明德重工的高端战略

在刚刚过去的2009年,全球造船市场遭遇重重危机,中国造船业,尤其是民营企业处在水深火热之中。但是,在江苏南通,一大批颇具实力的民营船企逆势崛起,成就了南通市在中国造船业中的"船谷"地位。其中,明德重工就占据了一席之地。一个新生船企,却临危而不乱,而且表现出勃勃生机,其奥秘何在?     

拆船业：机遇在市场复苏中悄然降临

金融风暴，对巅峰期的造船、航运业犹如噩梦，对波谷中的拆船业却恰似甘霖。据中国拆船协会统计，自金融风暴以来的10-11月间，我国进口废船订单货量激增15万轻吨，是今年1-9月份的总和，与2007年全年16万轻吨的总拆解量也相差无几。在全球经济的萧条期，拆船业悄然复苏。     

基于正序基波提取器的无功、谐波和负序电流检测方法

有源滤波器能否按其工作原理实现预期的谐波抑制效果，在很大程度上还有赖于对电网中无功、谐波和负序电流快速而准确的检测。通过对幅值积分信号所具有的选频特性进行分析，研究了一种正序基波提取器，在此基础上提出了一种新型的无功、谐波和负序电流检测方法。基于正序基波提取器的检测方法既不需要锁相环、低通滤波器，也不需要将α-β坐标系变换到d-q坐标系及其反变换的计算。仿真与实验结果均证明采用该检测方法的有源滤波器具有良好的补偿性能。     

A comparative analysis of the European and North-American approaches to dealing with major oil spills

Background  

The question of what should be the right level of preparedness to react to a major oil spill (i.e. the EXXON VALDEZ spill, the ERIKA spill, and the PRESTIGE spill) is highly debated, especially in the aftermath of such spills. Little research, however, has been conducted with the aim to identify and compare governments’ best practices not only to fund preparedness measures but also to assess the countries’ ability to respond effectively to catastrophic oil spills. It is the author’s belief that important lessons can be learnt from a comparative analysis of countries’ best practices.     

Numerical analysis of crack under compression by 3D displacement discontinuity method

A 3D displacement discontinuity method is applied to solve the fracture mechanics problems of the mixed mode crack under compression. Friction between the surface of the closed crack is considered by establishing a simple and efficient iterative algorithm based on method of contact resistance mitigation. On the surfaces of the closed crack, the Mohr-coulomb rule is satisfied by iteration when the crack is in condition of sliding. The stress intensity factors are obtained using displacement fitting method. It is shown that the numerical results agree with the experimental results well and that friction plays an important role in resisting crack propagation.     

Experimental study on the liquid slug of cryogenic slug flow in inclined tubes

An experimental study was carried out to understand the phenomena of the boiling flow of liquid nitrogen in inclined tubes with closed bottom by using a high speed motion analyzer.The experimental tubes are 0.018 and 0.014 m inner diameter(ID) and 1.0 m in length.The range of the inclination angle is 45°-90° from the horizontal.The experimental observation on the liquid slug was carried out along the tubes.Statistical method was employed to analyze the experimental data.The experiment analyzed the influences of the inclination angle and the tube diameter on the liquid slug length and velocity.The results show the liquid slug propagation velocity increases with the decrease of inclination angle θ.For all cases,the maximum values of the mean liquid slug lengths were obtained at θ = 60°.The mean liquid slug lengths were greater for large tube at higher tube position.These conclusions provide a basis for further study liquid slug of cryogenic two-phase undeveloped slug flow.     

“Turn on the radio,bust out a song”: the experience of driving to work

Though driving to and from work has become a prevalent experience in the lives of individuals in every metropolitan region in the US, much remains to be learned about the activity from the perspective of the drivers. To increase our understanding of the motivation for certain travel behaviors, we must first know something about what those drivers experience. The existing literature explains much, but the application of new methodologies could improve our ability to explain the willingness of individuals to choose to drive through increasingly congested road networks. The results of this study of oral histories of 12 women commuters underscore the idea that commute should be seen as a set of subjective behaviors that contradict some existing assumptions about why individuals commute.     

Threshold controlled scheme of difference expansion techniques for reversible watermarking

Since Tian Jun proposed the difference expansion embedding technique, based on which, many reversible watermarking techniques were proposed. However, these methods do not perform well when the payload is high. In this paper, we proposed an expandable difference threshold controlled scheme for these three methods. Experiments show that our scheme improves the performance of these three methods for heavy payload.     

区域交通影响评价研究

通过阐述现行单体交通影响评价的弊端及其在我国的不适应性,以及城市规划体系本身存在的诸多问题和漏洞,推论我国大中城市开展区域交通影响评价的必要性、紧迫性,明确区域交通影响评价的定位,探究其基本架构,阐述其基本理论。以期为区域交通影响评价在我国的实施奠定基础。