微波辐射Fenton反应降解罗丹明B研究

Fenton试剂在降解有机污染物方面具有无二次污染等优势,但由于存在降解速率较慢的缺陷,在工程实践中尚未得以推广应用。考虑到微波具有促进有机化学反应速率的功能,采用微波和Fenton试剂联合作用氧化降解罗丹明B,对降解罗丹明B的优化实验条件进行了研究。首先研究了单一因素对降解效果的影响,然后对各种因素的综合作用效果进行了分析,得出了降解的优化实验条件。研究表明,微波能有效促进罗丹明B的降解脱色,而且能大大缩短反应时间,降低反应成本,增强Fenton氧化反应的活性,提高降解效果。     

监控视频运动目标的频繁轨迹模式挖掘

运用数据挖掘的方式分析运动轨迹数据在目前可以说是一种尝试。基于传统数据挖掘方法Apriori的思想,提出了一种监控视频运动目标的频繁轨迹模式挖掘算法。首先以特征点表示连续的运动目标轨迹,然后设计了一种轨迹相似度测量机制,最后基于相似度测量获得的轨迹段频率,将Apriori挖掘算法应用到2D运动轨迹数据,从中发现频繁轨迹隐含的一些感兴趣模式。实际的和人工生成的轨迹数据实验表明了算法的正确有效性。     

虚拟环境中聚合级CGF坦克实体火力运用仿真

CGF是作战仿真必备的技术支持,国内的CGF系统尚不成形,急需对其进行深入的研究以满足作战仿真不断发展的需要,介绍以一个排的CGF坦克实体在虚拟的战场环境中火力运用方式及运用规则,列出了聚合级CGF实体的火力运用仿真流程图,实现虚拟战场环境下坦克实体一定的智能行为。     

Optimizing usage and maintenance decisions for k‐out‐of‐n systems of moving assets

We consider an integrated usage and maintenance optimization problem for a k‐out‐of‐n system pertaining to a moving asset. The k‐out‐of‐n systems are commonly utilized in practice to increase availability, where n denotes the total number of parallel and identical units and k the number of units required to be active for a functional system. Moving assets such as aircraft, ships, and submarines are subject to different operating modes. Operating modes can dictate not only the number of system units that are needed to be active, but also where the moving asset physically is, and under which environmental conditions it operates. We use the intrinsic age concept to model the degradation process. The intrinsic age is analogous to an intrinsic clock which ticks on a different pace in different operating modes. In our problem setting, the number of active units, degradation rates of active and standby units, maintenance costs, and type of economic dependencies are functions of operating modes. In each operating mode, the decision maker should decide on the set of units to activate (usage decision) and the set of units to maintain (maintenance decision). Since the degradation rate differs for active and standby units, the units to be maintained depend on the units that have been activated, and vice versa. In order to minimize maintenance costs, usage and maintenance decisions should be jointly optimized. We formulate this problem as a Markov decision process and provide some structural properties of the optimal policy. Moreover, we assess the performance of usage policies that are commonly implemented for maritime systems. We show that the cost increase resulting from these policies is up to 27% for realistic settings. Our numerical experiments demonstrate the cases in which joint usage and maintenance optimization is more valuable. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 64: 418–434, 2017     

Progress payments and cost overruns in defence contracts

In recent years military procurement agencies have used “progress payments” in contracting. Although, overall, the adoption of such a policy may well have contributed to a decrease in total costs of procurement, we identify a class of inefficiencies that are likely to have been generated by it.     

The impact of defense and non‐defense public spending on growth in Asia and Latin America∗

For a three‐sector Feder‐Ram framework, we present time‐series, cross‐sectional estimates for two cohorts, consisting of Asian and Latin American countries. The estimates indicate that private investment, and defense and non‐defense public spending are growth promoting for alternative error components representations. For the best error components representation, greater growth enhancement is associated with the two forms of public spending in Asia than in Latin America, while the opposite comparison characterizes private investment. Although defense is growth promoting, an opportunity cost exists insofar as non‐defense spending, financed by defense spending, appears to give a small net boost to growth in Latin America.     

Statistical equivalency and optimality of simple step‐stress accelerated test plans for the exponential distribution

Accelerated life testing (ALT) is commonly used to obtain reliability information about a product in a timely manner. Several stress loading designs have been proposed and recent research interests have emerged concerning the development of equivalent ALT plans. Step‐stress ALT (SSALT) is one of the most commonly used stress loadings because it usually shortens the test duration and reduces the number of required test units. This article considers two fundamental questions when designing a SSALT and provides formal proofs in answer to each. Namely: (1) can a simple SSALT be designed so that it is equivalent to other stress loading designs? (2) when optimizing a multilevel SSALT, does it degenerate to a simple SSALT plan? The answers to both queries, under certain reasonable model assumptions, are shown to be a qualified YES. In addition, we provide an argument to support the rationale of a common practice in designing a SSALT, that is, setting the higher stress level as high as possible in a SSALT plan. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2013