A case study in bio-inspired engineering design: defense applications of exoskeletal sensors

As part of a bio-inspired design process, the authors examine exoskeletal sensors found in insects and their potential application to armor and hardened buildings. In this way, the outer hardening of a structure or vehicle would not limit the ability of occupants to arrive at an actionable picture of the outer environment. To this end, various sensor modalities employed by insects are compared and contrasted with their current human-engineered equivalents. In several sensing modalities, biosensors perform better, are smaller, and more energy efficient than human-engineered equivalents. They note that biological designs tend to employ non-linear response to signal amplitude and respond with heightened sensitivity over a greater dynamic range of signals than human-engineered sensors. The insect biological sensors have structural and mechanical innovations that preserve the protective capacity of the exoskeleton.     

Dual‐ascent and primal heuristics for production‐assembly‐distribution system design

This article proposes two dual‐ascent algorithms and uses each in combination with a primal drop heuristic embedded within a branch and bound framework to solve the uncapacitated production assembly distribution system (i.e., supply chain) design problem, which is formulated as a mixed integer program. Computational results indicate that one approach, which combines primal drop and dual‐ascent heuristics, can solve instances within reasonable time and prescribes solutions with gaps between the primal and dual solution values that are less than 0.15%, an efficacy suiting it for actual large‐scale applications. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2013     

Comparison between constant‐stress and step‐stress accelerated life tests under Time Constraint

By running life tests at higher stress levels than normal operating conditions, accelerated life testing (ALT) quickly yields information on the lifetime distribution of a test unit. The lifetime at the design stress is then estimated through extrapolation using a regression model. In constant‐stress testing, a unit is tested at a fixed stress level until failure or the termination time point of test, whereas step‐stress testing allows the experimenter to gradually increase the stress levels at some prefixed time points during the test. In this work, the optimal k‐level constant‐stress and step‐stress ALTs are compared for the exponential failure data under complete sampling and Type‐I censoring. The objective is to quantify the advantage of using the step‐stress testing relative to the constant‐stress one. Assuming a log‐linear life–stress relationship with the cumulative exposure model for the effect of changing stress in step‐stress testing, the optimal design points are determined under C/D/A‐optimality criteria. The efficiency of step‐stress testing to constant‐stress one is then discussed in terms of the ratio of optimal objective functions based on the information matrix. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 00: 000–000, 2013     

业务流程建模中流程校验的研究与实现

随着计算机网络技术的迅速发展,企业的信息化程度不断提高,以自动化流程为核心理念的工作流管理系统应用越来越普及,对工作流管理系统的可靠性和正确性要求也越来越高.提出了一种工作流建模时的验证方法:在工作流管理系统的工作流建模环境中加入流程验证模块,对建模过程中可能产生的错误进行验证,进而建立简洁实用的流程;通过分析流程中的异常和失败的类型,增强系统的纠错能力,减少引擎处理的压力;对有着特殊应用的建模过程,能够方便地添加自定义的验证条件,为流程的正确运行提供有效的保障;向基于规则化的工作流系统提供建模完整性的方案,获得系统工作流的稳健性.     

消防给水系统设计审查及验收常见问题

消防给水系统是建筑给排水系统中的一个重要组成部分,是保障消防安全的基础设施.从消防设计审查的角度出发,提出消防给水设计中的常见问题以及设计中不太重视的消防排水问题;从消防验收的角度出发,列出消防工程验收过程中呈现的常见问题,以期引起重视.     

基于信息流的中枢疲劳脑电分析

为充分利用多导脑电信息,首次提出运用有向传递函数（DTF）方法,对不同中枢疲劳状态下导联间信息流的强度和方向的变化进行分析。研究结果表明,脑电功能耦合中额一到一顶方向的信息流是大脑皮层联系的一个固有特征,可以有效地刻画安静清醒和疲劳两个状态,长时间脑力劳动任务引起中枢疲劳的增加,进而导致整个频率段占优势的信息流的方向发生了反转,信息流占优势的方向从实验前的顶一到一额方向,转变为实验后的额一到一顶方向。     

基于CC253O的烟雾传感器节点设计与实现

随着社会发展对消防安全的要求越来越高,实时地采集传输监测数据变得至关重要Ⅲ。本文针对现存的烟雾传感器节点可靠性差、准确率低、电路复杂,不易组网,并且在很多特定区域无法安装等问题,提出了基于CC2530的烟雾监测节点设计方案,并完成了以CC2530射频芯片为核心的烟雾传感器节点的硬、软件设计。实验测试证明,该节点满足无线消防监测系统的需要,具有高可靠性、低功耗以及低成本的特点,有着较好的应用前景。     

浅谈新课标下高中物理实验探究教学

在新课程改革中,新课标下的物理教材,更充分地体现出以学生为主体的原则。本文从开展探究性实验教学;实验教学引入不要拘泥于传统、强化实验创新设计等几方面阐述了如何在物理实验教学中培养学生的创新能力。     

空投设备气囊缓冲系统的缓冲特性分析与匹配方法

采用解析分析法,根据排气口流量方程和载荷运动方程建立了无量纲的空投设备气囊缓冲过程数学模型,并根据此模型构造了气囊的匹配设计图。讨论了排气口面积、气囊高度、着陆初速度、载荷质量、气囊底面积及排气口开启压力等参数对气囊缓冲性能的影响,提出了空投设备气囊缓冲系统的参数匹配设计方法,为空投设备气囊缓冲系统的匹配设计提供了技术支持。     

建筑造型元素——构架的设计与创意

合理的构架设计不仅升华了建筑的外观造型,而且丰富了建筑整体的内涵;失败的构架设计则会产生适得其反的效果。创意的构架设计则是从时代发展的变化趋势着手,赋予构架新的生命。介绍了构架的作用,从过渡空间、形态转换、建筑特性、技术结合、灵活可变5个方面探讨了构架造型的设计创意,揭示了构架造型的设计手法,并剖析了构架这种造型元素在当前建筑设计上的发展趋势,提出应当注重构架的一体化设计,强调构架与实用功能相结合,并应充分发挥构架造型价值的设计观点。