Liner services network design and fleet deployment with empty container repositioning

Transportation demand of shipping container fluctuates due to the seasonality of international trade, thus, every 3–6 months, the liner company has to alter its current liner shipping service network, redeploy ships and design cargo routes with the objective of minimizing the total cost. To solve the problem, the paper presents a mixed integer linear program model. The proposed model incorporates several relevant constraints, such as weekly frequency, the transshipment of cargo between two or more service routes, and transport time. Extensive numerical experiments based on realistic date of Asia–Europe–Oceania shipping operations show that the proposed model can solve real-case problems efficiently by CPLEX. The results demonstrate that the model can reduce ship’s capacity consumption and raise ships’ capacity utilization.     

Case Study of an Aerosol Explosion and a Method to Determine Explosion Temperatures

A failure analysis case study is presented for a two-piece aerosol containing tetrafluoroethane, commonly referred to as Refrigerant 134a. A gentleman was preparing to recharge the air conditioning system of an automobile when the bottom exploded off the aerosol container, propelling the body of the aerosol container like a rocket, which hit the man in the eye and blinded him in that eye. The aerosol was never connected to the air conditioner, therefore backpressure from the air conditioner (AC) compressor was ruled out as a cause for the explosion. The objective of the study was to determine why the aerosol exploded. Several recently developed test methods were used, including two types of heat-to-burst tests and a puncture chamber to measure the pressure-versus-temperature behavior of aerosols. More common test methods were also used, such as water bath pressure tests, hydro pressure burst tests, pneumatic pressure burst tests, hardness measurements, weight measurements, metallography, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and an accident scenario recreation. A semi-empirical correlation between the hardness and weights of the container bottoms was used to determine the explosion temperature and/or pressure. This semi-empirical correlation agrees in principle with an analysis of the explosion pressures using finite-element analysis (FEA). The root cause for the explosion was determined to be a lack of strength of the bottom of the two-piece aerosol coupled with heating the aerosol to temperatures significantly above room temperature.     

水溶液辐射分解产物对金属材料腐蚀的影响

实验研究了水辐射分解作用对高放废物深地质处置容器材料的影响。在高放废物深地质处置库附近的地下水,受辐射线作用后分解出氧、氢和氧化产物(例如H_2O_2等),于是在高放废物容器周围形成一个氧化场,导致高放废物中的某些重要放射性核素(例如U,Np和Tc)易溶于水,并向远域迁移。本实验中的含FeSO_4(0.13 mol/L)水溶液在吸收剂量为0、20、60、180、500kGy的射线作用下,其氧化还原电位(Eh)值由+357mV增至+414 mV;在不同吸收剂量的射线作用下,金属Cu、金属Al、0.357 mv金属Fe和不锈钢(后者是我国拟采用的高放废物包装容器材料),在水溶液中的氧化侵蚀强度,分别比在无辐射情况下的大0.2-6.1倍。     

ROSA:资源敏感的高性能Web容器体系结构

现有的Web容器多采用线程池体系结构,而Web容器所支撑的动态Web组件在执行过程中可能需要获取多种共享资源,由共享资源并发量限制导致的线程阻塞可能会严重影响性能。提出了一种资源敏感的Web容器体系结构ROSA(resource-oriented staged architecture)。当某些共享资源达到饱和时,若Web容器接到对需要这些资源的Web组件的请求,ROSA会暂缓为这些请求提供服务以减少线程阻塞。基于排队Petri网,建立了ROSA结构和线程池结构的性能模型,通过模型仿真和负载实验验证了ROSA体系结构的性能优势。     

高频焊管用464-H14铝复合带材力学性能的研究

结合工业生产研究了高频焊管用464－H14铝合金复合带材的退火工艺和加工工艺对材料力学性能的影响。结果表明：成品材料冷轧前的软化退火温度应选择在既能使材料完全软化而又不发生Si原子扩散的350－400℃之间，冷加工率应控制在20％－40％，这样可使材料获得较好的力学性能，能够满足产品的技术标准和使用要求。     

容器焊缝错边残余应力与载荷应力的测定研究

本文对焊接容器错边和不错边的焊接接头进行了电测法的残余应力测试，确定了焊接残余应力的大小及方向，并在加载的条件下，对各焊接接头测点进行了综合应力测试，并给出了受载条件下的应力分布。     

Rescheduling policies for large-scale task allocation of autonomous straddle carriers under uncertainty at automated container terminals

This paper investigates replanning strategies for container-transportation task allocation of autonomous Straddle Carriers (SC) at automated container terminals. The strategies address the problem of large-scale scheduling in the context of uncertainty (especially uncertainty associated with unexpected events such as the arrival of a new task). Two rescheduling policies–Rescheduling New arrival Jobs (RNJ) policy and Rescheduling Combination of new and unexecuted Jobs (RCJ) policy–are presented and compared for long-term Autonomous SC Scheduling (ASCS) under the uncertainty of new job arrival. The long-term performance of the two rescheduling policies is evaluated using a multi-objective cost function (i.e., the sum of the costs of SC travelling, SC waiting, and delay of finishing high-priority jobs). This evaluation is conducted based on two different ASCS solving algorithms–an exact algorithm (i.e., branch-and-bound with column generation (BBCG) algorithm) and an approximate algorithm (i.e., auction algorithm)–to get the schedule of each short-term planning for the policy. Based on the map of an actual fully-automated container terminal, simulation and comparative results demonstrate the quality advantage of the RCJ policy compared with the RNJ policy for task allocation of autonomous straddle carriers under uncertainty. Long-term testing results also show that although the auction algorithm is much more efficient than the BBCG algorithm for practical applications, it is not effective enough, even when employed by the superior RCJ policy, to achieve high-quality scheduling of autonomous SCs at the container terminals.     

化工容器设计规范述评

分析了压力容器设计标准ＧＢ１５０－８９［１］和ＪＢ４７３２－９５［２］在设计思想和设计方法上的主要区别及按两种标准制造的容器的经济性，提出了选取ＪＢ４７３２－９５作为所遵循的设计规范的一些参考性意见。     

Self-emulsifiable soybean oil phosphate ester polyols for low-VOC corrosion resistant coatings

A series of soybean oil phosphate ester polyols (SOPEP) was prepared by reaction of fully epoxidized soybean oil with phosphoric acid and simultanoeous hydrolysis in the presence of a polar solvent. The polyols were characterized by determination of acid value, oxirane number, hydroxyl value, molecular weight (GPC), and FTIR spectra. These polyols with varying amounts of acid phosphate groups could be self-emulsified to form aqueous dispersions after neutralization with organic base. These aqueous dispersion showed varying degrees of stability and their appearance ranged from opaque dispersions to translucent to clear solutions. Waterborne coating compositions were prepared using these aqueous dispersions as principal components and their thermally cured film properties were studied. it was found that by careful selection and formulation, SOPEPs can be successfully used for low-VOC waterborne coating formulations. SOPEPs with 3.5% phosphate ester content showed visibly superior corrosion resistance properties.     

集装箱涂装过程中常见的问题

简要介绍了集装箱涂装的特点及涂装工艺基本要求,对涂装过程中出现的常见问题产生的原因进行了分析,并提出了解决办法。