一种维修性随机网络仿真模型

在研究现有维修性分配、预计模型的基础上,提出了一种系统维修性随机网络仿真模型,该模型可以用来预计系统维修时间分布及相关维修性参数,并给出了具体的建模步骤及实例。     

长周期服役系统可靠性与维修成本评估

军用飞机等武器装备系统日趋复杂,武器装备系统的故障规律也越来越复杂。维修是保持武器装备质量特性的重要手段,合理的度量维修行为对可靠性以及维修成本的影响,是衡量装备保障效能,预计装备可靠性的必要基础,也是装备在役考核的重要内容。基于复杂装备的服役数据,采用Gamma分布模型拟合其寿命分布,并结合装备的实际维修过程,设计正态分布的役龄回退模型度量装备的随机维修效果,在此基础上构建了定周期预防性维修和机会维修的装备维修成本模型。以某型飞机舰载信息探测系统为例进行了算法验证,分别对构建的寿命分布模型、不完全维修模型以及维修成本模型进行了比较。结果表明:该方法可更加准确地反映出装备在实际服役环境下的可靠性水平、维修效果和维修成本。研究方法和结果可为复杂装备在使用、保障、在役考核以及改进设计等提供决策方法和依据。     

作战飞机可靠性与维修性仿真模型

通过故障树分析建立了作战飞机仿真逻辑关系。在修正线性同余法的基础上获得了随机数模型。在各设备故障发生状态和修复状态识别的基础上,建立了可靠性维修性仿真模型,确定了作战飞机在仿真过程中的工作状态,并根据故障模式影响分析预计了设备故障对作战飞机的影响。最后以F/A-18为例进行可靠性维修性仿真,获得了实时的故障信息和修复信息,验证了仿真模型的可行性。     

基于数据挖掘的装备维修性定量分析与研究

为了充分挖掘装备故障维修数据中的有用信息和知识,更好地为维修性分析、设计提供服务,根据所收集的某舰船装备维修历史数据的特点,提出采用数据挖掘的方法对在役装备故障和维修信息进行维修性定量分析。通过对装备维修历史数据中的装备进行面向功能属性的分类研究,对故障现象进行聚类分析研究,可以得到各类簇装备故障模式的分布情况,通过进一步计算,可以得到在役装备的平均修复时间(MTTR)等维修性指标,从而为装备故障原因分析、保障特性的设计需求生成等工作提供有效的数据支撑。     

紧固件拆装时间预计模型

紧固件拆装作业时间是影响机械产品维修性的主要因素之一,占机械产品维修作业时间的70％～80％。因此,探讨紧固件拆装作业时间的预计方法,对研究、设计机械产品的维修性,将是十分必要的。通过分析紧固件拆装作业过程,探索出了影响拆装作业时间的诸因素,并对所有的影响因素进行分析、权衡和回归,建立紧固件拆装作业时间的预计模型。将此模型在某型履带式车辆上进行了实际验证,证明了模型的正确性及通用性。     

多故障流系统维修决策的半马氏模型

许多现有的系统维修模型仅仅考虑了一种类型的故障,并把系统的劣化状态作为决策的状态变量。但是,对于大型复杂系统这样的维修策略要应用可能是很困难的。在本文中提出了用于确定最优维修策略的半马尔可夫决策模型。这种模型考虑了大修与小修,系统假定在每次大修后都能“修复如新”。系统的故障流做为Weibull过程考虑。但是,故障则被分为多种不同的类型并且考虑了它们之间的相关性。维修决策的状态变量是当前故障类型及累计故障次数。模型的目标函数是找出使单位时间的运行维修费用最小化。作者还给出了求解模型的混合策略迭代仿真算法。并且本文还给出了一个说明性的算例。     

复杂系统维修性综合评估技术

分析了复杂系统使用期间维修性水平动态变化特点,研究了复杂系统在使用中维修性数据特点、类型和分布确定方法,建立了复杂系统使用期间维修性指标综合评估模型,提出了维修性增长极大似然评估方法,为复杂系统维修性指标计算和评估提供参考。     

预防性维修工作组合优化

针对单部件的维修间隔期无法反映系统的维修最佳间隔期这一问题,对装备各部件在各修理级别上的预防性维修任务组合情况进行探索。通过建立费用模型、可用度和风险模型作为决策模型,用以组合某一修理级别各部件的维修工作,得出系统预防性维修间隔期,并结合部队实际优化从系统的角度优化等级维修中的维修工作间隔期,为确定大中小修工作提供科学、合理的理论指导。该算法在区分各修理级别的维修能力的基础上,能较好地对各修理级别的维修工作组合情况进行了优化,实例验证了模型的实用性和有效性。     

装备维修中备件需求率的预计方法

通过研究装备维修过程中器件的固有可靠性和维修性,着重分析了影响维修器件需求率的主要因素,利用系统建模和仿真的方法,分别针对耗损类型器件和可修复类型器件建立了相应的需求数学模型,最后给出了维修备件需求率的预计方法.     

预防性维修工作组合优化

针对单部件的维修间隔期无法反映系统的维修最佳间隔期这一问题,对装备各部件在各修理级别上的预防性维修任务组合情况进行探索.通过建立费用模型、可用度和风险模型作为决策模型,用以组合某一修理级别各部件的维修工作,得出系统预防性维修间隔期,并结合部队实际优化从系统的角度优化等级维修中的维修工作间隔期,为确定大中小修工作提供科学、合理的理论指导.该算法在区分各修理级别的维修能力的基础上,能较好地对各修理级别的维修工作组合情况进行了优化,实例验证了模型的实用性和有效性.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

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Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

Panjwai: a tale of two COINs in Afghanistan

The US Army has two approaches to counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan. One is hard, or combat-focused, and the other is soft, or development-focused. This study examines two US Army task forces deployed to Panjwai District, Afghanistan from 2012 to 2013. CTF 4-9 and 1-38 offer a meaningful comparison because they pursued these contrasting approaches among the same population and against the same enemy at the same time and place. The study compares each unit’s approach and finds that neither approach was successful absent the other. The article concludes by recommending further research into combining the approaches at the operational level.