Experimental investigations on wear properties of Palm kernel reinforced composites for brake pad applications

The use of asbestos material is being avoided to manufacture the brake pads as it is harmful and toxic in nature. Further it leads to various health issues like asbestosis, mesothelioma and lung cancers. These brake pads can be replaced by natural fibers like Palm kernel (0–50%), Nile roses (0–15%) and Wheat (0–10%) with additives like aluminum oxide (5%–20%) and graphite powder (10%–35%). Phenolic resin of 35% is utilized as a binder. Particulated Nile roses are used to increase the friction coefficient and wheat powder is used to reduce the wear rate. Aluminum oxide and graphite are abrasive in nature. This helps to make brake pads with high friction co-efficient and less wear rate with low noise pollution. The wear of the proposed composites have been investigated at different speeds. Various tests like wear on pin-on-disc apparatus, hardness on the Rockwell hardness apparatus and oil absorption test have been conducted. Phenolic resin produces good bonding nature to fiber. Thus, Fibers found to have performed palatably among all commercial brake pads. The objective of the research indicates that Palm kernal shell could be a conceivable alternative for asbestos in friction coating materials.     

基于步进应力加速老化和改进Arrhenius模型的橡胶贮存寿命预测

为准确、快速地预测橡胶的贮存寿命,在步进高温应力加速老化试验的基础上,对不同加速温度下的加速系数进行计算,获得加速因子和绝对温度倒数的曲线,发现橡胶老化过程表现出非Arrhenius特性。针对非Arrhenius特性,引入幂指数因子,采用一种改进的Arrhenius模型对加速系数进行拟合。由对数反应速率与绝对温度倒数曲线的斜率,计算了改进Arrhenius模型在不同温度下的等效线性活化能,结果表明低温下活化能减小。建立低温下的老化寿命模型,对胶料在10℃,20℃和30℃下的老化寿命进行评估。评估结果表明,该模型可为相关高分子材料腐蚀过程中呈现的非Arrhenius特性的分析及寿命预测提供参考。     

Improvise,adapt and fail to overcome? Capacity building,culture and exogenous change in Sierra Leone

Military capacity building (MCB) is as problematic as it is ubiquitous, with the British experience in Sierra Leone providing a rare example of ostensible success. This article critiques the dominant conceptualisation of MCB as purely a principal–agent (PA) problem, using military change scholarship to examine the impact of wartime British intervention on the Sierra Leonean armed forces. Here, indigenous military change was both externally driven and fundamentally adaptive in nature, allowing MCB to bypass some of the difficulties predicted by PA models. However, this adaptive approach nonetheless failed to reconcile Western military values with prevailing Sierra Leonean culture, complicating post-war stabilisation efforts.     

美军试验鉴定技术发展研究

众所周知,美军的装备试验鉴定技术一直处于世界领先地位,对其进行深入研究有利于试验鉴定的发展。本文主要对美军试验鉴定的管理部门、类型、发展历程以及技术领域进行详细研究,系统梳理美军试验鉴定的整个过程,在此基础上,结合我试验鉴定的发展现状,取其精华,去其糟粕,为试验鉴定的发展提出了几点思考和建议。     

Revisiting the justification for an all-volunteer force

In 1968, President Nixon established the Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force, or the Gates Commission, which served as the impetus and justification for an All-Volunteer Force (AVF). At the end of its deliberations, the commission recommended abolishing the draft and transforming the U.S. military into a force of volunteers beginning in 1973. Interestingly, the debate regarding the merits of both systems appeared to be largely economic – with cost–benefit analysis playing the primary role. Lately, we are beginning to see a new, politically-motivated impetus for returning to a “system of national service.” The ideas spurring this debate are many: the need to reaffirm the nation state, the commitment of citizens to the state, political ownership and oversight of the forces, the need for social equity in serving the nation, limiting the support for armed conflict by burden-sharing among citizens, and equitably spreading the personal cost of war.     

Northern Ireland and minimum force: the refutation of a concept?

The debate over whether there exists a British counter-insurgency tradition of minimum force is one that has been thoroughly discussed. Is there anything left to say? This study suggests there is further insight to be attained if one explicitly evaluates the concept of minimum force in relation to the conduct of the security forces in the years of the Northern Ireland conflict. Through an examination of three key periods in the conflict, it will be shown that while there was invariably an awareness of the need to act with restraint among senior officers at the strategic level, this was often difficult to apply at the tactical level in the heat of confrontation. The argument demonstrates that the British Army, and other instruments of the state, rarely acted in a manner that could be described as ‘minimal’. Instead, it was the broader liberal values of the British state that explains largely the degrees of restraint exhibited by the government and security forces.     

The ‘first’ surge: the repulse of the Easter Invasion in South Vietnam, 1972 – implications for Iraq and Afghanistan

In a military intervention, do surges work? I compare the failed ‘surge’ in Vietnam, the repulse of the Easter Invasion in 1972, as a means of assessing the more ambiguous surges in Iraq and Afghanistan. I identify four features of a surge for this analysis: the military dimensions and strategy of the surging forces, the military capabilities of the host forces, the political vitality and will of the host country, and the political commitment in the domestic politics of the intervener. I find that the last feature is the most critical; and, in all three surges, the American political commitment was lacking.     

（2015卫星导航）基于双天线载波相位差的卫星导航接收机抗欺骗技术研究

针对欺骗干扰信号难以有效实时模拟真实卫星信号空间分布特性的特点,本文提出了利用双天线载波相位差进行欺骗信号检测的方法。在已知接收机天线阵基线以及姿态条件下,同一路信号在两副天线上表现出的相位差与天线基线长度与信号入射相关。而信号入射角是空间信号的物理传播特性,欺骗干扰源无法通过数字方式改变。以通过卫星星历获取所跟踪卫星的精确位置为先验信息,即可确定真实信号在已知天线阵上的载波相位差,从而实现对欺骗信号的有效检测。本文分析了载波相位差计算的各种误差源,并在此基础上建立了针对欺骗信号的二元假设检验。最后,通过理论分析和仿真实验,验证了本文提出的欺骗信号检测技术的有效性,并得出了天线阵基线越长、入射方位角越小,载波相位差检测技术对欺骗信号的检测性能越优的结论。     

尾空泡对水下航行体流体阻尼力影响数值研究

针对航行体尾空泡对流体阻尼力影响问题,结合动坐标系技术和空泡多相流数值模拟方法,通过求解雷诺平均的NS方程组,进行了阻尼力计算研究。通过与试验数据对比,表明该方法具有较好的精度。数值计算研究表明,尾空泡会削弱航行体尾部压力的不对称性,使航行体尾部流体阻尼力减小。当尾空泡增加到一定尺寸时,流体阻尼力减小幅度逐渐趋缓,同时尾空泡也改变了流体阻尼力随攻角的变化趋势。研究充分表明了航行体流体力设计中考虑尾空泡影响的必要性。     

有限质量降落伞充气动力学数值模拟

为研究空投任务中降落伞有限质量充气过程的动力学行为,基于罚函数耦合方法和网格自适应技术分析了降落伞柔性结构与周围不可压缩流场的流固耦合特性。数值模拟开伞过程伞衣三维外形变化,获得降落伞系统下落速度、阻力面积等参数;对比分析初始投放速度对降落伞开伞时间、伞衣阻力面积的影响;通过试验数据对比分析开伞力变化。计算结果表明,该方法可以有效模拟降落伞系统有限质量充气过程的动力学特性,仿真结果与试验结果相符。