On the behavior and shape of mixture failure rates from a family of IFR Weibull distributions

Populations of many types of component are heterogeneous and often consist of a small number of different subpopulations. This is called a mixture and it arises in a number of situations. For example, a majority of products in industrial populations are mixtures of defective items with shorter lifetimes and standard items with longer lifetimes. It is a well‐known result that distributions with decreasing failure rates are closed under mixture. However, mixtures of distributions with increasing failure rates are not easily classifiable. If the subpopulations involved in the mixture have increasing failure rates, there might be some upward movement in the mixture and later a general downward pull towards the strongest component. Little work has been done in describing the shape of mixture failure rates when all subpopulations do not have decreasing failure rate. In this paper, we present general results that describe the shape and behavior of a failure rate of a mixture obtained from two Weibull subpopulations with strictly increasing failure rates. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2004     

高比重钨合金的烧结成形与组织性能研究

采用液相烧结成形工艺制备了90W-Ni-Fe合金棒,通过分析烧结态钨合金的组织形貌和力学性能,观察合金的断口组织形貌,研究了烧结工艺对高比重钨合金组织性能的影响,认为减少W-W界面,增加W-W界面的结合强度,是提高烧结态钨合金力学性能的有效途径。     

非均布应力场中内埋裂纹的应力强度因子

在内埋裂纹线性线弹簧模型的基础上,通过引入二维权函数将裂纹面上的非均布载荷进行均布化等效,求解了中心内埋椭圆形裂纹在沿板厚非均匀分布应力场中的应力强度因子,列出了问题的奇异积分方程,利用Gauss-Chebyshev方法求解了在4种应力场分布情形下的数值结果,并与已有文献的解进行了比较,当a0/c0 ＜0.4、a0/h≤0.3时,两者结果具有较好的一致性,表明了本文方法的合理性和可靠性.     

中继镜系统作用效果与上行链路望远镜口径关系分析

建立了中继镜系统模型,计算了30km高度中继镜系统作用效果与上行链路望远镜口径的关系,结果显示:当望远镜口径低于0.42m时,系统作用效果随着望远镜口径增大而显著提升;在0.42～0.54m范围内,系统作用效果随着上行链路望远镜口径增大而显著降低;当望远镜口径大于0.54m时,系统作用效果随着上行链路望远镜口径的增加而增加,但增加的幅度逐步降低,当望远镜口径增加到一定大小后,系统作用效果趋向于稳定值,望远镜口径的增加对系统作用效果不具有提升作用.分析了系统作用效果在0.42～0.54m范围内出现突降的原因,计算结果显示:上行接收光束强度不均匀性导致二次光源光束质量的急剧下降,进而降低了系统作用效果.文章的计算结果为中继镜系统参数设置提供参考.     

舰船航渡过程中的松弛时间与航渡策略问题

针对舰船特点和任务要求,提出了舰船航渡中的松弛时间问题。在对问题分析的基础上,给出了松弛时间的定义并对其进行了建模,讨论了航渡失败的判断准则,给出了松弛时间的上下限以及航渡中实际的松弛时间的计算方法,并采用仿真的方法进行了典型航渡过程的松弛时间和成功概率的计算。在大量计算的基础上,初步探讨了航渡成功概率与各类航渡参数之间的关系,并对舰船最优航渡策略问题进行了初步分析,最后对于优化目标、计算初值、结果的表达方式等提出了一个可行的解决方案。     

Dynamic necking of a near α titanium alloy at high strain rates:Experiments and modelling

The tensile behaviour of near α Ti3Al2.5 V alloy, conceived for applications in aerospace and automotive engineering, is characterized from quasi-static to high strain rates. The material is found to present noticeable strain rate sensitivity. The dynamic true strain rate in the necking cross-section reaches values up to ten times higher than the nominal strain rate. It is also observed that beyond necking the dynamic true stress-strain curves present limited rate dependence. The experimental results at different strain rates are used to determine a suitable constitutive model for finite element simulations of the dynamic tensile tests. The model predicts the experimentally macroscopic force-time response, true stress-strain response and effective strain rate evolution with good agreement.     

A melt-cast Duan-Zhang-Kim mesoscopic reaction rate model and experiment for shock initiation of melt-cast explosives

A melt-cast Duan-Zhang-Kim (DZK) mesoscopic reaction rate model is developed for the shock initiation of melt-cast explosives based on the pore collapse hot-spot ignition mechanism. A series of shock initiation experiments was performed for the Comp B melt-cast explosive to estimate effects of the loading pressure and the particle size of granular explosive component, and the mesoscopic model is validated against the experimental data. Further numerical simulations indicate that the initial density and formula proportion greatly affect the hot-spot ignition of melt-cast explosives.     

Development of multi-physics numerical simulation model to investigate thermo-mechanical fatigue crack propagation in an autofrettaged gun barrel

In this research, a detailed multi-physics study has been carried out by numerically simulating a solid fractured gun barrel for 20 thermo-mechanical cycles. The numerical model is based on thermal effects, mechanical stress fields and fatigue crack mechanics. Elastic-plastic material data of modified AISI 4340 at temperatures ranging from 25 to 1200 °C and at strain rates of 4, 16, 32 and 48 s⁻¹ was acquired from high-temperature compression tests. This was used as material property data in the simulation model. The boundary conditions applied are kept similar to the working gun barrel during continuous firing. A methodology has been provided to define thermo-mechanically active surface-to-surface type interface between the crack faces for a better approximation of stresses at the crack tip. Comparison of results from non-autofrettaged and autofrettaged simulation models provide useful information about the evolution of strains and stresses in the barrel at different points under combined thermo-mechanical loading cycles in both cases. The effect of thermal fatigue under already induced compressive yield due to autofrettage and the progressive degradation of the accumulated stresses due to thermo-mechanical cyclic loads on the internal surface of the gun barrel (mimicking the continuous firing scenario) has been analyzed. Comparison between energy release rate at tips of varying crack lengths due to cyclic thermo-mechanical loading in the non-autofrettaged and autofrettaged gun has been carried out.     

A critical look at the U.S. deceased‐donor organ procurement and utilization system

The U.S. system for procuring and utilizing deceased‐donor organs for transplantation has been studied and written about in many articles. The purpose of this paper is to examine the interactions between the elements that comprise this system, and point out improvement opportunities that may be affected through operations research/management techniques. The authors demonstrate the need for developing data‐driven and analytic tools. In fact, data is used to generate hypotheses and support claims throughout the paper. The paper also points out the need to fully leverage data that is available to researchers, and to seek data that is currently not deposited in a centralized archive.     

高空动能拦截器末制导导引方法设计与实现

以高空动能拦截器为研究对象,为其末制导段设计了一种“逐段限制视线转率”的导引方法,使之最终能直接命中目标,实现动能拦截的任务并通过仿真计算验证了该导引法的可行性。