A new approach for improving the performance of freight train timetabling for single-track railways is proposed. Using the idea of a fixed-block signaling system, we develop a matrix representation to express the occupation of inter- and intra-station tracks by trains illustrating the train blocking time diagram in its entirety. Train departure times, dwell times, and unnecessary stopping are adjusted to reduce average train travel time and single train travel time. Conflicts between successive stations and within stations are identified and solved. A fuzzy logic system is further used to adjust the range of train departure times and checks are made to determine whether dwell times and time intervals can be adjusted for passenger and freight trains at congested stations to minimize train waiting times. By combining manual scheduling expertise with the fuzzy inference method, timetable efficiency is significantly improved and becomes more flexible. 相似文献
It is well known that the hydrodynamic responses of a high-speed vessel traveling in regular head waves of even moderate wave
height can show significant nonlinear behavior, and so linear statistical techniques become insufficient for predicting the
statistics of responses in irregular waves. On the other hand, it has been shown that an approximate third-order Volterra
model is applicable to handling the statistics of some nonlinear seakeeping problems, such as motions and vertical hull girder
loads. In the present study, the focus is on the nonlinear behavior of the pressure responses of the hull surface, especially
on the pressures acting on alternately wet and dry areas near the waterline and on the bow zone with high deadrise angles
that may be subject to slight impact and water pile-up effects. To clarify the validity of applying Volterra modeling to this
problem, a series of experiments in regular and irregular head waves were carried out, and approximate third-order and fifth-order
Volterra models with the proposed algorithm for finding frequency response functions (FRFs) were applied as a means of validation.
In the present article, the first part of the validation was performed using experimental data in regular waves. It was confirmed
that the third-order Volterra model has adequate accuracy to simulate deterministically the variation of pressure responses
in regular waves of different wave steepness up to a wave amplitude to wavelength ratio of 0.01 even for the highly nonlinear
pressures acting on the above-mentioned areas of the hull surface. 相似文献
A 2-D analysis of the soil-structure interaction for a jack-up platform is presented. The special features of the analysis are:
• -soil behaviour modelling under cyclic loading uses elasto-plastic equations with a multiple yield surface and kinematical hardening;
• -the study is not executed on a single isolated spud-can, but on a more comprehensive structural model including the soil and a 2-D reduction of a complete jack-up structure;
• -the loading history consists of some one-hundred cycles representing two storm sea states separated by small set-up cycles.
The main result is that the bottom fixity displayed during the first storm is not significantly degraded during the second storm, even though irrecoverable displacements and rotations occur. 相似文献
This paper presents a procedure for evaluating the long term response distribution in ship structures. A specified travel route through given geographical areas during the lifetime of the ship is defined. The individual scatter diagrams, describing the relative occurrence of different sea states for the geographical areas, are weighted with respect to the relative time occupancy of the ship. A two-dimensional analytical distribution is fitted to the weighted scatter diagram over the lifetime.
Frequency response functions for all the sectorial forces are calculated for different ship speeds, heading angles and loading conditions, and fitted to a bi-cubic spline. The wave spectrum is defined by applying a gamma spectrum. The response spectrum is found using a linear frequency domain analysis. From the response spectrum, the peak distribution of the response in each short term period, conditioned on the loading condition, the ship speed and the wave heading direction is computed. The peak distribution over the lifetime is estimated by unconditioning with respect to sea states, maneuvering and loading condition. 相似文献
This paper, based on analyses of case histories, reviews soil conditions causing sudden uncontrolled leg penetrations, together with site data needed to plan safe installations of jack-up drilling units. Punch-through-like failure in uniform clay profile is analysed. Preloading procedures aimed at minimizing potential damage to the unit are suggested and discussed. 相似文献