• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.93-101
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• 1993

The derived expressions and computations of the system reliability in the consecutive k out of n failure structure with sink-source pole are discussed and a decisive lower and upper bounds as well as exact system reliability are presented in this paper. Good bounds of the system reliability can be easily computed and are illustrated in the numerical example.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.51-63
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• 2016

Stress function of ball bearing is function of multiple stochastic factors and this system is so complex that analytical expression for reliability is difficult to obtain. To address this pressing problem, in this article, we have made an attempt to approximate system reliability of this important item based on reliability bounds under the stress strength setup. This article also provides level of error of this item. Numerical analysis has been adopted to show the closeness between the upper and lower bounds of this item.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.179-184
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• 1992

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.655-667
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• 2011

A class of functions involving divided differences of the psi and tri-gamma functions and originating from Kershaw's double inequality are proved to be completely monotonic. As applications of these results, the monotonicity and convexity of a function involving the ratio of two gamma functions and originating from the establishment of the best upper and lower bounds in Kershaw's double inequality are derived, two sharp double inequalities involving ratios of double factorials are recovered, the probability integral or error function is estimated, a double inequality for ratio of the volumes of the unit balls in $\mathbb{R}^{n-1}$ and $\mathbb{R}^n$ respectively is deduced, and a symmetrical upper and lower bounds for the gamma function in terms of the psi function is generalized.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.71-77
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• 2009

Using the results of the expected busy periods for the dyadic Min(N, D) and Max(N, D) operating policies in a controllable M/G/1 queueing model, an important relation between them is derived. The derived relation represents the complementary property between two operating policies. This implies that it could be possible to obtained desired system characteristics for one of the two operating policies from the corresponding known system characteristics for the other policy. Then, upper and lower bounds of expected busy periods for both dyadic operating policies are also derived.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.517-523
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• 2006

This paper is focused on a robust saturation controller for the stable linear time-invariant (LTI) system involving both actuator's saturation and structured real parameter uncertainties. Based on affine quadratic stability and multi-convexity concept, a robust saturation controller is newly proposed and the linear matrix inequality (LMI)-based sufficient existence conditions for this controller are presented. The controller suggested in this paper can analytically prescribe the lower and upper bounds of parameter uncertainties, and guarantee the closed-loop robust stability of the system in the presence of actuator's saturation. Through numerical simulations, it is confirmed that the proposed robust saturation controller is robustly stable with respect to parameter uncertainties over the prescribed range defined by the lower and upper bounds.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.133-147
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• 2021

Our aim in this paper is to derive several new monotonicity properties and functional inequalities of some functions involving the q-gamma, q-digamma and q-polygamma functions. More precisely, some classes of functions involving the q-gamma function are proved to be logarithmically completely monotonic and a class of functions involving the q-digamma function is showed to be completely monotonic. As applications of these, we offer upper and lower bounds for this special functions and new sharp upper and lower bounds for the q-analogue harmonic number harmonic are derived. Moreover, a number of two-sided exponential bounding inequalities are given for the q-digamma function and two-sided exponential bounding inequalities are then obtained for the q-tetragamma function.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.855-868
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• 2012

In this paper, we consider the discrete memoryless user relaying channel (DMURC) in which a user-relay switches its operational mode symbol-by-symbol. In particular, we obtain upper and lower bounds on the channel capacity for the general DMURC and then show that these the upper and lower bounds coincide for degraded DMURC. It is also shown that the capacity of the degraded DMURC can be achieved using two separate codebooks corresponding to the two UR states. While the UR is assumed to switch states symbol-by-symbol, the results in this paper is the same as when the UR switches states packet-by-packet.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.727-740
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• 2006

A simple plane-strain solution is derived in this paper for the functionally graded multilayered isotropic elastic cylinder under static deformation. The solution is obtained using method of separation of variables and is expressed in terms of the summation of the Fourier series in the circumferential direction. While the solution for order n = 0 corresponds to the axisymmetric deformation, that for n = 2 includes the special deformation frequently utilized in the upper and lower bounds analysis. Numerical results for a three-phase cylinder with a middle functionally graded layer are presented for both axisymmetric (n = 0) and general (n = 2) deformations, under either the traction or displacement boundary conditions on the surface of the layered cylinder. The solution to the general deformation case (n = 2) is further utilized for the first time to find the upper and lower bounds of the effective shear modulus of the layered cylinder with a functionally graded middle layer. These results could be useful in the future study of cylindrical composites where FGMs and/or multilayers are involved.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.1143-1158
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• 2020

In this paper, we are concerned with the blow-up phenomena for a class of pseudo-parabolic equations with weighted source u_t - △u - △u_t = a(x)f(u) subject to Dirichlet (or Neumann) boundary conditions in any smooth bounded domain Ω ⊂ ℝⁿ (n ≥ 1). Firstly, we obtain the upper and lower bounds for blow-up time of solutions to these problems. Moreover, we also give the estimates of blow-up rate of solutions under some suitable conditions. Finally, three models are presented to illustrate our main results. In some special cases, we can even get some exact values of blow-up time and blow-up rate.