“It would be impossible to estimate the value of these works...” Mass Production at Springfield Armory during the American Civil War

The U.S. Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, rarely appears in Civil War histories except perhaps as an unexplained statistical wonder. By late 1863, the Armory was the largest single supplier of rifles to Union forces. Springfield Armory workers out-produced over thirty American contractors, making more Army rifles at less cost while providing contractors with gauges, inspectors, and models, even though there were significant wartime private-sector mechanical innovations. This article identifies and explains the factors in the Armory’s success, provides context on contemporary American arms production and rifle models, and argues that the Armory’s methods and performance were among the first if not the first example of mass production in American small arms manufacture. The relative brevity of the Civil War episode, and the fact that it was not repeated in any comparable way at the Armory until World War II, has obscured its significance in American manufacturing history.     

融合图嵌入的光滑主成分分析网络图像识别算法

主成分分析网络(principal component analysis network, PCANet)是一种简单的深度学习算法,在图像识别领域具有优秀的性能。将图嵌入思想融入PCANet,提出一种新的图像识别算法光滑主成分分析网络(Smooth-PCANet)。为了验证Smooth-PCANet算法的有效性,在人脸、手写体字符以及图片等不同数据集上构建实验,并将Smooth-PCANet与多种基于深度学习的图像识别算法作了对比。实验结果证明,Smooth-PCANet算法比PCANet获得了更高的识别性能,并且更有效地避免了过拟合,在小样本训练时具有显著优势。     

小型旅馆消防安全现状及管理对策探讨

近年来,各地小型旅馆发展迅速,但由于其小而散使消防安全监管难度增大,从业人员消防安全意识淡薄,自身消防安全隐患较多,极易发生群死群伤火灾事故.介绍了小型旅馆的特点,分析了小型旅馆存在的消防安全隐患及消防监督管理工作存在的问题,探讨了加强小型旅馆消防安全管理的措施.     

考虑地磁场空间梯度的飞行器磁干扰建模与求解方法

首先,在研究飞行器背景磁干扰模型与小信号模型的基础上,分析了地磁梯度沿纬度与高度的变化规律,分析可知由于飞行器的机动,地磁梯度会对测量结果造成影响;然后,考虑地磁梯度因素,对原有小信号模型求解方法进行了改进：飞行器在四个航向上做小角度的机动飞行,将地磁场沿纬度与高度的梯度作为未知量,与飞行器磁干扰模型中的剩磁参数、感磁参数和涡磁参数一起求解;最后,利用实测试验数据进行了验证,结果表明：考虑地磁梯度的影响与不考虑地磁梯度的影响相比,求解的模型参数可以在细节上进一步提高飞行器背景磁干扰的补偿效果。     

The essence of war: French armies and small war in the Low Countries (1672–1697)

In the late seventeenth century during the Dutch War (1672–1678) and the Nine Years War (1688–1697), French armies relied on small war for the accomplishment of essential tasks and as part of an overall strategy of exhausting their opponents in the Low Countries. The purposes of small war included the imposition of contributions on enemy populations, the destruction of the enemy base of operations, blockades of fortresses, and the general support of campaign armies. The expression ‘small war’ in the French language appeared with growing frequency in the 1690s. Small war can be viewed as both a cause and consequence of the characteristics of these wars. The limited policy goals of Louis XIV the king of France required a strategy that minimised risk and accomplished the goal of reducing if not eliminating the Spanish presence in the Low Countries that bordered the north of France. As French armies increased in size during this period, the demand for specialists at small increased in order to provide security and ensure supply. Small war in the late seventeenth century was thus not ideologically motivated insurgency, but in the minds of French commanders an essential component of strategy and the nature of war.     

小子样条件下导弹靶场试验综合评定方法

针对导弹靶场试验中的小子样问题,分析了自助法和随机加权法,并对自助法中再生子样较为集中的不足进行了改进。通过仿真比较得出,改进后的自助法具有更好的评定特性。     

对典型结构弹体的电磁耦合规律数值分析

为了研究某型弹体的电磁耦合规律,利用电磁仿真软件FEKO建立弹体模型.研究得到:在弹体内部腔体存在谐振频点,存在电磁耦合场的增强区域;引信内部存在谐振频点,存在电磁耦合场的增强区域;弹体与引信壳体的屏蔽效能随频率变化的规律.     

频率搅拌混响室内小屏蔽体的场均匀性检验

为了研究频率搅拌混响室内小屏蔽体的屏蔽效能测试方法,需要检验小屏蔽体内的场均匀性．通过对混响室的场均匀性测试方法的研究,提出基于矢量网络分析仪的测试方法,通过计算工作区域任意两点的功率比检验场均匀性,并用该方法检验工作区域内小屏蔽体的场均匀性．实验结果表明：混响室采用扫频信号实现频率搅拌时,放置于工作区域的小屏蔽体内部同样有较好的场均匀性．     

特种车辆乘载员生理监测与调节系统

特种车辆乘栽员的生理心理状态与车辆技术状态并列成为影响车辆整体效能的重要因素。针对乘栽员的生理心理状态进行监测并适时干预,可以实时掌握并调整人员状态。既有利于车辆能力发挥,也有利于整体协调。生理监测调节系统拟采用生物传感技术,采集人员生理心理指标参数,通过车辆通信及指控系统网络,使指挥人员能够及时掌握人员的疲劳及生命体征状态．通过合理的心理干预及医疗指导。使人员保持良好的心理生理状态或合理的医疗自救互救,最大程度地保存行动能力。该系统可应用于平时训练及评估．也可应用于行动决策指挥及医疗救护部署。     

Mass-Produced Pre-Han Chinese Bronze Crossbow Triggers: Unparalleled Manufacturing Technology in the Ancient World

Abstract

After an introduction to pre-Han and Han bronze crossbow triggers and bronze casting in China, these ancient mechanisms are examined from an engineering and manufacturing perspective. These triggers have been identified (Yates 2007) as the first mass-produced interchangeable military artefact. This examination shows that the sophisticated design of the mechanism clearly took manufacture into account and leads to the hypothesis that the key component of the mechanism, the nut, was specifically designed to be made by the stack moulding process identified by Barnard and Tamotsu 1975 as a technique ‘unparalleled in the ancient world’.