The Nigerian shipping industry and indigenous shipping companies

The shipping industry in Nigeria since the early 1990s has been experiencing a continuous disastrous downturn. Nigerian shipping companies' participation in international shipping has continued to be very limited. Their presence and impact is hardly felt in the world's shipping industry. Both the national carriers (that is shipping companies with national carrier status) and other indigenous private shipping companies have vessel as well as management problems. These problems have led to the poor performance of the Nigerian shipping industry for over a decade now. The carriers in the industry are not attaining for the country the gains that are supposed to emanate from shipping. This paper points out the importance of shipping to a nation, identifies the problems the country's shipping companies are facing and proffers solutions that include merging of the companies to have strong financial standing and a competitive edge.     

Intra-Platoon Collision Behavior during Emergency Operations

This paper presents current research regarding intra-platoon collision dynamics for rapid decelerations. Measures of ride quality and impact severity are introduced to allow comparisons between different collision scenarios. In this study, the disturbance input to the platoon is assumed to be a rapid braking of the lead vehicle. Several deceleration rates are used to assess the overall platoon behavior and the effect of the intra-platoon collisions on the platoon passengers. The role of the desired headway spacing on preventing the occurrence of intra-platoon collisions and improving rider comfort is discussed.     

钢管拱肋微膨胀混凝土压注技术

拱肋压注混凝土施工在拱桥施工中是一个很重要的环节。介绍拱肋混凝土的压注工艺和方法,包括选材、混凝土配合比的设计,混凝土的拌制、运输等。可供借鉴。     

基于模糊理论的岚山港液体石油化工品码头建设方案优选研究

基于模糊理论和层次分析法,在合理确定指标集、评语集、权重集和评价矩阵的基础上,构造了岚山港液体石油化工品码头建设方案优选的二级模糊综合评价模型,并应用该模型选出了最佳工程方案,验证了该方法的有效性和合理性。     

图样标准化审查中的常见问题综述

主要阐述了企业产品图样在标准化审查过程中出现的常见问题,同时,分析了问题产生的原因,并提出了减少图样问题的相应对策。     

大秦线运煤敞车车体情况调查及分析

针对我国铁路运煤敞车现状,以大秦线在用各种类型运煤敞车为试点,开展运煤敞车车体情况调查及分析,重点调查分析了铝合金、耐候钢和铁素体不锈钢材料车体的腐蚀、磨损情况,保护涂料现状,异种材料焊接部位的裂纹、腐蚀情况,材料的疲劳寿命和表面涂装问题,得出分析结论:目前使用的耐候钢材料其耐腐蚀性能不能满足车辆设计寿命的要求,铁素体不锈钢在耐腐蚀性能上明显优于耐候钢。建议对TCS不锈钢材料进行运用条件下的大气暴晒试验,C70B车体外表面油漆使用新的长效防护涂装体系,对有裂纹的车辆进行解剖、研究,以确定裂纹产生的原因、扩展方式和速度。     

关于天文航海教学的探讨

天文航海是航海专业课程中的难点，学生很难把握和学好，文章从教学的角度分析了如何展开天文航海教学提高教学效果，增强学生天文综合应用能力。     

应用于船舶电力推进系统的嵌入式仿真平台

介绍了ARM DSP嵌入式仿真平台的方案设计，包括对存储器的外部扩展、人机交互接口和外围电路的设计、实时操作系统μC／OS-Ⅱ的移植和完善、实时仿真应用程序的建立等。描述了仿真平台在船舶电力推进仿真系统中的应用，它为推进电机提供一个实时的动态负载特性——船机桨动态特性。     

VHDL电路优化设计及方法

随着集成电路技术和EDA技术的不断发展，VHDL已经成为IEEE标准化的硬件描述语言。分析VHDL语言设计的优点并对设计中的简化电路结构、优化电路设计等问题进行了研究，从设计思想、语句运用以及描述方法等多方面对电路进行优化设计。通过电路优化设计，可以使用规模更小的可编程逻辑芯片，从而降低系统成本。     

Simulation studies of information propagation in a self-organizing distributed traffic information system

This paper investigates the feasibility of a self-organizing, completely distributed traffic information system based upon vehicle-to-vehicle communication technologies. Unlike centralized traffic information systems, the proposed system does not need public infrastructure investment as a prerequisite for implementation. Due to the complexity of the proposed system, simulation is selected as the primary approach in the feasibility studies. A simulation framework is built based on an existing microscopic traffic simulation model for the simulation studies. The critical questions for building the proposed market-driven system are examined both from communication requirements and traffic engineering points of view. Traffic information propagation both in freeway and arterial networks via information exchange among IVC-equipped vehicles is tested within the simulation framework. Results on the probability of successful IVC and traffic information propagation distance obtained from the simulation studies are generated and analyzed under incident-free and incident conditions for various roadway formats and parameter combinations. Comparisons between the speed of the incident information wave and the speed of the corresponding traffic shock wave due to the incident are analyzed for different scenarios as the most crucial aspect of the information propagation as a potential foundation for application in such a decentralized traffic information system.