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Spherically symmetric transient responses of functionally graded magneto-electro-elastic hollow sphere

  • Wang, H.M.;Ding, H.J.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.525-542
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    • 2006
  • On the basis of equilibrium equations for static electric and magnetic fields, two unknown functions related to electric and magnetic fields were firstly introduced to rewrite the governing equations, boundary conditions and initial conditions for mechanical field. Then by introducing a dependent variable and a special function satisfying the inhomogeneous mechanical boundary conditions, the governing equation for a new variable with homogeneous mechanical boundary conditions is obtained. By using the separation of variables technique as well as the electric and magnetic boundary conditions, the dynamic problem of a functionally graded magneto-electro-elastic hollow sphere under spherically symmetric deformation is transformed to two Volterra integral equations of the second kind about two unknown functions of time. Cubic Hermite polynomials are adopted to approximate the two undetermined functions at each time subinterval and the recursive formula for solving the integral equations is derived. Transient responses of displacements, stresses, electric and magnetic potentials are completely determined at the end. Numerical results are presented and discussed.

Bending and buckling of a rectangular porous plate

  • Magnucki, K.;Malinowski, M.;Kasprzak, J.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.319-333
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    • 2006
  • A rectangular plate made of a porous material is the subject of the work. Its mechanical properties vary continuously on the thickness of a plate. A mathematical model of this plate, which bases on nonlinear displacement functions taking into account shearing deformations, is presented. The assumed displacement field, linear geometrical and physical relationships permit to describe the total potential energy of a plate. Using the principle of stationarity of the total potential energy the set of five equilibrium equations for transversely and in-plane loaded plates is obtained. The derived equations are used for solving a problem of a bending simply supported plate loaded with transverse pressure. Moreover, the critical load of a bi-axially in-plane compressed plate is found. In both cases influence of parameters on obtained solutions such as a porosity coefficient or thickness ratio is analysed. In order to compare analytical results a finite element model of a porous plate is built using system ANSYS. Obtained numerical results are in agreement with analytical ones.

Incompatible 3-node interpolation for gradient-dependent plasticity

  • Chen, G.;Baker, G.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.87-97
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    • 2004
  • In gradient-dependent plasticity theory, the yield strength depends on the Laplacian of an equivalent plastic strain measure (hardening parameter), and the consistency condition results in a differential equation with respect to the plastic multiplier. The plastic multiplier is then discretized in addition to the usual discretization of the displacements, and the consistency condition is solved simultaneously with the equilibrium equations. The disadvantage is that the plastic multiplier requires a Hermitian interpolation that has four degrees of freedom at each node. Instead of using a Hermitian interpolation, in this article, a 3-node incompatible (trigonometric) interpolation is proposed for the plastic multiplier. This incompatible interpolation uses only the function values of each node, but it is continuous across element boundaries and its second-order derivatives exist within the elements. It greatly reduces the degrees of freedom for a problem, and is shown through a numerical example on localization to yield good results.

Optimization of Multi-objective Function based on The Game Theory and Co-Evolutionary Algorithm (게임 이론과 공진화 알고리즘에 기반한 다목적 함수의 최적화)

  • 김지윤;이동욱;심귀보
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 2002.12a
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    • pp.395-398
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    • 2002
  • 본 논문에서는 ‘다목적 함수 최적화 문제(Multi-objective Optimization Problem MOP)’를 풀기 위하여 유전자 알고리즘을 진화적 게임 이론 적용시킨 ‘내쉬 유전자 알고리즘(Nash GA)’과 본 논문에서 새로이 제안하는 공진화 알고리즘의 구조를 설명하고 이 두 알고리즘의 결과를 시뮬레이션을 통하여 비교 검토함으로써 ‘진화적 게임 이론(Evolutionary Game Theory : EGT)’의 두 가지 아이디어 -‘내쉬의 균형(Equilibrium)’과 ‘진화적 안정전략(Evolutionary Stable Strategy . ESS)’-에 기반한 최적화 알고리즘들이 다목적 함수 문제의 최적해를 탐색할 수 있음을 확인한다.

Numerical Investigation on the Thermal and Flow Characteristics of Combustion Heater for Commercial Vehicle (차량용 연소식 난방기의 열 및 유동특성에 대한 수치연구)

  • Hwang, Chang-Hwan;Baek, Seung-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.40-46
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    • 2011
  • The diesel pre-heater has being used in cabin heating and coolant heating of engine to reduce the engine warm up time for commercial vehicle. The pre-heaters are classified as diesel spray combustor and it forms diffusion flame. By using swirler, a recirculation flow of hot product gases is established near the fuel nozzle and it helps the maintaining of diffusion flame. The design difference of swirler can affect on reaction characteristics and temperature distribution inside pre-heater. The purpose of this study is the investigation of the effect of swirler configuration on combustion characteristics. To solve spray combustion problem, the Euler-Lagrange approach discrete model is used to track droplet trajectory and evaporation history. The PDF equilibrium model is used for chemical reaction model. These models are implemented into the FLUENT code.

Investigations on the Chain Conformation of Weakly Charged Polyelectrolyte in Solvents by Using Efficient Hybrid Molecular Simulations

  • Chun, Myung-Suk;Lee, Hyun-Su
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.297-303
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    • 2002
  • We have investigated the microstructural properties of a weakly charged polyelectrolyte modeled with both Hookean spring and Debye-Huckel potential, by employing a novel hybrid scheme of molecular dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. Although the off-lattice pivot step facilitates the earlier computations stage, it gives rise to oscillations and hinders the stable equilibrium state. In order to overcome this problem, we adopt the MC off-lattice pivot step in early stage only, and then switch the computation to a pure MD step. The result shows that the computational speed-up compared to the previous method is entirely above 10 to 50, without loss of the accuracy. We examined the conformations of polyelectrolyte in solvents in terms of the end-to-end distance, radius of gyration, and structure factor with variations of the screening effects of solvent and the monomer charges. The emphasis can favorably be given on the elongation behavior of a polyelectrolyte chain, with observing the simultaneous snapshots.

Using Largest Lyapunov Exponent to Confirm the Intrinsic Stability of Boiling Water Reactors

  • Gavilan-Moreno, Carlos J.;Espinosa-Paredes, Gilberto
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.434-447
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    • 2016
  • The aim of this paper is the study of instability state of boiling water reactors with a method based in largest Lyapunov exponents (LLEs). Detecting the presence of chaos in a dynamical system is an important problem that is solved by measuring the LLE. Lyapunov exponents quantify the exponential divergence of initially close state-space trajectories and estimate the amount of chaos in a system. This method was applied to a set of signals from several nuclear power plant (NPP) reactors under commercial operating conditions that experienced instabilities events, apparently each of a different nature. Laguna Verde and Forsmark NPPs with in-phase instabilities, and Cofrentes NPP with out-of-phases instability. This study presents the results of intrinsic instability in the boiling water reactors of three NPPs. In the analyzed cases the limit cycle was not reached, which implies that the point of equilibrium exerts influence and attraction on system evolution.

Network Security Situation Assessment Method Based on Markov Game Model

  • Li, Xi;Lu, Yu;Liu, Sen;Nie, Wei
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.2414-2428
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    • 2018
  • In order to solve the problem that the current network security situation assessment methods just focus on the attack behaviors, this paper proposes a kind of network security situation assessment method based on Markov Decision Process and Game theory. The method takes the Markov Game model as the core, and uses the 4 levels data fusion to realize the evaluation of the network security situation. In this process, the Nash equilibrium point of the game is used to determine the impact on the network security. Experiments show that the results of this method are basically consistent with the expert evaluation data. As the method takes full account of the interaction between the attackers and defenders, it is closer to reality, and can accurately assess network security situation.

Non-tubular bonded joint under torsion: Theory and numerical validation

  • Pugno, Nicola;Surace, Giuseppe
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.125-138
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    • 2000
  • The paper analyzes the problem of torsion in an adhesive non-tubular bonded single-lap joint. The joint considered consists of two thin rectangular section beams bonded together along a side surface. Assuming the materials involved to be governed by linear elastic laws, equilibrium and compatibility equations were used to arrive at an integro-differential relation whose solution makes it possible to determine torsional moment section by section in the bonded joint between the two beams. This is then used to determine the predominant stress and strain field at the beam-adhesive interface (stress field along the direction perpendicular to the interface plane, equivalent to the applied torsional moment and the corresponding strain field) and the joint's elastic strain (absolute and relative rotations of the bonded beam cross sections). All the relations presented were obtained in closed form. Results obtained theoretically are compared with those given by a three dimensional finite element numerical model. Theoretical and numerical analysis agree satisfactorily.

Optimizing structural topology patterns using regularization of Heaviside function

  • Lee, Dongkyu;Shin, Soomi
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.55 no.6
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    • pp.1157-1176
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    • 2015
  • This study presents optimizing structural topology patterns using regularization of Heaviside function. The present method needs not filtering process to typical SIMP method. Using the penalty formulation of the SIMP approach, a topology optimization problem is formulated in co-operation, i.e., couple-signals, with design variable values of discrete elements and a regularized Heaviside step function. The regularization of discontinuous material distributions is a key scheme in order to improve the numerical problems of material topology optimization with 0 (void)-1 (solid) solutions. The weak forms of an equilibrium equation are expressed using a coupled regularized Heaviside function to evaluate sensitivity analysis. Numerical results show that the incorporation of the regularized Heaviside function and the SIMP leads to convergent solutions. This method is tested using several examples of a linear elastostatic structure. It demonstrates that improved optimal solutions can be obtained without the additional use of sensitivity filtering to improve the discontinuous 0-1 solutions, which have generally been used in material topology optimization problems.