Evaluation of the pliability and rigidity of nonbalanced monoclinic composites

Conclusions As the result of a change in the deformation characteristics of the elementary layers, which is asymmetric with respect to the middle plane of the composite, and caused by imperfections of technical character, aging, the effect of temperature, moisture content, corrosive media, and other factors, the balancing of the laminated polymeric composites is disturbed. Formulas were obtained for determining all the pliability and rigidity matrix components of a nonbalanced monoclinic composite from known deformation characteristics, volume, and order of packing of the elementary layers.Institute of Wood Cellulose Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 6, pp. 1030–1035, November–December, 1976.     

The mechanism of fatigue failure of plastics

Based on the study of the kinetics of deformation or rigidity, of the rise in temperature, and of the fracture surfaces, the article describes the mechanism of failure of plastics. It as found that in a cyclically loaded solid there occur two processes: strengthening and loss of strength. The main factors affecting strengthening in fatigue were discovered. Among them are the structure of the material, the degree of crystallinity, the load level, conditions of deformation, etc. The kinetics of rigidity can yield the most accurate information providing an idea of the process of fatigue failure of plastics.Paper read at the 9th International Conference on the Mechanics of Composite Materials, Riga, October, 1995.Kaunas Technological University, Lithuania. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 279–285, March–April, 1996.     

Staggered solution of fluid-porous-media interaction using the method of local Lagrange multipliers

Surface interaction among non-overlapping bulk-fluid and porous-medium bodies occurs in different situations, e. g., the interaction of blood with a blood vessel wall, a body of water with an earth dam structure, or acoustic waves with acoustic panels used in soundproofing. These are multi-field phenomena, comprising various surface- and volume-coupling mechanisms that should be reflected in the corresponding mathematical models. These models, together with appropriate initial and boundary values, assemble a coupled problem, the solution of which reveals the behaviour of the system under external excitations. The solution is commonly done numerically, following a monolithic or a decoupled approach. Here, the focus is on the latter. To design an efficient decoupled scheme, different types of coupling within the problem are addressed. These are the volume coupling between the degrees of freedom (DOF) within each subdomain, and the surface coupling between the DOF on the common boundaries. In particular, the latter constrains the feasible space of the solution of the problem. In this regard, local Lagrange multipliers (LLM) are employed to reformulate the problem in an unconstrained form. Unlike other domain decomposition methods which are based on using global Lagrange multipliers, the LLM method yields a complete separation of the subdomains and, consequently, facilitates parallel solution of the sub-problems. Moreover, within the subdomains, the penalty method is used to decouple pressure from other DOF. This procedure, on the one hand, reduces the size of the problem that should be solved at the interface and, on the other hand, removes the burden of using mixed finite elements within the subsystems. In the next step, the stability behaviour of the resulting staggered approach is analysed, and the unconditional stability of the method is established. Finally, the method is employed to solve a benchmark example, and using the numerical results, the reliability of the outcomes of the stability analysis is investigated. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Personae at play. ‘Men of Mathematics’ in commentary

Mathematical writers, above all, Euclid, tend to present their theorems as decontextualized, abstract propositions, which has become the standard modus of textual presentation in theoretical mathematics. Mathematical commentators, however, provide their readers with personal names and historical facts in order to elucidate problems, provide contexts of discovery, or construct doxographies, among other things. Modern readers have used such information for the construction of histories of science. When we look at these passages, however, we see that personal names and information about mathematicians of the past can serve quite a range of different objectives, such as the strategic self-positioning of the commentator vis-à-vis the past or present of mathematics, the education of the reader, mathematical or moral, the construction of the history of the field, etc. Not only does the commentator present a persona of himself to the reader, he can also turn colleagues and predecessors into personae. This paper attempts to elucidate the practice, by offering four examples of such plays of and with personae, in Pappus, Eutocius, al-Nayrīzī, and Proclus.     

Structural changes during torsion of polyethylene

X-ray structural studies on the changes in oriented polyethylene fibers during torsion at large and small angles showed that the crystallites undergo shear deformation, and the angle x between the axes of the macromolecules and the upper (lower) faces of the crystallites deviates appreciably from a right angle. As a result of torsion of the fibers, an axial texture of the fibrill is formed, inside which the crystallites are skewed, while the c axes of the crystallites are inclined to the texture axis. The nature of the more specific changes in the structure depends on the ratio between the temperatures of the preliminary orientational drawing of the samples, and the subsequent torsion.The V. I. Lenin Tadzhik State University, Dushanbe, Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 160–162, January–February, 1974.     

一维反应扩散方程中的行波波速及行波解

通过Painlev啨分析,详细研究了一类一维化学反应扩散方程中的行波解及波速。分别给出了当歼灭项的指数大于创造项的指数及创造项的指数大于歼灭项的指数时,这两种情形下的波速及行波解的显式表示。此外,还给出了一类常见激励介质中的波速及平面波解在薄的边界层内的公式。     

A. N. Kolmogorov: Historian and philosopher of mathematics on the occasion of his 80th birthday

The contributions to the philosophy and history of mathematics of one of the most eminent contemporary mathematicians, A. N. Kolmogorov, are analyzed. Although these contributions are not numerous, they contain discussions of the gradual generalization of the subject of mathematics, a partition of the development of mathematics—in particular, of the theory of probability—into periods, and, also, an evaluation of the works of a number of great savants, such as Newton, Lobatchevsky, etc.     

Multivariate Polynomials,Duality, and Structured Matrices

We first review the basic properties of the well known classes of Toeplitz, Hankel, Vandermonde, and other related structured matrices and reexamine their correlation to operations with univariate polynomials. Then we define some natural extensions of such classes of matrices based on their correlation to multivariate polynomials. We describe the correlation in terms of the associated operators of multiplication in the polynomial ring and its dual space, which allows us to generalize these structures to the multivariate case. Multivariate Toeplitz, Hankel, and Vandermonde matrices, Bezoutians, algebraic residues, and relations between them are studied. Finally, we show some applications of this study to rootfinding problems for a system of multivariate polynomial equations, where the dual space, algebraic residues, Bezoutians, and other structured matrices play an important role. The developed techniques enable us to obtain a better insight into the major problems of multivariate polynomial computations and to improve substantially the known techniques of the study of these problems. In particular, we simplify and/or generalize the known reduction of the multivariate polynomial systems to the matrix eigenproblem, the derivation of the Bézout and Bernshtein bounds on the number of the roots, and the construction of multiplication tables. From the algorithmic and computational complexity point, we yield acceleration by one order of magnitude of the known methods for some fundamental problems of solving multivariate polynomial systems of equations.     

基于模糊FNN-ELECTRE法的国有商业银行竞争力评价

随着金融业全方位开放,国有商业银行已成为国家经济命脉的核心,其竞争力强弱关系着国家经济的繁荣与衰退。本文基于模糊FNN-ELECTRE方法建立国有商业银行竞争力评价模型,以因素神经网络理论(FNN)与ELECTRE融合方法为基础,以现有商业银行竞争力评价指标为着眼,把国有商业银行竞争力的评价体系从现实竞争力和潜在竞争力两个因素抽取为一级指标,以规模、质量、业务结构、效率、成长性五个因素设为二级指标。从实证的角度对银行A、银行B、银行C、银行D、银行E五大国有银行进行分析验证,对其属性值进行和谐性与非和谐性检验得出,银行B竞争能力最强,银行E竞争能力最弱,五大国有银行均有改进空间。     

小麦蜡熟期茎杆抗倒伏数学模型的建立

以物理学力学理论为基础,在考虑小麦穗自重,风力大小、风力大小、方向及作用点的因素下,将茎杆状态分为无风情况下的静态过程和有风情况下的动态过程,分别建立小麦蜡熟期茎杆的静态和动态抗倒伏模型.提出合理假设,得到2008年和2011年数据中各品种的机械强度、茎杆鲜重和重心高度的计算公式,再结合已给的倒伏指数公式,计算得到各小麦品种的倒伏指数;接下来,通过斯皮尔曼相关系数分判断倒伏指数与外部特征因素的相关性大小;最后,在考虑穗自重,风力大小、方向及作用点,茎杆变形能的影响因素下,分别建立小麦抗倒伏静态模型和动态模型.其中静态模型以临界力为计算目标,动态模型同时考虑穗自重和风载因素,最终将静态模型和动态模型结合作为小麦抗倒伏模型.文章最后利用已知数据,计算得到抗倒伏模型各个参数,同时对动态模型进行仿真,得到在一定风速下茎杆摆动的运动轨迹.在此基础上,考虑到该模型为典型的非线性动力模型,利用相平面分析法发现存在明显混沌现象,并进一步找出可能导致混沌的相关特性参数.     

Electron diffraction investigation of the fracture surfaces of filled mixtures of SKS-85 butadiene-styrene copolymer

As the result of an electron microscope study of replicas from the fracture surface during the disintegration of samples of mixtures of SKS-85 butadiene-styrene copolymer with 20 vol.% DG-100 carbon black and chalk, in the temperature range from +60 to –60°C, it is shown that, in the region of vitrification of the copolymer and of the loss of the reinforcing effect of the carbon black, there is a sharp change in the character of the fracture micro-surface, and the particles of carbon black become the sites of additional fracture. In the region of the temperature transition of the copolymer, connected with the mobility of the phenyl groups in the same way as in the vitrification region, there is a sharp decrease in the number of particles of carbon black at the fracture surface, while the fracture surface of a mixture with chalk passes selectively along the contact boundary of a polymer with larger particles. The microstructure of the Wallner lines on the surface of a mixture with carbon black, at Tst, is made up of traces of secondary fracture, arising around the particles of carbon black.Moscow Institute of Technology for the Meat and Dairy Industry. M. V. Lomonosov Institute for the Technology of Fine Chemicals, Moscow. É. L. Ter-Gazaryan State Scientific-Research and Design Institute, Kirovakan. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 3, pp. 437–444, May–June, 1970.     

一类KdV-Burgers方程的奇摄动解与孤子解

讨论了一类具有大Reynolds数且弱频散性的KdV-Burgers方程, 在数学上表示为一类奇摄动KdV-Burgers方程.KdV-Burgers方程中含有的非线性项与频散项互补作用形成稳定向前传播的孤立子.通过数学分析, 描述了孤立子的传播途径和传播速度等物理量的发展变化规律.通过奇摄动展开方法, 构造了该问题的渐近解.首先,用Riemann-Earnshaw方法求得退化解, 得到了简单波, 该简单波波形中的任意一点与初始点都存在一个传播速度差, 这使得波在传播过程中波形不断畸变, 最终形成冲击波面, 即间断面, 在它的两侧质点的速度有一个跳跃, 且随时间不断变化;其次, 在退化解的间断曲面处做变量替换, 构造一种修正的行波变换, 得到了内解展开式的孤子解, 并证明了内外解的存在性与唯一性;最后,通过一致有界逆算子的存在性做了余项估计, 并得到渐近解的一致有效性.结果表明, KdV-Burgers方程在大Reynolds数且弱频散性的性质下,扰动集中在退化解的间断面附近,孤立子链接两侧质点,其传播途径不是时间与空间的线性形式,而是沿着退化解的间断面附近传播,形成稳定的波形.     

考虑双参照点和Choquet积分的新型研发机构绩效评估方法及应用

针对新型研发机构绩效评估值不确定、指标间存在关联、投资主体多元且有风险偏好、指标集权重未知等绩效问题,提出基于双参照点和Choquet积分的绩效评估方法。首先,结合新型研发机构的特点,构建绩效评估指标体系;其次,基于累积前景理论设计同行-期望双参照点;然后,构建指标间直接关联矩阵,依据K-可加模糊测度和平均边际贡献Banzhaf值优化求解指标集权重,代入Choquet积分方法和参照点权重公式计算各新型研发机构的综合绩效评估值,从而实现机构排序和问题分析。该方法考虑了新型研发机构的特点、数据不确定性、指标关联性、风险偏好性、权重未知性等因素,更加符合实际情况,案例验证了方法的有效性和实用性。     

Numerical inversion of Laplace transform by the method of asymptotic extension of the interval in dynamic viscoelasticity problems

Conclusions 1. A numerical investigation into the process of wave propagation in infinite and finite viscoelastic rods has been carried out by means of the method of asymptotic extension of the interval.2. It is established that use, in the calculations, of kernels of relaxation with weak singularity does not give rise to a stress jump at the wave front.3. The effect of parameters of the Rzhanitsyn kernel on the "erosion" of the wave front has been investigated. It is discovered that the instant of occurrence of a stress that is appreciably different from zero, at points far away from the beginning of the rod, is determined by the long-term modulus of elasticity of the material of the rod.4. The solution of the problem concerned with the propagation of a load impulse of finite duration shows a decrease of the maximum value of the stress in the rod, when the duration of the applied impulse decreases, and an intense change in the shape of the impulse while it propagates along the rod, as a consequence of wave dispersion.P. Stuchka Latvian State University, Riga. Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 864–870, September–October, 1976.     

Investigations in the theory of Stochastic equations

This is the author-review of a dissertation presented in the competition of the degree of the Doctor of Physicomathematical Sciences. The dissertation was defended on February 27, 1975 at a meeting of the Scientific Council of V. A. Steklov Mathematics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The official opponents were: A. A. Borovkov, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR; A. V. Skorokhod, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Science of the Ukrain. SSR, and V. N. Sudakov, Doctor of Physicomathematical Sciences.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 147–159, July, 1976.     

Nonnegative solutions of an elliptic equation and Harnack ends of Riemannian manifolds

In this paper, we give a barrier argument at infinity for solutions of an elliptic equation on a complete Riemannian manifold. By using the barrier argument, we can construct a nonnegative (bounded, respectively) solution of the elliptic equation, which takes the given data at infinity of each end. In particular, we prove that if a complete Riemannian manifold has finitely many ends, each of which is Harnack and nonparabolic, then the set of bounded solutions of the elliptic equation is finite dimensional, in some sense. We also prove that if a complete Riemannian manifold is roughly isometric to a complete Riemannian manifold satisfying the volume doubling condition, the Poincaré inequality and the finite covering condition on each end, then there exists a nonnegative solution of an elliptic equation taking the given data at infinity of each end of the manifold. These results generalize those of Yau, of Donnelly, of Grigor'yan, of Li and Tam, of Holopainen, and of the present authors, but with the barrier argument at infinity that enables one to overcome the obstacle due to the nonlinearity of solutions. Received: 11 November 1999     

Wave parameter identification problem for ocean test structure data,part 2, discrete formulation

This paper deals with the solution of the wave parameter identification problem for ocean test structure data. A discrete formulation is assumed. An ocean test structure is considered, and wave elevation and velocities are assumed to be measured with a number of sensors. Within the frame of linear wave theory, a Fourier series model is chosen for the wave elevation and velocities. Then, the following problem is posed: Find the amplitudes of the various wave components of specified frequency and direction, so that the assumed model of wave elevation and velocities provides the best fit to the measured data. Here, the term best fit is employed in the least-square sense over a given time interval.At each time instant, the wave representation involves four indexes (frequency, direction, instrument, time); hence, four-dimensional arrays are required. This formal difficulty can be avoided by switching to an alternative representation involving only two indexes (frequency-direction, instrument-time); hence, standard vector-matrix notation can be used. Within this frame, optimality conditions are derived for the amplitudes of the assumed wave model.A characteristic of the wave parameter identification problem is that the condition number of the system matrix can be large. Therefore, the numerical solution is not an easy task and special procedures must be employed. Specifically, Gaussian elimination is avoided and advantageous use is made of the Householder transformation, in the light of the least-square nature of the problem and the discretized approach to the problem.Numerical results are presented. The effect of various system parameters (number of frequencies, number of directions, sampling time, number of sensors, and location of sensors) is investigated in connection with global or strong accuracy, local or weak accuracy, integral accuracy, and condition number of the system matrix.From the numerical experiments, it appears that the wave parameter identification problem has a unique solution if the number of directions is smaller than or equal to the number of sensors; it has an infinite number of solutions otherwise. In the case where a unique solution exists, the condition number of the system matrix increases as the size of the system increases, and this has a detrimental effect on the accuracy. However, the accuracy can be improved by proper selection of the sampling time and by proper choice of the number and location of the sensors.Generally speaking, the computations done for the discrete case exhibit better accuracy than the computations done for the continuous case (Ref. 5). This improved accuracy is a direct consequence of having used advantageously the Householder transformation and is obtained at the expense of increased memory requirements and increased CPU time.This work was supported by Exxon Production Research Company, Houston, Texas. This paper is based partly on Refs. 1–4.     

基于电商平台的混合销售渠道对供应链决策的影响研究

考虑到电商平台对消费者强大的吸引力,本文建立了由供应商和平台商构成的基于电商平台混合销售的供应链模型。混合销售渠道包含直销和分销,其中平台商拥有电商平台,供应商通过电商平台进行直销,平台商分享一定的收益;而分销是指平台商从供应商处批发产品进行销售。分别建立了集中式和分散式决策模型,研究发现:随着消费者对分销渠道接受程度的提高,两种情形下直销渠道的零售价不变,分销渠道的零售价提高;分散式情形下的批发价、供应商和平台商的利润均提高;随着供应商分享收益比例的提高,两种渠道的零售价都降低,但批发价提高,供应商的利润提高,而平台商的利润下降,但供应链的总利润提高;研究得到了保证博弈双方都能从直销渠道中获利的收益分享比例范围。     

Theory of viscoelastic behavior of regular polymeric networks with stable points linking four chains

A regular stable network formed by flexible macromolecules connected into four functional points is considered. Each point of the network is acted on by the elastic forces from neighbors, by the force of viscous resistances, proportional to the relative velocity of the point, and by the effective force of Brownian movement. The kinetic equation is written for the network points in the case of deformation, and the moments of the second-order distribution function are calculated. The relaxation times of the system are found, and the behavior of the network in the presence of homogeneous sinusoidal deformation due to extension and shear is discussed. The complex modulus of elasticity of the network is calculated as a function of the network parameters and frequency.Branch of the Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow Region. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 209–216, March–April, 1970.     

The rolling of a wheel along a corrugated rail

The rolling without detachment of a rigid massive wheel, carrying a static load, along a rail with undulations on the running surface, which arises as a result of non-uniform wear, is investigated. The rail is supported by an elastoviscous base. Because of the inertia of the wheel and the carriage the horizontal component of the velocity of the wheel centre differs only slightly from a constant quantity, and hence the motion of the wheel along the rail is assumed to be uniform. Steady vertical vibration of the wheel is considered. The vertical coordinate of the wheel centre, and also the difference between the longitudinal coordinates of the wheel centre and the point of contact of the wheel and the rail, are periodic and, correspondingly, even and odd functions of the longitudinal coordinate of the wheel centre, and their period is equal to the wave length on the rail surface. The periodic force of interaction of the wheel and the rail is given in the form of a Fourier series. Short waves, the amplitude of which is much less than their length, are often observed on the rail surface, and this length is much less than the wheel radius. In this case the coefficients of the Fourier series are expressed in terms of Bessel functions of the first kind of integer order. Observations show that the depth of the short wave on the rail surface increases until the radius of curvature in the rail trough approximates to the wheel radius, and hence it is assumed that these radii are close to or equal to one another. In this case the trajectory of the wheel centre differs considerably from the wave on the rail surface.