Damageability of a material reinforced with unidirectional orthotropic fibers for an exponential function of long-term microstrength

The theory of long-term damageability of a homogeneous material is generalized to the case of an orthotropic fibrous composite material with a stochastic structure. Equations of mechanics of microinhomogeneous media of this structure form the base of the theory. The process of damage of components of a composite is modeled by the formation of stochastically located micropores. The criterion of fracture of a unit microvolume is characterized by its long-term strength determined by the dependence of the time of brittle fracture on the degree of closeness of the equivalent stress to its limit value, which characterizes the short-term strength on the basis of the Huber–von Mises criterion accepted as an arbitrary function of coordinates. Efficient deformation properties and the stress-strain state of an orthotropic fibrous composite with microdamages in components are determined on the base of stochastic equations of elasticity of orthotropic media. For given macrostresses and macrostrains and an arbitrary moment of time, balance equations of damage (porosity) of components are formulated. On the basis of the iteration method, we construct algorithms for calculating dependences of microdamage of components of an orthotropic fibrous material on time and dependences of macrostresses or macrostrains on time and obtain the corresponding curves for the case of a bounded function of the long-term microstrength, which is approximated by an exponential law.     

我国医疗费用增长与医疗设备投入的相关性研究

近年来我国卫生总费用占GDP的比例增长很快,而在卫生费用结构上则发生政府投入下降和个人支出的上升。本文采集了大量的统计数据,采用统计相关性研究的方法,论证了医疗设备规模的不断扩大是导致医疗费用上升的主要因素之一;医疗设备的快速增长与医院维修费用投入的增长直接相关,而引起医疗设备维修大量投入的主要原因则是故障期内医疗设备的非正常闲置。本文通过对个人卫生费用的上升、医疗设备规模的扩大及其医疗设备维修投入费用增加相关性的分析,说明了在这种关系下,十分有必要研究医院医疗设备维修体系,以在卫生投入和患者权益上达到平衡。     

Grassmann image of non-isotropic surface of pseudo-Euclidean space

We consider submanifolds of non-isotropic planes of the Grassman manifold of the pseudo-Euclidean space. We prove a theorem about the unboundedness of the sectional curvature of the submanifolds of the two-dimensional non-isotropic planes of the four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space with the help of immersion in the six-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space of index 3. We also introduce a concept of the indicatrix of normal curvature and study the properties of this indicatrix and the Grassman image of the non-isotropic surface of the pseudo-Euclidean space. We find a connection between the curvature of the Grassman image and the intrinsic geometry of the plane. We suggest the classification of the points of the Grassman image.     

Design of anisotropic structures: Calculation,optimization, and tests

Conclusions A computational procedure based on a limiting state has been worked out which proposes the performance of tests of samples, small-scale models, and full-scale structures and a statistical analysis of the experimental data. Advantages of the method are shown in comparison with the computational method based on fracturing loads which pertain to estimating the accuracy of the computational scheme of structures and determining their safety coefficients. An optimality criterion is formulated within the framework of the method which is related to ensuring a maximum of the limiting (fracturing or critical) load with a constant mass of the structure.Applications of the method are given to estimation of the strength and stability of structures made out of polymeric and metal CM with the use of the Gol'denblat-Kopnov criterion and solutions based on linear shell theory. The conditions for realization of the optimality criterion of structures are determined. Recommendations are made for the rational reinforcement of structures made out of filamentary CM, and a procedure is proposed for the rational design of reinforced structures.As an example of the tests for stability of cylindrical shells made out of aluminum-magnesium alloy under external pressure, the legitimacy of the cause of the disagreement between the calculated and experimental critical loads, which consists of a discrepancy in the nature of wave formation at the instant of stability loss and initial imperfections, and the effectiveness of the computational method based on a limiting state are confirmed. Refined computational formulas for the critical loads of cylindrical shells made out of fiberglass, carbon fiber, and boraluminum under typical kinds of loading are proposed within the framework of the method and on the basis of an analysis of the results of tests, and a comparison is made of the effectiveness of the reinforcement of shells made out of aluminum-magnesium alloy and carbon fiber. The values of the safety coefficients of structures which guarantee their reliability are determined.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, No. 2, pp. 262–271, March–April, 1980.     

The motion of a body with a plane of symmetry over a three-dimensional sphere under the action of a spherical analogue of Newtonian gravitation

The problem of the motion of a rigid body possessing a plane of symmetry over the surface of a three-dimensional sphere under the action of a spherical analogue of Newtonian gravitation forces is considered. Approaches to introducing spherical analogues of the concepts of centre of mass and centre of gravity are discussed. The spherical analogue of “satellite approach” in the problem of the motion of a rigid body in a central field, which arises on the assumption that the dimensions of the body are small compared with the distance to the gravitating centre, is studied. Within the framework of satellite approach, assuming plane motion of the body, the question of the existence and stability of steady motions is investigated. A spherical analogue of the equation of the plane oscillations of a body in an elliptic orbit is derived.     

Levitin–Polyak well-posedness for constrained quasiconvex vector optimization problems

In this paper, a notion of Levitin–Polyak (LP in short) well-posedness is introduced for a vector optimization problem in terms of minimizing sequences and efficient solutions. Sufficient conditions for the LP well-posedness are studied under the assumptions of compactness of the feasible set, closedness of the set of minimal solutions and continuity of the objective function. The continuity assumption is then weakened to cone lower semicontinuity for vector-valued functions. A notion of LP minimizing sequence of sets is studied to establish another set of sufficient conditions for the LP well-posedness of the vector problem. For a quasiconvex vector optimization problem, sufficient conditions are obtained by weakening the compactness of the feasible set to a certain level-boundedness condition. This in turn leads to the equivalence of LP well-posedness and compactness of the set of efficient solutions. Some characterizations of LP well-posedness are given in terms of the upper Hausdorff convergence of the sequence of sets of approximate efficient solutions and the upper semicontinuity of an approximate efficient map by assuming the compactness of the set of efficient solutions, even when the objective function is not necessarily quasiconvex. Finally, a characterization of LP well-posedness in terms of the closedness of the approximate efficient map is provided by assuming the compactness of the feasible set.     

Non-linear oscillations of a satellite at 1:1:1 resonance

The motion of a satellite about its centre of mass in a central Newtonian gravitational field is investigated. The satellite is considered to be a dynamically symmetrical rigid body. It is assumed that the ratio of the polar and equatorial principal central moments of inertia of the satellite is 4/3, or close to this. The orbit of the centre of mass is elliptic, and the orbit eccentricity is assumed to be small. In the limit case, when the orbit of the centre of mass is circular, a steady motion exists (corresponding to relative equilibrium of the satellite in the orbital system of coordinates) in which the axis of dynamic symmetry is directed along the velocity vector of the centre of mass of the satellite; here, the frequencies of the small linear oscillations of the axis of symmetry are equal or close to one another. But in an elliptic orbit of small eccentricity, multiple 1:1:1 resonance occurs in this case, as the oscillation frequencies mentioned are equal or close to the frequency of motion of the centre of mass of the satellite in orbit. The non-linear problem of the existence, bifurcations and stability of periodic motions of the satellite with a period equal to the rotation period of its centre of mass in orbit is investigated.     

Regular and singular components of periodic flows in the fluid interior

The structure of infinitesimal periodic motions in the interior of a rotating compressible fluid which has been stratified using salt is analyzed taking account of dissipation effects. In the general case, the system of fundamental equations of motion belongs to the class of singularly perturbed equations, the solutions of that consist of functions which are regular and singular with respect to the dissipative coefficients that describe both propagating hybrid waves as well as several types of accompanying singular components including boundary layers. The thicknesses of the singular components are determined by the kinematic viscosity, the diffusion coefficient of the salt and the characteristic frequencies of the problem. In the model of a barotropic or homogeneous fluid, the singular components of spatial periodic flows combine together, which is indicative of degeneracy of the system of equations. Taking account of the full set of components, which are regular and singular with respect to the dissipative characteristics, enables one to construct exact solutions of problems of the generation and non-linear interaction of waves.     

Fredholm boundary value problems for perturbed systems of dynamic equations on time scales

This paper offers conditions ensuring the existence of solutions of linear boundary value problems for systems of dynamic equations on time scales. Utilizing a method of Moore–Penrose pseudo‐inverse matrices leads to an analytical form of a criterion for the existence of solutions in a relevant space and, moreover, to the construction of a family of linearly independent solutions of such problems in a general case with the number of boundary conditions (defined by a linear vector functional) not coinciding with the number of unknowns of a system of dynamic equations. As an example of an application of the presented results, the problem of bifurcation of solutions of boundary value problems for systems of dynamic equations on time scales with a small parameter is considered.     

Some problems of the linear theory of systems of ordinary differential equations

We consider problems of the linear theory of systems of ordinary differential equations related to the investigation of invariant hyperplanes of these systems, the notion of equivalence for these systems, and the Floquet–Lyapunov theory for periodic systems of linear equations. In particular, we introduce the notion of equivalence of systems of linear differential equations of different orders, propose a new formula of the Floquet form for periodic systems, and present the application of this formula to the introduction of amplitude–phase coordinates in a neighborhood of a periodic trajectory of a dynamical system.     

Turnability characteristics of solutions of differential systems

For each solution of a differential system, we define a set of turnability exponents of various ranks, which are obtained by minimization and time averaging of the number of zeros and various projections of the angular velocity of the solution onto subspaces of fixed dimensions. We obtain a number of properties of the introduced exponents and relations between them. We show that, in the case of an autonomous system, they are closely related to the absolute values of the imaginary parts of eigenvalues of the operator of the system.     

强向量均衡问题与不动点问题的粘性逼近算法

讨论了强向量均衡问题与非扩张映射不动点问题的公共解.首先,给出了强向量均衡问题的辅助问题,并在适当的条件下,证明了其解的存在性和唯一性结果.然后,利用这些结果,提出了强向量均衡问题与非扩张映射不动点问题公共解的粘性逼近算法,并进一步证明了,在适当的条件下,由该算法产生的迭代序列强收敛于强向量均衡问题和非扩张映射不动点问题的公共解.     

Use of the time-of-flight mass spectrometer to study the volatile products from mechanical degradation of polymers in a vibration grinder

Problems about the use of the mass-spectrometry method to study the compositions and kinetics of evolution of volatile products formed during the process of mechanical degradation of polymers in a vibration grinder are examined. A vibration ball mill was directly connected to the vacuum chamber of a time-of-flight mass analyzer. By use of this method, mass spectra of the volatile products evolved during vibration grinding of samples of polymethyl methacrylate, polytetrafluoroethylene, polyethylene, and poly-α-methylstyrene have been obtained. The possibility of studying the kinetics of evolution of volatile products as a function of the amplitude and duration of grinding has been shown in the case of polymethyl methacrylate and of polytetrafluoroethylene.     

Classifying thick subcategories of the stable category of Cohen-Macaulay modules

Various classification theorems of thick subcategories of a triangulated category have been obtained in many areas of mathematics. In this paper, as a higher-dimensional version of the classification theorem of thick subcategories of the stable category of finitely generated representations of a finite p-group due to Benson, Carlson and Rickard, we consider classifying thick subcategories of the stable category of Cohen-Macaulay modules over a Gorenstein local ring. The main result of this paper yields a complete classification of the thick subcategories of the stable category of Cohen-Macaulay modules over a local hypersurface in terms of specialization-closed subsets of the prime ideal spectrum of the ring which are contained in its singular locus.     

The rolling of a wheel with a pneumatic tyre on a planet

A model of a pneumatic tyre as a system with an infinite number of degrees of freedom is proposed, when its surface is represented by the deformed surface of a torus. Using a number of hypotheses a functional of the potential energy of the deformations of the tyre is obtained as a function of the deformations of its tread. A complete system of equations of motion is obtained, assuming that the wheel rolls without slipping in the area of contact of the tread with the plane, with respect to the previously unknown part of the tread. In two special cases of the rolling of a wheel with breakaway and on a banking, all the characteristics of the motion (the contact area, the tyre deformation, and the forces and moments applied to the disc of the wheel) are obtained.     

Parametric analysis of the oscillatory solutions to stochastic differential equations with the Wiener and Poisson components by the Monte Carlo method

Using the Monte Carlo method, we address the influence of the Wiener and Poisson random noises on the behavior of oscillatory solutions to systems of stochastic differential equations (SDEs). For the linear and Van der Pol oscillators, we study the accuracy of estimates of the functionals of numerical solutions to SDEs obtained by the generalized explicit Euler method. For a linear oscillator, we obtain the exact analytical expressions for the mathematical expectation and the variance of the SDE solution. These expressions allow us to investigate the dependence of the accuracy of estimates of the solution moments on the values of SDE parameters, the size of meshsize, and the ensemble of simulated trajectories of the solution. For the Van der Pol oscillator, we study the dependence of the frequency and the damping rate of the oscillations of the mathematical expectation of SDE solution on the values of parameters of the Poisson component. The results of the numerical experiments are presented.     

Periodic motions of a reversible second-order mechanical system: Application to the Sitnikov problem

A theory of the symmetric periodic motions (SPMs) of a reversible second-order system is presented which covers both oscillations and rotations. The structural stability property of the generating autonomous reversible system, which lies in the fact that the presence or absence of SPMs in a perturbed system is independent of the actual form of the “reversible” perturbations, is established. Both the case of the generation of SPMs from the family of SPMs of the generating system and birth cycle from the equilibrium state are investigated. Criteria of Lyapunov stability in a non-degenerate situation are obtained for the SPMs which are generated (in case of small values of the parameter). A method is proposed for constructing and investigating the Lyapunov stability of all the SPMs. The conditions for the existence of a cycle (symmetric and asymmetric) in the neighbourhood of a support “almost” resonance SPM are established for all cases of resonances. The theoretical results are applied to a study of the motion of a particle along a straight line which passes through the centre of mass of the system perpendicular to the plane of the identical attracting and simultaneously radiating main bodies (an extension of the Sitnikov problem) in the photogravitational version of the three-body problem. The circular problem is analysed and two different series of families of SPMs are found in the weakly elliptic problem. The instability of the equilibrium state is proved in the case of parametric resonance and the stability (and instability) domains are distinguished for arbitrary values of the eccentricity. All the SPMs with a period of 2π are constructed and the property of Lyapunov stability is investigated for these motions.