The file to factory approach is investigated within the Product Development Test Lab, with the first entirely digitally produced building as a demonstrator and test lab on the campus of TU Delft. The ...project responds to the growing demand for sustainable and affordable housing; aiming to build houses with bio-based materials, efficiently produced with digital production technologies while reducing the failure costs on the building site. The full-scale prototype serves as a platform, ready to explore new methods of building sector related product design. The cycle of designing, testing, evaluating, redesigning, and retesting serves as research lead, enabling the designers to work quickly and make improvements on the go.
The file to factory approach is investigated within the Product Development Test Lab, with the first entirely digitally produced building as a demonstrator and test lab on the campus of TU Delft. The ...project responds to the growing demand for sustainable and affordable housing; aiming to build houses with bio-based materials, efficiently produced with digital production technologies while reducing the failure costs on the building site. The full-scale prototype serves as a platform, ready to explore new methods of building sector related product design. The cycle of designing, testing, evaluating, redesigning, and retesting serves as research lead, enabling the designers to work quickly and make improvements on the go.
The file to factory approach is investigated within the Product Development Test Lab, with the first entirely digitally produced building as a demonstrator and test lab on the campus of TU Delft. The ...project responds to the growing demand for sustainable and affordable housing; aiming to build houses with bio-based materials, efficiently produced with digital production technologies while reducing the failure costs on the building site. The full-scale prototype serves as a platform, ready to explore new methods of building sector related product design. The cycle of designing, testing, evaluating, redesigning, and retesting serves as research lead, enabling the designers to work quickly and make improvements on the go.
Using the TESS and Kepler K2 light curve archives, I have reanalyzed 13 known δ Scuti stars. AD Ari is now reclassified as a rotating ellipsoidal binary variable. EX Cnc and HD 73712 are reclassified ...as hybrid δ Sct-γ Dor pulsators. EX Cnc turns out to be an enticing asteroseismic target because of its three distinct groups of pulsation frequencies. The strong beating caused by two close frequencies is present in the star CD-54 7154. More than 71 pulsation frequencies were resolved for ι Boo and IT Dra with high significant levels, while V1821 Cyg, V2238 Cyg, BR Cnc, BU Cnc, and BV Cnc pulsate with a few dozen frequencies. In particular, K2 data revealed a significantly richer pulsational spectrum for the two δ Scuti stars BU Cnc and BV Cnc from six to 26. Unlike the other 12 stars, BN Cnc shows the simplest pulsation pattern. With high-precision and long-term space-based photometry, we are able to discern the pulsational contents of these stars more clearly and enhance our knowledge of them. This reanalysis using TESS and Kepler K2 data highlights the diversity of pulsational behavior among δ Scuti stars and the value of long-duration, high-precision photometry. Further asteroseismic modeling of these stars, particularly EX Cnc with its distinct frequency groups, promises to refine our understanding of their internal structures and pulsational mechanisms.
•Identify the variability type of a mis-classified δ Sct star AD Ari to be ELL; Disclaim the binary suspicion of ι Boo.•Resolving multiple dozens of new pulsation frequencies for the selected δ Sct stars.•Revealing hybrid δ Sct-γ Dor pulsation in EX Cnc and HD 73712.
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As China has stepped into a new era of development, the popularity of computer applications is becoming more and more profound. Especially in the machinery manufacturing industry, the ...current market has put forward a higher requirement for the accuracy and toughness of machinery manufacturing, and the traditional artificial manufacturing has not been adapted to the development of the industry. Through numerical control technology, numerical control tool manufacturing process can become very standardized, its accuracy and toughness is also guaranteed. This paper will from the numerical control this point of view, to explore the influence of numerical control cutting parameters on the numerical control tool.
To address the brittleness challenge of polyhydroxybutyrate-co-valerate (PHBV) rooting from its slow nucleation rate, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were employed as bio-based nano nucleation and ...reinforcement agents. CNCs were further functionalized through succinylation using aliphatic dodecyl succinic anhydride (DDSA), for improved compatibility and dispersion within PHBV. Nanocomposites of PHBV incorporating pristine or DDSA-modified CNC (mCNC) were prepared through solution mixing followed by melt injection molding. The study focused on investigating how CNCs and mCNCs affect the crystallization behavior, thermal, rheological, and mechanical properties of PHBV nanocomposites over time, in the course of annealing or conditioning. Thermal results revealed that the incorporation of neat CNCs generally improving stability due to restricted polymer chain mobility and hydrogen bonding, while DDSA-modified CNCs show varied effects depending on the concentration, sometimes diminishing stability due to increased chain mobility. Polarized optical microscopy revealed the superior nucleation efficiency of mCNC, especially at low contents, leading to smaller and numerous spherulites over conditioning. Rheological analysis indicated a dilution effect of the hairy mCNCs, decreasing both dynamic modulus and complex viscosity. Mechanical properties, assessed through tensile testing and dynamic mechanical analysis after 15 days of conditioning, demonstrated the evolving effect of CNCs on aging-induced embrittlement and thermo-mechanical performance of PHBV during storage. The results revealed that incorporating 1 wt% mCNCs effectively toughened PHBV, increasing Young's modulus, and decreasing Tg without scarifying elongation at break compared to neat PHBV. The findings position mCNCs as a promising nucleation agent which retains PHBV nanocomposites toughness after aging.
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•Successful succinylation CNCs via DDSA agent to generate mCNCs.•Superior nucleation efficiency of mCNCs over pristine CNCs in PHBV.•Optimum toughness improvement of PHBV achieved with 1 wt% of mCNCs.•Crucially impact of mCNCs on the crystallization kinetics and mechanical performance of PHBV.
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This work presents an environmentally friendly, iodine-catalyzed chemical modification method to generate highly hydrophobic, optically active nanocrystalline cellulose (CNC). The high degree of ...ester substitution (DS = 2.18), hydrophobicity, crystalline behavior, and optical activity of the generated acetylated CNC (Ac-CNC) were quantified by TEM, FTIR, solid 13C NMR, contact angle, XRD, and POM analyses. Ac-CNC possesses substantial enhancement in thermal stability (16.8%) and forms thin films with an interlayer distance of 50–150 nm, presenting cavities suitable for entrapping nano- and microparticles. Generated Ac-CNC proved to be an effective reinforcing agent in hydrophobic polymer matrices for fabricating high performance nanocomposites. When integrated at a very low weight percentage (0.5%) in an epoxy matrix, Ac-CNC provided for a 73% increase in tensile strength and a 98% increase in modulus, demonstrating its remarkable reinforcing potential and effective stress transfer behavior. The method of modification and the unique properties of the modified CNC (hydrophobicity, crystallinity, reinforcing ability, and optical activity) render them a novel bionanomaterial for a range of multipurpose applications.
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Context.
55 Cnc e is a transiting super-Earth (radius 1.88
R
⊕
and mass 8
M
⊕
) orbiting a G8V host star on a 17-h orbit.
Spitzer
observations of the planet’s phase curve at 4.5 μm revealed a ...time-varying occultation depth, and MOST optical observations are consistent with a time-varying phase curve amplitude and phase offset of maximum light. Both broadband and high-resolution spectroscopic analyses are consistent with either a high mean molecular weight atmosphere or no atmosphere for planet e. A long-term photometric monitoring campaign on an independent optical telescope is needed to probe the variability in this system.
Aims.
We seek to measure the phase variations of 55 Cnc e with a broadband optical filter with the 30 cm effective aperture space telescope CHEOPS and explore how the precision photometry narrows down the range of possible scenarios.
Methods.
We observed 55 Cnc for 1.6 orbital phases in March of 2020. We designed a phase curve detrending toolkit for CHEOPS photometry which allowed us to study the underlying flux variations in the 55 Cnc system.
Results.
We detected a phase variation with a full-amplitude of 72 ± 7 ppm, but did not detect a significant secondary eclipse of the planet. The shape of the phase variation resembles that of a piecewise-Lambertian; however, the non-detection of the planetary secondary eclipse, and the large amplitude of the variations exclude reflection from the planetary surface as a possible origin of the observed phase variations. They are also likely incompatible with magnetospheric interactions between the star and planet, but may imply that circumplanetary or circumstellar material modulate the flux of the system.
Conclusions.
This year, further precision photometry of 55 Cnc from CHEOPS will measure variations in the phase curve amplitude and shape over time.
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