Object Pascal Research Articles

Optimization of seismic insulation parameters of frame buildings using adaptive methods

Objective. The purpose of the work is to calculate frame buildings with flexible connections and with flexible and switch-off connections, to make recommendations for the use of seismic insulation methods depending on the characteristics of seismic events. Method. Development of an algorithm for calculating frame buildings of a frame structural system with seismic protection in buildings with flexible connections and with flexible and switchable connections Result. A method for calculating frame buildings of a frame structural system with seismic insulation in the form of flexible connections and flexible and switchable connections has been developed. A computer calculation program for seismically insulated and nonseismically insulated frame buildings in the Delphi 5.0 programming environment in the Object Pascal language using the Runge-Kutta numerical method of the 4th order for solving differential equations has been compiled Conclusion. It is determined that the construction of frame buildings with the seismic insulation methods considered in this paper, namely with flexible connections and with flexible connections and disconnecting connections, is not impractical for territories where long-period fluctuations are possible, due to the fact that excessively high deformations occur.

The use of computer modeling in the educational process based on the example of studying Coulomb’s law

Abstract The study analyzes computer modeling tools intended for use in educational and scientific contexts. The concept of modeling as a method of research and a teaching tool is examined, the emphasis is placed on computer modeling. It is shown how physical laws, particularly Coulomb’s law, can be studied through modeling. The study uses pre-made simulators, spreadsheets, mathematical packages, as well as our own software in Object Pascal and Python. Experimental testing has confirmed the effectiveness of computer modeling in teaching natural sciences. A survey of students and teachers showed interest in further use of simulation tools in the educational process.

Modelarea matematică și simularea asistată de calculator a sistemelor mecanice cu multe grade de libertate

The vast majority of phenomena and processes in nature for which computer-assisted simulation is of scientific and methodical-didactic interest, from a mathematical point of view, are described by systems of differential equations of the second order. In this context, the paper describes and implements in the Object Pascal programming language an original algorithm for the numerical solution of systems of differential equations of the second order. Interactive simulation applications are made in the Delphi programming environment (FMX variant). Based on the examples, described in detail in the paper, users can perform interactive simulation activities for any processes, which from a mathematical point of view are described by systems of differential equations of the second degree.

CyberUnits Bricks: An Implementation Study of a Class Library for Simulating Nonlinear Biological Feedback Loops

Feedback loops and other types of information processing structures play a pivotal role in maintaining the internal milieu of living organisms. Although methods of biomedical cybernetics and systems biology help to translate between the structure and function of processing structures, computer simulations are necessary for studying nonlinear systems and the full range of dynamic responses of feedback control systems. Currently, available approaches for modelling and simulation comprise basically domain-specific environments, toolkits for computer algebra systems and custom software written in universal programming languages for a specific purpose, respectively. All of these approaches are faced with certain weaknesses. We therefore developed a cross-platform class library that provides versatile building bricks for writing computer simulations in a universal programming language (CyberUnits Bricks). It supports the definition of models, the simulative analysis of linear and nonlinear systems in the time and frequency domain and the plotting of block diagrams. We compared several programming languages that are commonly used in biomedical research (S in the R implementation and Python) or that are optimized for speed (Swift, C++ and Object Pascal). In benchmarking experiments with two prototypical feedback loops, we found the implementations in Object Pascal to deliver the fastest results. CyberUnits Bricks is available as open-source software that has been optimised for Embarcadero Delphi and the Lazarus IDE for Free Pascal.

DEVELOPMENT OF AN APPLICATION FOR ASSESSING PUBLIC RADIATION EXPOSURE WHEN LIVING AND CARRYING OUT ANY ACTIVITIES AT THE SEMIPALATINSK TEST SITE

The article presents an overview of capabilities of developed software ‘Assessment of public radiation exposure when living and carrying out any activities at the Semipalatinsk Test Site’ and quoted the algorithm to calculate public individual annual effective exposure doses from the major dose-forming man-made radionuclides at the test site (137Cs, 90Sr, 239+240Pu, 241Am, 3H). The software developed takes into account such behavior scenario as a farmer engaged in subsistence farming and living in the study area together with his family members. The software was developed for Windows operating system and implemented in the development framework of cross-platform applications Embarcadero Delphi XE7 Professional in the object-oriented programming language Object Pascal.

РОЗРОБКА ПРОГРАМНОГО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ДЛЯ РОЗРАХУНКУ НОРМ ЧАСУ МЕХАНІЧНОЇ ОБРОБКИ

In the trial version of the Delphi development environment in the Object Pascal language, a program has been developed that allows: for given specific processing conditions, calculate time norms, build tables. The use of a program developed in the Delphi development environment will automate and optimize the processes of calculations, building tables, and as a result, reduce time costs and increase the accuracy of calculations. The use of the considered information technologies in the educational process provides a specialist in mechanical engineering with the opportunity to work quickly and efficiently.

DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE FOR CALCULATING OPTIMAL CUTTING MODES

In the trial version of the Delphi development environment in the Object Pascal language, a program has been developed that allows you to: for given specific processing conditions, calculate the optimal cutting conditions, build tables. The use of a program developed in the Delphi development environment will automate and optimize the processes of calculations, building tables, and as a result, reduce time costs and increase the accuracy of calculations. The use of the considered information technologies in the educational process provides a specialist in mechanical engineering with the opportunity to work quickly and efficiently.

Didactic and interactive project with PIC microcontroller and CAN network for temperature and luminosity control

This work presents the development of a didactic and interactive project, composed of four distinct modules: the first module is used for reading and controlling temperature; the second module, for reading and controlling luminosity; the third module is an RS232/CAN serial interface; The fourth module has a transceiver for serial communication between a personal computer and the network. The first, second, and third modules were built using PIC18F4580 microcontrollers with integrated CAN and were programmed in C language using the MikroC integrated development environment. The software for serial communication between the microcomputer and module III was written in Object Pascal language using the Delphi programming environment. Serial communication tests were performed between the microcomputer and the third module, obtaining positive results in data acquisition and transfer and command exchange through the CAN network, demonstrating a distributed data system among the modules on the bus.

Diag-IoU Loss for Object Detection

Existing IoU-based loss functions have achieved promising performance for bounding box regression in object detection. However, they cannot fully reflect the relation between the predicted and target boxes in the case of box inclusions, and might thus deteriorate detection accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we design a novel similarity measurement based on the box diagonal called Diag-IoU to well represent the divergence between the predicted and target boxes even in the case of box inclusions, and thus achieve superior localization accuracy and fast convergence. In particular, we equivalently represent a rectangular box with its box diagonal, which contains exclusive and informative geometrical factors, and define the Diag-IoU based on the similarities of a set of sampled point pairs from the predicted and target box diagonals. Based on the Diag-IoU, we design a general Diag-IoU loss, which can provide holistic information in measuring two boxes and thus differentiate the two boxes in the case of box inclusions. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we apply the Diag-IoU loss to several representative object detectors, including YOLO v5s, Faster R-CNN, and FCOS. Extensive experiments on the synthetic data and two challenging object detection benchmark datasets, i.e., MS COCO and PASCAL VOC, demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed Diag-IoU loss compared to previous IoU-based losses as well as other metrics.

Design of an Open Network Community Platform for Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Education Based on Object Pascal

Design of an Open Network Community Platform for Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Education Based on Object Pascal

ВЫБОР ОПТИМАЛЬНЫХ ПАРАМЕТРОВ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННО-ВРЕМЕННОЙ СЕТКИ ПРИ МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОМ МОДЕЛИРОВАНИИ НАГРЕВА ЗАГОТОВОК В ПРОМЫШЛЕННЫХ ПЕЧАХ

The efficiency of two numerical methods for solving multidimensional problems of the theory of thermal conductivity ‒ the fractional steps method and the Liebman method - is evaluated. The efficiency of these methods is compared for the operating conditions of industrial furnaces by the example of calculating the symmetrical heating of a two-dimensional cylinder and a three-dimensional plate made of materials with different thermophysical properties (corundum, ceramic brick and carbon steel). A two-dimensional axisymmetric temperature field for a cylinder and a three-dimensional temperature field for a workpiece in the form of a parallelepiped were found by the grid method under boundary conditions of the II and III genera. The difference approximation of differential equations and boundary conditions is performed by the control volume method according to an implicit finite difference scheme. The developed algorithms for solving multidimensional problems of internal heat transfer by fractional steps and the Liebman method are implemented in the form of computer programs in the Object Pascal programming environment. When comparing the effectiveness of solving multidimensional problems with these methods, the criterion of the effectiveness of difference schemes (CERS) proposed by V.V. Bukhmirov and T.E. Sozinova was used as an optimization criterion. Nomograms are constructed to select the optimal parameters of the space-time grid and the best numerical method for solving multidimensional problems for a specific process of heating (cooling) a solid body

A Lightweight Object Detection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Attention Mechanism and YOLOv5s

The specific characteristics of remote sensing images, such as large directional variations, large target sizes, and dense target distributions, make target detection a challenging task. To improve the detection performance of models while ensuring real-time detection, this paper proposes a lightweight object detection algorithm based on an attention mechanism and YOLOv5s. Firstly, a depthwise-decoupled head (DD-head) module and spatial pyramid pooling cross-stage partial GSConv (SPPCSPG) module were constructed to replace the coupled head and the spatial pyramid pooling-fast (SPPF) module of YOLOv5s. A shuffle attention (SA) mechanism was introduced in the head structure to enhance spatial attention and reconstruct channel attention. A content-aware reassembly of features (CARAFE) module was introduced in the up-sampling operation to reassemble feature points with similar semantic information. In the neck structure, a GSConv module was introduced to maintain detection accuracy while reducing the number of parameters. Experimental results on remote sensing datasets, RSOD and DIOR, showed an improvement of 1.4% and 1.2% in mean average precision accuracy compared with the original YOLOv5s algorithm. Moreover, the algorithm was also tested on conventional object detection datasets, PASCAL VOC and MS COCO, which showed an improvement of 1.4% and 3.1% in mean average precision accuracy. Therefore, the experiments showed that the constructed algorithm not only outperformed the original network on remote sensing images but also performed better than the original network on conventional object detection images.

Mathematical Modeling and Software for Calculating Regimes of Galvanic Wastewater Purification from Heavy and Nonferrous Metals in Devices with Flow-Through Three-Dimensional Electrodes

The paper briefly discusses progressive technologies of wastewater treatment from ions of heavy and nonferrous metals of industrial and small enterprises of urban agglomerations. An analysis of the efficiency of three-dimensional flow-through electrodes for wastewater treatment of harmful reagents is given. The mathematical models of electrochemical processes in three-dimensional flow-through electrodes as applied to extract metals from the solutions of galvanochemical industries are presented. The description of the set of programs developed in the programming language Object Pascal for computational experiments according to the obtained mathematical models is given. Numerical solution of scientific problem of practical importance has been obtained by using the program complex. A good correspondence between the results of calculations and experiments is shown.

A C++ code for simulations of RHEED intensity oscillations within the kinematical approximation

This paper proposes a new software implementation for the rapid development and deployment of computer simulations of reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) intensity oscillations during the growth of thin epitaxial films. The calculations are based on the kinematical approximation. In this model the RHEED intensity oscillations from growing layers is considered as an effect of changes of surface roughness. New version program summaryProgram Title: growth22CPC Library link to program files:https://doi.org/10.17632/zkpwhrrfng.1Licensing provisions: GNU General Public License 3Programming language: C++Journal reference of previous version: Computer Physics Communications 170 (2005) 265–286Does the new version supersede the previous version?: YesReasons for the new version:The previous version of the program was written in Object Pascal [1]. This programming language is no longer popular in the scientific community. Responding to user's feedback, the current distribution of the software has been implemented in C++. This version implements improvements for ergonomics, computational performances and code readability. In addition, the output generated by the growth22 (saved in the coverageProfiles.dat file) can be used directly by program [2].Summary of revisions:The growth22 is written in standard C++, therefore one can use the GNU g++ compiler or any ANSI C++ compliant compiler to build the executable program. The code is distributed in the form of one growth22.cpp source file. A Table 1 lists the retired Object Pascal procedures and shows replacements by C++ functions. The present version of the program enables the user to easily manage the input data. Input data are loaded from a manually prepared inputData.dat text file where the user provides information on the parameters of the simulation, i.e. the growth model, the number of growing layers, the upper limit of growth time interval, the values of the phenomenological parameters that measure the net rate of transfer from one layer to the next, and the values of the growth rate for each layer. The user can edit this file as per the requirement of the problem domain. Details of the parameters in the sample inputData.dat file are described in the readme.pdf file provided with the software.The nature of problem:Generally, in order to explain the experimental data two theories—kinematical and dynamical—associated with high-energy electron diffraction in epitaxial layers are used. The dynamical theories take into account multiple scattering within the crystal and are used whenever diffraction from a perfect epitaxial layers is considered [3]. On the other hand, the kinematical theory treats the scattering from each plane in the crystal sample as being independent of others [1,4].In the kinematical theory of RHEED it is assumed that electron wave scatters from atom in the surface layer only once and then interferes with waves scattered on other atoms. This model can be used to describe diffraction effects for small angles of incidence, when the electron beam does not penetrate the deeper layers of the crystal. In the kinematical model the intensity oscillations of specularly reflected electron beam from growing layer is considered as an effect of changes of surface roughness.In this paper we present a time-efficient computer model for kinematical calculations of RHEED intensity oscillations during the growth of thin epitaxial films.The method of solution:According to kinematical approximation the diffracted-beam intensity is given by [4]:(1)I(S‖→=0,Sz)=|∑n=0∞(θn−θn+1)exp(−iSznd)|2 where S→ is the scattering vector, d is the interlayer spacing and n is an integer. θn−θn+1 is the exposed layer coverage which is treated as the atomic distribution function gives the position of surface atoms. For Sz=π/d Eq. (1) simplifies to:(2)I=|∑n=0∞(θn−θn+1)cos⁡(nπ)|2.Variation of the coverage ratio θn of the nth surface layer is modelled by a set of non-linear differential equations [1,4]. The Cash-Karp fifth-order Runge-Kutta method [5] with error estimation and adaptive stepsize control was used for solving initial value problem for non-linear differential equations [6]. The absolute and relative error tolerances and number of integration intervals are fully user-configurable.The proposed code approaches the modelling of RHEED from two different points of view, i.e. the data and functional perspectives. The data perspective (i.e. calculating the layer coverages as a function of their growth time) is used to characterize the data sources of the program whereas the functional perspective includes services provided by the program. It should be noted that the perspective of the data can be expressed by a completely different model introduced by the user.The coverage evolution curves for the diffusive growth model, corresponding kinematical diffracted intensity and total roughness of the surface are shown in Fig. 1. During the numerical calculations showed in Fig. 1 it was assumed that the number of growing layers (numLayers) equals 15, the upper limit of growth time interval (tMax) equals 12, the growth rate equals 1 MLs−1 (for all layers), and the values of the parameter kn (that determines the amount of interlayer diffusion) changing according to the linear relation:(3)kn=k1−(k1−kN)n−1N−1, where N is the total number of growing layers.

Гидравлический расчет трубопровода с учетом длин влияния местных сопротивлений и их интерференции

The design and calculation of pipelines taking into account the mutual influence of local resistances is an urgent task in the hydraulics of pressure flows. The analysis and results of the hydraulic calculation of the Valtec metal-polymer pipeline are given, taking into account the lengths of the influence of local resistances of their mutual influence (interference). Tabular data on the lengths of influence of local resistances, coefficients of mutual influence used in the developed program of the Delhi (Object Pascal) environment are given. A graph of the dependence of specific pressure losses per 1 meter of pipeline length on the flow rate for the Valtec pipeline with an equivalent roughness of Δe/ d = 0.007 mm, obtained experimentally and data for a similar pipeline according to the reference data tables with an equivalent roughness of Δe / d = 0.01 mm, is presented. The results of the calculations and the interface of the Delphi 7 environment application program with the data in a tabular form for the hydraulic calculation of the total pressure losses in pipelines are shown, taking into account reference and experimental values of coefficients of local resistances. The data of the results of the hydraulic calculation of the total head losses, taking into account the specifi c linear pressure loss per 1 meter of the pipeline length without local resistances, are given to determine the head losses by length. The developed program can be used in the design, layout and hydraulic calculation of metal-polymer pipelines with specifi ed parameters.

YOLO-Former: Marrying YOLO and Transformer for Foreign Object Detection

The automatic detection of foreign objects between platform screen doors (PSDs) and metro train doors significantly affects personnel and property safety and maintains the train’s normal operation. However, some existing works only determine the presence of foreign objects but cannot indicate their categories. Besides, although deep-learning-based object detection algorithms can indicate the presence and categories of foreign objects, most of them only harness the information in region proposals, ignoring global contextual information. Furthermore, their performance comes at the considerable cost of computational complexity, and leading cannot be well deployed in the metro environment. To address these issues and better implement foreign object detection (FOD), we present You Only Look Once-Transformer (YOLO-Former), a simple but efficient model. YOLO-Former is accomplished based on YOLOv5 through the following procedure. First, the vision transformer (ViT) is introduced for dynamic attention and global modeling, thereby solving the problem that the original YOLOv5 only utilizes information in region proposals and has insufficient ability to capture global information. Second, the convolutional block attention module (CBAM) and Stem module are used to improve feature expression ability further and reduce floating point operations (FLOPs). Finally, we design various variants with different widths and depths to meet every need. Experiments on the foreign object detection dataset (FODD) and PASCAL VOC dataset demonstrate that YOLO-Former-x consistently outperforms other state-of-the-arts with significant margins (0.5 to 11.3 mean average precision, mAP, on FODD and 0.6 to 13.6 on PASCAL VOC dataset). Last but not least, YOLO-Former-x maintains real-time processing speed (27.32 and 28.17 frame per second, FPS, on TITAN Xp).

К обоснованию конструктивно-технологических параметров механизма выброса щепы из дисковой рубительной машины

The article describes the methodology of physical and mathematical modeling of the mechanism for ejection of chips of a disk chipper. This technique allows you to calculate and optimize the design and technological parameters of the chip ejection mechanism. To accomplish this task, the flow of chip elements was divided into separate spherical elements, and the working surfaces of the chip ejection mechanism are represented by a set of fragments of planes conjugated to each other. When creating a mathematical model for calculating and optimizing the design and technological parameters of the chip ejection mechanism, the following indicators of the efficiency of the chip ejection mechanism were analyzed: the rate of chip ejection at the exit of the chipping line, the probability of chip ejection from the first revolution of the chipping disk, the mechanical power consumed for the ejection of chips after the stage of crushing the cut residues knives. The mathematical model is implemented in a computer program in the Object Pascal language in the Delphi 7 development environment. The program allows carrying out computer experiments to analyze the movement in the casing and chipping of chips obtained from felling residues and to study the effect of the design and technological parameters of the ejection mechanism on the efficiency of the disk chipper. The computer studies carried out made it possible to determine the best numerical ranges of the chipping disk rotation frequency and the number of blades located on the chipping disk. The likelihood of chip entrainment at the first revolution of the chipping disk and the power consumption for the ejection of chips from the disk chipper were also determined.

Spatially Adaptive Feature Refinement for Efficient Inference.

Spatial redundancy commonly exists in the learned representations of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), leading to unnecessary computation on high-resolution features. In this paper, we propose a novel Spatially Adaptive feature Refinement (SAR) approach to reduce such superfluous computation. It performs efficient inference by adaptively fusing information from two branches: one conducts standard convolution on input features at a lower spatial resolution, and the other one selectively refines a set of regions at the original resolution. The two branches complement each other in feature learning, and both of them evoke much less computation than standard convolution. SAR is a flexible method that can be conveniently plugged into existing CNNs to establish models with reduced spatial redundancy. Experiments on CIFAR and ImageNet classification, COCO object detection and PASCAL VOC semantic segmentation tasks validate that the proposed SAR can consistently improve the network performance and efficiency. Notably, our results show that SAR only refines less than 40% of the regions in the feature representations of a ResNet for 97% of the samples in the validation set of ImageNet to achieve comparable accuracy with the original model, revealing the high computational redundancy in the spatial dimension of CNNs.

Modeling of light propagation in a wood polymer-sand composite

The subject of the research is wood polymer-sand composite (WPSC) and study of its physical and mechanical properties. In this case it is propagation of light in the material using simulation and development of a computer program to simulate the propagation of UV radiation in WPSC block. A separate computer program in the Object Pascal language was compiled to study the model. The program is designed to simulate two-dimensional approximation of infrared, visible, ultraviolet radiation propagation in wood polymer-sand composite. The program is applicable in a wide range of concentrations of the composite components, for different optical absorption coefficients of the components, depending on the wavelength of the radiation. Concentrations, optical properties of the components, and lighting conditions can be specified in the text of the program. The results of the program are the structure of the composite as a random uniform distribution of wood and sand fragments in a polymer matrix, a cartogram and a graph of the intensity distribution in the composite specimen. The result has been obtained: penetration depth of destructive UV radiation is about 1.5 mm at an optimal concentration of the components CW=45%, CPI=35%, CSa = 20%.

Modeling the design of the scaler for thermochemical treatment of beet ships before extracting sucharose

The extraction of sucrose is a key process in sugar beet production that determines its efficiency. This process is significantly accelerated by a complex thermal, electrical and chemical effect on beet tissue in the process of its preparation and is carried out in scalders of various designs. The design parameters of the scalder can be estimated using mathematical modeling methods. When developing the model, a finite element approach was used by representing complex bodies in the form of a large number of separate elements of the same type and the method of particle dynamics. In the simulation, a number of coefficients were introduced related to splitting the chips into separate spherical elements: mЭ, cС, dЭС, cИС. Reference and experimental data were used to calculate them. The mathematical model is implemented in the form of a system of differential and algebraic equations, for the processing of which a computer program in the Object Pascal language has been developed. The developed model makes it possible to vary a large number of design and technological parameters of the scalder and mechanical and geometric parameters of beet chips, and to determine indicators characterizing the efficiency of thermochemical processing of chips. The angle of inclination of the nozzle in the vertical plane, length and diameter of the nozzle were chosen as design parameters. The efficiency of the scalder design was evaluated by the mass of beet chips accumulated on the nozzle and the contact time of the beet chips with the inner surfaces of the scalder. In the course of a computer experiment, it was found that an increase in the angle of inclination of the nozzles at different lengths and diameters significantly reduces the mass of accumulated chips and the time of contact of the chips with the surface of the scalder. The resulting model is intended for the design of prototypes of the scalder.