Return policy: Hassle‐free or your money‐back guarantee?

This article compares the profitability of two pervasively adopted return policies—money‐back guarantee and hassle‐free policies. In our model, a seller sells to consumers with heterogeneous valuations and hassle costs. Products are subject to quality risk, and product misfit can only be observed post‐purchase. While the hassle‐free policy is cost advantageous from the seller's viewpoint, a money‐back guarantee allows the seller to fine‐tune the consumer hassle on returning the product. Thus, when the two return policies lead to the same consumer behaviors, the hassle‐free policy dominates. Conversely, a money‐back guarantee can be more profitable even if on average, high‐valuation consumers experience a lower hassle cost than the low‐valuation ones. The optimal hassle cost can be higher when product quality gets improved; thus, it is not necessarily a perfect proxy or signal of the seller's quality. We further allow the seller to adopt a mixture of these policies, and identify the concrete operating regimes within which these return policies are optimal among more flexible policies. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 403–417, 2014     

金属体在海水中运动产生的感应电场建模

分析了金属体在海水中运动产生感应电场的机理。采用镜像法推导了水下垂直和水平直流电流元在海水中的电场表达式,进一步导出了海水中运动金属体切割地磁场而在海水中产生的感应电场数学模型,并计算分析了运动金属体的感应电场大小及空间分布。仿真计算结果表明,20m长的金属椭球体,以4m/s的航速在水下10m航行时,在水下30m左右感应电场的量级为nV/m,并且该电场在空间分布上有明显的特征。     

采用波数域方法分析细长柱壳的振动与声辐射特性

采用波数域方法对细长柱壳进行振动与辐射噪声分析。在获得细长柱壳表面振动后,法向振动在波数域展开为波数谱,结构振动波数特征由此得以直观展现,与辐射噪声相关的有效振动量得以定量给出。对细长柱壳的波数谱分析表明:低阶周向波数振动是其参与有效声辐射的主要成分,通过不等间距分舱可以在一定程度上控制有效声辐射振动级,从而控制结构的噪声辐射,但对整体呼吸运动的振动则效果不显著。     

自由飘浮空间机器人准刚性分解运动轨迹控制与仿真

研究轨道空间机器人操作时,基座处于自由飘浮状态的手爪准刚性运动直角坐标轨迹的分解运动控制,重点分析了广义雅可比矩阵的计算,并进行了空间单手３—ＤＯＦ的仿真,该方法可相应推广到开链多手。     

阶比谱分析与汽车起动电机故障的实时诊断

本文主要论述阶比谱分析方法及其在汽车起动电机故障实时诊断中的应用。首先阐述了阶比谱分析的原理以及阶比采样中混迭与泄漏的产生及其抑制方法,然后讨论了如何在起动电机运行过程短、升速快的情况下获取感兴趣的噪声信号,进而采用阶比谱分析方法从信号中提取故障特征信息,最后利用阀值判别法起动电机的故障进行实时诊断。     

D0影响亚硝酸型SND工艺的机理探讨

亚硝酸型SND污水生物脱氮新工艺因兼具短程硝化和同时硝化反硝化工艺的优势而具有很强的开发潜力。在介绍亚硝酸型SND工艺特点之后,着重从微环境理论、微生物特性及化学计量学等角度较为深入地探讨了溶解氧浓度(DO)影响亚硝酸型SND工艺脱氮效果的机理,从理论上进一步证实了DO对于亚硝酸型SND工艺的重要性。     

Force chains based mesoscale simulation on the dynamic response of Al-PTFE granular composites

Force chains based mesoscale simulation is conducted to investigate the response behavior of aluminum-polytetrafluoroethylene (Al-PTFE) granular composites under a low-velocity impact. A two-dimensional model followed the randomly normal distribution of real Al particles size is developed. The dynamic compressive process of Al-PTFE composites with varied Al mass fraction is simulated and validated against the experiments. The results indicate that, force chains behavior governed by the number and the size of agglomerated Al particles, significantly affects the impact response of the material. The failure mode of the material evolves from shear failure of matrix to debonding failure of particles with increasing density. A high crack area of the material is critical mechanism to arouse the initiation re-action. The damage maintained by force chains during large plastic strain builds up more local stresses concentration to enhance a possible reaction performance. In addition, simulation is performed with identical mass fraction but various Al size distribution to explore the effects of size centralization and dispersion on the mechanical properties of materials. It is found that smaller sized Al particle of com-posites are more preferred than its bulky material in ultimate strength. Increasing dispersed degree is facilitated to create stable force chains in samples with comparable particle number. The simulation studies provide further insights into the plastic deformation, failure mechanism, and possible energy release capacity for Al-PTFE composites, which is helpful for further design and application of reactive materials.     

Mechanical behavior and failure mechanism of polyurea nanocomposites under quasi-static and dynamic compressive loading

Polyurea is an elastomeric material that can be applied to enhance the protection ability of structures under blast and impact loading.In order to study the compressive mechanical properties of SiC/polyurea nanocomposites under quasi-static and dynamic loading,a universal testing machine and split Hop-kinson pressure bar(SHPB)apparatus were used respectively.The stress-strain curves were obtained on polyurea and its composites at strain rates of 0.001-8000 s-1.The results of the experiment suggested that increase in the strain rates led to the rise of the flow stress,compressive strength,strain rate sensitivity and strain energy.This indicates that all of the presented materials were dependent on strain rate.Moreover,these mechanical characters were enhanced by incorporating a small amount of SiC into polyurea matrix.The relation between yield stress and strain rates were established using the power law functions.Finally,in order to investigate the fracture surfaces and inside information of failed specimens,scanning electron microscopy(SEM)and micro X-ray computed tomography(micro-CT)were used respectively.Multiple voids,crazes,micro-cracks and cracking were observed in fracture surfaces.On the other hand,the cracking propagation was found in the micro-CT slice images.It is essential to understand the deformation and failure mechanisms in all the polyurea materials.     

加强军队全面建设是党执政的一项重大战略任务--学习《中共中央关于加强党的执政能力建设的决定》

<中共中央关于加强党的执政能力建设的决定>指出,坚持国防建设与经济建设协调发展,建设一支现代化、正规化的革命军队,是党执政的一项重大战略任务.坚持党对军队的绝对领导,加强军队全面建设,既是对我们党取得执政经验的科学总结,又是巩固我们党执政地位的现实保障,同时,加强军队全面建设对提高我们党的执政能力还具有服务和促进的功能.     

基于专家系统的防化保障预案评估研究

人工智能技术在众多领域获得广泛应用．为满足现代战争对防化指挥手段的现代化要求,针对不易量化的防化指挥决策问题的评估,提出了构建知识库并应用模糊推理机制建立专家系统,据此进行防化保障预案的评估选优方法,并对该方法的求解过程进行了探讨．