基于遗传算法的导弹结构模态参数识别

系统地研究了基于遗传算法的线性结构系统模态参数识别方法.遗传算法对广义动力学系统的辨识已经得到了充分研究,但在结构系统参数辨识方面的研究还不多,使用浮点数编码方案,利用频响函数数据,给出了结构系统模态参数识别步骤.由于遗传算法的全局寻优特性,该算法具有极强的抗噪声能力,即使对噪声严重污染的数据依然能够很好的辨识出待辨识的参数.通过一个两自由度的弹簧质量块系统进行了仿真分析,最后将方法用于一个实际的导弹结构的实验数据分析.     

小波分析在钢框架损伤识别中的应用研究

针对小波包能量谱损伤识别方法对结构激励源的依赖性,引入虚拟脉冲响应函数增强了小波包能量谱对激励的鲁棒性。为验证该方法对钢框架结构损伤识别的可行性和有效性,进行了3榀3跨钢框架3种工况下的模型对比试验,采用小波包能量谱损伤识别方法分析了不同实验工况下频响数据,识别结果符合损伤情况,验证了该方法的有效性。     

加权核范数最小化和改进小波阈值函数的图像去噪算法

针对加权核范数最小化算法存在结构残余噪声以及无法较好地保持图像边缘结构的问题,提出基于加权核范数最小化和改进小波阈值函数的图像去噪算法。利用全变分模型对噪声图像进行初步去噪,使用噪声图像与初步去噪后的图像进行差分运算,对差分后得到的噪声残差图像使用改进的小波阈值函数去噪,将小波去噪后的残差图像与初步去噪图像叠加,将叠加后的图像使用基于残余噪声水平迭代的加权核范数最小化算法进行二次去噪。相较于当下主流去噪算法,经该算法处理后的图像的PSNR和SSIM值均有所提升,能够更好地保持图像的纹理结构,且在高噪声环境下效果更佳。     

振动分析在钢桁架结构损伤预警中的应用

基于有限元分析软件ABAQUS平台,以一种钢桁架结构为例进行数值仿真分析;以白噪声信号作为环境激励信号,对钢桁架结构进行振动分析;结合虚拟脉冲响应函数和小波包能量谱分析法,对钢桁架结构在环境信号激励下进行损伤预警。最后,比较了不同测点的预警效果。结果表明:这两种方法的同时使用,对钢桁架结构在环境激励下进行损伤预警的效果十分明显,具有很好的工程应用价值。     

基于特征值线性拟合误差的信源数估计方法

基于信息论的MDL准则信源数估计方法在均匀高斯白噪声背景下具有良好的估计性能。若阵元间存在幅相不一致性时白噪声变成非均匀色噪声,此时算法性能将急剧下降。针对该问题,提出了基于数据协方差矩阵特征值总体最小二乘线性拟合误差的信源估计方法。该方法根据特征值线性拟合误差与拟合点数为单调不增关系,并结合MDL准则的惩罚因子构造判断函数实现信源数估计。仿真结果表明:该方法在非均匀色噪声背景下能够实现信源数一致估计;且在低信噪比、短快拍时仍然具有良好的估计性能。     

多载荷识别频响函数矩阵求逆法的改进算法

分析了频响函数矩阵求逆法在多载荷识别中存在的问题 ,提出了两种改进算法 ,即算术平均法和条件数加权平均法。实验结果表明 ,这两种方法在识别精度和消除病态影响方面均优于传统的频域识别方法。     

正切函数的契比协夫逼近及其系数的加速计算法

本文给出正切函数的有理展开和契比协夫展开式系数的加速计算方法;同时在YH-1机上进行了数值试验,结果表明:用现在的系数来计算正切函数,其精度比原来正切函数的精度可提高30%左右。     

希尔伯特-黄变换在脉冲涡流信号消噪与识别中的应用

针对传统方法无法有效识别不同尺寸细小裂纹所产生的脉冲涡流信号,提出一种基于希尔伯特-黄变换的脉冲涡流信号消噪与识别算法。对脉冲涡流信号进行集成经验模态分解并通过归一化自相关函数及其方差特性分选出含有噪声的本征模态函数;对含噪声的本征模态函数进行阈值消噪并与未做处理的本征模态函数重构成无噪声信号;对无噪声信号进行希尔伯特-黄变换并计算出希尔伯特边际谱;根据希尔伯特边际谱的差异识别出不同细小尺寸的表面与下表面裂纹。实验结果表明了所提方法的有效性,经过集成经验模态分解消噪,消除了噪声对脉冲涡流信号的干扰;而基于希尔伯特-黄变换的方法则能够有效识别出不同尺寸的裂纹。     

基于相位估计的湍流降质图像盲复原

地基望远镜观测的空间目标图像受大气湍流的影响,其分辨率受到很大的限制。为了提高湍流降质图像的复原效果,提出一种改进的盲解卷积方法。首先,考虑观测图像受到高斯噪声和泊松噪声的干扰,推导出基于混合噪声模型的盲解卷积代价函数;然后,根据傅里叶光学原理,利用波前相位表示点扩展函数,将点扩展函数从像素值估计转换为参数估计;最后,通过参数化表示方式,将代价函数寻优从约束最优化问题转换为无约束最优化问题。模拟实验结果验证了本文模型与数值算法的有效性。     

工程圆管故障的振动诊断技术

本文应用结构的敏感度分析法,以敏感区的频响函数作为观测特征量,建立了故障诊断的识别方程。利用Kalman 滤波迭代算法对某工程圆管进行了刚度型故障诊断的仿真计算和试验分析。结果表明振动诊断技术可用于工程结构故障的微机实时监控,具有精度较高,抗干扰能力较强的特点。     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

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).     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

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.     

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.     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.