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Analysis of a Crack in a Linear Electrostrictive Ceramic Subjected to Electric Fields (전기장을 받는 선형 전왜세라믹 내의 균열해석)

  • Beom, Hyeon-Gyu;Jeong, Gyeong-Mun;Gang, Sang-Hyeon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.235-241
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    • 2001
  • A crack with electrically conducting surfaces in a linear electrostrictive ceramic subjected to uniform electric fields is analyzed. Complete forms of electric fields and elastic fields for the crack are derived by using the complex function theory. The linear electromechanical theory predicts overlapping of the traction free crack surfaces. It is shown that the surfaces of the crack are contact near the crack tip. The contact zone size obtained on the basis of the linear dielectric theory for the conducting crack does not depend on the electric fields and depends on only the original crack and the material property for the linear electrostrictive ceramic.

Mathematician Taylor's Linear Perspective Theory and Painter Kirby's Handbook (수학자 테일러의 선 원근법과 화가 커비의 해설서)

  • Cho, Eun-Jung
    • The Journal of Art Theory & Practice
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    • no.7
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    • pp.165-188
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    • 2009
  • In the development of linear perspective, Brook Taylor's theory has achieved a special position. With his method described in Linear Perspective(1715) and New Principles of Linear Perspective(1719), the subject of linear perspective became a generalized and abstract theory rather than a practical method for painters. He is known to be the first who used the term 'vanishing point'. Although a similar concept has been used form the early stage of Renaissance linear perspective, he developed a new method of British perspective technique of measure points based on the concept of 'vanishing points'. In the 15th and 16th century linear perspective, pictorial space is considered as independent space detached from the outer world. Albertian method of linear perspective is to construct a pavement on the picture in accordance with the centric point where the centric ray of the visual pyramid strikes the picture plane. Comparison to this traditional method, Taylor established the concent of a vanishing point (and a vanishing line), namely, the point (and the line) where a line (and a plane) through the eye point parallel to the considered line (and the plane) meets the picture plane. In the traditional situation like in Albertian method, the picture plane was assumed to be vertical and the center of the picture usually corresponded with the vanishing point. On the other hand, Taylor emphasized the role of vanishing points, and as a result, his method entered the domain of projective geometry rather than Euclidean geometry. For Taylor's theory was highly abstract and difficult to apply for the practitioners, there appeared many perspective treatises based on his theory in England since 1740s. Joshua Kirby's Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective Made Easy, Both in Theory and Practice(1754) was one of the most popular treatises among these posterior writings. As a well-known painter of the 18th century English society and perspective professor of the St. Martin's Lane Academy, Kirby tried to bridge the gap between the practice of the artists and the mathematical theory of Taylor. Trying to ease the common readers into Taylor's method, Kirby somehow abbreviated and even omitted several crucial parts of Taylor's ideas, especially concerning to the inverse problems of perspective projection. Taylor's theory and Kirby's handbook reveal us that the development of linear perspective in European society entered a transitional phase in the 18th century. In the European tradition, linear perspective means a representational system to indicated the three-dimensional nature of space and the image of objects on the two-dimensional surface, using the central projection method. However, Taylor and following scholars converted linear perspective as a complete mathematical and abstract theory. Such a development was also due to concern and interest of contemporary artists toward new visions of infinite space and kaleidoscopic phenomena of visual perception.

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Simple analytical method for predicting the sloshing motion in a rectangular pool

  • Park, Won Man;Choi, Dae Kyung;Kim, Kyungsoo;Son, Sung Man;Oh, Se Hong;Lee, Kang Hee;Kang, Heung Seok;Choi, Choengryul
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.5
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    • pp.947-955
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    • 2020
  • Predicting the sloshing motion of a coolant during a seismic assessment of a rectangular spent fuel pool is of critical concern. Linear theory, which provides a simple analytical method, has been used to predict the sloshing motion in rectangular pools and tanks. However, this theory is not suitable for the high-frequency excitation problem. In this study, the authors developed a simple analytical method for predicting the sloshing motion in a rectangular pool for a wide range of excitation frequencies. The correlation among the linear theory parameters, influencing on excitation and convective waves, and the excitation frequency is investigated. Sloshing waves in a rectangular pool with several liquid heights are predicted using the original linear theory, a modified linear theory and computational fluid dynamics analysis. The results demonstrate that the developed method can predict sloshing motion over a wide range of excitation frequencies. However, the developed method has the limitations of linear solutions since it neglects the nonlinear features of sloshing motion. Despite these limitations, the authors believe that the developed method can be useful as a simple analytical method for predicting the sloshing motion in a rectangular pool under various external excitations.

Geometrically non-linear transient C° finite element analysis of composite and sandwich plates with a refined theory

  • Kommineni, J.R.;Kant, T.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.87-102
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    • 1993
  • A $C^{\circ}$ continuous finite element formulation of a higher order displacement theory is presented for predicting linear and geometrically non-linear in the sense of von Karman transient responses of composite and sandwich plates. The displacement model accounts for non-linear cubic variation of tangential displacement components through the thickness of the laminate and the theory requires no shear correction coefficients. In the time domain, the explicit central difference integrator is used in conjunction with the special mass matrix diagonalization scheme which conserves the total mass of the element and included effects due to rotary inertia terms. The parametric effects of the time step, finite element mesh, lamination scheme and orthotropy on the linear and geometrically non-linear responses are investigated. Numerical results for central transverse deflection, stresses and stress resultants are presented for square/rectangular composite and sandwich plates under various boundary conditions and loadings and these are compared with the results from other sources. Some new results are also tabulated for future reference.

Design of Unknown Input Observer for Linear Time-delay Systems

  • Fu, Yan-Ming;Duan, Guang-Ren;Song, Shen-Min
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.530-535
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    • 2004
  • This paper deals with the unknown input observer (UIO) design problem for a class of linear time-delay systems. A case in which the observer error can completely be decoupled from an unknown input is treated. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existences of such observers are present. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, thedesign of the observer with internal delay is formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMI). The design of the observer without internal delay is turned into a stabilization problem in linear systems. Two design algorithms of UIO are proposed. The effect of the proposed approach is illustrated by two numerical examples.

JULIA OPERATORS AND LINEAR SYSTEMS (NONUNIQUENESS OF LINEAR SYSTEMS)

  • Yang, Mee-Hyea
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.117-128
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    • 1996
  • Complementation theory in krein spaces can be extended for any self-adjoint transformation. There is a close relation between Julia operators and linear systems. The theory of Julia operators can be used to construct distinct Krein spaces which are the state spaces of extended canonical linear systems with given transfer function.

Thermal buckling of functionally graded plates using a n-order four variable refined theory

  • Abdelhak, Z.;Hadji, L.;Daouadji, T.H.;Bedia, E.A.
    • Advances in materials Research
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.31-44
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents a simple n-order four variable refined theory for buckling analysis of functionally graded plates. By dividing the transverse displacement into bending and shear parts, the number of unknowns and governing equations of the present theory is reduced, and hence, makes it simple to use. The present theory is variationally consistent, uses the n-order polynomial term to represent the displacement field, does not require shear correction factor, and eliminates the shear stresses at the top and bottom surfaces. A power law distribution is used to describe the variation of volume fraction of material compositions. Equilibrium and stability equations are derived based on the present n-order refined theory. The non-linear governing equations are solved for plates subjected to simply supported boundary conditions. The thermal loads are assumed to be uniform, linear and non-linear distribution through-the-thickness. The effects of aspect and thickness ratios, gradient index, on the critical buckling are all discussed.

Linear quadratic control problem of delay differential equation

  • Shim, Jaedong
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10b
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    • pp.208-213
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    • 1992
  • In this paper we are concerned with optimal control problems whose costs am quadratic and whose states are governed by linear delay equations and general boundary conditions. The basic new idea of this paper is to Introduce a new class of linear operators in such a way that the state equation subject to a starting function can be viewed as an inhomogeneous boundary value problem in the new linear operator equation. In this way we avoid the usual semigroup theory treatment to the problem and use only linear operator theory.

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