The defence firm of the future

This paper offers the personal view of a senior executive in the Defence Procurement Agency about the future requirements of the defence industry’s principal UK customer. The focus here is on trying to identify the type of corporate behaviour and range of skill sets that the UK Government will need from defence suppliers, both primes and supply chain companies in the future. The concluding message from this ‘Customer View’ is that there is likely to be a continuing market for the company that specializes in delivering defence capability. It will be a company that will be looking for a long‐term relationship, with a specialist knowledge of its various national customers and a willingness to work openly and closely with them. It will be agile in its ability to bring together diverse technologies, to package them as a system and to deliver them either as hardware or as a service. Such suppliers will also need to innovate and to adapt at least as rapidly as the threats that they seek to counter.     

基于FDTD方法的电波在等离子体中传输特性研究

根据时域有限差分法(Finite Difference Time Domain, FDTD)的基本原理,本文首先分析了等离子体的物理场特性及数值计算,然后介绍了飞行器再入时等离子鞘的形成以及等离子体相对介电常数对波的衰减,最后通过三维FDTD和二维FDTD模拟了电磁波在等离子体中的传播情况,证明了FDTD方法是解决电磁波在复杂媒质中传播的一种有效方法,并探究了飞行器再入段黑障区通信的理论和方法。     

Adaptive sliding mode control of modular self-reconfigurable spacecraft with time-delay estimation

The reconstruction control of modular self-reconfigurable spacecraft (MSRS) is addressed using an adaptive sliding mode control (ASMC) scheme based on time-delay estimation (TDE) technology. In contrast to the ground, the base of the MSRS is floating when assembled in orbit, resulting in a strong dynamic coupling effect. A TED-based ASMC technique with exponential reaching law is designed to achieve high-precision coordinated control between the spacecraft base and the robotic arm. TDE technology is used by the controller to compensate for coupling terms and uncertainties, while ASMC can augment and improve TDE’s robustness. To suppress TDE errors and eliminate chattering, a new adaptive law is created to modify gain parameters online, ensuring quick dynamic response and high tracking accuracy. The Lyapunov approach shows that the tracking errors are uniformly ultimately bounded (UUB). Finally, the on-orbit assembly process of MSRS is simulated to validate the efficacy of the proposed control scheme. The simulation results show that the proposed control method can accurately complete the target module’s on-orbit assembly, with minimal perturbations to the spacecraft’s attitude. Meanwhile, it has a high level of robustness and can effectively eliminate chattering.     

基于乘法分解弹塑性的有限元平衡方程及简化

主要研究了乘法分解弹塑性在大变形有限元程序中的实现.首先建立了纠正的拉格朗日描述下的平衡方程.并导出了其一致线性化形式,然后以中间构形弹性对数应变张量及与其功共轭的应力张量为共轭应力应变度量代入平衡方程对其进行简化与对称化处理以形成便于程序实现的Jaco-bian矩阵.采用所建立的有限元公式对圆柱形试件的单向拉伸过程进行了数值模似.     

用于有限体积法的中心WENO混合格式研究

本文通过理论推导得到了6阶中心格式与5阶WENO格式相结合的混合格式(CWENO6格式),为了提高有限体积法中高精度格式的计算效率,引入了3阶MUSCL反卷积方法以取代传统有限体积法中的反卷积方法。通过不同的算例比较了CWENO6格式与WENO5格式的数值表现。结果表明,相比于传统的WENO5格式,在网格量相同的前提下,由于数值耗散较小,CWENO6格式对流动细节的描述更为准确,为有限体积法模拟三维多尺度复杂提供了一种更为有效的方法。     

超声激励条件下微裂纹生热的有限元分析及试验研究

为解决现行装甲装备裂纹检测手段效率低、输出结果不直观等问题,将超声红外热波检测技术引入装甲装备零部件缺陷鉴定环节。针对装甲板等平板类结构的厚度特点,建立了厚度9～13121m的含微裂纹铝合金平板试件有限元分析模型,通过不同厚度试件微裂纹生热及裂纹面相对运动频谱的对比,揭示了微裂纹生热机理及其与试件厚度之间的关系。最后,通过试验验证了采用有限元分析的可行性。     

圆柱壳体振动特性研究与有限元计算验证

采用解析理论和有限元方法研究计算了圆柱壳体的固有频率与固有振型,发现环向封闭的圆柱壳具有同一节点形式的两种固有振型,对应两种固有振型的固有频率值相同。     

关于有限时间热力学的最小熵产生最大值原则

本文力图从能表征状态的热力学参数熵的变化中找到有关有限时间热力学新的分析方法,提出了工作参数选择的最小熵产生最大值原则。这个原则揭示了有限时间热力学以时间为基础的“率”与非平衡热力学熵产生间的内在联系。据此,我们便可得到正、反向内可逆卡诺循环的最佳工作参数。为有限时间热力学的普遍应用研究提供了一新的线索。     

Clausewitz’s Concept of Strategy – Balancing Purpose,Aims and Means

The task of coming to a proper appreciation of Clausewitz’s thoughts on war is to combine a hierarchical structure with that of a floating balance. This article examines the relation of purpose, aims and means in Clausewitz’s theory and highlights that this relation is methodologically comparable to the floating balance of Clausewitz’s trinity. Modern strategic thinking is characterised by the ‘ends, ways, means relationship’ and the concept of the ‘way’ as shortest possible direct connection between ends and means. If strategy is nothing else than the direct way of linking the political purpose with the means, understood as combat, this understandings results in ‘battle-centric’ warfare. My thesis is that the aim (goal, way) in warfare is not a direct link between purpose and means, but rather an indirect, intermediary dimension, a mediation (in Hegelian terms) between purpose and aims with its own grammar. This article distinguishes (sometimes going beyond Clausewitz) between the rationality of the whole process of war, the rationality of the separate aspects of purpose, aims and means in warfare and finally their conflicting tendencies. This article highlights Clausewitz’s different concepts of purpose and aims and tries to shed at least some light of the strategic implications of this difference. This interpretation of Clausewitz leads to the definition of strategy as maintaining a floating balance of purpose, aims and means in warfare.