Innovation in construction: a sociology of technology approach

An alternative approach to understanding innovation is made using two intersecting ideas. The first is that successful innovation requires consideration of the social and organizational contexts in which it is located. The complex context of construction work is characterized by inter-organizational collaboration, a project-based approach and power distributed amongst collaborating organizations. The second is that innovations can be divided into two modes: 'bounded', where the implications of innovation are restricted within a single, coherent sphere of influence, and 'unbounded', where the effects of implementation spill over beyond this. Bounded innovations are adequately explained within the construction literature. However, less discussed are unbounded innovations, where many firms' collaboration is required for successful implementation, even though many innovations can be considered unbounded within construction's inter-organizational context. It is argued that unbounded innovations require an approach to understand and facilitate the interactions both within a range of actors and between the actors and technological artefacts. The insights from a sociology of technology approach can be applied to the multiplicity of negotiations and alignments that constitute the implementation of unbounded innovation. The utility of concepts from the sociology of technology, including 'system building' and 'heterogeneous engineering', is demonstrated by applying them to an empirical study of an unbounded innovation on a major construction project (the new terminal at Heathrow Airport, London, UK). This study suggests that 'system building' contains outcomes that are not only transformations of practices, processes and systems, but also the potential transformation of technologies themselves.     

炼铁生产环境负荷分析和预测研究

利用寿命周期评价的思想，计算了炼铁生产过程中的环境负荷，并分析了各因素对环境负荷的影响，运用神经网络对炼铁生产过程环境负荷进行了预测。     

SOC设计中的浮动压焊块电源/地线网络设计和优化

随着VLSI工艺技术的发展和芯片规模的不断增加，尤其是在SOC设计中，原有的那种供电压焊块只能位于芯片边缘的确定益的模式已经不能够满足整个电路性能的需要。在很多情况下，依靠在电源线的拓扑结构确定后的线宽优化，还是无法保证在有限的布线资源下为电路提供可靠的高性能的供电需求。由此，出现了在芯片边缘上浮动放置压焊块及在芯片的顶部放置供电压焊块阵列的方法。文中提出了一种用于SOC设计中新的基于树型结构的浮动压焊块的电源／地线网络优化算法，经过MCNC电路实例测试后得到明显的优化结果。     

Analysis of the Ductile Strength of Welds Weakened by Notches in Longitudinally Welded Pipes of Large Diameter by the Method of Slip Lines

We study the stressed state of an inhomogeneous welded joint containing an interlayer of a more high-strength material under the action of tensile loads. It is assumed that the contact boundary has a cracklike defect. We deduce analytic dependences of the fracture load on the mechanical inhomogeneity of the joint, thickness of the interlayer, and depth of the defect. The maximum depth of the defect to which the joint is insensitive is established. The proposed theoretical results are innovative and agree with the experimental data obtained for specimens cut out from a pipe of 14KhGS steel.     

静态EPS及其在建筑工程中的应用

一级负荷中特别重要的负荷，除由两个电源供电外，尚应增设应急电源。在供电条件比较差的地区，取得第二个电源供给一级负荷有困难时，也需要增设应急备用电源。以往经常用自备柴油发电机组、蓄电池、干电池和镍锦电池应急灯作为应急备用电源。本文通过对目前常用的各种应急电源的分析比较，推荐一种新颖的、静态、无公害、免维护无人值守的、供电质量好、安全可靠的集中供电式EPS装置。     

就地补偿在动力厂水泵电机上的应用实例

就我公司动力厂给水车间155kW水泵电机无功就地补偿的可行性及经济效益进行了分析和研究，对工厂用电如何节能降耗有一定的参考价值。     

Limit load analysis of strength undermatched welded T-joints under bending

An increasing amount of laser beam welded T‐joints (e.g. skin‐stringer) of aluminium alloys are now in use in advanced fuselage applications designed as ‘integral structures’ for weight and cost savings. It is known that weld joints generally show lower strength (undermatching) than base metal in both laser beam and friction stir welded joints of 6xxx series Al‐alloys. Damage tolerance considerations in terms of the residual strength of such joints require limit load solutions to be used in engineering fitness‐for‐service (FFS) analysis. The paper, therefore, provides an upper bound limit load solution in closed form for welded T‐joints (idealized) with strength undermatching and subject to a bending moment. In addition to the necessary requirements of the upper bound theorem, the kinematically admissible velocity field chosen leads to a stress field, which satisfies the equilibrium equations and some stress boundary conditions in the plastic zone. This is an advantage of the solution and, therefore, it is expected that the upper bound obtained is close to the exact limit load of such joints.     

Reliability Analysis of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Elastoplastic Systems. II: Suboptimal Excitations

A method for constructing an approximation of the critical excitation that drives an elastoplastic system from rest to a target threshold at a specified time instant, referred to as the “suboptimal excitation,” is presented in this paper. It is based on the observations gained from study of the critical excitations in the companion paper. Essentially, for the usual case of interest where the failure time is not small compared to the natural period, the duration of the positive and negative pulses of the critical excitation are roughly equal to half of the natural period. This consideration allows for a simple intuitive approximation of the critical excitation. The amplitudes of the positive and negative pulses are obtained in closed forms using energy balance. Numerical investigations show that the critical excitations are well approximated by the suboptimal excitations.     

新型复合弹簧的研究

提出一种金属圆锥弹簧与橡胶圆锥弹簧复合而成的弹簧．分析表明：它可以应用于弹性耦合激励振动筛和座式直线振动筛。