一种执行机构等效装置设计

为了满足航天器桌面散态匹配试验测试需求,研制一种基于PC104总线的执行机构等效装置,详细阐述了等效装置的功能、工作原理、硬件电路设计、软件设计思想,该系统采用模块化、可配置软件架构设计,实现了正常、应急多测试工况一体化设计;应用严格的窗口比较器硬件电路设计技术,实现信号电压幅值的高精度采集,确保输入信号的可靠判定;利用FPGA技术突破信号脉宽高精度采集和信号延时高精度可控等关键技术,该系统实现了输入信号幅值、脉宽的实时采集、存储与显示,并按照事先设定的工作模式及配置参数,完成不同测试工况下输出信号的模拟反馈。试验结果表明,系统稳定可靠,人机界面友好,满足航天器多测试工况控制时序和功能检查需求。     

Multiattribute electronic procurement using goal programming

One of the key challenges of current day electronic procurement systems is to enable procurement decisions transcend beyond a single attribute such as cost. Consequently, multiattribute procurement have emerged as an important research direction. In this paper, we develop a multiattribute e-procurement system for procuring large volume of a single item. Our system is motivated by an industrial procurement scenario for procuring raw material. The procurement scenario demands multiattribute bids, volume discount cost functions, inclusion of business constraints, and consideration of multiple criteria in bid evaluation. We develop a generic framework for an e-procurement system that meets the above requirements. The bid evaluation problem is formulated as a mixed linear integer multiple criteria optimization problem and goal programming is used as the solution technique. We present a case study for which we illustrate the proposed approach and a heuristic is proposed to handle the computational complexity arising out of the cost functions used in the bids.     

Antiplane elastic wave propagation in pre-stressed periodic structures; tuning,band gap switching and invariance

The effect of nonlinear elastic pre-stress on antiplane elastic wave propagation in a two-dimensional periodic structure is investigated. The medium consists of cylindrical annuli embedded on a periodic square lattice in a uniform host material. An identical inhomogeneous deformation is imposed in each annulus and the theory of small-on-large is used to find the incremental wave equation governing subsequent small-amplitude antiplane waves. The plane-wave-expansion method is employed in order to determine the permissable eigenfrequencies. It is found that pre-stress significantly affects the band gap structure for Mooney–Rivlin and Fung type materials, allowing stop bands to be switched on and off. However, it is also shown that for a specific class of materials, their phononic properties remain invariant under nonlinear deformation, permitting some rather interesting behaviour and leading to the possibility of phononic cloaks.