挟沙水流引起底床冲淤变化的数值模拟

本模型为垂向二维数学模型,以修正的NS方程为基础,采用粒子Level Set方法和对流扩散方程分别模拟自由水面和悬沙运动,根据底床物质质量平衡的原则计算底床变形,可模拟水流引起的底床冲淤变化.该模型将水流模型扩展到泥沙运动领域,以二相流概念简化自由水面边界条件,模拟悬沙、底沙和底床变形;采用固定的笛卡尔坐标,不需重新划...     

砂灰比和砂的级配对CA砂浆抗压强度和流动性的影响

通过调整砂与水泥的质量比和调整2种单级配砂的质量比,研究了砂灰比和砂的级配对CA砂浆的抗压强度和流动性的影响。结果表明：随着m（S）／m（C）的增大,低强和高强CA砂浆的流动性都变差,但低强CA砂浆流动性的变化幅度较小;随着m（S）／m（C）的增大,高强CA砂浆的抗压强度降低,而低强CA砂浆的抗压强度呈升高的趋势;使用两级配砂能够提高CA砂浆的抗压强度并改善其流动性,粒径为0．42-0．21mm的砂与粒径0．85-0．30mm的砂的最佳质量比为6：4。     

碎石基层的塑性变形对混凝土路面力学行为的影响

在这项研究中,通过与旋转硬化概念的结合来修正基于广义SMP准则的原始改良Cam-Clay模型,模拟在水泥混凝土板下碎石基层的塑性变形的发展,称之为旋转硬化Cam-Clay模型.模型通过预测塑性变形累计曲线和对碎石基层循环加载的三轴压缩试验得到的试验值相比较来确认.模型成功地预测了试件塑性变形的发展,塑性变形在一开始时迅速增长,此后增长的速率减小.该模型与三维有限元模型 (3DFEM)结合,在足尺试验路面上进行模拟试验.试验发现,水泥混凝土路面的弯沉值随着荷载重复次数的增加而增加,表明在水泥混凝土板下由于基层的塑性变形而产生了缝隙.通过引入等效荷载次数的概念来模拟在合理的计算时间内施加大量循环荷载的塑性回应.模拟结果和试验数据比较表明该概念是有效的.此外,调查了由于基层缝隙而引起的水泥混凝土路面的力学响应(变形,压力以及弯沉).     

长大编组列车纵向动作用力遥测系统

介绍了俄罗斯长大编组列车纵向动作用力遥测系统。试验结果表明,测试值和计算值的最大差值在±5%以内。     

Computational Vibration Analysis of Vehicle Shimmy by a Power-Work Method

This paper presents the simulation of vehicle shimmy for a mid-size truck with focus on a computational analysis tool that measures the power and corresponding work in dissipating the excitation energy. After a review of shimmy theory the power and work equations and their response classification in vibrating systems are introduced. Next, model validation compares the full vehicle model to an actual test vehicle. Finally, two designs that suppress shimmy in the test vehicle are analyzed in the model by the power-work method, showing components that effectively dissipate the shimmy energy.     

Effects of split injection,oxygen enriched air and heavy EGR on soot emissions in a diesel engine

The effects of split injection, oxygen enriched air, and heavy exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) on soot emissions in a direct injection diesel engine were studied using the KIVA-3V code. When split injection is applied, the second injection of fuel into a cylinder results in two separate stoichiometric zones, which helps soot oxidation. As a result, soot emissions are decreased. When oxygen enriched air is applied together with split injection, a higher concentration of oxygen causes higher temperatures in the cylinder. The increase in temperature promotes the growth reaction of acetylene with soot. However, it does not improve acetylene formation during the second injection of fuel. As more acetylene is consumed in the growth reaction with soot, the concentration of acetylene in the cylinder is decreased, which leads to a decrease in soot formation and thus soot emissions. A combination of split injection, a high concentration of oxygen, and a high EGR ratio shows the best results in terms of diesel emissions. In this paper, the split injection scheme of 75.8.25, in which 75% of total fuel is injected in the first pulse, followed by 8°CA of dwell time, and 25% of fuel is injected in the second pulse, with an oxygen concentration of 23% in volume and an EGR ratio of 30% shows a 45% reduction in soot emissions, with the same NOx emissions as in single injection.     

Scattering of oblique surface water waves by thin vertical barrier over undulating bed topography

The present study deals with the scattering of oblique surface water waves by small undulation on the bottom in the presence of a thin vertical barrier. Here, three different configurations of vertical barriers are investigated. Perturbation analysis is employed to determine the physical quantities, namely, the reflection and transmission coefficients. In this analysis, many different Boundary Value Problems (BVPs) are obtained out of which the first two bvps are considered. The zeroth order bvp is solved with the aid of eigenfunction expansion method. The first order reflection and transmission coefficients are derived in terms of the integrals by the method of the Green’s integral theorem. The variation of these coefficients is plotted and analyzed for different physical parameters. Furthermore, the energy balance relation, an important relation in the study of water wave scattering, is derived and checked for assuring the correctness of the numerical results for the present problem.     

All minutes are not equal: travel time and the effects of congestion on commute satisfaction in Canadian cities

Despite decades of research, it is unclear under which circumstances travel is most onerous. While studies have found that some individuals derive positive utility from aspects of commuting, others have shown that traffic congestion can entail important time, monetary, and mental stress costs. Moreover, responses to traffic congestion-related stressors differs by individual characteristics. In response, this research captures how exposure to traffic congestion events, the duration of this exposure, and individual trait susceptibility to congestion affect the utility of commuting. Working through the lens of individual satisfaction with the duration of their commute, we show that not every minute of travel is valued the same by car commuters in Canadian cities. Results suggest a complex relationship between travel time, congestion, and individual predisposition to congestion-related stress. While improvements in travel time matter for increasing commute satisfaction, it is reductions in travel in congested conditions that matter most, particularly among those susceptible to congestion-related stressors.     

Real-time Monitoring of Subsea Gas Pipelines,Offshore Platforms,and Ship Inspection Scores Using an Automatic Identification System

The aim of this research is to develop an algorithm and application that can perform real-time monitoring of the safety operation of offshore platforms and subsea gas pipelines as well as determine the need for ship inspection using data obtained from automatic identification system (AIS). The research also focuses on the integration of shipping database, AIS data, and others to develop a prototype for designing a real-time monitoring system of offshore platforms and pipelines. A simple concept is used in the development of this prototype, which is achieved by using an overlaying map that outlines the coordinates of the offshore platform and subsea gas pipeline with the ship’s coordinates (longitude/latitude) as detected by AIS. Using such information, we can then build an early warning system (EWS) relayed through short message service (SMS), email, or other means when the ship enters the restricted and exclusion zone of platforms and pipelines. The ship inspection system is developed by combining several attributes. Then, decision analysis software is employed to prioritize the vessel’s four attributes, including ship age, ship type, classification, and flag state. Results show that the EWS can increase the safety level of offshore platforms and pipelines, as well as the efficient use of patrol boats in monitoring the safety of the facilities. Meanwhile, ship inspection enables the port to prioritize the ship to be inspected in accordance with the priority ranking inspection score.     

Thermal exchanges at air-water interfacies and reproduction of temperature vertical profiles in water columns

For a 3-D eutrophication-diffusion macromodel of the central part of the Venice Lagoon, air-water heat fluxes are computed interpolating, through Fourier series expansion, meteoclimatic variables averaged over a thirty years survey. Also reproduced with the same interpolation methods, is the daily fluctuation of incident light as well as the annual variation of the photoperiod.With an interative procedure temperature values, to be assigned at each grid's point and corresponding to each hour of a reference year, are computed also accounting for the thermal inertia of water columns of varying depths. By statistical examination of temperature vertical profiles, depth varying diffusivities are also estimated, which enables, without assumption of an instantaneous mixing, the reproduction of heat diffusion from the surface to the bottom water cells.Procedures, preliminary refined and verified for a one-dimensional vertical system input, are next implemented on a three-dimensional submodel of reduced size provided of “open boundaries”: this last submodel, under a continuous input of energy and of matter is seen to attain a steady states as well as to be capable of simulating regime conditions. A further validation is performed, on a submodel of 43 × 47 × 20 cells, encompassing a limited portion of the macromodel and presenting the actual lagoon bathymetry.Macromodel's seasonalisation so achieved, enables for a more correct simulation of the periodical behaviour of light and of temperature, forcing functions governing the eutrophication phenomena.