Since 2004, the so-called new siheyuan – the modernized siheyuan (traditional Chinese house type) - has emerged in earnest. Over the past two decades, the new siheyuan has undergone continuous evolution in terms of program, structure, space, and form. To achieve a comprehensive understanding of the diverse forms of the new siheyuan , this paper aims to classify its varieties and analyze representative cases in the old Bejing city, corresponding to these. The classification system utilized the typology presented in ‘Type Classification of Contemporary Hanok’ (2016), as this was considered to be universal and takes into account the commonalities between hanok and siheyuan . The criteria for the classification are: (1) new construction or renovation; and (2) the degree of the new siheyuan ’s deviation from the traditional siheyuan ’s standard - maintaining the traditional form; changing space within the traditional form; changing the traditional frame; and juxtaposing the traditional and the modern. Based on these two criteria, this paper identified eight types of the new siheyuan and analyzed representative cases for each type. It can be argued that the diverse spectrum and significance of the new siheyuan were effectively explored through this typological classification and case-studies.

Titanium carbides are widely used for cutting tools and grinding wheels, because of their superior physical properties such as high melting temperature, high hardness, high wear resistance, good thermal conductivity and excellent thermal shock resistance. The common synthesizing method for the titanium carbide powders is carbo-thermal reduction from the mixtures of titanium oxide() and carbon black. The purpose of the present research is to fabricate nano TiC powders using titanium salt and titanium hydride by the mechanochemical process(MCP). The initial elements used in this experiment are liquid (99.9%), (99.9%) and active carbon(<, 99.9%). Mg powders were added to the solution in order to induce the reaction with Cl-. The weight ratios of the carbon and Mg powders were theoretically calculated. The TiC and powders were milled in the planetary milling jar for 10 hours. The 40 nm TiC powders were fabricated by wet milling for 4 hours from the +C+Mg solution, and 300 nm TiC particles were obtained by using titanium hydride.