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.     

正交异性桥面结构数值模拟优化分析

运用有限元子模型法,分析轮载作用下正交异性钢桥面铺装的受力状态,比较了桥面板厚度、加劲肋厚度等不同结构参数对铺装层受力状态的影响,对正交异性钢桥面结构进行了优化分析,分析结果表明桥面板厚度对桥面铺装的受力状态影响较显著,其影响比加劲肋厚度对铺装的受力状态影响更显著,提出了钢桥面板的优化组合设计模式.     

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.     

Mixed Logit模型及其在交通方式分担中的应用研究

离散选择模型的典型代表Logit模型简洁易用的特点使其在经济、交通等领域得到了广泛的应用，但同时Logit模型的两个重要缺陷限制了其应用范围。在分析了Logit模型固有的两个缺陷和Mixed Logit模型的良好性质后，比较了Logit模型与Mixed Logit模型的差异，对Mixed Logit模型的算法进行了研究，并借助SAS统计软件提供的仿真算法给出了详细的工程实践应用范例。结果表明，Mixed Logit模型有着更丰富的物理含义，对个人出行交通方式选择行为的描述更符合实际。     

8XC196KC用于ABS轮速测量方法的改进研究

对ABS中速度测量的过程进行仔细的分析,提出了一种能够将精度和实时性相结合的速度测量方案,该方案能够较为有效地平衡精度和实时性之间的矛盾,并通过实际程序的执行验证了这一结论。这一测量方法不仅可用于ABS的速度测量,也可推广用于其他的速度或周期测量方案中。     

双横臂独立悬架的前轮主销内倾角算法研究

针对前桥为双横臂独立悬架汽车，基于轮胎侧偏特性和计及外倾角的影响，建立前轮转向后回正力矩数学模型，根据转向轮回正力矩与回正阻力力矩平衡方程式，推导其前轮主销内倾角的算法。用样车做实例计算与试验，验证其正确性，为前轮定位参数中主销内倾角的设计提供理论参考。     

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。     

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。     

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。