Reliability Analysis Method of a Control System for Subsea All-Electric Christmas Tree

The subsea all-electric Christmas tree (XT) is a key equipment in subsea production systems. Once it fails, the marine environ-ment will be seriously polluted. ...     

可潜式滚装码头锚泊系统试验研究

可潜式滚装码头由趸船、双体滚装平台和设有特种垂直锚装置的组合锚泊系统等组成。较详细介绍了趸船模型的设计、锚链的模拟方法,全面地分析了不同的锚泊组合方式下锚系的受力状况,得到囤船在风浪流组合条件下相关力学特性和响应规律。     

改性无砂混凝土路用性能评价

无砂混凝土因其强度不如普通密级配混凝土,限制了它的使用,因此如何提高无砂混凝土的强度和疲劳寿命是其应用的关键。将一种新型的胶体作为改性剂掺加到无砂混凝土中,通过强度、干缩及疲劳试验,与普通无砂混凝土以及同水泥用量、同强度等级的两种普通混凝土对比,试验表明该胶体改性剂能较大幅度提高无砂混凝土强度,达到规范混凝土面层强度要求,同时具备良好的抗干缩性能,特别是拥有优异的抗疲劳性能,使无砂混凝土具有了良好的应用前景。     

北部湾、泛北部湾港口崛起的号角——中国-东盟港口发展与合作论坛札记

2007年10月28日,第4届"中国-东盟国家博览会"在广西南宁隆重开幕.这届博览会,参展企业1908家,共设展位3400个,其中东盟10国1134个,比上届提高35%.商品贸易成交额14.2亿美元,同比增长12.1%;签约国际合作项目投资额61.5亿美元,比上届增长5.3%;签约国内合作项目投资额582.1亿元人民币,比上届增长5.1%,均超过了前3届.     

变频调速技术应用的经验

介绍变频调速技术的特点,以及在港口装卸设备电气传动控制系统改造中选择和应用变频器的技巧和经验.     

改善预应力连续箱梁耐久性措施探讨

近年来大量预应力混凝土箱梁在运营阶段相继出现了影响结构正常使用及结构耐久性的受力裂缝。从以下几个方面探索改善预应力连续箱梁耐久性的措施、建立全寿命成本分析优化设计理念;加快抗裂、抗渗等高性能混凝土材料的推广和应用;改善原有预应力连续箱梁施工工艺、结构形式;设计时充分考虑桥粱使用时所处的环境,针对具体的环境采取适当的措施减少环境对桥梁耐久性的影响,加强运营阶段的管理和维护。     

Fault diagnosis for singular stochastic systems

This paper studies the fault diagnosis of singular stochastic systems. The probability distribution of output is measured by probability density functions (PDFs), which are modeled by a square root B-spline expansion. An adaptive nonlinear observer is proposed to estimate the size of the fault occurring in systems. Furthermore, the linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach is applied to establish sufficient conditions for the existence of the observer. Finally, the simulation results are given to indicate the method for diagnosing the fault.     

Vocational and academic approaches to maritime education and training (MET): Trends,challenges and opportunities

Traditional seafarer training has always focused on the acquisition and use of practical skills. The prevailing view is that, while this approach addresses a degree of cognitive skills, it focuses on and gives much more emphasis to the acquisition of hands-on practical skills for the performance of specific tasks. On the other hand, academic education has been seen to be much more focused on the development of in-depth analytical and critical thinking skills; cognitive skills that are less reliant on hands-on task-oriented training, but stress critical reading and discussion. The global trend in maritime education and training is increasingly to link an essentially vocational education that provides specific and restricted competence outcomes with more general or deeper academic components leading to an academic qualification. This trend has led to some dilemmas for curriculum development, for training legislation in a global industry, and for achieving desired learning outcomes in a professional setting (in the shipping industry). This paper discusses some of the challenges arising from this trend and the opportunities the trend offers.     

Rapid first-stage tests of on-ship infection

Protection against on-ship infectious disease—whether due to mishap or to harmful purpose—faces special situational problems. Sometimes, when infection levels on board have reached threshold levels, emergency actions are required. Often, the most thorough strategies for responding to threat are not feasible. A rapid first-stage test (RFT) is a fast, minimally invasive procedure used to rule out from possible infection a large percentage of an infection-threatened group. Prevention and control of on-ship infection need to combine various interconnected tactics. When timely criterion tests are not possible, the medical team must adopt fast alternative measures. The methods used to summarize protection against on-ship infectious agents included a scientific literature review and a web search. The fields of the review were maritime, health, and technology sources. Special attention was paid to material dealing with risks and threats of on-ship penetration by infectious agents, on-ship infection prevalence thresholds, and rapid diagnostic screens. The Bayes rule and the law of large numbers were applied to the analysis, for large on-ship populations, of RFT indications of crossing of an infection prevalence threshold. The increasing risk of serious on-ship infection—either accidental or purposeful—calls for a multi-layered protection approach. RFTs are a key part of the outer layer of such a defense. Well-designed and well-administered RFTs provide several advantages for defense against on-ship infection: low-cost, non-invasive, fast, and focuses on a drastically smaller number of infection possibilities.     

Brittleness analysis and important nodes discovery in large time-evolving complex networks

The brittleness analysis and important nodes detection have been a hot spot in the complex networks. How to get the overall feature of the whole network and how to find out some important nodes are requisites to solve these problems. In this paper, we adopt the trace of the adjacency matrix and the centrality of the complex networks to give a quantitative and qualitative analysis of networks being studied. Results show that the k-shell plays a more important role than the degree centrality and the betweenness in finding important nodes, and it can also be used to give direction on the immunization and maintenance of complex networks.