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Optimal Design of Elastic Plates: Hybrid Numerical Method Based on Homogenization and Shape Derivative

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on optimal design problems in the context of the Kirchhoff‐Love model for pure bending of a thin, solid, symmetric plate under a transverse load. The objective is to simultaneously determine the optimal outer shape of the domain and the distribution of two isotropic materials within the domain in order to minimize compliance.
Ivana Crnjac, Jelena Jankov Pavlović, Petar Kunštek   +2 more
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An Implicit Nodal–Staggered Finite Difference Scheme for Damped Shear Beam Models Without Rotational Inertia

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We develop and analyze a fully discrete finite difference approximation for a damped shear beam model with mixed boundary conditions and no rotational inertia. The absence of a second‐order time derivative in the rotational equation gives rise to an asymmetric temporal structure.
Anderson de Jesus Araújo Ramos, André Fellipe Ribeiro de Almeida, Manoel Jeremias Dos Santos, Carlos Alberto da Silva Nonato   +3 more
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Markov‐Associated Quadratic Stochastic Families and the Susceptible‐Infected‐Recovered (SIR) Model

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We introduce a Markov‐associated construction for quadratic stochastic families generated by a symmetric cubic stochastic matrix and a finite‐state homogeneous Markov semigroup. The constructed family is not assumed to be a classical quadratic stochastic process of type (A)$$ (A) $$ or type (B)$$ (B) $$; rather, it is a Markov‐associated ...
Taimun Qaisar, Farrukh Mukhamedov, Youssef El‐Khatib, Mahmoud Alhaj Hasan   +3 more
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Linear Mechatronic Modeling of Rectangular Tank Sloshing Dynamics

International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sloshing dynamics in partially filled tanks can strongly influence system‐level behavior when fluid motion couples with rigid‐body dynamics. This paper presents a linear and acausal two‐dimensional sloshing model for rectangular tanks, based on the reformulation of established sloshing theory within a modular, multi‐domain modeling framework ...
Magnus Steinstø, Eilif Pedersen
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Hypoplastic Model for Unsaturated Soils With Degree of Saturation Dependent Stiffness

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an enhanced hydro‐mechanically coupled hypoplastic constitutive model for unsaturated soils, developed by extending an existing framework, with particular emphasis on improving the stiffness formulation to better capture the influence of the degree of saturation. The existing framework links Bishop's effective stress to the
Shanujah Mathuranayagam, William Fuentes, Samanthika Liyanapathirana, Jan Machaček   +3 more
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A Supervised Learning Framework for Accelerating Solvers and Metaheuristics in Routing Problems

Networks, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Routing problems such as the traveling salesman problem (TSP) and the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) are computationally challenging due to the exponential growth of their feasible solution spaces with increasing instance size.
Johannes Gückel, Stefan Voigt, Pirmin Fontaine   +2 more
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Suboptimal Model Predictive Control With a Computation Governor: Stability, Recursive Feasibility, and Applications to Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

Optimal Control Applications and Methods, EarlyView.
Computational governor is shown which simultaneously adjusts the reference and adjusts the constraints. ABSTRACT The paper considers a computational governor strategy to facilitate the implementation of Model Predictive Control (MPC) based on inexact optimization when the time available to compute the solution may be insufficient.
Steven van Leeuwen, Ilya Kolmanovsky
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Stochastic Model Predictive Control Using Indirect Feedback With a Modified Terminal Constraint

Optimal Control Applications and Methods, EarlyView.
This paper proposes a novel dynamic terminal set approach for the model predictive control (MPC) design. It concerns the class of linear systems subject to stochastic disturbances and builds upon an indirect feedback (IF) strategy. The main contribution is to explore the time‐varying definition of the constraints in the indirect feedback SMPC (IF‐SMPC)
Tito L. M. Santos, Sorin Olaru
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Safeguarded Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Environments

Optimal Control Applications and Methods, EarlyView.
This paper uses a combination of Reinforcement Learning and Funnel Control to train a fast and safe controller for systems operating in changing environments. Furthermore, the presented formulation overcomes former limitations associated with the need for predefined reference trajectories.
Simon Gottschalk
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Recycling of Thermoplastic Unidirectional Tapes: An Image‐Analysis Method for Measuring Residual Glass‐Fiber Length in Convoluted Fiber Clusters

Polymer Composites, EarlyView.
Development of a rapid, low‐cost method for measuring residual glass fibre length: samples are collected by tweezers, prepared via submersion, imaged with a flatbed scanner as a cost‐effective alternative to microscopy, and analyzed for fibre length independently of image acquisition.
Tina Mayrhofer, Bernhard Cäsar, Klaus Straka, Gerald Roman Berger‐Weber   +3 more
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