• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.683-696
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• 2023

The destruction and fracture of rock masses are crucial components in engineering and there is an increasing demand for the study of the influence of rock mass heterogeneity on the safety of engineering projects. The numerical manifold method (NMM) has a unified solution format for continuous and discontinuous problems. In most NMM studies, material homogeneity has been assumed and despite this simplification, fracture mechanics remain complex and simulations are inefficient because of the complicated topology updating operations that are needed after crack propagation. These operations become computationally expensive especially in the cases of heterogeneous materials. In this study, a heterogeneous model algorithm based on stochastic theory was developed and introduced into the NMM. A new fracture algorithm was developed to simulate the rupture zone. The algorithm was validated for the examples of the four-point shear beam and semi-circular bend. Results show that the algorithm can efficiently simulate the rupture zone of heterogeneous rock masses. Heterogeneity has a powerful effect on the macroscopic failure characteristics and uniaxial compressive strength of rock masses. The peak strength of homogeneous material (with heterogeneity or standard deviation of 0) is 2.4 times that of heterogeneous material (with heterogeneity of 11.0). Moreover, the local distribution of parameter values can affect the configuration of rupture zones in rock masses. The local distribution also influences the peak value on the stress-strain curve and the residual strength. The post-peak stress-strain curve envelope from 60 random calculations can be used as an estimate of the strength of engineering rock masses.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.821-829
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• 2013

Let f be a diffeomorphism of a closed $C^{\infty}$ manifold M, and let ${\Lambda}{\subset}M$ be a closed f-invariant set. We show that if $f{\mid}_{\Lambda}$ is robustly chain transitive with shadowing, then ${\Lambda}$ is the hyperbolic homoclinic class.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.623-634
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• 2011

The object of the present paper is to study N(${\kappa}$)-quasi Einstein manifolds. Existence of N(${\kappa}$)-quasi Einstein manifolds are proved. Physical example of N(${\kappa}$)-quasi Einstein manifold is also given. Finally, Weyl-semisymmetric N(${\kappa}$)-quasi Einstein manifolds have been considered.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.1241-1252
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• 2015

In this paper, we study the dynamical bifurcation of the modified Swift-Hohenberg equation on a periodic interval as the system control parameter crosses through a critical number. This critical number depends on the period. We show that there happens the pitchfork bifurcation under the spatially even periodic condition. We also prove that in the general periodic condition the equation bifurcates to an attractor which is homeomorphic to a circle and consists of steady states solutions.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.465-473
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• 2017

In this paper, we define a totally umbilic hypersurface of first order and show that a totally umbilic hypersurface of first order in an Einstein manifold has a parallel second fundamental form. Furthermore we prove that a complete, simply connected and totally umbilic hypersurface of first order in a space of constant curvature is a Riemannian product of Einstein manifolds. Finally we show a proper example which is a totally umbilic hypersurface of first order but not a totally umbilic hypersurface.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.1007-1025
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• 2008

We will describe a way to construct Ford domains of cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds on maximal cusp diagrams and compute fundamental groups using face pairing maps as generators and Cannon-Floyd-Parry's edge cycles as relations. We also describe explicitly a cutting and pasting alteration to reduce the number of faces on the bottom region of Ford domains. We expect that our analysis of Ford domains will be useful on other future research.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.637-645
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• 2016

In this paper, we study dynamical Bifurcation of the Burgers-Fisher equation. We show that the equation bifurcates an invariant set ${\mathcal{A}}_n({\beta})$ as the control parameter ${\beta}$ crosses over $n^2$ with $n{\in}{\mathbb{N}}$. It turns out that ${\mathcal{A}}_n({\beta})$ is homeomorphic to $S^1$, the unit circle.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.831-841
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• 1998

We shall discuss on some vanishing theorems of harmonic sections of a Riemannian vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. In relating the results of H. Donnelly - P. Li ([4]), for special case of harmonic forms satisfying absolute or relative boundary problem, our results improve the vanishing results of T. Takahashi ([9]).

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.775-779
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• 2005

On a compact n-dimensional manifold $M^n$, a critical point of the total scalar curvature functional, restricted to the space of metrics with constant scalar curvature of volume 1, satifies the critical point equation (CPE), given by $Z_g\;=\;s_g^{1\ast}(f)$. It has been conjectured that a solution (g, f) of CPE is Einstein. The purpose of the present paper is to prove that every compact stable minimal hypersurface is in a certain hypersurface of $M^n$ under an assumption that Ker($s_g^{1\ast}{\neq}0$).

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.595-607
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• 2003

In the previous paper [6], the author constructed hyperbolic hypersurfaces of degree $2^{n}$ in the n-dimensional complex projective space for every $n\;\geq\;3$. The purpose of this paper is to give some improvement of this result and to show some general methods of constructions of hyperbolic hypersurfaces of higher degree, which enable us to construct hyperbolic hypersurfaces of degree d in the n-dimensional complex projective space for every $d\;\geq\;2\;{\times}\;6^{n}$.