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Besides aluminum alloys, lightweight carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) have been adopted progressively in automobiles to save energy and reduce emission, so constructing a reliable heterojunction between aluminum alloys and CFRPs has come to be the key issue. In this study, ultrafast picosecond infrared (IR) and excimer ultraviolet (UV) lasers were introduced to pretreat the joint surface to enhance the adhesive strength. Scanning electron microscopy, white light interferometry, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy examinations indicated that because the energy absorptivities for the two lasers were different, the variation of the roughness, wettability, and chemical composition were a little different for the patterned surface. Correspondingly, the shear strengths of the adhesive joints were increased from 5.6 to 24.8 and 21.9 MPa for IR and UV laser-pretreated samples, respectively. Furthermore, finite element analysis was adopted to evaluate the effects of strengthened mechanical interlocking and fortified chemical bonding force on the enhancement of joint strength. It was shown that chemical bonding, instead of mechanical interlocking, played the dominant role in reinforcing the heterogeneous joints. As a whole, the picosecond IR laser was more preferable for surface pretreatment in adhesive heterojunctions due to its higher processing and enhancing efficiency.

An in situ decoupling analytical method was proposed and a multistage in situ reaction analyzer based on a micro fluidized bed (MFB-MIRA) was developed for in situ and on-line analysis of multistage gas−solid reaction processes. The responses of the pipe system to various gas concentration waves were analyzed. The in situ decoupled combustion properties of three coals were investigated using a two-stage reaction procedure involving devolatilization in Ar and combustion in O 2 /Ar. The Peclet number of the pipe flow was as large as 87, indicating approximate plug flow in the MFB-MIRA. A concentration correction model was built to simulate the real gas release process in the micro fluidized-bed reactor. The measurement distortions in the char combustion concentration curves were found negligible, which proved the reliability of using the measured results directly to derive the carbon conversion processes. The MFB-MIRA gives a good mass balance. The combustion reaction orders of the three in situ chars in O 2 were all about 0.9 during the main reaction period and decreased monotonously with increasing carbon conversion after the maximum rate. Calculations of heat and mass transfer during char combustion showed that isothermal reaction conditions were guaranteed and combustion during carbon conversions of 0.3−0.8 were kinetically controlled. This study proves that the MFB-MIRA is suitable for rapid gas−solid reactions.

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