Tractor-semitrailer model for vehicles carrying liquids

This article presents a model for solving solid-fluid interactions in vehicles carrying liquids. A tractor-semitrailer model is developed by incorporating suspension systems and tire dynamics. Owing to the solid-fluid interaction, equations of motion for the vehicle system are coupled. To simplify the complicated solution procedure, the coupled equations are solved separately using two different codes. Each code is analyzed separately; but as the parameters of the two codes depend on each other, the codes must be connected at the end of each time step. To determine the dynamic behavior of the system, different braking moments are applied. As the braking moments increase, braking time decreases. However, it turns out that increasing the braking moment to more than a certain level produces no significant results. It is also shown that vehicles carrying fluids need a greater amount of braking moments in comparison to vehicles carrying solids during braking. In addition, as the level of the fluid inside the tanker increases, from one-third to two-third of the tanker's volume, the sloshing forces applied to the tanker's walls increase. It was also concluded that the strategy used in this article to solve for the solid-fluid interaction by incorporating vehicle dynamic effects represents an effective method for determining the dynamic behavior of vehicles carrying fluids in other critical maneuvers.     

The Impact of Travel Time Information on Travelers’ Learning under Uncertainty

In this work, laboratory experiment was conducted in order to evaluate the effect of feedback on decision-making under uncertainty, with and without provided information about travel times. We discuss the prediction of travelers’ response to uncertainty in two route–choice situations. In the first situation travelers are faced with a route–choice problem in which travel times are uncertain but some external information about routes’ travel times is provided. The second situation takes place in a more uncertain environment in which external information about travel times is not provided, and the travelers’ only source of information is their own experience. Experimental results are in conflict with the paradigm about traveler information systems: As a consequence of information, the propensity of travelers to minimize expected travel time is not necessarily increased. Providing travelers with static information about expected travel times reveals an increase in the heterogeneity of travelers’ choices and reduces the maximization rate.     

Effects of the Los Angeles transit strike on highway congestion

In this paper we investigate the effect of the Los Angeles transit strike on highway congestion through analysis of highway sensor data, using both a before-and-after comparison, and a control group comparison. We found that average 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. traffic speeds declined by as much as 20% during the strike, and the average length of the rush period increased by as much as 200%, even though increases in traffic were small, despite the fact that transit riders constitute a small fraction of the traveling population. Speeds declined the most at locations upstream from the places where queues normally end. We believe that highways are especially susceptible to congestion during strikes because travelers have little opportunity to adjust and equilibrate their travel patterns, as is possible during ordinary periods of traffic growth.     

可变喷嘴涡轮增压器电控系统设计

针对GT35V可变喷嘴涡轮增压器开发了一套涡轮开度电控系统。该系统以步进电机为核心元件，以MCS-51系列单片机及其扩展为电控单元，采用模块化的设计结构完成了控制软件的编制。通过电控系统调试及其在CA6DE1-21K柴油机上的标定试验，表明该系统具有结构简单、可靠性好、精度较高等特点。     

亚硝胺

与二烯烃橡胶相比，EPDM的双键很少：为了提高EPDM胶料的硫化速度，需要加入大量的促进剂。由于某些促进剂中含有仲胺，这是亚硝胺的主要来源，因此人们正在考虑使用一类新的促进剂。考察了不同硫化体系对亚硝胺排放、加工参数和物理性能的影响，片采用试验设计方法对硫化体系进行了优化。     

自动变速器故障的系统分析诊断法

介绍了一种汽车电控自动变速器故障的系统分析诊断方法。包括基本检查、手动档试验、电控系统检测、失速试验、动力传动分析、液压控制系统分析和电控系统检测等。结合一辆装备4T60-E电控自动变速器的GM LUMINA车辆，冷车时前进档、R档均不能起步，以及一辆装备A650E电控5速自动变速器的LEXUSLS400车辆，D、4、3、2挡不能起步等故障实例，论述了系统分析诊断方法的应用。     

轻型汽油车工况法排放检测方法相关性研究

研究了任用轻型汽油车稳态ASM、瞬态IMl95、GB18352．1—2001要求的全工况、GB18352．1—2001中的城市工况以及城市工况的第一个循环工况共5种不同的排放检测方法的相关性。测试并分析了3台本田雅阁车辆在这5种排放检测方法下的排放特性。结果表明，瞬态排放检测方法比稳态ASM方法能较全面地反映车辆的技术状态，瞬态IM195与GB18352．1—200l中城市工况检测方法的相关性较高，其中HC与NOx高于90％，CO也达57％以上。     

桥梁景观CI理论及实践

分析桥梁景观CI理论的提出背景,以德清英溪大桥景观设计的工程实践为例,尝试运用企业 CI理论知识,在国内桥梁景观理论界第一次系统阐述桥梁景观 CI的概念,其构成要素,运用等内容,以形成桥梁景观 CI理论体系,使桥梁景观设计更具有独特性、统一性、系统性。     

基于雨水资源化利用的城市排水系统优化设计

为解决城市日益突出的水资源危机以及现有雨洪排水系统所导致的城市水涝、城市生态环境恶化等一系列严重环境问题,提出了基于雨水资源化利用的城市雨洪排水系统优化设计方法,采取相应的工程措施,将汛期雨水“先就地利用,后排出,再蓄积调节利用”。该方法可以达到节约城市生活饮用水资源并减轻防洪压力的目的。     

桥梁地基部分被淘蚀后的稳定性研究

处于斜坡上的桥梁地基常会受到冲刷淘蚀而使基底面积减小,对桥基造成不利影响。针对这一情况,研究淘蚀形状不规则的桥基稳定性计算方法和计算公式。