In modern trains wheelset skidding leads to the deterioration of braking behavior,the degradation of comfort,as well as a boost in system hazards.Because of the nonlinearity and unknown characteristics of wheelset adh...In modern trains wheelset skidding leads to the deterioration of braking behavior,the degradation of comfort,as well as a boost in system hazards.Because of the nonlinearity and unknown characteristics of wheelset adhesion,simplifications are widely adopted in the modeling process of conventional antiskid controllers.Therefore,conventional antiskid controllers usually cannot perform satisfactorily.In this paper,systematic computer simulation and field tests for railway antiskid control system are introduced.The operating principal of antiskid control system is explained,which is fundamental to the simulation of antiskid brakes,and the simulation model is introduced,which incorporates both the adhesion creep curve and a pneumatic submodel of antiskid control system.In addition,the characteristics of adhesion curves and the simulation target are also provided.Using DHSplus,the pneumatic submodel is created to analyze the performance of the different control strategies of antiskid valves.Then the system simulation is realized by combining the kinematical characteristics of railway trains and the pneumatic submodel.The simulation is performed iteratively to obtain the optimized design of the antiskid control system.The design result is incorporated in the hardware design of the antiskid control system and is evaluated in the field tests in Shanghai Subway Line 1.Judging by the antiskid efficiency,the antiskid braking performance observed in the field tests shows the superiority of the optimized design.Therefore,the proposed simulation method,especially in view of its ease of application,appears to be a useful one for designing railway antiskid control systems.展开更多
Underground energy storage is an important function of all energy supply systems,and especially concerning the seemingly eternal imbalance between production and demand.Salt rock underground energy storage,for one,is ...Underground energy storage is an important function of all energy supply systems,and especially concerning the seemingly eternal imbalance between production and demand.Salt rock underground energy storage,for one,is widely applied in both traditional and renewable energy fields;and this particular technique can be used to store natural gas,hydrogen,and compressed air.However,resource diversification and structural complexity make the supply system increasingly uncertain with the passing years,leading to great challenges for energy storage facilities in the present,and perhaps going into the future as well.Hence,it is necessary to research the operation stability of underground energy storage further.In this paper,a stability evaluation index system of Underground Gas Storage(UGS)is constructed with natural gas as the main medium,according to FLAC 3D cavity creep simulation software,along with fuzzy membership function to comprehensively determine the impact factor scoring model;the subjective weight is calculated based on the improved Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP),the objective weight is calculated by the Entropy Weight Method(EWM),the combined constant weight is obtained by combining the variance maximization theory,and introducing the variable weight theory to obtain a more accurate combined variable weight.Finally,with this all being considered and accounted for,and with the four different conditions designed for UGS deployment case analysis and verification taken into consideration,the combined variable weight evaluation achieved excellent results;compared with the traditional constant weight method,in fact,the new evaluation results are more rigorous and objective.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61004077)National Key Technology R&D Program of the 11th Five Year Plan of China (Grant No. 2009BAG11B02)Foundation of Traction Power State Key Laboratory of Southwest Jiaotong University,China (Grant No. TPL1107)
文摘In modern trains wheelset skidding leads to the deterioration of braking behavior,the degradation of comfort,as well as a boost in system hazards.Because of the nonlinearity and unknown characteristics of wheelset adhesion,simplifications are widely adopted in the modeling process of conventional antiskid controllers.Therefore,conventional antiskid controllers usually cannot perform satisfactorily.In this paper,systematic computer simulation and field tests for railway antiskid control system are introduced.The operating principal of antiskid control system is explained,which is fundamental to the simulation of antiskid brakes,and the simulation model is introduced,which incorporates both the adhesion creep curve and a pneumatic submodel of antiskid control system.In addition,the characteristics of adhesion curves and the simulation target are also provided.Using DHSplus,the pneumatic submodel is created to analyze the performance of the different control strategies of antiskid valves.Then the system simulation is realized by combining the kinematical characteristics of railway trains and the pneumatic submodel.The simulation is performed iteratively to obtain the optimized design of the antiskid control system.The design result is incorporated in the hardware design of the antiskid control system and is evaluated in the field tests in Shanghai Subway Line 1.Judging by the antiskid efficiency,the antiskid braking performance observed in the field tests shows the superiority of the optimized design.Therefore,the proposed simulation method,especially in view of its ease of application,appears to be a useful one for designing railway antiskid control systems.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[51704253].
文摘Underground energy storage is an important function of all energy supply systems,and especially concerning the seemingly eternal imbalance between production and demand.Salt rock underground energy storage,for one,is widely applied in both traditional and renewable energy fields;and this particular technique can be used to store natural gas,hydrogen,and compressed air.However,resource diversification and structural complexity make the supply system increasingly uncertain with the passing years,leading to great challenges for energy storage facilities in the present,and perhaps going into the future as well.Hence,it is necessary to research the operation stability of underground energy storage further.In this paper,a stability evaluation index system of Underground Gas Storage(UGS)is constructed with natural gas as the main medium,according to FLAC 3D cavity creep simulation software,along with fuzzy membership function to comprehensively determine the impact factor scoring model;the subjective weight is calculated based on the improved Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP),the objective weight is calculated by the Entropy Weight Method(EWM),the combined constant weight is obtained by combining the variance maximization theory,and introducing the variable weight theory to obtain a more accurate combined variable weight.Finally,with this all being considered and accounted for,and with the four different conditions designed for UGS deployment case analysis and verification taken into consideration,the combined variable weight evaluation achieved excellent results;compared with the traditional constant weight method,in fact,the new evaluation results are more rigorous and objective.