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To understand the roles of charcoal and ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECMF) on tree growth, which relates to the rehabilitation of forest ecosystems after forest fires, two experiments were set up in this study, the first was to determine the correct amount of charcoal for Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi Sarg.) seedling growth by applying oak charcoal to basic soil medium at ratios of 1:1, 1:2, 1:4 and 1:8 by volume. The second experiment investigated the combined effects of four types of charcoal: derived from oak wood, husks of buckwheat, rice and activated charcoal of larch wood, and two types of ECMF: Pt (Pisolithus tinctorius Pers.) and Ec (Pt + Rhizopogon spp. + Laccaria spp. + Scleroderma spp.) on the growth of Japanese larch seedlings. Our results show that growth was significantly stressed by large amounts charcoal applications. There were significant variations among the four types of charcoal on growth. We concluded that the addition of charcoal was the critical factor that influenced larch growth and ECMF formation. Rice charcoal and Ec stimulates the growth and nitrogen uptake of Japanese larch seedlings, thus the most suitable fungus and charcoal for practices is Ec-rice charcoal (1: 8 charcoal to basic soil). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Laying long horizontal borehole (LHB) in mining‐induced strata fractures for coal‐bed gas drainage in the goaf is a pivotal method for eliminating safety hazards, preventing atmospheric pollution, and realizing gas utilization. A crucial premise of this method is to determine the effective drainage range of the borehole, a key parameter directly affecting boreholes spacing and drainage efficiency. In this study, a model of gas seepage during LHB drainage within a circular equipotential boundary was presented, and the complex variable function theory and the mirror principle were adopted for deriving the complex potential function of gas flow under the condition of LHB drainage and the drainage volume function of a single center borehole. Besides, the main indicator to determinate the effective drainage range of LHB was given. Specifically, the indicator refers to the distance between the turning point (the point at which the change rate of the gas flow velocity is −0.002 around the borehole) and the center of the borehole. Subsequently, numerical simulation was conducted to obtain the effective drainage range of LHB within mining‐induced fractures of overlying strata, that is, 4 m < r < 7 m. Furthermore, discussion of the effective drainage range of LHB was carried out by analyzing gas flow velocity distributions and LHB drainage volumes. A case study demonstrates that a double‐borehole layout with a 10 m spacing can effectively control pressure‐relief gas in the goaf. Meanwhile, such a layout can achieve well‐balanced drainage efficiency of each borehole with a minimal difference of 0.31 m3 min−1, which is only about 7.9% of the average drainage volume of the two boreholes. The above results verify that the determined effective drainage range of LHB is reasonable. The research results can provide references for determining the drainage range of LHB in multi‐borehole layout of coal mines, and then determining the spacing of LHBs arrangement, thereby improving the efficiency of gas extraction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autonomous vehicles require more precise and reliable braking control, and electro-hydraulic braking (EHB) systems are better adapted to the development of autonomous driving. However, EHB systems inevitably suffer from unilateral dead zone nonlinearity, which adversely affects the position tracking control. Therefore, a finite-time adaptive control strategy was designed for unilateral dead zone nonlinearity. Initially, the unilateral dead zone nonlinearity was reformulated into a matched disturbance term and an unmatched disturbance term to reduce the adverse effects of disturbances, thereby enhancing system controllability. Then, the "complexity explosion" in the design of the control strategy was avoided by command filtering, and the design process of the controller was simplified. Furthermore, the finite-time control theory was employed to boost the system's convergence speed, thereby enhancing control performance. In order to ensure the stability of the system under the dead zone disturbance, the unknown disturbance terms were estimated. The stability of the control strategy was validated through the finite-time stability theorem and the Lyapunov function. Eventually, simulations and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experiments validated the feasibility and availability of the finite-time adaptive control strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Failure of any of the drive systems in a Four-Wheel Independent Drive (4WID) electric vehicle may affect the control performance and driving safety of the whole vehicle. Therefore, in this paper, a fault-tolerant controller (FTC) for 4WID electric vehicles considering drive actuator failures is proposed. First, a comprehensive characterization of multiple fault types is achieved by establishing a generalized fault model and designing a comprehensive fault factor. Second, based on the comprehensive fault factor, an LPV model with faults is constructed. Further, a fault-tolerant controller based on LPV/H∞ output feedback is designed by combining the weighting function. Finally, the effectiveness of the FTC in this paper is verified by simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experiments. The experimental results show that the FTC designed in this paper can improve the stability of the vehicle traveling while ensuring tracking accuracy when the drive system fails. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Improving the resolution of seismic migration images plays an important role for geophysical interpreters to characterize underground reservoirs. However, the classical image domain least‐squares migration method based on the local‐stationary assumption cannot obtain a satisfactory high‐resolution seismic image due to the significant spatial variant characteristics of the point spread function. To mitigate this problem, we proposed a high‐resolution point spread function deconvolution method and applied it to two‐dimensional cases. Nevertheless, extending the two‐dimensional method to three‐dimensional problems directly would fail due to the intrinsic complexity in three‐dimensional cases. In this study, we resolve the differences encountered in the point spread function deconvolution method for two‐ and three‐dimensional cases and provide specific strategies for achieving high‐resolution imaging with low computational cost when extending the point spread function deconvolution method to three‐dimensional cases. The main schemes include (1) incorporating the analytical expression of the point spread function to guide the generation of three‐dimensional point spread function distributions, (2) extending the point spread function filter calculation method from a two‐dimensional square to a three‐dimensional rectangular prism and (3) interpolating to obtain more compact point spread functions for reducing migration artefacts. Results from the three‐dimensional synthetic Overthrust model and field data set demonstrate that our techniques could effectively enhance the spatial resolution of the migration images with reduced migration artefacts. With these specific strategies, the space‐variant point spread function deconvolution algorithm shows superior performance on three‐dimensional cases at a much lower computational cost compared with the classical least‐squares migration method and the local‐stationary deblurring method. Synthetic tests and real data applications confirm that the space‐variant point spread function deconvolution method has distinct advantages over both two‐ and three‐dimensional problems and can be widely adopted in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although orthorhombic GeSe is predicted to have an ultrahigh figure of merit, ZT ≈ 2.5, up to now, the highest experimental value is ≈0.2 due to the low carrier concentration (nH ≈ 1018 cm−3). Improving symmetry is an effective approach for enhancing the ZT of GeSe‐based materials. With Te‐alloying, Ge4Se3Te displays the two‐dimensional hexagonal structure and high nH ≈ 1.23 × 1021 cm−3. Interestingly, Ge4Se3Te transformed from the hexagonal into the rhombohedral phase with only ≈2% I–V–VI2‐alloying (I = Li, Na, K, Cu, Ag; V = Sb, Bi; VI = Se, Te). According to the calculated results of Ge0.82Ag0.09Bi0.09Se0.614Te0.386 single‐crystal grown via AgBiTe2‐alloying, it exhibits a higher valley degeneracy than the hexagonal Ge4Se3Te. For instance, AgBiTe2‐alloying induces a strong band convergence and band inversion effect, resulting in a significantly enhanced Seebeck coefficient and power factor with a similar nH from 17 µV K−1 and 0.63 µW cm−1 K−2 for pristine Ge4Se3Te to 124 µV K−1 and 5.97 µW cm−1 K−2 for 12%AgBiTe2‐alloyed sample, respectively. Moreover, the sharply reduced phonon velocity, nano‐domain wall structure, and strong anharmonicity lead to low lattice thermal conductivity. As a result, a record‐high average ZT ≈0.95 over 323–773 K with an excellent ZT ≈ 1.30 is achieved at 723 K. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the finite element analysis and fracture toughness test data, this paper verifies the improved Ritchie-Knott-Rice (RKR) local failure criterion using 16MnDR ferritic steel for cryogenic pressure vessels. This criterion's applicability to 16MnDR was verified to verify fracture toughness's different influence factors in the ductile-to-brittle transition temperature (DBTT) region, such as specimen thickness (TST) and temperature. The results indicate that the (4δt, σ22c) criterion applies to 16MnDR steel and effectively transfers the minimum Jc value between samples of different temperatures and thickness.