Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 548-549

Abstract: During the transportation of railway, all kinds of transportation equipment are subject to random vibration generated by random road excitation. In practice, however, a lot of vibration caused by poor environment of railway show non-Gaussian incentive features. Based on IFFT transformation-based of Gaussian random, by analyzing the relationship among phase angle, kurtosis and skewness, the paper uses the second phase modulation method to generate the non-Gaussian excitation signal with the measured vibration data in the process of train running, and then using MATLAB, this method will simulate the real railway vibration of non-Gaussian excitation signal. The simulation result provides the theory basis for the reliability verification of laboratory and shipping goods, and has a certain practical significance for the improvement of train operation safety.

Abstract: Normally, the job of the Traffic Data Processing Center (TDPC) is to monitor and retain data. There is a tendency to put more capability into the TDPC, such as ad-hoc query for speeding car identification and feedback abnormal traffic information. Thus we definitely need to think about what can be kept in working storage and how to analysis it. Obviously, the ordinary database cannot handle the massive dataset and complex ad-hoc query. MapReduce is a popular and widely used fine grain parallel runtime, which is developed for high performance processing of large scale dataset. In this paper, we propose MRTP, a MapReduce Traffic Processing system based on Hive/Hadoop frameworks. A distributed file system HDFS is used in MRTP for fast data sharing and query. MRTP supports fast locating speeding car and also optimizes the route to catch fugitive. Our results show that the model achieves a higher efficiency.

Abstract: The traffic administrative department would record real-time information of accidents and update the corresponding database when dealing with daily traffic routines. It is of great significance to study and analyze these data. In this paper, we propose a Multi-dimensional Data Warehouse Model (M-DWM) combined with the concept of Data Warehouse and multi-dimensional data processing theory. The model can greatly improve the efficiency for statistical analysis and data mining.

Abstract: Real-time traffic flow prediction is one of important issues of intelligent transportation system. Based on the theory of stochastic process of the traffic flow data, the prediction methods, such as grey expecting model and neural network, were applied in this paper. Then according to the actual traffic flow data, an improved model was proposed and the fluctuation range of predicted traffic flow was determined due to calculate an accurate result. Finally, the experiment shows that the designed prediction model can be able to achieve a short time prediction accurately for traffic flow.

Abstract: The optimization of bridging agent size selection in drilling mud is now critically demanding due to the desired pressure to produce the non-damaging fluid or low damaging fluid. Bridging agent is the materials that can give effect on minimizing fluid invasion and optimize the sealing operations. Three different sizes of bridging agents were prepared, Fine (F), Medium (M) and Coarse (C) size where calcium carbonates had been selected as the bridging agents. Water Based Mud had been chosen as based of drilling mud to be investigated. Experiments conducted were rheology and filtration test. The study shows that the mud weight was increase with increasing size of bridging agent. The filtration test showed a high fluid loss in mud samples without bridging agent (Mud A) and least fluid loss in Mud B. Thus, the fine size of bridging agent can form better filter cake and prevent the fluid being loss too much thus reducing the damage to the reservoir wellbore.

Abstract: Foam flooding is an established approach in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) to recover a significant quantity of the residual oil left in the reservoir after primary and secondary recovery. However, foam flooding faces various problems due to low viscosity effect, which reduces its efficiency in recovering oil. Using surfactant to stabilize CO₂ foam may reduce mobility and improve areal and vertical sweep efficiency, but the potential weaknesses are such that high surfactant retention in porous media and unstable foam properties under high temperature reservoir conditions. Nanoparticles have higher adhesion energy to the fluid interface, which potentially stabilize longer lasting foams. Thus, this paper is aimed to investigate the CO₂ foam stability and mobility characteristics at different concentration of nanosilica, brine and surfactant. Foam generator has been used to generate CO₂ foam and analyze its stability under varying nanosilica concentration from 100 - 5000 ppm, while brine salinity and surfactant concentration ranging from 0 to 2.0 wt% NaCl and 0 – 10000 ppm, respectively. Foam stability was investigated through observation of the foam bubble size and the reduction of foam height inside the observation tube. The mobility was reduced as the concentration of nanosilica increased with the presence of surfactant. After 150 minutes of observation, the generated foam height reduced by 10%. Liquid with the presence of both silica nanoparticles and surfactant generated more stable foam with lower mobility. It can be concluded that the increase in concentration of nanosilica and addition of surfactant provided significant effects on the foam stability and mobility, which could enhance oil recovery.

Abstract: Combining Semipermeable Diaphragm Method with Nonsteady State Method, Bound Water Saturation and Critical Water Saturation in Du 38 District of Daqing Fuyang Reservoir are Determined before and after Fracturing and Relationship between them is also Analyzed. the Results Show that the Fracture of Bound Water, have a Certain Influence Critical Water Saturation, and the Cracks of Bound Water, the Greater the Size Change the Greater the Value of Critical Water Saturation; Characteristics of Reservoir Microscopic Seepage is Analyzed, the Results Show that the Movable Water Potential Changes is the Main Cause of Oil well Water after Fracturing.

Abstract: The magnitude, distribution of earth stress are important parameters. In this paper, based on the hydraulic fracturing test data and logging data, the model of earth stress has been established. The vertical stress (S_v),the maximum horizontal stress (S_H), the minimum horizontal stress (S_h) can be calculated by logging data with this model. The profiles of earth stress along the depth with continuous distribution can be determined, and stress spatial distribution has been described.

Abstract: In deepwater drilling, there are two major components of drilling tools that are subjected to vibration, namely the marine riser and the drilling pipe. Analyses of vibration in the marine riser and drill pipes are two topical areas that have individually received considerable attention by researchers in the past. For the marine riser, the focus was on the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) in different shear and flow regime. The focus on the drill pipes was on different vibratory modes and resonance. While these two subjects are interrelated, they have been little attempt to investigate them together as an assembly. The present paper investigated the coupling of the marine riser VIV to the drill pipe vibration when the drill bit penetrated the wellbore using coupled approach. It was found that the lateral displacement of drill pipe is most significant when the riser oscillates at lower frequency. Riser oscillation is most damaging to the drill pipe when the later also rotates at low RPM.

Abstract: The aims of this research is to improve the design of IV cannula stopper or also known as heparin cap by utilizing the application of product design and development approach and employing Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) machine. For this reason, the user requirements to identified target specifications and concept generation were proposed and the IV cannula stopper prototypes were fabricated using Rapid Prototyping technology (RP). This research would give an improvement over existing standard of IV cannula. The generated design from this research will improve the handling of IV cannula as well as ensuring its safety during the operation of IV cannula.