浅论工程材料特性反演问题和科技发展的微观动力

随着我国公路建设的迅速发展，落锤式弯沉仪(FWD)在我国的应用日渐普及，本文结合科技发展的微观动力论述了反问题，主要是地基材料性能动态反演的发展及现状，突出了哲学对科技的指导作用，前瞻了FWD在我国公路建设中的广阔应用前景。     

双质量飞轮式扭振减振器

现代汽车广泛采用的是离合器从动盘式扭振减器，而双质量飞轮式扭振器则是近年来发展起来的一种更为有效的新型扭振减振器。本比较了了双质量飞轮式扭振减器和离合器从动盘式扭振减器的结构、性能及优缺点。     

循环式燃油系统故障仿真及特征分析

介绍了一种船舶柴油机用循环式燃油系统的结构特点,详细分析了这种燃油系统的燃油压力波形特征。对该不同燃油粘度、不同燃油比重和１２种典型故障下的燃油喷射过程进行了计算机仿真计算和特征参数的相对偏差分析,揭示了各种故障的燃油压力波形特征及与系统故障的内在联系,分析了各特征参数对不同故障的敏感特性。     

高阶CMAC神经网络及其在水下机器人运动控制中的应用

对高阶ＣＭＡＣ神经网络的结构和工作原理进行了研究,提出了中间层作用函数地址的计算方法,给出了计算高阶基函数的不同方法,利用高阶ＭＣＡＣ神经网络对水下机器人模糊深度控制器进行了学习,仿真结果显示了不同高阶基函数ＭＣＡＣ网络的不同建模能力,证明了中间层作用函数地址的计算方法正确。     

Transient responses of a VLFS during landing and take-off of an airplane

The transient elastic deformation of a pontoon-type very large floating structure (VLFS) caused by the landing and take-off of an airplane is computed by the time-domain mode-expansion method. The memory effects in hydrodynamic forces are taken into account, and great care is paid to numerical accuracy in evaluating all the coefficients appearing in the simultaneous differential equations for the elastic motion of a VLFS. The time-histories of the imparted force and the position and velocity of an airplane during landing and take-off are modeled with data from a Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet. Simulation results are shown of 3-D structural waves on a VLFS and the associated unsteady drag force on an airplane, which is of engineering importance, particularly during take-off. The results for landing show that the airplane moves faster than the structural waves generated in the early stage, and the waves overtake the airplane as its speed decreases to zero. The results for take-off are essentially the same as those for landing, except that the structural waves develop slowly in the early stage, and no obstacle exists on the runway after the take-off of airplane. The additional drag force on an airplane due to the elastic responses of the runway considered in this work was found to be small in magnitude.     

自主水下航行器制导系统的设计

简要介绍了某小型远程自主水下航行器制导系统的设计要求和软硬件实现方法,该制导系统已成功应用于211工程建设的自主水下航行器上。     

基于神经网络的无人无缆水下机器人运动建模与控制技术研究

对自主型水下机器人（ＡＵＶ）神经网络运动模型的结构进行了理论分析和探讨,提出了非完全回归型神经网络、增加积分层的输出层结构及相应的分步式学习方法。对ＡＵＶ运动过程中目标运动路径和目标运动速度的同时跟踪控制进行了系统研究。提出了由主控网络和伴随网络构成的神经网络控制器结构,给出了通过计算机模拟来生成教师样本的方法,提出了预测控制的思想。计算机仿真及水下机器人“Ｔｗｉｎ－Ｂｕｒｇｅｒ”的水池实验结果验证了本文所提出的建模方法和跟踪控制方法的有效性和可行性。     

The impacts of changing flight demands and throughput performance on airport delays through the Great Recession

Several significant events between 2007 and 2009 impacted flight demands and the abilities of the three major New York area airports to handle demand. This paper assesses the results of applying a probabilistic simulation method – which isolates the individual contributions of changes in flight demand and changes in airport throughput performance to changes in flight delays – to diagnose how these different events may have caused operational changes at these airports, and in turn, how the results may be used to inform policies for appropriate countermeasures. The analysis revealed two key observations. Firstly, certain patterns in throughput performance shifts caused the most significant delays, and were more likely to have been caused by controller staffing issues rather than caps. Secondly, relatively constant average delays from one year to the next may result from significant demand drops accompanied by large throughput performance degradations at an airport. This suggests that not only operational limitations on capacity encourage airlines to reduce schedules, but that changed demands can also impact throughput performance. Overall, the analysis indicates that caps may not have provided their fully intended delay benefits. Although they successfully reduced overall flight demands at LGA and JFK, they also directly limited throughput performance at critical times, in turn limiting delay benefits. In addition, demands at the busiest times of the day appear to be relatively inelastic to these operational limitations, insofar as demand profiles at EWR and JFK remained “peaky” in 2008 and 2009. Also, the recession was largely responsible for reducing demands at the airports in 2009, but the delay benefits of this were dampened by a corresponding throughput performance degradation. Based on the above observations, a more direct demand management policy combined with policies that focus on maintaining high staffing capabilities at critical times of the day may be considered, to reduce the likelihood of major queue formation on days that do experience sustained demands. The results also suggest that a more flexible caps system, particularly during times of heavy queues, could be explored. Although airport practitioners have keen understandings of how their airports operate, without the support of quantitative analysis tools, it can be more difficult to argue the need for appropriate countermeasures. An analysis such as the one presented here can provide the detailed quantitative substantiation required to build cases for these targeted policy directives and infrastructure investments.     

Towards a generic benchmarking platform for origin–destination flows estimation/updating algorithms: Design,demonstration and validation

Estimation/updating of Origin–Destination (OD) flows and other traffic state parameters is a classical, widely adopted procedure in transport engineering, both in off-line and in on-line contexts. Notwithstanding numerous approaches proposed in the literature, there is still room for considerable improvements, also leveraging the unprecedented opportunity offered by information and communication technologies and big data. A key issue relates to the unobservability of OD flows in real networks – except from closed highway systems – thus leading to inherent difficulties in measuring performance of OD flows estimation/updating methods and algorithms. Starting from these premises, the paper proposes a common evaluation and benchmarking framework, providing a synthetic test bed, which enables implementation and comparison of OD estimation/updating algorithms and methodologies under “standardized” conditions. The framework, implemented in a platform available to interested parties upon request, has been flexibly designed and allows comparing a variety of approaches under various settings and conditions. Specifically, the structure and the key features of the framework are presented, along with a detailed experimental design for the application of different dynamic OD flow estimation algorithms. By way of example, applications to both off-line/planning and on-line algorithms are presented, together with a demonstration of the extensibility of the presented framework to accommodate additional data sources.     

Optimization models for differentiating quality of service levels in probabilistic network capacity design problems

This paper develops various chance-constrained models for optimizing the probabilistic network design problem (PNDP), where we differentiate the quality of service (QoS) and measure the related network performance under uncertain demand. The upper level problem of PNDP designs continuous/discrete link capacities shared by multi-commodity flows, and the lower level problem differentiates the corresponding QoS for demand satisfaction, to prioritize customers and/or commodities. We consider PNDP variants that have either fixed flows (formulated at the upper level) or recourse flows (at the lower level) according to different applications. We transform each probabilistic model into a mixed-integer program, and derive polynomial-time algorithms for special cases with single-row chance constraints. The paper formulates benchmark stochastic programming models by either enforcing to meet all demand or penalizing unmet demand via a linear penalty function. We compare different models and approaches by testing randomly generated network instances and an instance built on the Sioux–Falls network. Numerical results demonstrate the computational efficacy of the solution approaches and derive managerial insights.