不同黏度等级润滑油在柴油发动机上的对比试验

为解决润滑油出现的高温性能差等问题,考察5W/40和15W/40两个黏度等级重负荷动力传动通用润滑油在柴油发动机上的实际使用性能。在BF6M1015CP柴油发动机和柴油车辆上分别进行1 000 h发动机台架可靠性试验和高原实际道路行车试验,利用红外光谱等仪器对定期抽取的油样进行理化性能指标测试。结果表明：两个黏度等级的重负荷动力传动通用润滑油各项理化指标变化较小,均能满足高原地区大功率、重负荷柴油发动机的用油要求。使用两个黏度等级润滑油的发动机在功率和扭矩方面大小相当,使用5W/40重负荷动力传动通用润滑油的发动机在高转速区（转速高于1 600 r/min）油耗率低,在低转速区（转速低于1 600 r/min）油耗率较高;但在抗氧抗腐性、高温清净性和抗磨性等方面,15W/40重负荷动力传动通用润滑油的表现略优一些。     

拱顶罐量油孔油气逸出及扩散数值模拟

为了模拟拱顶罐量油孔油气逸出及逸出后的扩散过程,基于k-ε湍流理论建立了拱顶罐量油孔油气逸出扩散控制方程组,采用数值模拟方法重点讨论了不同罐内压力条件下油气逸出速度和量油孔附近油气浓度的变化.模拟结果表明罐内压力随时间变化与已有理论推导结果吻合;由于罐内正压,油气逸出速度很大,并且均在1 s左右达到峰值;在距离量油孔孔口2 m范围内,油气浓度偏高,无论是从安全、环保还是从人员健康方面考虑,都应采取措施降低油气浓度.     

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.     

Don't stop with Joint Forces Command … cut AFRICOM too

Abstract

The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) has been a military success but a strategic messaging failure. The United States’ relationships across Africa cannot be boiled down to military affairs. This paper argues that Africa has many more opportunities than challenges and thus requires a more balanced foreign policy solution from Washington DC than a new military command. For the military engagement that does need to take place, a more low-profile approach would benefit the United States in Africa.     

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).     

植物油交联共聚阻尼材料的研究

为扩大阻尼材料的原料来源,降低成本,提高阻尼性能,研究以植物油(蓖麻油、棉子油、桐油)为原料,合成环氧植物油及桐油酸酐,将桐油酸酐与环氧植物油进行本体聚合,制得了一系列 AB—交联共聚物。对试样进行动态力学测试,结果表明,该共聚物具有较高的阻尼因子(tanδ最高在1以上),较宽的阻尼温域。在40～60℃时,tanδ值持续大于0.3,是一类成本低廉、阻尼性能良好的新型阻尼材料。     

Balancing perfectly periodic service schedules: An application from recycling and waste management

A national recycling and waste management company provides periodic services to its customers from over 160 service centers. The services are performed periodically in units of weeks over a planning horizon. The number of truck‐hours allocated to this effort is determined by the maximum weekly workload during the planning horizon. Therefore, minimizing the maximum weekly workload results in minimum operating expenses. The perfectly periodic service scheduling (PPSS) problem is defined based on the practices of the company. It is shown that the PPSS problem is strongly NP‐hard. Attempts to solve large instances by using an integer programming formulation are unsuccessful. Therefore, greedy BestFit heuristics with three different sorting schemes are designed and tested for six real‐world PPSS instances and 80 randomly generated data files. The heuristics provide effective solutions that are within 2% of optimality on average. When the best found BestFit schedules are compared with the existing schedules, it is shown that operational costs are reduced by 18% on average. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 59: 160–171, 2012     

基于人工嗅觉系统的油液渗漏检测方法

机电设备油液渗漏是一种典型的多发性故障,利用人工嗅觉技术对渗漏油液挥发气体进行测试从而进行故障诊断是一种新的无损检测方法。使用人工嗅觉系统对模拟柴油、齿轮油和机油渗漏产生的挥发气体进行检测,结果为三维数据阵列(样本×时间×传感器)。应用二维主成分分析法和三维平铺主成分分析法、平行因子分析方法对三种油液挥发气体样本进行分类,结果表明平行因子分析法由于利用了数据集的三维结构信息,所以分类效果更佳;应用主成分回归方法实现了机油挥发气体样本的定量确定,说明使用人工嗅觉系统实现设定阈值报警是可能的。     

钢质管道挤压变形过程数值模拟

基于对钢质输油管道挤压变形原理的分析,建立上下刀具加载作用下钢质输油管道挤压变形模型,采用扩展拉格朗日方法求解三维接触挤压问题,完成20号无缝钢挤压变形过程的数值模拟。将模拟试验数据与前人实际试验数据进行对比与验证,模拟结果与实际试验结果吻合。该模型可以用于模拟不同规格管道挤压变形情况,得到管道挤压变形的位移、载荷和应力分布规律,为管道应急抢修提供理论和实践依据。     

直升机野战油料保障模拟优化研究

野战条件下,场站通常在前沿阵地开设野战直升机场实施伴随保障,其中油料保障主要采取飞机加油车先对直升机实施加油,后到野战机场油库领取油料这一方式进行。若将野战直升机场油料保障作为一个系统来研究,要实现适时、适量的油料保障,确定合适的飞机加油车及野战机场油库发油鹤位数量是一个关键问题。利用GPSSW语言对这一问题进行模拟,得出模拟结果并进行统计分析,经反复模拟和参数比较得到适合的参数,为部队保障提供依据。