A Novel Tensile Fracture Location of Friction Plug Welding (FPW) Joints.

The fracture position of a friction plug welding (FPW) joint is typically located at or near the thermo-mechanically affected zone (TMAZ). Here, we found that microcracks in all FPW specimens initiate at the deformed plug center (DPC) zone and then propagate through the plug center along 45° shear surfaces, because the lowest hardness occurs at the DPC zone rather than the TMAZ or other zones, and the DPC zone presents a tilt fiber-like microstructure. Such a tilt microstructure stimulates formations and deformations of microvoids and propagation of microcracks along 45° shear surfaces.

Objective Auscultation of TCM Based on Wavelet Packet Fractal Dimension and Support Vector Machine.

This study was conducted to illustrate that auscultation features based on the fractal dimension combined with wavelet packet transform (WPT) were conducive to the identification the pattern of syndromes of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The WPT and the fractal dimension were employed to extract features of auscultation signals of 137 patients with lung Qi-deficient pattern, 49 patients with lung Yin-deficient pattern, and 43 healthy subjects. With these features, the classification model was constructed based on multiclass support vector machine (SVM).

Nonlinear Analysis of Auscultation Signals in TCM Using the Combination of Wavelet Packet Transform and Sample Entropy.

Auscultation signals are nonstationary in nature. Wavelet packet transform (WPT) has currently become a very useful tool in analyzing nonstationary signals. Sample entropy (SampEn) has recently been proposed to act as a measurement for quantifying regularity and complexity of time series data.

Study on intelligent syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine based on multiple information fusion methods.

Numerous researchers have taken the solid step forward towards the objectification research of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) four diagnostic methods. However, it is deficient in studies on information fusion of the four diagnostic methods. We establish four-diagnosis syndrome differentiation model of TCM based on information fusion technology.

[Study on the infinity optical thickness of light-cured composite resins and attached shade guides].

Objective: This study compared the opaque characteristics of light-cured composite resins and attached shade guides.

Methods: Three kinds of light-cured composite resins and attached shads guides were used. A plastic mold (10mm in diameter and 4mm in height) was used to prepare disk specimens.

[Analysis of infinity optical thickness between nine kinds of composite resins with the same color mark].

Objective: This study compared the infinity optical thickness of composite resins with the same color marks.

Methods: In this test nine composite resins (shade A2) were used. A plastic mold (10mm in diameter, 4mm in height) was used to prepare 27 disk specimens.