三参数威布尔分布在寿命分析中的参数估计

威布尔分布在可靠性工程中已得到了广泛的应用.在对己给定的寿命试验数据进行可靠性分析与评估中,因简单易解多采用二参数威布尔分布,但参数估计会带来较大误差.对具有以损耗失效为特征的某些机械零部件,采用三参数威布尔分布进行拟合及参数估计,可以得到更高的精度,因而较二参数威布尔分布,更能反映产品可靠性的实际情况.     

可修系统可靠性统计分析模型的改进

阐述了复杂可修系统可靠性统计分析的特点及威布尔过程模型的适用性;引入修复影响系数对威布尔过程模型作了改进;给出了一个可供参考的计算示例.     

某新型榴弹引信加速寿命试验设计

通过对影响某新型榴弹引信长储失效的主要环境因素（温度和湿度）分析,得出其寿命服从威布尔分布,双环境应力下满足阿伦尼斯模型。用恒定应力加速寿命试验方法计算出双环境应力下威布尔分布的过渡参数、形状参数、尺寸参数等值,从而估算出某新型榴弹引信长储失效规律。     

Ⅰ型混合截尾下指数-威布尔分布的统计分析

在定时混合截尾情形下,研究了指数威布尔分布的统计分析问题。利用最大似然估计方法给出了指数-威布尔分布参数的最大似然估计。运用Lindley’s逼近方法计算出了分布参数的Bayes估计。最后,运用Monte-Carlo方法对最大似然估计和Bayes估计结果作了模拟比较,结果表明Bayes估计优于最大似然估计。     

威布尔过程模型在机械系统可靠性中的应用

为了研究复杂可修系统的规律,应用威布尔过程模型,得出这样结果,即提出一种定量描述预防性维修质量的方法,并对MTBF进行了分析。可以这样认为,模型参数在实际工作中有很广泛的应用。     

软体油罐储存失效概率分布加速寿命试验研究

随着储存和使用年限的增长,受环境应力的影响,软体油罐各项性能指标均出现不同程度的下降。对软体油罐进行寿命评估对于合理确定油罐的报废周期,开展新型罐体材料研究具有一定的指导意义。以软体油罐模型为试验材料,以气密性测试为失效判别标准,通过加速寿命试验,得到样本在110℃老化温度下的失效数据,并通过威布尔概率图检验法和Van Montfort检验法对失效数据进行检验,得到软体油罐失效概率服从威布尔分布的结论,为软体油罐可靠性寿命评估奠定了理论基础。     

基于复合失效模式的寿命分布检验方法

产品往往受随机失效和耗损失效两种模式的双重影响,因此,构造指数威布尔分布表征该类产品的失效规律。首先,用图检验法对该类产品的寿命数据进行初步检验;其次,研究了该类产品寿命数据的极大似然估计的求解方法,进一步用伽方检验方法对寿命分布类进行了检验;最后,通过工程仿真例子说明了该方法的具体操作流程,最终验证了方法的正确性。     

基于贝叶斯模型的装备剩余寿命预测研究

为了解决武器装备日益复杂及维修工作日趋繁重的问题,运用贝叶斯模型预测装备修理后的剩余寿命,为合理安排其修理计划提供依据。替代传统的指数分布,用威布尔分布描述系统寿命特征,并运用极大似然方法和贝叶斯方法估计威布尔分布的两个未知参数,给出其置信区间。在此基础上,对先验样本和后验样本两种不同情况,分别运用贝叶斯模型预测装备修理后的剩余寿命,并给出实例。结果表明了该方法的有效性。     

基于竞争失效建模的导弹贮存寿命评估方法

为了提高导弹贮存寿命估计的准确性,提出了一种基于退化失效与突发失效竞争的导弹贮存寿命估计方法。基于建模假设,建立导弹竞争失效模型;采用赤池信息准则(AIC)来确定导弹退化过程的最优随机过程模型,进而建立其退化失效模型;采用威布尔分布和比例危险模型,建立基于退化量影响的突发失效模型;采用极大似然估计算法,求解模型未知参数。结合实例分析,验证了所建模型的正确性和优势。     

基于更新过程的多阶段备件需求模型

正态分布、威布尔分布是常用的备件寿命模型,但是正态分布和威布尔分布的记忆性会导致多阶段需求量预测的相关性.利用更新过程理论,将叠加的更新过程分解和拼接,建立单阶段多项备件需求模型;通过将年龄转移到下个阶段,建立了多阶段不可修备件需求模型;采用加权平均法对多阶段需求模型进行了修正.仿真表明,这种模型能有效预测多阶段需求的波动.     

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.