基于小弹性模量法的空间飞网构型优化设计

飞网构型设计对提高空间飞网系统的展开抓捕性能具有重要意义。用小弹性模量分析方法对空间飞网构型优化设计问题进行了研究。以绳网中内力分布均衡性为优化目标,选取飞网抛射过程中最大受力时刻为研究工况,赋予绳索单元极小弹性模量,进行静力学计算,并以变形后的结果为初始条件进行迭代分析。优化结果表明,绳网中的内力分布随迭代步数的增加而更趋于均匀。在不改变绳网拓扑结构的前提下,本文所建立的优化设计方法为空间飞网构型优化设计提供了一种参考途径。     

空间飞网系统牵拉模式影响研究

针对空间飞网系统任务设计需求,研究飞网牵拉模式对系统展开性能的影响。建立空间飞网系统拉出展开过程动力学模型,并通过地面试验对比验证了模型的有效性。面向任务需求建立空间飞网系统评价指标,针对四、六点牵拉模式,采用有限绳段方法对飞网系统进行建模仿真。模型中保持绳网质量和初始发射能量一致,对评价指标的分析结果表明,在六点牵拉模式下,飞网系统飞行性能指标和力学性能指标有明显提高,但能量利用率和系统可靠性小幅下降。     

空间飞网地面碰撞试验与仿真

设计了空间飞网地面碰撞试验系统,并将碰撞试验结果与有限元仿真结果进行比较分析,对碰撞过程中的碰撞力和绳段内力进行分析。研究表明:试验结果与仿真结果吻合较好,这验证了仿真模型的有效性;飞网碰撞目标后产生的约束张力有利于收拢包裹目标;飞网的柔性特征可有效缓解碰撞效应,但碰撞区域绳段易产生断裂破坏。     

空间绳网系统展开动力学特性分析

空间绳网系统是一种新型轻质空间柔性结构,具有很大的应用价值。针对地面环境和太空环境下的不同受力特性,推导空间绳网动力学模型;通过地面试验验证仿真模型的可信度;基于展开面积、飞行距离等性能参数,仿真分析空间绳网展开过程中的绳网位形、应力分布以及能量变化等动力学特性,分析轨道高度、捕获方向和发射参数对展开效果的影响。     

基于ISIGHT的微型飞行器布局优化设计研究

微型飞行器具有飞行雷诺数低、易受外界环境干扰等特点,并存在多目标优化问题,因此其气动布局优化设计难度较大。针对微型飞行器的特点及优化设计要求,采用N-S方程与遗传算法相结合的方法对微型飞行器的多目标优化设计,基于ISIGHT软件来实现该方法的具体流程,克服了计算量大、无法实现自主迭代的缺点。并对微型飞行器的展弦比、尾翼安装角、尾翼的高度和根弦长进行优化,优化目标为飞行器的静稳定性和升阻特性,优化后的构型具有良好的气动性能,结果表明该方法明显提高了计算的精度和优化设计的水平,在工程上有一定的应用价值。     

空间飞网发射动力学建模仿真研究与地面试验

空间飞网是近来提出的一个创新的空间系统概念,在空间碎片处理和在轨服务方面具有独特的应用潜力.针对飞网系统的发射过程,利用建模仿真和地面试验两种手段进行了研究,建立了飞网发射的集中质量模型,设计了基于燃气助推质量块的飞网发射地面试验装置,开展了多次飞网发射试验.地面试验结果与模型仿真结果基本吻合,说明所建立的动力学模型可用于空间飞网系统设计.     

航空集群协同探测最优编队构型研究

研究航空集群协同探测问题,是集群作战研究的重要内容,其中对集群探测最优构型的求解是难点问题。针对隐身飞机雷达波侧向、前向散射大的空间分布特点,基于双基雷达空间分集思想,建立集群协同探测模型,运用二进制狼群算法求得多种编队构型的最优值,将所得结果同传统的空间分割法进行比较。仿真结果证明,以最大探测面积为指标,不同构型中狼群算法所得结果均优于空间分割法,尤其是"1发2收"最优构型中,二进制狼群算法最优值达到空间分割法结果的1.6倍左右。     

反无人机绳网捕获系统的动力学建模与仿真

针对无人机"黑飞"问题,提出了包含捕获平台地面发射、柔性绳网空中展开抓捕和降落伞回收的反无人机绳网捕获系统方案,建立了全过程动力学模型.并将动力学模型中的平台飞行轨迹模型和绳网展开模型与飞行试验数据进行了对比验证.结果表明,该系统动力学建模与仿真方案可行,对系统工程设计具有指导意义.     

乘波构型优化设计与实验

乘波构型是高超声速飞行器高升阻比气动布局设计的重要参考外形之一,设计中需要综合考虑升阻比、容积率和容积等要求.本文开展了锥导乘波构型的参数化建模设计,采用改进的多目标遗传优化算法,完成了以升阻比、容积率和容积为多目标的乘波构型优化设计;在KD-01高超声速炮风洞中完成了不同攻角缩比模型的气动力实验,并同CFD计算结果进行了比较分析.结果表明:优化设计外形具有良好的升阻比,且在一定攻角范围内升阻比较高,数值模拟和实验分析基本吻合.研究结果可为高超声速滑翔式飞行器的设计提供参考.     

临近空间传感器分布式组网研究

研究了临近空间分布式传感器网联合发现目标概率,探讨了区域警戒传感器网中部署传感器数目与该网总发现概率等的关系,提出了3种特殊的分布式网络传感器区域的布防模式,并建立了定量评价传感器网性能指标的数学模型。模型的建立为定量评估传感器组网系统效能奠定了理论基础,也为分布式传感器网络系统的部署优化、传感器的选配等提供决策依据。     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.     

SIM—LISP:一个通信网络管理专家系统外壳的设计与实现

本文介绍了笔者为开发名为OONMES的网络管理专家系统所实现的一个简单专家系统工具SIM-LISP。SIM-LISP是一个用C/C++语言来实现的模拟LISP语言的可调用函数集,它短小精巧,速度快,可以完成针对网管专家系统的事实或规则知识的表示、匹配、合一和推理等基本操作,并有与知识对象的连接功能,是网管专家系统内核实现的支撑环境。     

Al Qaida on the US invasion of Afghanistan in their own words

This article consists of selected translations from captured interviews and dairies of Al Qaida members. The time period covered is from mid-2001 to early 2002 and concerns their operations in Afghanistan. The material clearly conveys a range of emotion, from confident to despondent, as well as efforts to contest the US actions. The first several pages give the reader context and some possible “lessons learned,” but the story(ies) are best told by the Al Qaida members themselves. All names are pseudonyms.     

Does Intent equal Capability? Al-Qaeda and Weapons of Mass Destruction

The prospect of terrorists deploying weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is often referred to as the foremost danger to American national security. This danger has become more realistic because of al-Qaeda's expanding global network and the expressed willingness to kill thousands of civilians. In the past four years, numerous media reports have documented the group's ongoing quest for WMD capabilities; many reports have detailed al-Qaeda members’ attempts to manufacture or obtain certain chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) agents to use in WMD against targets in the West and the Middle East. Yet the question remains: Does al-Qaeda's current WMD capability match its actual intent? While most studies of the group have focused on its explicit desire for WMD, allegations of CBRN acquisition, and the killing potential of specific CBRN agents, few open-source studies have closely examined the evolution of al-Qaeda's consideration of WMD and, most notably, the merit of actual CBRN production instructions as depicted and disseminated in the group's own literature and manuals. The following report will examine the history of al-Qaeda's interest in CBRN agents, the evolution of the network's attitude toward these weapons, and the internal debate within the organization concerning acquisition and use of WMD. More so, the following research will assess the validity of actual CBRN production instructions and capabilities as displayed and disseminated in al-Qaeda's own literature and websites.     

Late Medieval Lance Use: Mounted Combat and Martial Arts in Western Europe from the 14th to the 16th Century

Despite the lance’s status and the amount of attention the couched lance has received in historiography, study of its martial art has been neglected. The various lance types and techniques used by western European cavalry have only recently begun to receive scholarly attention. Additionally, Medieval European lance use has too often been studied in isolation, without an adequate understanding of the idiosyncratic and asymmetrical dynamics of mounted combat. Although the charge with the couched lance was a valid tactic, it was only one of many. Light and heavy lances were used in one hand or two to trip, block, unhorse, and wrestle. These techniques were governed by the harsh laws of distance, speed, impact, iron, and asymmetry. By utilizing the surviving Fechtbücher and several Peninsular and Near Eastern sources, a brief foray into the diverse techniques of lance use and their purposes has been attempted here.     

A model for geographically distributed combat interactions of swarming naval and air forces

This article describes the Distributed Interaction Campaign Model (DICM), an exploratory campaign analysis tool and asset allocation decision‐aid for managing geographically distributed and swarming naval and air forces. The model is capable of fast operation, while accounting for uncertainty in an opponent's plan. It is intended for use by commanders and analysts who have limited time for model runs, or a finite budget. The model is purpose‐built for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, and supports analysis of the following questions: What happens when swarms of geographically distributed naval and air forces engage each other and what are the key elements of the opponents’ force to attack? Are there changes to force structure that make a force more effective, and what impacts will disruptions in enemy command and control and wide‐area surveillance have? Which insights are to be gained by fast exploratory mathematical/computational campaign analysis to augment and replace expensive and time‐consuming simulations? An illustrative example of model use is described in a simple test scenario. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 562–576, 2016     

Thomas Firth and Sons – Steelmakers to the Arms Industries. Part 2: Heavy Armaments

Firth’s were the first of the Sheffield steel makers to enter the field armaments. Their involvement with Colt has been outlined in an article in the journal of the Colt Collectors Association in America and their activities as steelmakers to the small-arms industries has been covered in a previous issue of this Journal. This article gives a brief overview of their involvement as manufacturers in the field of heavy armaments, being the first to make all-steel guns and their evolving role in the use of steel for ordnance, culminating in the displacement of wrought iron by the adoption of steel for ordnance manufacture by the Royal Gun Factory in the 1880s. It also highlights their development of stainless steel in this context.     

Information Is Not a Weapons System

ABSTRACT

While many militaries have tried to capitalize on the potential of information operations in internal war, few have succeeded. I argue that military information campaigns fall short of expectations for two reasons. First, the theory of influence militaries generally embrace – communications as a non-lethal weapons system – is largely invalid. While treating information as a weapons system makes it easier to integrate it into the existing military planning system, this overstates the independent effects of communications on behavior and understates the importance of interactive effects of what commercial marketing theory refers to as the “marketing mix” – product, price, promotion, and placement. It would be more appropriate to treat military information operations as a form of marketing: a composite effort to induce a specific behavior in a target audience by applying a combination of material and ideational instruments. The marketing model suggests that the efficacy of information operations will depend not simply on the message and its delivery (promotion) but on the behavior the sender seeks to induce (the product), the costs of that behavior (the price), and the opportunities available for such behavior (the placement).