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Stress intensity factors for periodic edge cracks in a semi-infinite medium with distributed eigenstrain

  • Afsar, A.M.;Ahmed, S.R.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.67-82
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    • 2005
  • This study analyzes stress intensity factors for a number of periodic edge cracks in a semiinfinite medium subjected to a far field uniform applied load along with a distribution of eigenstrain. The eigenstrain is considered to be distributed arbitrarily over a region of finite depth extending from the free surface. The cracks are represented by a continuous distribution of edge dislocations. Using the complex potential functions of the edge dislocations, a simple as well as effective method is developed to calculate the stress intensity factor for the edge cracks. The method is employed to obtain the numerical results of the stress intensity factor for different distributions of eigenstrain. Moreover, the effect of crack spacing and the intensity of the normalized eigenstress on the stress intensity factor are investigated in details. The results of the present study reveal that the stress intensity factor of the periodic edge cracks is significantly influenced by the magnitude as well as distribution of the eigenstrain within the finite depth. The eigenstrains that induce compressive stresses at and near the free surface of the semi-infinite medium reduce the stress intensity factor that, in turn, contributes to the toughening of the material.

OPTIMALITY CONDITIONS AND DUALITY MODELS FOR MINMAX FRACTIONAL OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS CONTAINING ARBITRARY NORMS

  • G. J., Zalmai
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.41 no.5
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    • pp.821-864
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    • 2004
  • Both parametric and parameter-free necessary and sufficient optimality conditions are established for a class of nondiffer-entiable nonconvex optimal control problems with generalized fractional objective functions, linear dynamics, and nonlinear inequality constraints on both the state and control variables. Based on these optimality results, ten Wolfe-type parametric and parameter-free duality models are formulated and weak, strong, and strict converse duality theorems are proved. These duality results contain, as special cases, similar results for minmax fractional optimal control problems involving square roots of positive semi definite quadratic forms, and for optimal control problems with fractional, discrete max, and conventional objective functions, which are particular cases of the main problem considered in this paper. The duality models presented here contain various extensions of a number of existing duality formulations for convex control problems, and subsume continuous-time generalizations of a great variety of similar dual problems investigated previously in the area of finite-dimensional nonlinear programming.

A Study on the Recent Discussion and Policy Trends of Japan for the Development of Marginal Village Policy (한계마을정책 개발을 위한 최근 일본의 한계집락 관련 논의 및 정책 동향 연구)

  • Cho, Young-Jae;Sakashita, Akihiko;Shin, Dong-Cheol
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.21-31
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    • 2018
  • This study is a basic research for the development of 'Marginal Village Policy' in response to the hollowing-out of rural areas. For this purpose, the viewpoint of "Regeneration" & "Reconstruction" of the "Marginal Village Theory" and the recent "Rural Planning Theory of Evacuation" in Japan were reviewed. The background and trends of Marginal Village policy in Japan were also investigated. And based on this, the implications and future tasks for Korea were summarized as follows; (1)It is necessary to be interested in the disappearance of villages and marginal villages and to form positive discussions and social consensus. (2)Continuous field investigation and management of changes in population and village functions at regional and village level are required. (3)In addition to increasing the importance of depopulation problems, it is necessary to establish 'marginal villages' as a public policy target. (4)It is necessary to review and consider the viewpoint of reconstruction along with regeneration. (5)It is necessary to pay attention that the software project is expanded, and the regeneration & reconstruction policies of the rural villages are aimed at revitalizing the rural community. (6)It is necessary to consider the possibility of applying 'spacial construction' along with the expansion of the academic debate on the 'rural planning theory of evacuation'. On the basis of this, in this study, rural villages were classified into 'continuous villages', 'semi-marginal villages' and 'marginal villages' according to the degree of marginalization, and the basic framework of 'Marginal Village Policy' was proposed, which is to encourage the differentiated policies of 'continuous villages' by 'rural village policy', 'semi-marginal villages' and 'marginal villages' by 'marginal village policy'.

A Study on Hybrid Structure of Semi-Continuous HMM and RBF for Speaker Independent Speech Recognition (화자 독립 음성 인식을 위한 반연속 HMM과 RBF의 혼합 구조에 관한 연구)

  • 문연주;전선도;강철호
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.18 no.8
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    • pp.94-99
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    • 1999
  • It is the hybrid structure of HMM and neural network(NN) that shows high recognition rate in speech recognition algorithms. And it is a method which has majorities of statistical model and neural network model respectively. In this study, we propose a new style of the hybrid structure of semi-continuous HMM(SCHMM) and radial basis function(RBF), which re-estimates weighting coefficients probability affecting observation probability after Baum-Welch estimation. The proposed method takes account of the similarity of basis Auction of RBF's hidden layer and SCHMM's probability density functions so as to discriminate speech signals sensibly through the learned and estimated weighting coefficients of RBF. As simulation results show that the recognition rates of the hybrid structure SCHMM/RBF are higher than those of SCHMM in unlearned speakers' recognition experiment, the proposed method has been proved to be one which has more sensible property in recognition than SCHMM.

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Analytical approaches to the charging process of stratified thermal storage tanks with variable inlet temperature (변온유입 성층축열조의 충전과정에 대한 해석적 접근)

  • Yoo, Hoseon
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.43-54
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    • 1997
  • This paper presents an approximate analytical solution to a two-region one-dimensional model for the charging process of stratified thermal storage tanks with variable inlet temperature in the presence of momentum-induced mixing. Based on the superposition principle, an arbitrary-varying inlet temperature is decomposed into inherent discontinuous steps and continuous intervals approximated as a finite number of piecewise linear functions. This approximation allows the temperature of the upper perfectly-mixed layer to be expressed in terms of constant, linear and exponential functions with respect to time. Applying the Laplace transform technique to the model equation for the lower thermocline layer subject to each of three representative interfacial conditions yields compact-form solutions, a linear combination of which constitutes the final temperature profile. A systematic method for deriving solutions to the plug-flow problem having polynomial-type boundary conditions is also established. The effect of adiabatic exit boundary on solution behaviors proves to be negligible under the actual working conditions, which justifies the assumption of semi-infinite domain introduced in the solution procedure. Finally, the approximate solution is validated by comparing it with an exact solution obtained for a specific variation of inlet temperature. Excellent agreements between them suffice to show the necessity and utility of this work.

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UNIQUE POINT OF COINCIDENCE FOR TWO MAPPINGS WITH 𝜑- OR 𝜓-𝜙-CONTRACTIVE CONDITIONS ON 2-METRIC SPACES

  • Xu, Ming-Xing;Huang, Xin;Piao, Yong-Jie
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.417-428
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    • 2016
  • We discuss and obtain some existence theorems of unique point of coincidence for two mappings satisfying ${\varphi}$-contractive conditions or ${\psi}$-${\phi}$-contractive conditions determined by semi-continuous functions on non-complete 2-metric spaces, in which the mappings do not satisfy commutativity and uniform boundedness. The obtained results generalize and improve many well-known and corresponding conclusions.

Free vibration analysis of uniform and stepped functionally graded circular cylindrical shells

  • Li, Haichao;Pang, Fuzhen;Du, Yuan;Gao, Cong
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.163-180
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    • 2019
  • A semi analytical method is employed to analyze free vibration characteristics of uniform and stepped functionally graded circular cylindrical shells under complex boundary conditions. The analytical model is established based on multi-segment partitioning strategy and first-order shear deformation theory. The displacement functions are handled by unified Jacobi polynomials and Fourier series. In order to obtain continuous conditions and satisfy complex boundary conditions, the penalty method about spring technique is adopted. The solutions about free vibration behavior of functionally graded circular cylindrical shells were obtained by approach of Rayleigh-Ritz. To confirm the dependability and validity of present approach, numerical verifications and convergence studies are conducted on functionally graded cylindrical shells under various influencing factors such as boundaries, spring parameters et al. The present method apparently has rapid convergence ability and excellent stability, and the results of the paper are closely agreed with those obtained by FEM and published literatures.

On ϑ-quasi-Geraghty Contractive Mappings and Application to Perturbed Volterra and Hypergeometric Operators

  • Olalekan Taofeek Wahab
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.63 no.1
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    • pp.45-60
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    • 2023
  • In this paper we suggest an enhanced Geraghty-type contractive mapping for examining the existence properties of classical nonlinear operators with or without prior degenerates. The nonlinear operators are proved to exist with the imposition of the Geraghty-type condition in a non-empty closed subset of complete metric spaces. To showcase some efficacies of the Geraghty-type condition, convergent rate and stability are deduced. The results are used to study some asymptotic properties of perturbed integral and hypergeometric operators. The results also extend and generalize some existing Geraghty-type conditions.

Thermo-mechanical response of size-dependent piezoelectric materials in thermo-viscoelasticity theory

  • Ezzat, Magdy A.;Al-Muhiameed, Zeid I.A.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.535-546
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    • 2022
  • The memory response of nonlocal systematical formulation size-dependent coupling of viscoelastic deformation and thermal fields for piezoelectric materials with dual-phase lag heat conduction law is constructed. The method of the matrix exponential, which constitutes the basis of the state-space approach of modern control theory, is applied to the non-dimensional equations. The resulting formulation together with the Laplace transform technique is applied to solve a problem of a semi-infinite piezoelectric rod subjected to a continuous heat flux with constant time rates. The inversion of the Laplace transforms is carried out using a numerical approach. Some comparisons of the impacts of nonlocal parameters and time-delay constants for various forms of kernel functions on thermal spreads and thermo-viscoelastic response are illustrated graphically.

Dislocation in Semi-infinite Half Plane Subject to Adhesive Complete Contact with Square Wedge: Part I - Derivation of Corrective Functions (직각 쐐기와 응착접촉 하는 반무한 평판 내 전위: 제1부 - 보정 함수 유도)

  • Kim, Hyung-Kyu
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.73-83
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    • 2022
  • This paper is concerned with an analysis of a surface edge crack emanated from a sharp contact edge. For a geometrical model, a square wedge is in contact with a half plane whose materials are identical, and a surface perpendicular crack initiated from the contact edge exists in the half plane. To analyze this crack problem, it is necessary to evaluate the stress field on the crack line which are induced by the contact tractions and pseudo-dislocations that simulate the crack, using the Bueckner principle. In this Part I, the stress filed in the half plane due to the contact is re-summarized using an asymptotic analysis method, which has been published before by the author. Further focus is given to the stress field in the half plane due to a pseudo-edge dislocation, which will provide a stress solution due to a crack (i.e. a continuous distribution of edge dislocations) later, using the Burgers vector. Essential result of the present work is the corrective functions which modify the stress field of an infinite domain to apply for the present one which has free surfaces, and thus the infiniteness is no longer preserved. Numerical methods and coordinate normalization are used, which was developed for an edge crack problem, using the Gauss-Jacobi integration formula. The convergence of the corrective functions are investigated here. Features of the corrective functions and their application to a crack problem will be given in Part II.