基于时间序列与小波分析的船舶柴油机故障诊断

模拟柴油机气阀间隙异常的几种情况,并实时监测柴油机缸盖振动信号.采用时间序列分析方法对船舶柴油机缸盖振动信号功率谱进行识别,采用小波变换方法对各信号进行小波包分解,并提取故障特征频段信号进行功率谱估计,实现精确故障诊断.     

基于串联排队网络的三峡-葛洲坝水利枢纽联合调度模型

为了提高三峡-葛洲坝水利枢纽的整体通过能力,分析了三峡-葛洲坝水利枢纽联合调度的实际需求,建立了三峡-葛洲坝水利枢纽联合调度数学模型,考虑了闸室面积利用率最大、整体待闸时间最小两个目标函数和船舶编排过程中的八个约束,应用串联排队网络理论求解模型。算法将申报船舶按照航向分成四个船舶序列,动态计算每艘船舶的权重,兼顾船舶长度与宽度优先,待闸时间约束、葛洲坝船闸通航条件限制和任务均衡的要求,循环排船,逐步优化。应用结果表明应用该数学模型和编排算法编制一个计划期的两坝五闸计划仅需2 min,编排时间短,葛洲坝2#船闸的闸室面积利用率高于70%,并且客船和旅游观光船均排在前面的闸次中,说明客船的待闸时间约束是满足的,并且在航向上是上下航向交替运行,没有出现倒闸情况,编制的计划满足实际调度需要。     

改进振动法在地下工程动力时程计算中的应用

地下工程受到周围土体的约束作用,其动力反映与地面工程有所区别,如将源于地面工程的振动法用于地下工程的动力时程计算分析,需要进行相应的改进.文章通过计算分析发现,振动法用于地下工程动力时程计算时,在计算模型边界条件和波动传播时间效应方面不能反映波动对地下工程作用的实质；通过对比分析,在这两个方面对常规振动法进行了改进；提出了适用于地下工程动力时程计算的改进振动法.该方法的计算模型采用左右两侧粘弹性底部固定的人工边界条件,波动输入采用能够反映波动传播时间效应的分层加速度动态输入法,其计算分析结果与理论解吻合较好,适用于地下工程的动力时程计算分析.     

Forecasting bunker prices; A nonstationary,multivariate methodology

This paper suggests a methodological approach for the forecasting of marine fuel prices. The prediction of the bunker prices is of outmost importance for operators, as bunker prices affect heavily the economic planning and financial viability of ventures and determine decisions related to compliance with regulations. A multivariate nonstationary stochastic model available in the literature is being retrieved, after appropriate adjustment and testing. The model belongs to the class of periodically correlated stochastic processes with annual periodic components. The time series are appropriately transformed to become Gaussian, and then are decomposed to deterministic seasonal characteristics (mean value and standard deviation) and a residual time series. The residual part is proved to be stationary and then is modeled as a Vector AutoRegressive Mooving Average (VARMA) process. Finally, using the methodology presented, forecasts of a tetra-variate and an octa-variate time series of bunker prices are produced and are in good agreement with actual values. The obtained results encourages further research and deeper investigation of the driving characters of the multivariate time series of bunker prices.     

Driving to save time or saving time to drive? The enduring appeal of the private car

Use of the private car is often viewed as highly problematic. It is regularly associated with global physical, social and ecological harms such as climate change and the high incidence of lifestyle diseases, including heart disease. Attempts to address these problems generally include provision for day-to-day physical mobility based on alternatives to the private car. Labelled alternative transport, these modes include public transport, walking and cycling. Yet the private car continues as the preferred way to travel in many cities. A deeper understanding of this preference can reveal under explored sites of resistance to alternative transport modes.This paper contributes to these understandings by examining the role the car as a time saving device plays in sustaining automobility. Its central proposition is that individual decisions to drive are not necessarily motivated by the desire to save time. The paper draws on empirical evidence on the journey to work in Australia’s largest city, Sydney. Using a systematic process of trip substitution analysis, a group of people were identified who could use alternative transport to get to work in the same amount of time it currently takes them to drive. These people then participated in a series of in-depth interviews where deeper attachments and motivations for private car use were explored.This approach has enabled development of the multi-layered understanding that informs the central proposition that individual decisions to drive are not necessarily motivated by the desire to save time. Instead, automobility is sustained by appeals to flexibility and autonomy, as well as the interminable pull of the sensory experience provided by the cocoon of the car. This way of thinking about resistance to alternative transport exposes a series of inconsistencies between the expectations of those planning for, and those anticipated to one day use, alternative transport.     

水平地震作用下单桩横向非线性动力响应的三维有限元数值模拟

针对水平地震作用下的桩土相互作用体系,利用有限元软件ANSYS建立了单桩-地基土系统三维有限元模型。运用此模型,对系统进行考虑地基土的材料非线性和桩土界面状态非线性的单桩横向地震响应计算,并进行了自由场响应的计算。计算结果表明:土体的材料非线性与桩土界面状态的非线性特性对单桩的横向水平地震响应有着一定的影响。     

高速公路场景图像的二值化及交通标志定位检测方法

采用CCD摄像机采集高速公路场景图像，并通过图像颜色空间变换，将图像的RGB量值转换为色度-饱和度-亮度（HSV）量值。采用基于阈值的方法对场景图像中颜色饱和度分量进行二值化分割处理；利用场景二值化图像形状特征（周长、形状参数、圆形性参数）去除非目标区域，并通过搜索场景二值化图像方向投影值序列的突变点实现标志准确定位。采用HSV颜色模型中的亮度分量和最佳阈值法对场景图像中标志区域进行二值化处理。结果表明，应用上述方法能取得良好的效果。     

基于熵最大化图像分割的直线型车道标识识别及跟踪方法

为了解决在道路路面材料不一致或光照不均匀情况下的车道标识线的识别和跟踪问题,提出一种基于熵最大化的图像分割可变形模板的车道标识线识别及跟踪方法.该方法结合了图像变窗口处理技术和基于熵最大化分割方法来实现对道路图像的理想分割,然后利用可变形模板匹配方法得到车道标识线参数,最后采用建立梯形感兴趣区域的方法实现对车道标识线的实时跟踪.试验结果表明：该方法具有很好的可靠性、鲁棒性和实时性.     

基于模糊隶属度曲面的遗传算法图像分割

介绍了遗传算法的发展历史和图像分割的应用现状，分析了基于基本的遗传算法的图像分割方法，并将遗传算法与模糊集理论相结合用于医学图像分割，提出了基于模糊隶属度的遗传算法的医学图像分割方法。并对不同方法，如分割效果、计算代价进行了分析比较。     

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.