膨胀波火炮膨胀波速度和行程的数值仿真

膨胀波火炮利用弹丸在膛内运行到一定位置时提前开闩的方法，实现了在不降低弹丸初速的前提下大幅度减小火炮后坐的目的。根据膨胀波火炮的工作原理，主要针对膨胀波火炮2种不同开闩方式分别进行讨论，着重对最新设计研制的双门式炮闩膨胀波火炮进行内弹道建模与仿真，并且计算膨胀波速度和行程，进而获得最佳开闩时机。     

基于协同仿真技术的制退机故障规律研究

制退机是反后坐装置的重要组成部分,它性能的好坏直接关系到火炮战斗力的发挥,为了研究制退机发生故障对火炮后坐运动产生的影响,对制退机故障进行了分析,运用计算流体力学理论和协同仿真技术,建立了制退机MATLAB/FLUENT协同仿真模型,解决了传统火炮后坐计算模型的局限性,与传统计算模型相比,提高了计算精度,得到了制退机内部瞬态流场参数。通过对节制环磨损典型故障进行仿真研究,分析了节制环在不同磨损程度下对火炮后坐运动的影响规律,并对节制环局部压力分布情况进行了简要解析,为进一步对制退机性能退化规律分析研究提供了有效途径。     

身管柔性化对火炮动力后坐试验的影响研究

为研究火炮动力后坐试验过程中身管变形对火炮后坐复进运动的影响,以某自行火炮火力部分作为研究对象,基于多体动力学和有限元方法,构建了考虑身管柔性化的火力部分刚柔耦合动力学模型。该模型中,炮膛合力以样条函数的形式直接作用在炮口前端。通过仿真,对比火炮后坐部分最大后坐速度、最大后坐位移以及最大后坐速度时的后坐位移和时间的仿真值与实弹射击过程中的试验值,结果表明,采用冲击的方式进行火炮后坐模拟试验时,身管柔性特征对火炮后坐复进特性影响较小,也证明冲击式火炮后坐试验装置的研制可行性。     

火炮制退机节制杆稳健优化设计方法研究

合理调整制退机节制杆结构尺寸的变化范围,既可以调整火炮的最大后坐阻力和后坐长度,又能缩小它们的波动范围。为了达到上述目的,建立了能够充分考虑坡膛和膛线对炮膛合力影响的节制杆优化模型。提出了一种不仅可以给出设计变量公差带和优化目标变化范围,还能充分考虑设计变量在公差带内分布情况的现代稳健优化设计方法。最后通过某火炮制退机节制杆的稳健优化设计,实现了对上述方法的验证。     

基于MacCormack法的膨胀波火炮内弹道数值模拟

为了简单准确地求出膨胀波火炮的内弹道参数,建立了符合MacCormack格式的膨胀波火炮一维均相流内弹道模型,通过MacCormack法进行求解,得到开闩和不开闩状态下的膨胀波火炮的压力、速度曲线,并给出了经典内弹道在开闩和不开闩条件下的压力、速度曲线.通过结果对比,证明了MacCormack内弹道模型的正确性,MacCormack法求得开闩下的弹丸初速比平均压力法求得的更准确.计算出膨胀波火炮膛内压力、速度、密度、温度等内弹道参数的分布规律,真实地再现了膨胀波在膛内的流动过程.本次计算结果可作为膨胀波火炮的结构设计和后坐效率的基础.     

基于虚拟样机技术的车载火炮射击稳定性仿真

车载火炮射击稳定性作为车炮匹配性评价重要指标,是车炮匹配性定量化评估与系统优化研究的必要环节。基于SolidWorks建立实体模型,结合Fortran语言编制用户自定义程序,在ADAMS环境中建立了车载火炮发射虚拟样机模型。通过应用变量设计方法对火线高等参数进行参数化设计,可以实现虚拟样机仿真的迅捷化,分析了火线高等结构参数对车载火炮后坐稳定性的影响规律。引入灵敏度分析方法,研究了各结构参数对稳定性影响的显著程度,解决了因参数量纲不同无法比较的难题,获得了火线高、支撑间距、后坐部分质量等备选优化参数序列集。进而对车载火炮的射击稳定性进行了优化,为车炮匹配性总体优化奠定基础。最后,展望了下一步研究的工作重点。     

火炮水弹试射内弹道学分析计算

根据水弹试射原理及水弹试射实践经验,应用火炮内弹道学理论,建立火炮水弹试射内弹道学模型,分析水弹试射的影响因素,并以某炮水弹试射为例进行仿真计算和膛压测试,计算结果与试验结果基本相符,为新型火炮水弹试射的参数获取提供理论依据.     

装填条件对膨胀波火炮弹道设计评价标准的影响

膨胀波火炮利用发射过程中精确打开炮闩的方法实现了在不降低弹丸初速的前提下,大幅度减小火炮后坐的目的.采用经典内弹道理论对膨胀波火炮发射过程进行了建模与仿真,计算并分析了药室容积、装药量、弹丸质量等装填参数对膨胀波火炮有效功率、炮膛工作容积利用率和火药相对燃烧结束位置等弹道设计评价标准的影响规律,为膨胀波火炮弹药系统设计及实际应用提供了理论参考.     

串联式反后坐装置设计与动力学仿真

利用Runge-Kutta方法确定了火炮串联式后坐系统的参数,设计出串联式反后坐装置结构,并运用ADAMS软件进行了串联式后坐系统动力学仿真,以验证设计结果的准确性。动力学仿真结果与结构设计的参数比较吻合,证明了结构设计结果的准确性,通过串联式后坐系统与单一后坐系统的对比,反映了串联式后坐系统的优越性。     

基于改进差分进化算法的内弹道参数优化

火炮内弹道参数直接影响其计算结果,内弹道参数优化设计是内弹道分析计算的重要环节。基于经典内弹道计算模型,以火药内弹道计算中最为敏感的燃速指数及其燃速系数为设计参量,以最大膛压及弹丸初速的计算值与测试值一致性为目标,对差分进化算法群体的初始化、变异因子及变异模式进行了改进,对某型火炮的内弹道参数进行了优化计算。优化设计结果表明改进后的差分进化算法满足内弹道设计工程实践要求,为内弹道参数优化设计提供了一种有效的算法。     

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.     

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.     

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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.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.