具确定弱区域正交各向异性薄板的弹塑性屈曲分析

基于弹塑性力学和损伤理论,建立了一个与应力球张量有关的具损伤正交各向异性材料的混合硬化屈服准则,该准则无量纲化后与各向同性材料的Mises准则同构,在此基础上,建立了正交各向异性材料的增量型和全量型弹塑性损伤本构方程,并以具确定弱区域正交各向异性矩形薄板为例,根据屈曲时的能量准则和全量理论,以等效塑性应变为内变量,对其弹塑性屈曲问题进行了分析,讨论了几何参数和弱区域对正交各向异性薄板弹塑性屈曲临界应力的影响.     

Impact of M1A1 main battle tank disturbance on soil quality, invertebrates, and vegetation characteristics

Military training commonly results in land degradation, but protocols for assessing and predicting long-term environmental impact are lacking. An ability to assess the impact of repeated disturbance and subsequent recovery is needed to balance training requirements against environmental quality. To develop methodology for assessing soil quality, a study evaluating disturbance resulting from tank maneuvers was initiated on Fort Riley Military Installation, Kansas. The objectives were to identify and quantify soil-quality indicators on two soil types exposed to controlled tank traffic. We examined physical, chemical, and biotic indicators after treatments were applied during wet and dry soil conditions. A randomized complete-block design, with three blocks per soil type and three treatments per block, was used. Treatments consisted of disturbance created by a 63-ton M1A1 tank making five passes in a figure-8 pattern during either dry or wet soil conditions. The M1A1 was operated at a speed of approximately 8 km/h. Control plots received no tank traffic. Soil-quality indicators evaluated were soil compaction, soil penetration resistance, rut depth, soil bulk density, soil texture, soil chemical composition, plant biomass, soil microbial diversity, and nematode and earthworm taxa. Soil-quality indicators were sampled within one week after tank disturbance. Preliminary data indicate soil-texture-dependent treatment effects (p  0.05) for bulk density and porosity. Bulk density increased and porosity decreased on trafficked areas, in the silt loam soil, but showed no change in the silty clay loam soil. Disturbance during wet soil conditions raised penetrometer resistance and gravimetric water content more than disturbance during dry soil conditions (p  0.05). A significant difference in disturbance was measured between the outside and inside portion of the same track (p  0.01 and 0.001, respectively). The outside track caused the greatest amount of disturbance, as measured by the height of the disturbed soil ridge above the track bed. Tank disturbance significantly reduced total vegetative biomass (p  0.05) compared with that of un-trafficked areas. Disturbance under wet soil conditions significantly reduced grass biomass (p = 0.040), whereas disturbance under dry soil conditions significantly reduced forb biomass (p = 0.0247) compared to un-trafficked areas. Total earthworm abundance (p = 0.011) was reduced by 82% when disturbance occurred during wet soil conditions regardless of soil type.     

Life cycle assessment and sustainability analysis of products, materials and technologies. Toward a scientific framework for sustainability life cycle analysis

There are many approaches to study the environmental and sustainability aspects of production and consumption. Some of these reside at the level of concepts, e.g., industrial ecology, design for environment, and cleaner production. Other approaches are based on the use of quantitative models, e.g., life cycle assessment, material flow accounting and strategic environmental assessment. This paper focuses on the development of a framework that is able to incorporate different models for environmental analysis, with the option of a broader scope that also includes economic and social aspects, thus covering the three pillars of sustainability. This framework builds on the ISO-framework for life cycle assessment, but takes a broader view, and allows us to move from micro questions on specific products, via meso questions on life styles up to macro questions in which the entire societal structure is part of the analysis.     

Synthetic indicators of mutual funds’ environmental responsibility: An application of the Reference Point Method

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is broadly defined as an investment process that integrates not only financial but also social, environmental, and ethical (SEE) considerations into investment decision making. SRI has grown rapidly around the world in the last decades. In the last years, given the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, ethical, social, environmental and governance concerns have become even more relevant investment decision criteria. However, while a diverse set of models have been developed to support investment decision-making based on financial criteria, models including also social responsibility criteria are rather scarce.     

基于信息显著性差异的绿色产业评价指标筛选模型及实证

依据广义的绿色产业内涵,通过信息显著性差异与信息冗余分析定量筛选指标,建立了包括绿色生产指标层、绿色生态环境指标层、绿色消费方式指标层的大连市绿色产业评价指标体系。本文的创新与特色一是通过负载系数大小差异进行信息显著性分析,删除负载系数小、对综合评价结果影响弱的指标。克服了现有研究先进行相关分析剔除冗余指标,再利用负载系数大小差异筛选出反映信息显著性大的指标的弊端。事实上,指标间较高的相关性是计算负载系数的必要前提。因此,利用负载系数筛选指标前是不可进行指标的相关分析降低指标间的相关性的。二是通过结合专家知识经验辨析指标的实际含义,仅对反映信息可能重复的指标使用相关分析,剔除同指标层内相关系数较大的两个指标中反映指标层信息能力相对较弱的指标。克服了仅仅通过相关系数不能准确衡量指标间信息重复程度的弊端。研究结果表明,最终建立的指标体系通过25．68％的指标反映了97．09％的原始信息。通过与同类的指标体系进行对比,对大连市绿色产业评价指标体系的合理性做了进一步的分析。     

复合材料层板边缘效应的准相似元解法

用准相似单元法研究了复合材料层板直边和孔边的自由边缘效应，得到了一些具有工程意义的结果。准相似单元法是相似单元法的推广，利用这一方法可以求解三维的应力集中问题，避免了求单刚时的重复计算。由于采用了按相似层求解的技术，应用准相似单元法求解应力集中问题时对计算机容量的要求大为降低     

First and second moments for self‐similar couplings and Wasserstein distances

We study aspects of the Wasserstein distance in the context of self‐similar measures. Computing this distance between two measures involves minimising certain moment integrals over the space of couplings, which are measures on the product space with the original measures as prescribed marginals. We focus our attention on self‐similar measures associated to equicontractive iterated function systems consisting of two maps on the unit interval and satisfying the open set condition. We are particularly interested in understanding the restricted family of self‐similar couplings and our main achievement is the explicit computation of the 1st and 2nd moment integrals for such couplings. We show that this family is enough to yield an explicit formula for the 1st Wasserstein distance and provide non‐trivial upper and lower bounds for the 2nd Wasserstein distance for these self‐similar measures.     

基于广义动态因子模型的中国出口周期分析与预测

研究出口周期的景气循环对于进一步扩大出口及推动整个国民经济的发展具有重要的意义.基于传统的先行指标体系和SW景气指数方法能够为出口周期的监测和预警提供参考,而近年来逐渐完善的广义动态因子模型基于频域分析方法,在处理高维数据方面比前两种方法更具有优势,同时该方法在拐点的探测方面也具有重要的作用.作者首先对三种指数构建方法进行了理论上的介绍;其次,分别运用三种方法构建了中国出口增长循环的一致及先行指数;最后,对三种方法在中国出口周期分析上的表现进行了比较与评价,得出了一些重要的结论.     

Space and time inversions of stochastic processes and Kelvin transform

Let X be a standard Markov process. We prove that a space inversion property of X implies the existence of a Kelvin transform of X‐harmonic, excessive and operator‐harmonic functions and that the inversion property is inherited by Doob h‐transforms. We determine new classes of processes having space inversion properties amongst transient processes satisfying the time inversion property. For these processes, some explicit inversions, which are often not the spherical ones, and excessive functions are given explicitly. We treat in details the examples of free scaled power Bessel processes, non‐colliding Bessel particles, Wishart processes, Gaussian Ensemble and Dyson Brownian Motion.