by volume, and at least one microstructure selected from the group consisting of, bainite and retained austenite, and having fine complex precipitates selected from the group of TiC, NbC, TiN, NbN, (Ti.Nb)C, (Ti.Nb)N, and (Ti.Nb)(C.N) particles having at least 50% smaller than 20 nm in size, and physical properties having tensile strength greater than about 780 megapascals and at least one of the properties of elongation greater than about 10%, yield ratio greater than about 70%, and hole expansion ratio greater than about 50%.

A novel materials technology has been developed and demonstrated for providing a high modulus composite material for use to 1000 DEG F. and above. This material can be produced at 5-20% of the cost of refractory materials, and has higher structural properties. This technology successfully resolves the problem of "thermal shock" or "ply lift," which limits traditional high temperature laminates (such as graphite/polyimide and graphite/phenolic) to temperatures of 550-650 DEG F. in thicker (0.25'' and above) laminates. The technology disclosed herein is an enabling technology for the nose for the External Tank (ET) of the Space Shuttle, and has been shown to be capable of withstanding the severe environments encountered by the nose cone through wind tunnel testing, high temperature subcomponent testing, and full scale structural, dynamic, acoustic, and damage tolerance testing.

The invention relates to a light, simple and efficiency cultivation method for cotton. Straw-like light seedling raising medium is filled in paper cylinder and pot or paper plug or nonwoven fabric bags for raising cotton seedlings, and mechanical sowing, transplanting and cotton harvesting can be performed. The light, simple and efficiency cultivation method has the characteristics of labor conservation, cost conservation, high yield and high efficiency, requires small investment, makes operation easy, avoids environment pollution and is a new method for large-scale cotton production with bright promotion and application prospects.

An aircraft floor system includes a composite panel which generally includes an inboard layer, an inboard interlock layer, a core layer, an outboard interlock layer and an outboard layer. The advanced sandwich core material may include K-Cor™ or X-Cor™ which is pinned through at least one ply of dry composite reinforcement to provide a mechanical lock between the pins and an inboard and outboard interlock layer. Bonding of the locked-in ply with the inboard and outboard results in improved structural performance and damage tolerance.

A web bookmark manager processes a collection of web bookmarks to produce a richly structured presentation of the bookmark collection. The bookmark collection includes representations of resources, topics, and notice events. A notice event includes a reference to a web resource and a natural language description provided by a user. The notice description is processed by a classifier to determine topics to which the referenced web resource shall be associated. The processing of the notice description includes parsing to obtain sequences of content words, to which topics are associated. Generalizations of a topic are determined by subsequences of the associated word sequence. The presentation of a collection of bookmarks includes a chronology of notices, a ranking of topics, a taxonomy of topics, and an index of content words from topics. The presentation further includes per-topic and per-resource presentations.

The present invention provides a geopolymeric cement formed from a precursor having a relatively high alumina content (Si:Al atomic ratio of less than or equal to 1.3:1) to form an alkaline multiphase alumino-silicate material.

The precursor comprises basaltic rock in which kaolinization is at an advanced stage, preferably Interbasaltic material found in Northern Ireland.

The present invention also provides structural units for constructing a building, the structural units being manufactured using the geopolymeric cement of the invention.

The invention also provides a process for producing a geopolymeric cement comprising a precursor having a relatively high alumina content (Si:Al atomic ratio of less than or equal to 1.3:1) to form an alkaline alumino-silicate geopolymer material for manufacturing geopolymeric structural building units having compressive strengths of greater than 3 N/mm² and preferably having compressive strengths in the range of 12-25 N/mm².

The invention discloses a white car body static stiffness restriction device of a passenger car and a static stiffness detection method. The device is characterized in that: one side of a front bearing support is provided with a pressure transducer and a hydraulic jack, a plurality of displacement sensors are arranged at the periphery of the white car body bottom surface; the front bearing support comprises a front rack, a T-shaped rack, and a I-shaped guide rail, wherein, the end portion of the front rack is connected with the very center of a crossbeam of the T-shaped rack through bolts and nuts, the crossbeam of the T-shaped rack is arranged at the left and right side of the white car body, and the lower side of the crossbeam is provided with the hydraulic jack; the bottom of the T-shaped rack is connected with the bottom of the front rack through a pin roll and a split pin; the upper surface of the crossbeam of the T-shaped rack is symmetrically provided with I-shaped guide rails; a torque value of the applied load is divided by a twisting angle to calculate a twisting stiffness, and the actual value of the load is divided by a car body deformation displacement to obtain a bending stiffness. According to the invention, the efficiency of various vehicle tests is increased, and the device cost is obviously reduced on the premise that the test accuracy is guaranteed.

The invention discloses a pneumatic soft mechanical hand and a manufacturing method. The split type design scheme is adopted in the soft mechanical hand, the soft mechanical hand is divided into a corrugated pipe installation part and a bottom plate part, and the soft mechanical hand is manufactured by adopting the split type casting technology. After the two parts are machined and manufactured correspondingly, the two parts are bonded together by the adoption of special silica gel adhesive. The performance of the soft mechanical hand depends on the self structure and the solidifying formationquality of silica gel. In the actual soft mechanical hand manufacturing process, by constantly improving a casting die and the finger manufacturing technology, a set of complete manufacturing technology is formulated, and the machining quality of the soft mechanical hand is ensured.