The generalized hierarchical product of graphs

A generalization of both the hierarchical product and the Cartesian product of graphs is introduced and some of its properties are studied. We call it the generalized hierarchical product. In fact, the obtained graphs turn out to be subgraphs of the Cartesian product of the corresponding factors. Thus, some well-known properties of this product, such as a good connectivity, reduced mean distance, radius and diameter, simple routing algorithms and some optimal communication protocols, are inherited by the generalized hierarchical product. Besides some of these properties, in this paper we study the spectrum, the existence of Hamiltonian cycles, the chromatic number and index, and the connectivity of the generalized hierarchical product.     

Rolling-ball method for estimating the boundary of the support of a point-process intensity

We suggest a generalisation of the convex-hull method, or ‘DEA’ approach, for estimating the boundary or frontier of the support of a point cloud. Figuratively, our method involves rolling a ball around the cloud, and using the equilibrium positions of the ball to define an estimator of the envelope of the point cloud. Constructively, we use these ideas to remove lines from a triangulation of the points, and thereby compute a generalised form of a convex hull. The radius of the ball acts as a smoothing parameter, with the convex-hull estimator being obtained by taking the radius to be infinite. Unlike the convex-hull approach, however, our method applies to quite general frontiers, which may be neither convex nor concave. It brings to these contexts the attractive features of the convex hull: simplicity of concept, rotation-invariance, and ready extension to higher dimensions. It admits bias corrections, which we describe and illustrate through implementation.     

Analysis of the Stress State of the Surface Layer of a Polymeric Mass upon Filling of Bulky Compression Molds

The stress state of the surface layer of a polymeric mass during filling of bulky compression molds is analyzed. It is shown that, at particular rheological characteristics of the mass, temperature, and filling rates, cracking of the surface layer occurs, which leads to defects in the finished products. A physical analysis of this process makes it possible to conclude that the cracks arise due to the normal stresses operating in the front region of the moving polymeric mass. It is found that, under certain flow conditions, areas with a pressure lower than the atmospheric one appear on the surface of the polymer. If the tensile stresses arising in these local regions are higher than the tensile strength of the mass, the continuity of the composition is broken in the direction determined by the greatest rate of the normal deformation. To confirm the reliability of the crack-formation mechanism proposed, the distribution of the pressure and normal stresses over the free surface is calculated based on a numerical method. These calculations show that, by comparing the stress level achieved in the front region with the tensile-strength characteristics of the polymeric composition, it is possible to predict, with a sufficient accuracy, the possibility of crack formation in the surface layer of such a mass under given flow conditions and thus to solve the question on flawless manufacturing of products.     

Gaussian Versus Optimal Integration of Analytic Functions

We consider error estimates for optimal and Gaussian quadrature formulas if the integrand is analytic and bounded in a certain complex region. First, a simple technique for the derivation of lower bounds for the optimal error constants is presented. This method is applied to Szeg?-type weight functions and ellipses as regions of analyticity. In this situation, the error constants for the Gaussian formulas are close to the obtained lower bounds, which proves the quality of the Gaussian formulas and also of the lower bounds. In the sequel, different regions of analyticity are investigated. It turns out that almost exclusively for ellipses, the Gaussian formulas are near-optimal. For classes of simply connected regions of analyticity, which are additionally symmetric to the real axis, the asymptotic of the worst ratio between the error constants of the Gaussian formulas and the optimal error constants is calculated. As a by-product, we prove explicit lower bounds for the Christoffel-function for the constant weight function and arguments outside the interval of integration. September 7, 1995. Date revised: October 25, 1996.     

Development of the Tangent Modulus from the Euler-Problem to Nonsmooth Materials

History and development of the tangent modulus from the origins to the recent nonsmooth damaging versions are presented. Load history and stability analyses of structures of nonlinear reversible or irreversible materials are based on the concept of tangent modulus. Generally, instantaneously changing tangent modulus is needed and the solution yields iteration process. In the case of inelastic problems, the switch from loading to unloading of the material behaviour results in nonsmooth material functions. Nonsmooth, generally saw-tooth like behaviour happens in composite, laminated or rock type materials, or in the interaction of concrete and the reinforcement, too. Recently, damage and localization are in the focus of structural analyses, extending the tangent modulus to the negative cases, as well. Consequently, an overview of the history and development of the tangent modulus containing the recent modifications seems to be necessary. On the other hand, the more than a century long history of the tangent modulus is a marvellous study of the parallel development of mechanics and mathematics, by following the mutual inspiring effect of them through the activity of such pioneers like P.D. Panagiotopoulos in creating Nonsmooth Mechanics.     

The limiting state of a rigidly fixed nonlinearly elastic multilayer rod

The loss of the load-carrying capacity of a nonlinearly elastic multilayer rod is investigated. The rod, whose layers have various thickness and are made of different materials, is rigidly fixed at both its ends. Rigid contact conditions between the layers are assumed. The problem posed is solved by using the variational method of mixed type in combination with the Rayleigh-Ritz method. The initial analysis is reduced to the solution of the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear ordinary differential equation solved for the first derivative. As the initial condition, the maximum initial eccentricity of the rod is assumed. In the case of zero eccentricity, the Shanley critical force for an axially compressed rod is determined. For a three-layer rod whose outer layers have equal thickness and are made of the same material, numerically, for various degrees of nonlinearity, the effect of physicomechanical and geometric parameters on the critical load of buckling instability is determined. It is found that, by matching the heterogeneity of the rod, it is possible to raise its load-carrying capacity. __________ Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 347–360, May–June, 2006.     

Some curious properties and loci problems associated with cubics and other polynomials

The article begins with a well-known property regarding tangent lines to a cubic polynomial that has distinct, real zeros. We were then able to generalize this property to any polynomial with distinct, real zeros. We also considered a certain family of cubics with two fixed zeros and one variable zero, and explored the loci of centroids of triangles associated with the family. Some fascinating connections were observed between the original family of the cubics and the loci of the centroids of these triangles. For example, we were able to prove that the locus of the centroid of certain triangles associated with the family of cubics is another cubic whose zeros are in arithmetic progression. Motivated by this, in the last section of the article, we considered families of cubic polynomials whose zeros are in arithmetic progression, along with the loci of the special points of certain triangles arising from such families. Special points include the centroid, circumcentre, orthocentre, and nine-point centre of the triangles. Throughout the article, we used the computer algebra system, Mathematica®, to form conjectures and facilitate calculations. Mathematica® was also used to create various animations to explore and illustrate many of the results.     

Dispersed failure of an anisotropic flywheel

Based on a hereditary damage model of solids, the strength of a cylindrically anisotropic flywheel is calculated. By using a failure criterion, the location and time of initial failure is determined in relation to an anisotropy parameter, for which the ratio of rigidities in the tangential and radial directions is taken. The process of dispersed failure depends on the expansion intensity of the damaged zone. The boundary of the zone is the failure front, whose equations of motion are obtained in the cases of absence and presence of a residual strength for the material behind the failure front. In the second case, the damaged material is modeled by an isotropic elastic medium with considerably reduced values of strength and rigidity characteristics, and variations in the pressure on the failure front are also determined. Graphs of the radial coordinate of failure front as a function of time are constructed and analyzed for different values of the anisotropy parameter, the degree of residual strength and density behind the failure front, and proportions of geometrical sizes of the flywheel. The critical failure times are found. A system of restrictions on the values of mechanical and geometrical parameters is revealed which makes possible the realization of the process of dispersed failure investigated.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 93–108, January–February, 2005.     

基于偏序集的PROMETHEE方法优化研究

尽管PROMETHEE是当前最受欢迎的多准则决策方法之一,但在实践应用过程中,模型的应用范围与质量依然受制于指标权重问题。一些常用的赋权方法,不仅没有解决不确定权重问题,反而增加了决策风险。在偏序集相关定理的基础上,给出权重的定性信息即权重次序,由流出矩阵、流入矩阵和净流矩阵等定义,得到了PROMETHEE的偏序集表达形式。当流入和流出之和为常数时,证明了模型存在对偶性质。根据对偶性质,简化了PROMETHEE方法的分析步骤,删减模型冗余信息。应用偏序集表示的PROMETHEE,突破了模型没有具体权重便无法应用的思维定势,解决了模型赋权困难,增强了模型的鲁棒性,拓展了模型处理数据类型的范围。     

乡村绿色生态旅游适宜等级VIKOR评估方法

针对乡村绿色生态旅游特征,并考虑旅游者个体感受与群体效益,本文从乡村绿色生态旅游开发与适宜评级概念出发,提出乡村绿色生态旅游适宜等级VIKOR评估模型与方法。首先,从等级评估的概念与内涵出发,刻画乡村绿色生态旅游适宜评级问题,避免混淆旅游适宜评级和排序两个本质不同的问题。然后,构建乡村绿色生态旅游适宜等级评估指标及隶属函数,提出评估指标的熵权确定方法。其次,提出乡村绿色生态旅游适宜等级VIKOR评估模型与二元语义等级评估方法。最后,通过案例研究和比较分析,说明本文所提模型与方法的合理性、可行性与实用性。     

上市公司财务绩效的改进集成评价研究——以26家运输公司为例

为解决以往上市公司集成评价模型中各方法评价结果不一致问题,本文构建了改进集成评价模型。该模型先采用层次分析法、灰色关联度法、因子分析法进行评价,并运用KENDALL-W协和系数法对各评价结果进行事前一致性检验;通过检验后,再分别运用算术平均组合评价模型、Borda组合评价模型和Copeland组合评价模型进行组合评价。为了衡量组合评价与各评价方法的评价结果是否吻合,应用Spearman等级相关系数进行组合评价方法的事后检验,并根据Spearman等级相关系数的大小,选出最优的组合评价方法。最后,对中国26家上市运输公司财务绩效进行了集成评价的实证研究,并以算术平均组合评价模型的标准得分为聚类指标,采用欧氏距离法对26家上市运输公司进行聚类。结果显示:铁路、水路、公路运输各存在一个典型绩优企业,分别是:铁龙物流、北京传媒、海峡股份,四类上市运输公司中铁路上市公司财务绩效最优。     

The q-deformed harmonic oscillator, coherent states, and the uncertainty relation

For a q-deformed harmonic oscillator, we find explicit coordinate representations of the creation and annihilation operators, eigenfunctions, and coherent states (the last being defined as eigenstates of the annihilation operator). We calculate the product of the “coordinate-momentum” uncertainties in q-oscillator eigenstates and in coherent states. For the oscillator, this product is minimum in the ground state and equals 1/2, as in the standard quantum mechanics. For coherent states, the q-deformation results in a violation of the standard uncertainty relation; the product of the coordinate-and momentum-operator uncertainties is always less than 1/2. States with the minimum uncertainty, which tends to zero, correspond to the values of λ near the convergence radius of the q-exponential. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 147, No. 2, pp. 315–322, May, 2006.     

Variation of the structure and permeability of tensioned fiber layers during impregnation with a thermoplastic polymer melt

The influence of displacements of tensioned fibers on the impregnation of fibrous layers with a polymer melt and on the final composite structure is studied. Using computer simulation, it is shown that, during impregnation, the structure of tensioned fibrous layers changes considerably depending on the initial arrangement and tensioning of fibers. The consolidated regions formed under the melt front move inside the impregnated layer with the advancing melt front. Displacement of the tensioned fibers as well as the formation of “washouts” favors the impregnation of internal layers, but cause significant inhomogeneity of the polymer structure. The surface (on the side of the melt flow) regions are more saturated with the polymer than the internal ones. A difference in the melt percolation mechanisms at various impregnation regimes is revealed. The effective permeability coefficients of a tensioned fiber layer are not constant but depend on the conditions and regimes of impregnation. Submitted to the 11th Conference on the Mechanics of Composite Materials (Riga, June 11–15, 2000). Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 259–270, March–April, 2000.     

On free products in varieties of associative algebras

Varieties of associative algebras over a field of characteristic zero are considered. Belov recently proved that, in any variety of this kind, the Hilbert series of a relatively free algebra of finite rank is rational. At the same time, for three important varieties, namely, those of algebras with zero multiplication, of commutative algebras, and of all associative algebras, a stronger assertion holds: for these varieties, formulas that rationally express the Hilbert series of the free product algebra via the Hilbert series of the factors are well known. In the paper, a system of counterexamples is presented which shows that there is no formula of this kind in any other variety, even in the case of two factors one of which is a free algebra. However, if we restrict ourselves to the class of graded PI-algebras generated by their components of degree one, then there exist infinitely many varieties for each of which a similar formula is valid. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 65, No. 5, pp. 693–702, May, 1999.     

Moment information for probability distributions,without solving the moment problem,II: Main-mass,tails and shape approximation

How much information does a small number of moments carry about the unknown distribution function? Is it possible to explicitly obtain from these moments some useful information, e.g., about the support, the modality, the general shape, or the tails of a distribution, without going into a detailed numerical solution of the moment problem? In this, previous and subsequent papers, clear and easy to implement answers will be given to some questions of this type. First, the question of how to distinguish between the main-mass interval and the tail regions, in the case we know only a number of moments of the target distribution function, will be addressed. The answer to this question is based on a version of the Chebyshev–Stieltjes–Markov inequality, which provides us with upper and lower, moment-based, bounds for the target distribution. Then, exploiting existing asymptotic results in the main-mass region, an explicit, moment-based approximation of the target probability density function is provided. Although the latter cannot be considered, in general, as a satisfactory solution, it can always serve as an initial approximation in any iterative scheme for the numerical solution of the moment problem. Numerical results illustrating all the theoretical statements are also presented.     

Dynamic properties of composite laminates and panels with highly contrasting directions of anisotropy

An asymptotic analysis of the dynamic stress-strain state of a thin laminar packet of anisotropic layers is presented. The statement is nonclassical, since in layer materials the ratio of elastic moduli in the longitudinal and transverse directions can generate small parameters comparable to the relative half-thickness of the packet, as, for example, in high-strength unidirectional composites. Alternation of strong load-carrying layers and a relatively soft filler with a similar difference in the elastic moduli between the layers is also allowed. The averaged two-dimensional equations and the total stress tensor in the layers are determined. The results are classified with respect to the types of anisotropy and the indices of differences in the elastic moduli. It is shown that first-approximation models lead to kinematic relations similar to those of the theories of high-order shear strains. Institute of Problems of Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 605–614, September–October, 1999.     

Correlation between the mechanical properties and the amount of desorbed water for composites based on a recycled low-density polyethylene and linen yarn production waste

The effect of the amount of sorbed water on the mechanical properties (tensile modulus, tensile strength, unit work of fracture, and characteristic strains) of composites based on a recycled low-density polyethylene, both unmodified and modified with diphenylmethane diisocyanate (DIC), is an a lyzed by statistical methods. The results of tensile tests are found to depend on the amount of sorbed water considerably. The elastic modulus, the unit work of fracture, and the characteristic strains correlate linearly with the amount of water. It is found that the elastic modulus drops after the sorption of water, but then, during the desorption process, it is restored gradually and reaches its initial value after a 30-day drying. This is explained by the plasticizing effect of water on composite materials containing hydrophilic natural fibers. DIC improves the interfacial interaction of the fiber-matrix interface and slows down the desorption of water. The investigations of the main deformational and strength characteristics of the unmodified and modified systems showed that the ad verse effect of water completely disappeared after a 30-day drying. The same conclusion, with a 95% probability, can be drawn from the results of an analysis of variance (ANOVA). __________ Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 626–638, September–October, 2007.     

A non-standard symmetry-preserving method to compute bounded solutions of a generalized Newell-Whitehead-Segel equation

In this work, we propose a finite-difference scheme to approximate the solutions of a generalization of the classical, one-dimensional, Newell-Whitehead-Segel equation from fluid mechanics, which is an equation for which the existence of bounded solutions is a well-known fact. The numerical method preserves the skew-symmetry of the problem of interest, and it is a non-standard technique which consistently approximates the solutions of the equation under investigation, with a consistency of the first order in time and of the second order in space. We prove that, under relatively flexible conditions on the computational parameters of the method, our technique yields bounded numerical approximations for every set of bounded initial estimates. Some simulations are provided in order to verify the validity of our analytical results. In turn, the validity of the computational constraints under which the method guarantees the preservation of the boundedness of the approximations, is successfully tested by means of computational experiments in some particular instances.     

基于粗糙集与未确知模型的京津冀工业绿色发展的差异性与协调性分析

京津冀协同发展,工业绿色发展是重要突破口。本文基于绿色发展的内涵,参考四部委发布的《绿色发展评价指标体系》构建了涵盖工业资源利用、工业环境质量、工业环境治理、工业经济增长共4个二级指标16个三级指标的区域工业绿色发展测度指标体系,综合运用粗糙集理论与未确知模型约简指标、计算权重、设置分级标准,对京津冀工业绿色发展水平进行多指标综合测度;在此基础上构建耦合协调度模型测度其协调性。结果发现:(1)京津冀间工业绿色发展存在较大差异,京、津波动频繁,河北省上升趋势明显,均已达到中等以上水平;(2)京、津、冀工业绿色发展分别受工业环境治理、工业资源利用、工业环境质量的影响最为显著;(3)京津冀工业资源利用、工业环境治理及工业经济增长均处在濒临失调区,工业环境质量处在勉强协调区,工业绿色发展已达到优质协调区。因此,一方面京、津、冀工业绿色发展应分别聚焦工业环境治理、工业资源利用、工业环境质量精准施策;另一方面必须重视京津冀工业绿色协同发展。