• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.68 no.5
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• pp.563-573
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• 2018

Temperature-induced responses, such as strains and displacements, are related to the boundary conditions. Therefore, it is required to determine the boundary conditions to establish a reliable bridge model for temperature-induced responses analysis. Particularly, bridge bearings usually present nonlinear behavior with an increase in load, and the nonlinear boundary conditions cause significant effect on temperature-induced responses. In this paper, the bridge nonlinear boundary conditions were simulated as bilinear translational or rotational springs, and the boundary parameters of the bilinear springs were identified based on the measured temperature-induced responses. First of all, the temperature-induced responses of a simply support beam with nonlinear translational and rotational springs subjected to various temperature loads were analyzed. The simulated temperature-induced strains and displacements were assumed as measured data. To identify the nonlinear translational and rotational boundary parameters of the bridge, the objective function based on the temperature-induced responses is then created, and the nonlinear boundary parameters were further identified by using the nonlinear least squares optimization algorithm. Then, a beam structure with nonlinear translational and rotational springs was simulated as a numerical example, and the nonlinear boundary parameters were identified based on the proposed method. The numerical results show that the proposed method can effectively identify the parameters of the nonlinear boundary conditions. Finally, the boundary parameters of a real arch bridge were identified based on the measured strain data and the proposed method. Since the bearings of the real bridge do not perform nonlinear behavior, only the linear boundary parameters of the bridge model were identified. Based on the bridge model and the identified boundary conditions, the temperature-induced strains were recalculated to compare with the measured strain data. The recalculated temperature-induced strains are in a good agreement with the real measured data.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.2077-2081
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• 2005

A symmetry breaking nonlinear fluid flow in a two-dimensional wall-driven square cavity taking symmetric boundary condition after some transients has been investigated numerically. It has been shown that the symmetry breaking critical Reynolds number is dependent on the time history of the boundary condition. The cavity has at least three stable steady state solutions for Re=300-375, and two stable solutions if Re>400. Also, it has also been showed that a particular solution among several possible solutions can be obtained by a controlled boundary condition.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.81-95
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• 2007

We are concerned with the multiplicity of solutions of the nonlinear biharmonic equation with Dirichlet boundary condition, ${\Delta}^2u+c{\Delta}u=g(u)$, in ${\Omega}$, where $c{\in}R$ and ${\Delta}^2$ denotes the biharmonic operator. We show that there exists at least three solutions of the above problem under the suitable condition of g(u).

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.541-551
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• 2023

Snap-buckling is one of the main failure modes of structures, because it will lead to the reduction of structural bearing capacity, durability loss and even structural damage. Boundary condition plays an important role in the research of engineering mechanics. Further discussion on the boundary conditions problems will help to analyze the dynamic and static behavior of structures more accurately. Therefore, in order to understand the dynamic and static behavior of curved beams more comprehensively, this paper mainly studies the nonlinear snap-through buckling and forced vibration characteristics of functionally graded graphene reinforced composites (FG-GPLRCs) curved beams with two different boundary conditions (including clamped-hinged and hinged-hinged) using Euler-Bernoulli beam theory (E-BBT). In addition, the effects of the curved beam radius, the GLPs distributions, number of GLPs layers, the mass fraction of GLPs and elastic foundation parameters on the nonlinear snap-through buckling and forced vibration behavior are discussed respectively.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.451-460
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• 2009

We consider the existence of solutions of a nonlinear biharmonic equation with Dirichlet boundary condition, ${\Delta}^2u+c{\Delta}u=f(x, u)$ in ${\Omega}$, where ${\Omega}$ is a bounded open set in $R^N$ with smooth boundary ${\partial}{\Omega}$. We obtain two new results by linking theorem.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.309-322
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• 2008

We prove the existence of infinitely many solutions of the nonlinear higher order elliptic equation with Dirichlet boundary condition $(-{\Delta})^mu=q(x,u)$ in ${\Omega}$, where $m{\geq}1$ is an integer and ${\Omega}{\subset}{R^n}$ is a bounded domain with smooth boundary, when q(x,u) satisfies some conditions.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.569-578
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• 2007

Sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one solution of boundary value problems for higher order nonlinear difference equations are established. We allow $f$ to be at most linear, superlinear or sublinear in obtained results.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.277-288
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• 2010

We consider the nonlinear biharmonic equation with coefficient exponential growth term and Dirichlet boundary condition. We show that the nonlinear equation has at least one bounded solution under the suitable conditions. We obtain this result by the variational method, generalized mountain pass theorem and the critical point theory of the associated functional.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2012

Let ${\Omega}$ be a bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth boundary. We investigate the solvability for a class of the system of the nonlinear elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition. Using the mountain pass theorem we prove that the system has at least one nontrivial solution.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.117-124
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• 2013

We investigate the existence of weak solutions for the biharmonic boundary value problem with nonlinear term decaying at the origin. We get a theorem which shows the existence of nontrivial solutions for the biharmonic boundary value problem with nonlinear term decaying at the origin. We obtain this result by reducing the biharmonic problem with nonlinear term to the biharmonic problem with bounded nonlinear term and then approaching the variational method and using the mountain pass geometry for the reduced biharmonic problem with bounded nonlinear term.