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     

Due‐window assignment with unit processing‐time jobs

In due‐window assignment problems, jobs completed within a designated time interval are regarded as being on time, whereas early and tardy jobs are penalized. The objective is to determine the location and size of the due‐window, as well as the job schedule. We address a common due‐window assignment problem on parallel identical machines with unit processing time jobs. We show that the number of candidate values for the optimal due‐window starting time and for the optimal due‐window completion time are bounded by 2. We also prove that the starting time of the first job on each of the machines is either 0 or 1, thus introducing a fairly simple, constant‐time solution for the problem. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2004     

潜在故障状态可测的一种故障检查模型

从系统的功能故障状态和潜在故障状态两方面讨论了故障检查模型,基于延迟时间模型推导了系统的期望可用度模型并对其适用性进行了讨论与验证。     

铁路区间信号系统测试评估平台——信息传输通道的建模及仿真研究

铁路区间信号系统测试评估平台的研究是为了实现对信号系统的功能、可靠性及安全性的自动测试和评估,并为区间信号系统的研发或维护提供测试手段.铁路区间信号系统信息传输通道,作为铁路区间信号传输的途径,是铁路区间信号系统测试评估平台的重要研究对象,因此,信息传输通道仿真子系统是测试平台的一个关键子系统.针对移频自动闭塞系统信息传输通道的仿真,提出一种新的差分方程建模方法,并进行了仿真实现.     

维恩位移定律2种表述之间的关系

讨论了维恩位移定律2种表述之间的关系,并与麦克斯韦分子分布函数的峰值相关量进行对比,说明原始的维恩表述是由实验决定的.并对2种表述的物理意义作了阐述.     

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.     

超声速二元机翼随机混沌运动分析

以考虑随机扰动的超声速二元机翼为研究对象,采用Kapitaniak方法对超声速二元机翼的随机混沌特性进行研究。采用三阶活塞理论推导超声速二元机翼的非线性气动力和气动力矩,建立考虑随机扰动、具有俯仰立方非线性的机翼2自由度运动微分方程,并将其写成4维状态方程的形式;采用中心流形方法对系统进行降维,将系统状态方程从4维降为2维;再联合利用累积量截断法、非高斯截断法获得系统的二维联合概率密度函数及系统的概率时差图,采用Kapitaniak方法分析系统在不同扰动强度下的随机混沌特性;采用系统响应、庞加莱截面图及最大Lyapunov指数等对系统的随机混沌特性进行验证。本研究对超声速二元机翼在复杂环境下的稳定性、安全性及响应特性等研究具有重要的促进作用。     

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.     

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.     

脉冲群间多普勒频率变化率的高精度测量算法

提出了一种脉冲群间多普勒频率变化率的高精度测量算法,该算法利用脉冲群内相邻脉冲对间的互相关函数估计脉冲群模糊频率,在连续脉冲群间选择任一相同模糊频率进行解模糊得到各脉冲群相对频率,由于这些相对频率包含相同的模糊,从而可以利用差分或滤波算法得到脉冲群间多普勒频率变化率。该算法具有相对频率估计精度高、解模糊过程简单、运算量小、多普勒频率变化率测量精度高等优点。计算机仿真和地面缩比试验均证明了该测量算法的有效性。