Quantifying the performance effects of idle time utilization in multiserver systems

In many practical multiserver queueing systems, servers not only serve randomly arriving customers but also work on the secondary jobs with infinite backlog during their idle time. In this paper, we propose a c‐server model with a two‐threshold policy, denoted by (e d), to evaluate the performance of this class of systems. With such a policy, when the number of idle servers has reached d (<c), then e (<d) idle agents will process secondary jobs. These e servers keep working on the secondary jobs until they find waiting customers exist in the system at a secondary job completion instant. Using the matrix analytic method, we obtain the stationary performance measures for evaluating different (e, d) policies. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007.     

金属膜陶瓷膜净水技术试验研究

试验研究了金属膜陶瓷膜净水的主要影响因素及变化规律,提出了用金属膜陶瓷膜净水工艺替代传统的加药混凝、沉淀过滤净水工艺的水处理系统。重点研究了不同种类金属膜对浊度物质的去除、膜压差及膜渗透通量随时间的变化规律;陶瓷微滤膜渗透通量、出水浊度随时间的变化规律及在不同膜压差、不同进口流量的情况下膜渗透通量随时间的变化规律。试验表明了金属膜陶瓷膜具有良好的过滤性能。     

Alleviating time inconsistent behaviors via a competition scheme

Under quasi‐hyperbolic discounting, the valuation of a payoff falls relatively rapidly for earlier delay periods, but then falls more slowly for longer delay periods. When the salespersons with quasi‐hyperbolic discounting consider the product sale problem, they would exert less effort than their early plan, thus resulting in losses of future profit. We propose a winner‐takes‐all competition to alleviate the above time inconsistent behaviors of the salespersons, and allow the company to maximize its revenue by choosing an optimal bonus. To evaluate the effects of the competition scheme, we define the group time inconsistency degree of the salespersons, which measures the consequence of time inconsistent behaviors, and two welfare measures, the group welfare of the salespersons and the company revenue. We show that the competition always improves the group welfare and the company revenue as long as the company chooses to run the competition in the first place. However, the effect on group time inconsistency degree is mixed. When the optimal bonus is moderate (extreme high), the competition motivates (over‐motivates) the salesperson to work hard, thus alleviates (worsens) the time inconsistent behaviors. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 64: 357–372, 2017     

陶瓷基装甲抗枪弹机理研究现状

从陶瓷基装甲的特点出发,介绍了其抗弹性能的评定指标,讨论了弹靶撞击过程的划分,重点评述了抗弹机理的研究方法和陶瓷基装甲的耗能机制;并总结了影响陶瓷基装甲抗枪弹性能的4个主要因素:陶瓷厚度、约束条件、弹丸形状和撞击速度.     

超声波振动车削陶瓷涂层刀具材料优选

研究了超声波振动车削方法加工陶瓷涂层的可行性,应用四种刀具材料对Al_2O_3、Al_2O_3十12%TiO_2、Cr_2O_3三种陶瓷涂层进行了超声波振动车削试验,优选出了振动车削加工三种陶瓷涂层的刀具材料.     

准陶瓷Cf/SiC复合材料的制备

采用热重-差热(TG-DTA)、红外(IR)等分析测试手段,研究了聚碳硅烷(PCS)的裂解及化学转化过程,从理论上验证了先驱体聚碳硅烷(PCS)600℃裂解产物的准陶瓷特性.先驱体聚碳硅烷在600℃呈现一种半有机、半无机状态,其产物具有准陶瓷的特征,在大约750℃出现无机化转变高峰,固称其为准陶瓷.以碳布、准三维编织体、三维编织体为增强体,采用先驱体浸渍裂解(PIP)工艺在600℃制备了碳纤维增强碳化硅(Cf/SiC)准陶瓷基复合材料.结果表明,以三维编织体增强的准陶瓷Cf/SiC复合材料获得了较理想的结构、性能,所制备3D-Cf/SiC复合材料密度仅有1.27g/cm3,弯曲强度达到193.69MPa,室温拉伸强度为197.69MPa,600℃拉伸强度为167.33MPa.复合材料断口形貌分析表明,在低温600℃制备的准陶瓷Cf/SiC复合材料呈现明显的韧性断裂特征.     

Assessing the value of demand sharing in supply chains

We consider the problem of assessing the value of demand sharing in a multistage supply chain in which the retailer observes stationary autoregressive moving average demand with Gaussian white noise (shocks). Similar to previous research, we assume each supply chain player constructs its best linear forecast of the leadtime demand and uses it to determine the order quantity via a periodic review myopic order‐up‐to policy. We demonstrate how a typical supply chain player can determine the extent of its available information in the presence of demand sharing by studying the properties of the moving average polynomials of adjacent supply chain players. The retailer's demand is driven by the random shocks appearing in the autoregressive moving average representation for its demand. Under the assumptions we will make in this article, to the retailer, knowing the shock information is equivalent to knowing the demand process (assuming that the model parameters are also known). Thus (in the event of sharing) the retailer's demand sequence and shock sequence would contain the same information to the retailer's supplier. We will show that, once we consider the dynamics of demand propagation further up the chain, it may be that a player's demand and shock sequences will contain different levels of information for an upstream player. Hence, we study how a player can determine its available information under demand sharing, and use this information to forecast leadtime demand. We characterize the value of demand sharing for a typical supply chain player. Furthermore, we show conditions under which (i) it is equivalent to no sharing, (ii) it is equivalent to full information shock sharing, and (iii) it is intermediate in value to the two previously described arrangements. Although it follows from existing literature that demand sharing is equivalent to full information shock sharing between a retailer and supplier, we demonstrate and characterize when this result does not generalize to upstream supply chain players. We then show that demand propagates through a supply chain where any player may share nothing, its demand, or its full information shocks (FIS) with an adjacent upstream player as quasi‐ARMA in—quasi‐ARMA out. We also provide a convenient form for the propagation of demand in a supply chain that will lend itself to future research applications. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 515–531, 2014     

工程陶瓷单晶压痕边缘破碎理论研究与机理分析

通过单晶压痕边缘破碎实验,研究陶瓷发生边缘脆性破裂整个过程的力值变化,结果表明:压痕距边缘距离越小,压力施载速度越快,发生边缘破碎的脆性断裂力值越小。结合单晶压痕应力场数值模型和有限元仿真,分析了陶瓷材料受不同条件的外加载压力作用下的应力场分布和失效条件,其所得结论与实际结果一致。通过对压痕部位和边缘破碎部位显微形貌观察,证明边缘破碎缘于裂纹失稳扩展和贯通,并运用线弹性断裂力学理论分析了边缘破碎机理。     

闪灯泵浦国产Nd:YAG陶瓷调Q激光器

陶瓷激光器在高掺杂、大尺寸和复合结构设计等方面有着特殊的优势,具备实现高能、高光束质量激光器的潜力.研究了上海硅酸盐所提供的新型国产Nd:YAG陶瓷激光材料的激光输出性能,对比了陶瓷激光棒与单晶激光棒的储能特性,通过主动和被动调Q两种方法分别实现了闪灯泵浦陶瓷脉冲激光器,获得了重频1～20Hz可调,单脉冲百毫焦量级的输...     

共晶复合陶瓷损伤过程的有限元分析

针对共晶复合陶瓷的微观结构特征,建立了含强约束界面相的有限元模型,模拟了包含片状夹杂共晶复合陶瓷材料的外载应力场分布规律;应用ANSYS的APDL语言进行编程,对材料的损伤过程进行了研究。结果表明材料的破裂由基体损伤决定,随着外载荷的增加,损伤破坏沿界面延伸,并逐渐向基体内部扩展,最终造成基体的断裂。