Leadership and Commitment in the Royal Navy ☆

What is proposed here is a relatively simple procedure by which a fleet manager may select the best mix of ships to provide a given transport service. The method is confined to non-liner trades and assumes the availability of more than enough suitable ships. It further assumes that unneeded ships can be placed in idle status (or returned to owner if chartered in) without penalty.

The objective of the procedure is to select the mix of available ships and sea speeds that can perform the required service at maximum profitability to the owner.     

Numerical study on active wave devouring propulsion

The possibility of extracting energy from gravity waves for marine propulsion was numerically studied by a two-dimensional oscillating hydrofoil in this study. The commercially available computational fluid dynamics software FLUENT was used for the unstructured grid based on the Reynolds-average Navier?CStokes equation. The free surface waves and motion of the flapping foil were implemented by customizing the FLUENT solver using a user-defined function technique. In addition, dynamic mesh technology and post processing capabilities were fully utilized. The validation of the model was carried out using experimental data for an oscillation hydrofoil under the waves. The results of the simulation were investigated in detail in order to explain the increase of propeller efficiency in gravity waves. Eight design parameters were identified and it was found that some of them greatly affected the performance of wave energy extraction by the active oscillating hydrofoil. Finally, the overall results suggested that when the design parameters are correctly maintained, the present approach can increase the performance of the oscillating hydrofoil by absorbing energy from sea waves.     

沥青路面病害及处治措施

沥青路面作为国内高速公路主要构造形式，其病害的发生对高速公路具有严重影响。鉴于此，在对常见沥青路面病害分析的基础上，从路面设计角度对如何预防、规避病害提出若干措施，以期为相关工程提供参考。     

沥青搅拌设备燃烧系统的使用维护及故障排查研究

随着我国公路建设的快速发展，越来越多的施工技术应用于公路的建设中，因此施工设备面临着很大的挑战。针对施工中沥青搅拌设备燃烧系统发生的开启风门较大、设备内部阀芯被杂质或者油品堵塞以及无法点火等问题进行了细致的探讨，分析故障排查方法，以保障路面施工不受影响。     

The Geometrical Contact between Track and Wheelset

In previous publications the author has described a so-called first-order theory for the motion of a railway vehicle wheelset on a tangent track. In the present report the geometrical aspect of this theory is further evaluated and a method for solving the constraint equations between the coordinates of the wheelset is indicated.     

桥梁新型纤维增强涂料防水层施工技术研究

涂料防水施工方便,在很多领域被采用,在桥梁防水方面也有应用,但现有的桥梁防水涂料和施工方法难以满足道路桥梁防水规范的施工要求,该文在研究和实践的基础上,介绍了一种满足道路桥梁防水规范的新型防水涂料及其施工技术和效果。     

Analysing Demand for Suburban Trips: A Mixed RP/SP Model with Latent Variables and Interaction Effects

We analyse mode choice behaviour for suburban trips in the Grand Canary island using mixed revealed preference (RP)/stated preference (SP) information. The SP choice experiment allowed for interactions among the main policy variables: travel cost, travel time and frequency, and also to test the influence of latent variables such as comfort. It also led to discuss additional requirements on the size and sign of the estimated model parameters, to assess model quality when interactions are present. The RP survey produced data on actual trip behaviour and was used to adapt the SP choice experiment. During the specification searches we detected the presence of income effect and were able to derive willingness-to-pay measures, such as the subjective value of time, which varied among individuals. We also studied the systematic heterogeneity in individual tastes through the specification of models allowing for interactions between level-of-service and socio-economic variables. We concluded examining the sensitivity of travellers’ behaviour to various policy scenarios. In particular, it seems that contrary to political opinion, in a crowded island policies penalising the use of the private car seem to have a far greater impact in terms of bus patronage than policies implying direct improvements to the public transport service.     

塑性收缩裂缝和断板的探讨及施工控制

塑性收缩裂缝和断板是水泥混凝土路面滑模施工所要解决的难点 ,这些病害受众多因素的影响 ,找清原因 ,措施得当是解决问题的关键。通过试验研究及泰化高速公路、青威一级公路的实践 ,总结了一系列成功的经验 ,对控制滑模施工出现的塑性收缩裂缝和断板具有很强的可操作性     

影响地方高等级公路建设质量管理的主要因素及其对策

影响地方高等级公路质量管理的主要因素是建设资金短缺，施工队伍素质差，地方行政干预大，管理制度不落实，不按基本建设程序办事等。采取分期建设，实行公开招标落实施工队伍，主要材料由业主购买并控制耗量，重要构件在专业化工厂定制或由专业化工厂在现场制作安装，砌石砂浆集中拌制等措施，可以控制好地方高等级公路建设质量。     

基于CORBA与RMI／EJB的异构分布对象系统的集成

本文系统地分析了分布式计算模型CORBVA，Java RMI的体系结构及组件模型EJB的现状和发展趋势的基础上，对CORBA与RMI／EJB的集成进行研究，并将其应用于大庆站信息系统的开发。