船舶横甩吸引域的数值研究

建立了某型船在船体水动力和螺旋桨推力和自动舵作用下考虑波浪激励力和二阶定常漂移力时的非线性艏摇运动微分方程模型 ,以船速、船波偏角和自动舵参数为变参数 ,运用数值积分和胞映射分析相结合的方法 ,研究了随浪中船舶的横甩吸引域 .     

船舶非线性横摇阻尼试验测定

波浪中大幅度的船舶横摇运动的危害性,虽然早就引起了重视和研究,但迄今横摇运动的预报问题在理论上还没有满意决定。因为对于横摇运动,粘性阻尼尚不能用理论精确计算,非线性问题要充分考虑。为了从试验获得可靠的非线性横摇阻尼系数,我们进行了“可控力矩式磁粉离合器横摇激振装置”的研制。其基本原理和初步调试结果曾发表在15thITTC会刊和1979年《武汉造船》上,并在第二届船舶耐波性学术讨论会上     

规则波浪中船舶操纵响应遭遇频率频散概念与机制

采用船舶单自由度横摇运动方程,以及纵摇与垂荡耦合摇荡运动方程,数值模拟了规则波浪中船舶操纵响应不规则摇荡运动现象。假定波浪中船舶遭遇频率具有谐波分量形式,定义了遭遇频率常量、强度和散射频率,提出了船舶遭遇频率频散概念,推导了遭遇频率的频散关系,分析得到了航速和浪向角度变化引起的两种频散机制。散射机制表明:顶浪航行时航速散射效率最高,正横浪航行时航向角散射效率最高。     

减摇鳍-减摇水舱综合减摇实验装置的研究

采用了减摇鳍-减摇水舱综合减摇的数学模型,对综合减摇数学模型在实验装置上的实现方法进行了分析。通过用软件模拟船舶横摇阻尼力矩的方法可以实现台架模拟船舶的横摇运动,通过对船舶-水舱系统数学模型的分析,可用近似二项式替代的方法来简化船舶-水舱系统数学模型,并通过仿真选出了较理想的近似参数值,使综合减摇数学模型在实验装置上的实现成为可能。通过对综合减摇理论数学模型和综合减摇实验装置模型的仿真分析,可以看出两者有较好的相似性,说明用文中综合减摇实验装置来模拟综合减摇系统的实现方法是可行的。     

关于“跳跃现象”的试验分析

本文试验验证了Duffing方程和非线性横摇微分方程的近似理论解;表明了船舶出现横摇跳跃现象的条件;并根据试验数据辨识了非线性横摇阻尼系数和附加惯性矩,据以予报非线性横摇运动的跳跃现象,其结果与试验颇为一致。     

智慧岛

2003年第1期竟答题目1.舰船在高航速下满舵回转会产生很大的横倾角,众所周知,船舶处于大横倾时是非常危险的,最坏的结果就是翻船,为此掌握舰船在设计的最高航速下满舵回转的最大横倾角对于船舶驾驶人员来说是很重要的。现有一艘船舶在设计航速下满舵回转的最大横倾角等于A2+B.其中A等于a/b,B等于2a/b,然而ab不等于1,并且:     

舰船舵减横摇广义预测约束控制

依据舵减摇状态空间模型,推导舵减横摇广义预测控制律,在舵角舵速约束的条件下,采用二次型规划计算控制量进行减横摇控制.对某一船舶在典型航行工况下进行了系统仿真,仿真结果表明,该方法不但可取得35%～45%的减摇效果,而且对横摇角速度与横摇角加速度也有40%左右的减小效果.     

用Matlab实现减摇鳍模糊控制器仿真

基于Conolly理论建立了船舶模型,以横摇角和横摇角速度为输入量,鳍角为输出量,应用模糊控制理论设计了减摇鳍模糊控制器;利用Matlab的fuzzylogic工具箱针对不同海情对控制器进行了仿真.结果表明,减摇鳍模糊控制器与传统PID控制器相比具有更好的控制效果.     

分叉理论在非线性船舶横、纵摇耦合运动中的应用

以分叉理论为工具,研究非线性船舶横、纵摇耦合运动中的分叉,给出了分叉集,绘出了分叉集曲面,对分叉类型作了判断,绘出解的拓扑结构．     

减摇鳍模糊免疫自适应PID控制器设计及仿真研究

针对船舶横摇的非线性模型,利用免疫反馈机理,设计了一种减摇鳍模糊免疫自适应PID控制器。控制器将模糊控制与PID控制相结合,采用Fuzzy推理,对非线性函数进行模糊逼近,用模糊免疫P调节器实时整定PID控制器的比例增益,采用常规模糊控制器在线调整免疫PID控制器的积分时间常数和微分时间常数。通过对船舶减摇鳍控制系统的仿真,可以看出采用模糊免疫自适应PID控制器其控制效果远优于常规PID控制器,使减摇鳍的减摇效果得到显著提高。     

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.     

Women police in the Nigerian security sector

This article details the history and philosophy behind major changes in police tradition and organisation in Nigeria in 1955. Women in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), influenced by their background as enforcers of societal norms, developed a type of social-work-oriented policing. Using primary and secondary sources of historical information, this article discusses the origin of women in the NPF, the specialised role of women in police work, and the changes that have been effected in the roles and functions of women in policing in Nigeria. Situated within the conceptual frameworks of patriarchy and gender, this article argues that gender biases impeded the incorporation of women into the police and, when eventually introduced, gender limitations constrained their roles, operations and activities.     

Modern Sikh Warriors: Militants,Soldiers, Citizens

Central to the mainstream Sikh identity is the concept of ethically-justified force, used as a last resort. There is no place for absolute pacifism in this conception of ethical living. Fighters and martyrs occupy an important place in the Khalsa narrative, and Sikhs are constantly reminded of the sacrifices and heroism of their co-religionists of the past. This article explores how the Sikh warrior identity is manifested in the contemporary world. It examines the Sikhs who, in the 1980s and 1990s, were involved on both sides of the Punjab crisis: those militants who fought for a Sikh homeland (“Khalistan”) and those Sikhs in the Indian army who suppressed the insurgency. The article also looks beyond the militants and soldiers to Sikhs employed in modern security-related professions, the broader issue of Sikh symbols relating to the use of force, and violence within the Sikh diaspora. An examination of the Sikhs in various parts of the world reveals additional uses and consequences of ideology, whether in enlistment in the armed forces of the states in which they live, or in the support of the militancy in India, particularly in the 1980s. The conclusion is that the modern Sikh warrior is a nuanced actor behaving in various ways, some overt and some subtle: the warrior is willing to physically fight those perceived to be tyrannous, but most initiatives have shifted to pursuing justice through non-violent means, such as legal struggles for civil rights. Although armed Sikh militancy against the Indian government is in the past, there are strong residual resentments still requiring redress. All of this is of great relevance to understanding the ethics of armed force within modern Sikhism.     

Stopping Suicide Attacks: Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

We study the behavior of defense spending in Switzerland over 1975–2001. Our main interest is in determining how neutrality in international affairs (non‐membership in military alliances) affects defense spending. We find that neutrality is associated with a perception of lower levels of external threat; hence it confers economic benefits in the form of a smaller defense burden. However, neutrality does not fully insulate a country from variations in the level of external threat in the global system as perceived by members of military alliances. Swiss defense spending has tracked very closely the spending trends – but at a lower average level – of the United States and other NATO countries. To the extent that post‐Cold War threats, such as international terrorism, materialize primarily in the context of existing security alliances, Swiss military spending patterns observed in 1975–2001 are likely to remain the same in the future.     

Naw Bahar District 2010–11: A case study of counterinsurgency Conducted by Naval Special Warfare in Afghanistan

This article provides a critical analysis of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan at the tactical level. The efforts of several Naval Special Warfare detachments deployed to Naw Bahar district in Zabul Province, Afghanistan are examined in detail to identify key successes and failures in planning and execution. It defines the operating environment in which the detachments worked and identifies the goals and outcomes of the first and second phases of the counterinsurgency effort. The article concludes by placing the tactical effort in the context of the overall strategy in Afghanistan and suggests that time is the limiting factor to success.     

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.     

Militarism in post-war Cyprus: the development of the ideology of defence

This article provides a theorisation of militarism in post-war Cyprus. Based on qualitative empirical research conducted in Cyprus in 2011, the article explores the manifestation and steadfastness of Greek-Cypriot militarism, and the development of this militarism, which appeared after the partition of the island in 1974. In particular, it proposes the ideology of defence as a way to understand post-war Greek-Cypriot militarism. It shows the embedded nature of defence in the idea of the national struggle. It aims at mapping the character of this militarism in order to provide the grounds for future discussion. Only by understanding the interconnecting discourses that made Greek-Cypriot militarism possible in post-war Cyprus, can we understand its past, present, and future.     

DAR ES SALAAM

Countries in transition often experience increased levels of crime, making their citizens vulnerable to the exploits of criminals. The lack of reliable statistics hampers the development of sound crime reduction strategies. This essay considers the value of victim surveys as additional sources of information to augment official police data. It presents the findings of such a survey undertaken in Dar es Salaam and compares them with findings obtained in similar surveys of Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg. The information obtained in the survey conducted in Dar es Salaam provides valuable insights into crime rates and patterns. In comparing the results of the survey in Dar es Salaam, some interesting trends emerged around the theft of vehicle parts and vehicle theft, violent crimes, the levels of violence employed in burglaries and the use of weapons. The information gleaned from these surveys will go far in developing crime reduction strategies and measures that will be effective and appropriately targeted.