近地卫星Ka频段数传链路抗雨衰ACM模式设计

针对近地卫星数传时的信道时变性和严重的Ka频段雨衰现象,采用自适应编码调制（ACM）技术能够充分利用链路资源,相对于传统的固定编码调制方式,进一步提高了链路的数据吞吐量。提出了近地卫星Ka频段数传链路ACM模式设计方法,在降雨环境下建立Ka频段数传链路模型,根据信道状况确定ACM选用模式;采用基于导频符号的最大似然信噪比估计算法结合移动平均的平滑方法实现信道估计,有效地减小了估计值的波动。仿真结果表明,无论晴天还是雨天,采用提出的卫星数传链路ACM模式设计方法,能够在保证系统可靠性的同时获取较高的数据吞吐量。     

Synchronizing pricing and replenishment to serve forward-looking customers

We incorporate strategic customer waiting behavior in the classical economic order quantity (EOQ) setting. The seller determines not only the timing and quantities of the inventory replenishment, but also the selling prices over time. While similar ideas of market segmentation and intertemporal price discrimination can be carried over from the travel industries to other industries, inventory replenishment considerations common to retail outlets and supermarkets introduce additional features to the optimal pricing scheme. Specifically, our study provides concrete managerial recommendations that are against the conventional wisdom on “everyday low price” (EDLP) versus “high-low pricing” (Hi-Lo). We show that in the presence of inventory costs and strategic customers, Hi-Lo instead of EDLP is optimal when customers have homogeneous valuations. This result suggests that because of strategic customer behavior, the seller obtains a new source of flexibility—the ability to induce customers to wait—which always leads to a strictly positive increase of the seller's profit. Moreover, the optimal inventory policy may feature a dry period with zero inventory, but this period does not necessarily result in a loss of sales as customers strategically wait for the upcoming promotion. Furthermore, we derive the solution approach for the optimal policy under heterogeneous customer valuation setting. Under the optimal policy, the replenishments and price promotions are synchronized, and the seller adopts high selling prices when the inventory level is low and plans a discontinuous price discount at the replenishment point when inventory is the highest.     

Schedule design for liner services under vessel speed reduction incentive programs

Gas and particulate emissions from ship transportation have been increasing in recent years. In order to mitigate ship emissions near coastal areas, voluntary vessel speed reduction incentive programs (VSRIPs) were put in place by a number of ports. This paper studies a schedule design problem faced by liner shipping companies under VSRIPs. It proposes a mixed-integer nonlinear mathematical model for the minimization of the total cost, consisting of fuel cost, as well as operating cost, minus dockage refunds. The model balances three determinants, that is, the compliance of VSRIPs, the speed limit (the maximum physical speed of ships and the upper speed limit imposed by VSRIPs), and the limited number of ships. An enumerative algorithm and a piecewise-linear approximation algorithm are developed, based on some properties of the nonlinear model. The efficiency of the proposed algorithms is validated through extensive computational experiments.     

Optimal design of a novel cylindrical sandwich panel with double arrow auxetic core under air blast loading

The increasing threat of explosions on the battle field and the terrorist action requires the development of more effective blast resistance materials and structures. Curved structure can support the external loads effectively by virtue of their spatial curvature. In review of the excellent energy absorption property of auxetic structure, employing auxetic structure as core material in curved sandwich shows the potential to improve the protection performance. In this study, a novel cylindrical sandwich panel with double arrow auxetic (DAA) core was designed and the numerical model was built by ABAQUS. Due to the complexity of the structure, systematic parameter study and optimal design are conducted. Two cases of optimal design were considered, case1 focuses on reducing the deflection and mass of the structure, while case2 focuses on reducing the deflection and increasing the energy absorption per unit mass. Parameter study and optimal design were conducted based on Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHD) method, artificial neural networks (ANN) metamodel and the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-Ⅱ). The Pareto front was obtained and the cylindrical DAA structure performed much better than its equal solid panel in both blast resistance and energy absorption capacity. Optimization results can be used as a reference for different applications.     

South African defence policy: the rationale and impact of the SANDF’s primary role and conventional force design

The 2015 South African Defence Review set out to reverse the deterioration of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) capabilities. Within the South African Department of Defence (DOD) this deterioration is expressed mainly in terms of a decreasing defence budget, subsequent declining conventional capabilities and obsolete prime mission equipment. Contemporary research and defence expert debates on this theme, point out the disjuncture between policy ends and the available means, with scepticism for an increased defence budget given the DOD’s lack of internal reform and strategy adjustment. One question that remains largely unanswered in the literature regarding the decline of the SANDF, is why both the policy-makers and the SANDF have remained focused on the primary role of the military (defending territorial integrity) accompanied with an unaffordable conventional force design? This question relates to the aim of this paper and is explored by revisiting initial defence policy decisions and compromises that were made in the 1990s. It is argued that the primary role of the SANDF and its conventional force design suited the interests of both the politicians and the military, but that the drawbacks thereof have harshly caught up with the DOD.     

作战过程设计策略及其优选模型

组织设计通常包括三个流程即任务环境分析、过程设计和结构设计.作战过程设计是以其环境分析为基础,以其结构设计为目的,最终解决作战组织资源、平台、信息和决策的最优"合纵"和"连横"问题.尝试将C2(Command Control)组织的有关设计理论映射到作战组织设计,根据组织的演化过程机理,采用基于Bayes网络的方法,对作战组织进行过程设计,并对其设计策略进行优选,最后给出一个案例并加以验证.结果表明:采用动态Bayes网络的方法研究组织过程设计可行,其设计策略及优选模型合理.     

基于逐步后退法的车辆半侧液压主动悬挂最优控制设计与仿真

建立了充分考虑液压装置动力学特性的车辆半侧非线性主动悬挂模型,并提出了线性二次型最优控制与非线性逐步后退法相结合的内外环控制方案。首先根据目标需求在外环设计二次型指标下的最优控制器;然后在内环利用逐步后退法处理因液压装置引入的非线性项。仿真结果表明,使用该设计方案的主动悬挂可以获得比被动悬挂优越的车辆性能。     

混合EMS型磁浮列车的悬浮磁铁设计与分析

研究适用于EMS型磁浮列车的全尺寸电磁永磁混合悬浮磁铁的设计问题。通过比较永久磁铁的不同安装位置的影响,给出混合磁铁的结构方案。根据混合磁铁吸力公式,得出只有在永久磁铁矫顽力大于一定值时利用混合磁铁才能减小悬浮能耗。分析了混合磁铁的设计要求,研究满载起浮、稳态悬浮、空载吸死三种典型情况下对电磁线圈窗口高度的约束,得出混合磁铁的优化设计参数。最后利用Ansoft有限元磁场分析软件对钕铁硼永磁材料的拼装影响进行分析,给出校正后的悬浮磁铁设计结果。     

军事电子信息装备发展与思考

主要叙述了美、英、法进行未来陆军转型的简要过程与概况,以及他们的发展方针与模式,简述了中国军队的军事改革情况,从而提出了我国军事电子信息化发展的顶层设计、转型路线、军事电子信息装备的综合集成等相关方面的分析思考和应做的努力,希望通过抛砖引玉的方式,引起和获得同仁们的帮助以及对火控、指控装备发展的重视.     

可靠度评价在建筑防火设计中的应用

提出在建筑结构耐火设计及火灾后建筑物修复设计中进行可靠度理论应用的必要性、可行性与优越性 ,旨在为建筑结构在火灾过程中及灾后的安全性评估提供新的研究思路。