Evaluation of Transverse Markings as a Speed Transition Zone Countermeasures in Small, Rural Communities

Small rural communities located along major state or county roadways typically find most of the traffic along their main thoroughfares is pass-through rather than local traffic. Unfortunately, drivers passing through these communities often enter at high rates of speeds, which are often significantly higher than the speed limit of the local segment. Speed management in rural areas requires different considerations compared to urban areas and, within the US, rural speed management is not as advanced with little experience or guidance for agencies to draw on. This paper summarizes the results of a study that evaluated, in part, several different types of transverse pavement markings within the speed transition zones in small rural communities. Three different countermeasures were evaluated: converging chevrons, transverse lane markings, and optical speed bars.

Dividing the transit wind speeds into intervals as a favorable methodology for analyzing the relationship between wind speed and the aerodynamic impedance of vegetation in semiarid grasslands

In grassland ecosystems,the aerodynamic roughness(Z0)and frictional wind speed(u*)contribute to the aerodynamic impedance of the grassland canopy.Thus,they are often used in the studies of wind erosion and evapotranspiration.However,the effect of wind speed and grazing measures on the aerodynamic impedance of the grassland canopy has received less analysis.In this study,we monitored wind speeds at multiple heights in grazed and grazing-prohibited grasslands for 1 month in 2021,determined the transit wind speed at 2.0 m height by comparing wind speed differences at the same height in both grasslands,and divided these transit wind speeds at intervals of 2.0 m/s to analyze the effect of the transit wind speed on the relationship among Z0,u*,and wind speed within the grassland canopy.The results showed that dividing the transit wind speeds into intervals has a positive effect on the logarithmic fit of the wind speed profile.After dividing the transit wind speeds into intervals,the wind speed at 0.1 m height(V0.1)gradually decreased with the increase of Z0,exhibiting three distinct stages:a sharp change zone,a steady change zone,and a flat zone;while the overall trend of u*increased first and then decreased with the increase of V0.1.Dividing the transit wind speeds into intervals improved the fitting relationship between Z0 and V0.1 and changed their fitting functions in grazed and grazing-prohibited grasslands.According to the computational fluid dynamic results,we found that the number of tall-stature plants has a more significant effect on windproof capacity than their height.The results of this study contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between wind speed and the aerodynamic impedance of vegetation in grassland environments.

Analysis of Ship Motion in An Ice Ridge Field Based on Empirical Approach

The estimation of ship speed in ice ridge fields is important for both route planning and prediction of emergency response time.An analytical method for estimating ship motion in first-year ice ridge is developed based on ice resistance models and ship motion equations,in which the effect of ship speed on ridge resistance is taken into account.Two model tests in level ice and one model test in ice ridge for an icebreaking multipurpose vessel are used to validate and benchmark the presented method.The predicted results including level ice resistances,net thrust and ship motion in the ice ridge field are compared with the model test data.The comparisons show that the presented method can generate reasonable results.The effects of input parameters on ship speed,penetration depth and number of necessary rams to transit ridge have been studied.Based on the calibrated model,insights into the ice resistance and the ship motion are obtained.It is found that the energy consumption of the keel obtained by integral calculation of the keel resistance at the penetration distance is with the same magnitude as the result of the maximum keel resistance multiplied by the ridge length.In addition,the effect of ridge width and keel depth on keel resistance and average transit speed is investigated.

Research on physical layer traffic management schemes in serial RapidIO interconnect

A traffic management scheme in serial RapidlO （SR10） interconnect is proposed to deal with the performance degradation caused by noise and electromagnetic interference （EMI）, which is generated by hardly avoidable errors of hardware implementation and tough working environment. The main idea of this scheme includes adaptive speed transition and freeze-acknowledgement （freeze-ACK）. Adaptive speed transition can improve throughput and reduce delay in high bit error rate （BER） environment. Simultaneously, freeze-ACK is adopted to conquer frequent usage of feedback channel. Simulation shows that the scheme of combining adaptive speed transition with freeze-ACK offers great performance improvement in SRIO network.

Research on the nanometric machining of a single crystal nickel via molecular dynamics simulation

Molecular dynamics simulations are employed to study the nanometric machining process of single crystal nickel. Atoms from different machining zones had different atomic crystal structures owing to the differences in the actions of the cutting tool. The stacking fault tetrahedral was formed by a series of dislocation reactions, and it maintained the stable structure after the dislocation reactions. In addition, evidence of crystal transition and recovery was found by analyzing the number variations in different types of atoms in the primary shear zone, amorphous region, and crystalline region. The effects of machining speed on the cutting force, chip and subsurface defects, and temperature of the contact zone between the tool and workpiece were investigated. The results suggest that higher the machining speed, larger is the cutting force. The degree of amorphousness of chip atoms and the depth and extent of subsurface defects increase with the machining speed. The average friction coefficient first decreases and then increases with the machining speed because of the temperature difference between the chip and machining surface.