To investigate the vibration response of the comprehensive transportation hub structure under multiple-source excitations,an on-site vibration measurement was carried out at Wuhan Railway Station in China.The characte...To investigate the vibration response of the comprehensive transportation hub structure under multiple-source excitations,an on-site vibration measurement was carried out at Wuhan Railway Station in China.The characteristics of each floor vibration were obtained through the time domain and frequency domain analyses.Based on the vibration characteristic under multiple-source excitations,the proposed attenuation model was derived.In addition,a vibration comfort evaluation on the Wuhan Railway Station was conducted.The results show that the effect of the number of vibration sources on horizontal acceleration is more significant than that regarding vertical acceleration.When the structure is under the effects two vibration sources with different frequencies,a high-frequency vibration can amplify a low-frequency vibration.The derived attenuation model can precisely predict the vibration attenuation and reduce the subsequent vibration test workload.Based on the annoyance rate model result,the annoyance rate of Wuhan Railway Station is high,which is harmful to the staff of the station.展开更多
The advancement of wearable devices continues to face the challenge of ensuring a sustainable power supply.Traditional human motion energy harvesters often suffer from low energy harvesting efficiency due to their rel...The advancement of wearable devices continues to face the challenge of ensuring a sustainable power supply.Traditional human motion energy harvesters often suffer from low energy harvesting efficiency due to their reliance on a single energy source.This study presents a novel pendulum inertial electromagnetic energy harvester(PI-EEH)to harvest multiplesource low-frequency human motion energy.The PI-EEH can simultaneously harvest both the leg swing energy and the foot impact energy during walking.A horizontal universal pendulum,combined with a frequency-up conversion mechanism,transforms irregular human motion into unidirectional high-frequency rotation.The output performance of the PI-EEH is evaluated through both theoretical analysis and experimental testing.A treadmill test is also conducted across various motion speeds to illustrate the benefits of PI-EEH.The peak power of PI-EEH can reach 54 mW at a speed of 3 km/h.Additionally,the PI-EEH can easily supply power for some wearable devices,like a GPS module and an acceleration sensor.The designed PIEEH offers a viable approach to harvesting energy from multiple-source human motion,which will have broad prospects in smart healthcare and IoT applications.展开更多
A new-type multiple-source heat pump cycle with two-stage compression was established on the basis of the problems of similarly existing heat pumps.The equivalent temperature levels of typical evaporators are applied ...A new-type multiple-source heat pump cycle with two-stage compression was established on the basis of the problems of similarly existing heat pumps.The equivalent temperature levels of typical evaporators are applied to the different heat sources of the proposed cycle,and the high-temperature heat sources are shown to enhance vapor injection.Then,the mathematical model and prototype are developed,and the results from experimental simulation and validation showed that the solar collector can improve the heating performance of the proposed heat pump system.In the middle-temperature heating period,the outdoor temperature is less than-25℃,and the average coefficient of performance(COP)value of the proposed heat pump was 4.2,which was greater than the COPs of conventional ground source heat pumps.展开更多
Background Face image animation generates a synthetic human face video that harmoniously integrates the identity derived from the source image and facial motion obtained from the driving video.This technology could be...Background Face image animation generates a synthetic human face video that harmoniously integrates the identity derived from the source image and facial motion obtained from the driving video.This technology could be beneficial in multiple medical fields,such as diagnosis and privacy protection.Previous studies on face animation often relied on a single source image to generate an output video.With a significant pose difference between the source image and the driving frame,the quality of the generated video is likely to be suboptimal because the source image may not provide sufficient features for the warped feature map.Methods In this study,we propose a novel face-animation scheme based on multiple sources and perspective alignment to address these issues.We first introduce a multiple-source sampling and selection module to screen the optimal source image set from the provided driving video.We then propose an inter-frame interpolation and alignment module to further eliminate the misalignment between the selected source image and the driving frame.Conclusions The proposed method exhibits superior performance in terms of objective metrics and visual quality in large-angle animation scenes compared to other state-of-the-art face animation methods.It indicates the effectiveness of the proposed method in addressing the distortion issues in large-angle animation.展开更多
基金Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hubei Province under Grant No.2023AFA103National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.52078395+1 种基金Open Projects Foundation of State Key Laboratory for Health and Safety of Bridge Structures under Grant No.BHSKL19-07-GFYoung Top-Notch Talent Cultivation Program of Hubei Province。
文摘To investigate the vibration response of the comprehensive transportation hub structure under multiple-source excitations,an on-site vibration measurement was carried out at Wuhan Railway Station in China.The characteristics of each floor vibration were obtained through the time domain and frequency domain analyses.Based on the vibration characteristic under multiple-source excitations,the proposed attenuation model was derived.In addition,a vibration comfort evaluation on the Wuhan Railway Station was conducted.The results show that the effect of the number of vibration sources on horizontal acceleration is more significant than that regarding vertical acceleration.When the structure is under the effects two vibration sources with different frequencies,a high-frequency vibration can amplify a low-frequency vibration.The derived attenuation model can precisely predict the vibration attenuation and reduce the subsequent vibration test workload.Based on the annoyance rate model result,the annoyance rate of Wuhan Railway Station is high,which is harmful to the staff of the station.
基金the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12232014)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.N2403027)the Ten Thousand Talents。
文摘The advancement of wearable devices continues to face the challenge of ensuring a sustainable power supply.Traditional human motion energy harvesters often suffer from low energy harvesting efficiency due to their reliance on a single energy source.This study presents a novel pendulum inertial electromagnetic energy harvester(PI-EEH)to harvest multiplesource low-frequency human motion energy.The PI-EEH can simultaneously harvest both the leg swing energy and the foot impact energy during walking.A horizontal universal pendulum,combined with a frequency-up conversion mechanism,transforms irregular human motion into unidirectional high-frequency rotation.The output performance of the PI-EEH is evaluated through both theoretical analysis and experimental testing.A treadmill test is also conducted across various motion speeds to illustrate the benefits of PI-EEH.The peak power of PI-EEH can reach 54 mW at a speed of 3 km/h.Additionally,the PI-EEH can easily supply power for some wearable devices,like a GPS module and an acceleration sensor.The designed PIEEH offers a viable approach to harvesting energy from multiple-source human motion,which will have broad prospects in smart healthcare and IoT applications.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality(3172040)National Natural Science Foundation(51736008)Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA21050600)
文摘A new-type multiple-source heat pump cycle with two-stage compression was established on the basis of the problems of similarly existing heat pumps.The equivalent temperature levels of typical evaporators are applied to the different heat sources of the proposed cycle,and the high-temperature heat sources are shown to enhance vapor injection.Then,the mathematical model and prototype are developed,and the results from experimental simulation and validation showed that the solar collector can improve the heating performance of the proposed heat pump system.In the middle-temperature heating period,the outdoor temperature is less than-25℃,and the average coefficient of performance(COP)value of the proposed heat pump was 4.2,which was greater than the COPs of conventional ground source heat pumps.
基金the Fund from Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Terminals(SCITLAB-20016).
文摘Background Face image animation generates a synthetic human face video that harmoniously integrates the identity derived from the source image and facial motion obtained from the driving video.This technology could be beneficial in multiple medical fields,such as diagnosis and privacy protection.Previous studies on face animation often relied on a single source image to generate an output video.With a significant pose difference between the source image and the driving frame,the quality of the generated video is likely to be suboptimal because the source image may not provide sufficient features for the warped feature map.Methods In this study,we propose a novel face-animation scheme based on multiple sources and perspective alignment to address these issues.We first introduce a multiple-source sampling and selection module to screen the optimal source image set from the provided driving video.We then propose an inter-frame interpolation and alignment module to further eliminate the misalignment between the selected source image and the driving frame.Conclusions The proposed method exhibits superior performance in terms of objective metrics and visual quality in large-angle animation scenes compared to other state-of-the-art face animation methods.It indicates the effectiveness of the proposed method in addressing the distortion issues in large-angle animation.
