• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.121-126
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• 2008

A plane strain problem of a crack on interface between an isotropic elastic conductor and a transversely isotropic piezoelectric ceramics is considered. The problem is reduced to system integrodifferential equations on the interface. These equations relate the normal and tangential components of the crack opening vector with distribution of normal and shear stresses on the crack surfaces. It therefore make it possible to obtain an exact solution as a function of the loading applied to the crack surfaces. As an example, some analytical solutions of the crack problem are given.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.481-488
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• 1998

The drift and inter-story drift control method for steel structures subjected to seismic forces is formulated into a structural optimization problem in this paper. The formulated optimization problem with constraints on drift, inter-story drifts, and member strengthes are transformed into an unconstrained optimization problem. For the solution of the tranformed optimization problem an searching algorithm based on the gradient projection method utilizing gradient information on eigenvalues and eigenvectors are developed and presented in detail. The performance of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by application to drift control of a verifying example.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2004

The pseudolites are ground-based transmitters that can be configured to emit GPS-like signals with the purpose of enhancing the GPS by providing increased accuracy, integrity, and availability. Although the use of the pseudolites offers many potentially significant benefits, a number of technical issues must also be addressed. One is the pseudolite signal power level which is related with near-far problem, and other issues include deployment requirements, signal data rate, signal integrity monitoring, and user antenna location and sensitivity. In order to solve the near-far problem, the frequency offset or the pulsing schemes is implemented in most the pseudolites. However, in the case of the previous pulsing scheme with the fixed code pattern, the near-far problem still remains. This paper aims to design a sequential pulsing scheme to avoid the near-far problem. A pulse mode pseudolite has less interference than the continuous mode.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.495-519
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• 2013

This paper investigates properties of integral operators in complex variable boundary integral equation in plane elasticity, which is derived from the Somigliana identity in the complex variable form. The generalized Sokhotski-Plemelj's formulae are used to obtain the BIE in complex variable. The properties of some integral operators in the interior problem are studied in detail. The Neumann and Dirichlet problems are analyzed. The prior condition for solution is studied. The solvability of the formulated problems is addressed. Similar analysis is carried out for the exterior problem. It is found that the properties of some integral operators in the exterior boundary value problem (BVP) are quite different from their counterparts in the interior BVP.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

The primary aim of the paper is to solve an unstable axisymmetric initial value problem of wave propagation when given initial data that is deteriorated by noise such as measurement error. To overcome the instability of the problem, Tikhonov's regularization, known as a non-iterative numerical regularization method, is introduced to solve the problem. The L-curvecriterion is introduced to find the optimal regularization parameter for the solution. It is confirmed that fairly stable solutions are realized and that they are accurate when compared to the exact solution.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.86-93
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• 2012

This paper presents a new approach to solve the pursuit problem based on a univector field method. In our proposed method, a set of eight agents works together instantaneously to find suitable moving directions and follow the univector field to pursue and capture a prey agent by surrounding it from eight directions in an infinite grid-world. In addition, a set of strategies is proposed to make the pursuit problem more realistic in the real world environment. This is a general approach, and it can be extended for an environment that contains static or moving obstacles. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm is effective for the pursuit problem.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.403-410
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• 2009

The aim of this research is to develop the Bees Algorithm named 'the dynamic allocated Bees Algorithm' for multi-objective problem, especially in order to be suit for Pareto optimality. In addition two new neighbourhood search methods have been developed to produce enhanced solutions for a multi-objective problem named 'random selection neighbourhood search' and 'weighted sum neighbourhood search' and they were compared with the basic neighbourhood search in the dynamic allocated Bees Algorithm. They were successfully applied to an Environmental/Economic (electric power) dispatch (EED) problem and simulation results presented for the standard IEEE 30-bus system and they were compared to those obtained using other approaches. The comparison shows the superiority of the proposed dynamic allocated Bees Algorithms and confirms its suitability for solving the multi-objective EED problem.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.241-255
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• 2013

The receding contact problem for two elastic layers whose elastic constants and heights are different supported by two elastic quarter planes is considered. The lower layer is supported by two elastic quarter planes and the upper elastic layer is subjected to symmetrical distributed load whose heights are 2a on its top surface. It is assumed that the contact between all surfaces is frictionless and the effect of gravity force is neglected. The problem is formulated and solved by using Theory of Elasticity and Integral Transform Technique. The problem is reduced to a system of singular integral equations in which contact pressures are the unknown functions by using integral transform technique and boundary conditions of the problem. Stresses and displacements are expressed depending on the contact pressures using Fourier and Mellin formula technique. The singular integral equation is solved numerically by using Gauss-Jacobi integration formulation. Numerical results are obtained for various dimensionless quantities for the contact pressures and the contact areas are presented in graphics and tables.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2020

In this paper, a procedure for automated optimized design of reinforced concrete frames has been presented. The procedure consists of formulation and solution of the design problem in the form of an optimization problem. The minimization of total cost of R/C frame has been taken as the objective of optimization problem. In this research, consistent approximation method is applied to explicitly formulate constraints and objective function in terms of the design variables. In the presented method, the primary optimization problem is replaced with a sequence of explicit sub-problems. Each sub-problem is efficiently solved using the Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) method. The proposed method is demonstrated through a four-story frame and an eight-story frame, and the optimum results are compared with those in the available literature. It is shown that the proposed method can be easily applied to obtain rational, reliable, economical and practical designs for Reinforced Concrete Moment Resisting Frames (RCMRFs) while it is converged after a few analyses.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.24 no.68
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• pp.21-30
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to present methods for determining the k most vital arcs (k-MVAs) in the minimum spanning tree problem(MSTP) using evolutionary algorithms. The problem of finding the k-MVAs in MSTP is to find a set of k arcs whose simultaneous removal from the network causes the greatest increase in the total length of minimum spanning tree. Generally, the problem which determine the k-MVAs in MSTP has known as NP-hard. Therefore, in order to deal with the problem of real world the heuristic algorithms are needed. In this study we propose to three genetic algorithms as the heuristic methods for finding the k-MVAs in MSTP. The algorithms to be presented in this study are developed using the library of the evolutionary algorithm framework(EAF) and the performance of the algorithms are analyzed through the computer experiment.