Complete frictional contacts, when subjected to cyclic loading, may sometimes develop a favourable situation where slip ceases after a few cycles, an occurrence commonly known as frictional shakedown. Its resemblance ...
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Complete frictional contacts, when subjected to cyclic loading, may sometimes develop a favourable situation where slip ceases after a few cycles, an occurrence commonly known as frictional shakedown. Its resemblance to shakedown in plasticity has prompted scholars to apply direct methods, derived from the classical theorems of limit analysis, in order to assess a safe limit to the external loads applied on the system. In circumstances where zones of plastic deformation develop in the material (e.g., because of the large stress concentrations near the sharp edges of a complete contact), it is reasonable to expect an effect of mutual interaction of frictional slip and plastic strains on the load limit below which the global behaviour is non dissipative, i.e., both slip and plastic strains go to zero after some dissipative load cycles. In this paper, shakedown of general two-dimensional discrete systems, involving both friction and plasticity, is discussed and the shakedown limit load is calculated using a non-linear programming algorithm based on the static theorem of limit analysis. An illustrative example related to an elastic-plastic solid containing a frictional crack is provided. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This paper proposes a new algorithm based on a non-linear programming approach to deal with the buffer allocation problem in the case of unreliable production lines. Processing, failure and repair times are assumed to...
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(纸本)9783319082196;9783319082189
This paper proposes a new algorithm based on a non-linear programming approach to deal with the buffer allocation problem in the case of unreliable production lines. Processing, failure and repair times are assumed to be random variables exponentially distributed. The proposed approach can be used to solve the different versions of the buffer allocation problem: primal, dual and generalized. This method is based on the modeling and the analysis of the serial production line using an equivalent machines method. The idea is to model the different possible states of each buffer using dedicated birth-death Markov processes to calculate the blockage and starvation probabilities of each machine. Then, each original machine is replaced by an equivalent one taking into account these probabilities. A comparative study based on different test instances issued from the literature is presented and discussed. The obtained results show the effectiveness and the accuracy of the proposed approach.
In this formulation, the objective function and operating constraints include the corona power-loss term. The objective function consists of three terms: cost of investment of new transmission lines, ohmic power loss ...
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In this formulation, the objective function and operating constraints include the corona power-loss term. The objective function consists of three terms: cost of investment of new transmission lines, ohmic power loss of new and existing lines, and corona-power loss of new lines. This combination of terms results in a non-linear objective function. The non-linear programming or the non-convex optimization technique is used to solve such large-scale practical problem. The new formulation has been applied to the 28-bus Jordanian high-voltage transmission network in order to test and justify its applicability. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Shakedown analysis is a powerful tool for assessing the safety of structures under variable repeated loads. By using the element free Galerkin (EFG) method and non-linear programming, a novel numerical solution proced...
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Shakedown analysis is a powerful tool for assessing the safety of structures under variable repeated loads. By using the element free Galerkin (EFG) method and non-linear programming, a novel numerical solution procedure is developed to perform lower bound shakedown analysis of structures made up of elastoperfectly plastic material. The numerical implementation is very simple and convenient because it is only necessary to construct an array of nodes in the domain under consideration. The reduced-basis technique is adopted here to solve the mathematical programming iteratively in a sequence of reduced self-equilibrium stress subspaces with very low dimensions. The self-equilibrium stress field is expressed by linear combination of several self-equilibrium stress basis vectors with parameters to be determined. These self-equilibrium stress basis vectors are generated by performing an equilibrium iteration procedure during elasto-plastic incremental analysis. The Complex method is used to solve the non-linear programming and determine the lower bound of shakedown load. The proposed numerical method is verified by using several numerical examples and the results show good agreement with other available solutions. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In this paper, the zero-order Sugeno Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) that preserves the monotonicity property is studied. The sufficient conditions for the zero-order Sugeno FIS model to satisfy the monotonicity property...
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In this paper, the zero-order Sugeno Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) that preserves the monotonicity property is studied. The sufficient conditions for the zero-order Sugeno FIS model to satisfy the monotonicity property are exploited as a set of useful governing equations to facilitate the FIS modelling process. The sufficient conditions suggest a fuzzy partition (at the rule antecedent part) and a monotonically-ordered rule base (at the rule consequent part) that can preserve the monotonicity property. The investigation focuses on the use of two Similarity Reasoning (SR)-based methods, i.e., Analogical Reasoning (AR) and Fuzzy Rule Interpolation (FRI), to deduce each conclusion separately. It is shown that AR and FRI may not be a direct solution to modelling of a multi-input FIS model that fulfils the monotonicity property, owing to the difficulty in getting a set of monotonically-ordered conclusions. As such, a non-linear programming (NLP)-based SR scheme for constructing a monotonicity-preserving multi-input FIS model is proposed. In the proposed scheme, AR or FRI is first used to predict the rule conclusion of each observation. Then, a search algorithm is adopted to look for a set of consequents with minimized root means square errors as compared with the predicted conclusions. A constraint imposed by the sufficient conditions is also included in the search process. Applicability of the proposed scheme to undertaking fuzzy Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) tasks is demonstrated. The results indicate that the proposed NLP-based SR scheme is useful for preserving the monotonicity property for building a multi-input FIS model with an incomplete rule base.
The purpose of this article is to resolve the non-linear programming problem of globally minimizing the real valued function where S is a non-self-mapping in the setting of a metric space with the distance function ...
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The purpose of this article is to resolve the non-linear programming problem of globally minimizing the real valued function where S is a non-self-mapping in the setting of a metric space with the distance function 'd'. An iterative algorithm is also furnished to find a solution of such global optimization problems. As a consequence, one can determine an optimal approximate solution to some equations of the form Sx = x.
In district heating systems, the capacity and types of energy sources, along with their control mechanisms to meet heating demands, are intricately linked. Effective planning must consider financial constraints and sy...
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In district heating systems, the capacity and types of energy sources, along with their control mechanisms to meet heating demands, are intricately linked. Effective planning must consider financial constraints and system operations, especially with thermal storage. Control methods can significantly influence sizing decisions by adjusting heat production and storage rates across different equipment. Addressing these issues concurrently is essential to maximize cost savings throughout the system's lifespan. This study addresses critical research gaps, such as the lack of integrated bi-level schemes that combine evolutionary and mathematical optimizers while maintaining original non-linear problem formulations. Specifically, it puts forward a novel tri-level optimization framework aimed at minimizing the lifecycle cost (LCC) of district heating plants, powered by a mix of green (solar thermal and biomass) and conventional (gas) heat sources, along with daily thermal storage. The three levels of this scheme are: i) a particle swarm optimizer (PSO) to explore capacities of heat production and storage devices to minimize LCC;ii) an interior-point optimizer (Ipopt) to minimize annual operating costs with explicit operational constraints;and iii) a simulation layer to enhance computational efficiency. Technical suggestions regarding the initialization and early termination of Ipopt to achieve the global optimal solution with reasonable computation time are described in detail. When applied to the multi-source plant, this methodology showed successful and rapid convergence of PSO towards feasible system designs. The study achieved a minimum LCC of 36.34 million USD, corresponding to a levelized cost of heat of 0.0256 USD/kWh, by maximizing green heat sources and using moderate-volume storage. Biomass fuel (74.8%) and capital costs of biomass (8.1%) and solar (7.9%) systems were the primary LCC contributors. Thermal storage enhanced operational flexibility;without it, the ga
Hypothetical reasoning is an important framework for knowledge-based systems, however, its inference time grows exponentially with respect to problem size. In this paper, we present an understandable efficient method ...
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Hypothetical reasoning is an important framework for knowledge-based systems, however, its inference time grows exponentially with respect to problem size. In this paper, we present an understandable efficient method called slide-down and lift-up (SL) method which uses a linearprogramming technique for determining an initial search point and a non-linear programming technique for efficiently finding a near-optimal 0-1 solution. To escape from trapping into local optima, we have developed a new local handler, which systematically fixes a variable to a locally consistent value. Since the behavior of the SL method is illustrated visually, the simple inference mechanism of the method can be easily understood. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
In recent years there has been a great effort to convert the existing Air Traffic Control system into a novel system known as Free Flight. Free Flight is based on the concept that increasing international airspace cap...
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In recent years there has been a great effort to convert the existing Air Traffic Control system into a novel system known as Free Flight. Free Flight is based on the concept that increasing international airspace capacity will grant more freedom to individual pilots during the enroute flight phase, thereby giving them the opportunity to alter flight paths in real time. Under the current system, pilots must request, then receive permission from air traffic controllers to alter flight paths. Understandably the new system allows pilots to gain the upper hand in air traffic. At the same time, however, this freedom increase pilot responsibility. Pilots face a new challenge in avoiding the traffic shares congested air space. In order to ensure safety, an accurate system, able to predict and prevent conflict among aircraft is essential. There are certain flight maneuvers that exist in order to prevent flight disturbances or collision and these are graded in the following categories: vertical, lateral and airspeed. This work focuses on airspeed maneuvers and tries to introduce a new idea for the control of Free Flight, in three dimensions, using neural networks trained with examples prepared through non-linear programming.
One of the most fundamental problems in a mining operation is how to recognise an optimum cut-off grade, which defines the grade for discriminating between ore and waste in an ore body, including ore that is extracted...
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One of the most fundamental problems in a mining operation is how to recognise an optimum cut-off grade, which defines the grade for discriminating between ore and waste in an ore body, including ore that is extracted at different periods over a mine life period. Therefore, the identification of an optimised cut-off grade (COG) is a crucial function which has to be monitored during the mine life. The main aim of this study is to propose a modified optimum COG model in order to maximise the profit value (PV) for mining projects. Maximising the PV of a mining operation, which is a non-linear programming, is subject to different constraints involving a general grade distribution within a deposit and three stages of production namely mining, concentrating and refining. The proposed computer-based model is more effective in long-term planning of the open pit mines. To provide a better understanding of the algorithm efficiency, a numerical example is given and subsequently solved based on the Lane algorithm. In order to achieve this, the LINGO software was employed.
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