The Engineer as a Radical?

Outdated and rigorous curricula are not only producing engineers unsuited to the challenges of the 1970's, but they are scaring off many of the most creative and intelligent students. Engineering education has become an endurance test; the excitement has been lost. Most students strive only to get out. Engineering schools have not yet realized the importance of the involvement of engineers in current environmental problems. They continue to present only the dry technical courses and seem unconcerned about the student's sense of social perspective or his motivation. This paper proposes a freshman awareness seminar plus project oriented learning in the following years as a remedy for this sad situation.     

曲面和任意取向表面表面摩阻油膜测量法的进展

本文叙述曲面和任意取向表面表面摩阻测量方法的进一步的发展.介绍用漫射照明获取薄油膜等厚度干涉条纹谱的理论根据和实验结果.讨论了通过油流显示图像的分析,自动探测表面流线方位的可能性.所得结论表明油膜法也能应用于复杂的三维流动.     

疲劳S-N曲线预测的三维断裂力学方法

根据旋转弯典圆棒疲劳断口分析,给出了裂纹几何参量及应用强度因子随裂纹扩展的变化规律,采用考虑三维应力约束效应的断裂力学理论及常幅载荷下材料的疲劳裂纹扩展da/dN-ΔK曲线,得到了独立于试件几何形状和应力比的材料da/dN-ΔKeff基准数据,结合断口分析所得的应力强度因子以及材料da/dN-Δkeff数据,以三种旋转弯曲圆棒S－N（应力－疲劳寿命）曲线进行了预测,结果表明,本文预测的疲劳S－N曲线和试验的结果较为吻合,本文的S－N曲线断裂力学预测方法对确定结构全寿命具有实际指导意义,同时也揭示了发展疲劳断裂统一理论的可行性。     

Instrument Failure Detection in Partially Observable Systems

Instrument failure detection using the dedicated observer scheme (DOS) depends on partial state observability through each instrument which is monitored. For instrument fault detection by the DOS technique, a quantitative measure of partial state observability is established for each instrument and used to determine a necessary condition on the output structure of the system. This measure, called the internal redundancy of the instrument, indicates the complexity of the logic required for failure detection, and it also indicates where some hardware redundancy can be introduced into the system to improve the fault detection capability of the DOS. The principles developed are applied to a simulation of the pitch axis autopilot of the A7 jet aircraft.