THE UNCERTAIN EIGENVALUES ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES WITH UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS

This paper presents a method for estimating the upper and lower bounds of eigenvalues of structures with uncertainties. The uncertain parameters are described by the convex model. A numerical example of the frame structure is given to illustrate the efficiency of the method. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 19872028).     

Interval parameter perturbation method for evaluating the bounds on natural frequencies of structures with interval parameters

For structural parameters with uncertainties, interval mathematics can, in the case where the probabilistic distribution density of uncertain variables is unavailable, deal with the influence of uncertainties in structural parameters on the response of structures. In order to evaluate the region containing natural frequencies of structures with interval parameters, the interval parameter perturbation method is presented in this paper. The advantage of the present method is its computational efficiency in evaluating the region containing natural frequencies. A numerical example is used to illustrate the efficiency of the method proposed. The project is supported by National Youth Natural Science Foundation of China and National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of China.     

Interval analysis method and convex models for impulsive response of structures with uncertain-but-bounded external loads

Two non-probabilistic, set-theoretical methods for determining the maximum and minimum impulsive responses of structures to uncertain-but-bounded impulses are presented. They are, respectively, based on the theories of interval mathematics and convex models. The uncertain-but-bounded impulses are assumed to be a convex set, hyper-rectangle or ellipsoid. For the two non-probabilistic methods, less prior information is required about the uncertain nature of impulses than the probabilistic model. Comparisons between the interval analysis method and the convex model, which are developed as an anti-optimization problem of finding the least favorable impulsive response and the most favorable impulsive response, are made through mathematical analyses and numerical calculations. The results of this study indicate that under the condition of the interval vector being determined from an ellipsoid containing the uncertain impulses, the width of the impulsive responses predicted by the interval analysis method is larger than that by the convex model; under the condition of the ellipsoid being determined from an interval vector containing the uncertain impulses, the width of the interval impulsive responses obtained by the interval analysis method is smaller than that by the convex model.The project supported by the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of China (10425208), the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Institute of Engineering Physics of China (10376002) The English text was polished by Keren Wang.     

On the multiple-attractor coexsting system with parameter uncertainties using generalized cell mapping method

In this paper the generalized cell mapping (GCM) method is used to study multiple-attractor coexisting system with parameter uncertainties. The effects that the uncertain parameters has on the global properties of the system are presented. And It is obtained that the attractor with much smaller value of protect thickness, will disappear firstly with the degree of the uncertainty of parameter increasing. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (19672046)     

Interval Arithmetic and Static Interval Finite Element Method

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Stability and strict positive realness of convex polytopes of interval polynomials

For an uncertain system described by convex combination of interval polynomials, its Hurwitz-stability can be guaranteed by certain subset composed of vertices and edges. Furthermore, the testing set does not increase when the order of given system increases. Foundation item: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (69925307) Biography: WANG Zhi-zhen (1974-)     

不确定凸模型近似算法的一种改进

将非概率凸模型理论与摄动理论相结合，通过有界不确定参数结构的特征值问题，对凸模型理论的一次近似算法作出一种改进．改进后的算法由于在计算中不用特征值导数，与Ｅｌｉｓｈａｋｏｆ的算法相比，不仅拓广了凸模型理论的应用范围，而且还可提高算法的计算效率．     

Adaptive robust fuzzy control for a class of uncertain chaotic systems

In this paper, the output feedback control of uncertain chaotic systems is addressed via an adaptive robust fuzzy approach. Fuzzy logic systems are employed to approximate uncertain nonlinear functions in the chaotic systems. Because only partial information of the system’s states is needed to be known, an observer is given to estimate the unmeasured states. Compared with the existing results in the observer design, the prior knowledge on dynamic uncertainties is relaxed and a class of more general chaotic systems is considered as well as robustness to the approximation error is improved. It can be proven that the closed-loop system is stable in the sense that all the variables are bounded. Simulation example for the unified chaotic systems is given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60874056) and the Foundation of Educational Department of Liaoning Province (2008312).     

THE ROBUST CONTROL SCHEME FOR FREEFLOATING SPACE MANIPULATOR TO TRACK *THE DESIRED TRAJECTORY IN JOINTSPACE

The control of a free-floating space manipulator system is discussed. With the augmentation approach, the nonlinear parameterization problem of the dynamic equations of the space manipulator system is overcome. Based on the results, the robust control scheme for free-floating space manipulator with uncertain payload parameters to track the desired trajectory in jointspace is proposed, and the global convergence of the tracking is verified by using the Lyapunov method. The proposed control scheme is computationally simple, because we choose to make the controller robust to the uncertain inertial parameters rather than explicitly estimate them online. In particular, it needn't control the position and attitude of the floating base. A two-link planar space manipulator system is simulated to verify the control scheme proposed. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 19872032), Aeronautical Science Foundation, and Science Foundation of Fuzhou University.     

An analysis of the modeling of stress and strain fields in a real microstructure using a hybrid method

The distribution of stress and strain fields in a micro-structural area of a particle reinforced composite is studied by a combination of experimental and numerical method (hybrid method). With the experimental values of displacements in a micro-region as the boundary loading condition, strain and stress fields inside the micro-region are calculated by the finite element method under two different kinds of modeling, namely, as plane stress and plane strain condition. The differences between the two kinds of modeling conditions as applied to micro-structural areas are discussed. Project Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (19972046) and National Overseas Study Foundation.     

On delay-dependent robust exponential stability of stochastic neural networks with mixed time delays and Markovian switching

This paper deals with the global exponential stability analysis problem for a general class of uncertain stochastic neural networks with mixed time delays and Markovian switching. The mixed time delays under consideration comprise both the discrete time-varying delays and the distributed time-delays. The main purpose of this paper is to establish easily verifiable conditions under which the delayed stochastic neural network is robustly exponentially stable in the mean square in the presence of parameters uncertainties, mixed time delays, and Markovian switching. By employing new Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals and conducting stochastic analysis, a linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach is developed to derive the criteria for the robust exponential stability, which can be readily checked by using some standard numerical packages such as the Matlab LMI Toolbox. The criteria derived are dependent on both the discrete time delay and distributed time delay, and, are therefore, less conservative. A simple example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed testing criteria. This work was supported in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK under Grant GR/S27658/01, the Nuffield Foundation of the UK under Grant NAL/00630/G, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 60774073, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China under Grant BK2007075, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Education Committee of China under Grant 06KJD110206, the Scientific Innovation Fund of Yangzhou University of China under Grant 2006CXJ002, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany.     

MAXIMAL ELEMENTS FOR GB-MAJORIZED MAPPINGS IN PRODUCT G-CONVEX SPACES AND APPLICATIONS (Ⅰ)

A new family of set-valued mappings from a topological space into generalized convex spaces was introduced and studied. By using the continuous partition of unity theorem and Brouwer fixed point theorem, several existence theorems of maximal elements for the family of set-valued mappings were proved under noncompact setting of product generalized convex spaces. These theorems improve, unify and generalize many important results in recent literature. Contributed by DING Xie-ping Foundation items: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (19871059); the Natural Science Foundation of Education Department of Sichuan Province of China ([2000]25) Biography: DING Xie-ping (1938∼)     

Convex-model analysis of the seismic response

I.IntroductionThemaximumresponseofastructureisoftenusedasthebasisfordesigning.Drenick(l968,l97o),Shinozuka(l97O)andmanyotherauthorshaveusedthemaximumresponsetoseismicexcitationasadesigncriterion.Theresponse-spectrumtheoryinseismicdesignisalsobasedonthemax…     

Using strain energy-based prediction of effective elastic properties in topology optimization of material microstructures

An alternative strain energy method is proposed for the prediction of effective elastic properties of orthotropic materials in this paper. The method is implemented in the topology optimization procedure to design cellular solids. A comparative study is made between the strain energy method and the well-known homogenization method. Numerical results show that both methods agree well in the numerical prediction and sensitivity analysis of effective elastic tensor when homogeneous boundary conditions are properly specified. Two dimensional and three dimensional microstructures are optimized for maximum stiffness designs by combining the proposed method with the dual optimization algorithm of convex programming. Satisfactory results are obtained for a variety of design cases. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10372083, 90405016), 973 Program (2006CB601205) and the Aeronautical Science Foundation (04B53080). The English text was polished by Keren Wang.     

Controlling lü-system using partial linearization

Partial linearization method is proposed for controlling Lü-system. Through partially cancelling the nonlinear cross-coupling terms the stabilization of the resulting system was realized. This method can be easily realized. The robust behavior was proved with respect to an uncertain system. Numerical simulation are provided to show the effectiveness and feasibility of the method. Foundation item: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10171099) Biography: Yu Yong-guang (1976≈)     

Constrained multiobjective games in locally convex<Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis>-spaces

A new class of constrained multiobjective games with infinite players in noncompact locally convex H-spaces without linear structure are introduced and studied. By applying a Fan-Glicksberg type fixed point theorem for upper semicontinuous set-valued mappings with closed acyclic values and a maximum theorem, several existence theorems of weighted Nath-equilibria and Pareto equilibria for the constrained multiobjective games are proved in noncompact locally convex H-spaces. These theorems improve, unify and generalize the corresponding results of the multiobjective games in recent literatures. Contributed by Ding Xie-ping Foundation items: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (19871059); the Natural Science Foundation of Education Department of Sichuan Province ([2000]25) Biography: Ding Xie-ping (1938-)     

A new simple method of implicit time integration for dynamic problems of engineering structures

This paper presents a new simple method of implicit time integration with two control parameters for solving initial-value problems of dynamics such that its accuracy is at least of order two along with the conditional and unconditional stability regions of the parameters. When the control parameters in the method are optimally taken in their regions, the accuracy may be improved to reach of order three. It is found that the new scheme can achieve lower numerical amplitude dissipation and period dispersion than some of the existing methods, e.g. the Newmark method and Zhai’s approach, when the same time step size is used. The region of time step dependent on the parameters in the new scheme is explicitly obtained. Finally, some examples of dynamic problems are given to show the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed scheme applied in dynamic systems. The project supported by the National Key Basic Research and Development Foundation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (G2000048702, 2003CB716707), the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (10025208), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Key Program) (10532040), the Research Fund for Oversea Chinese (10228028). The English text was polished by Keren Wang.     

结构静力位移的非概率凸集合理论模型的摄动数值算法

将非概率凸集合理模型与有限元摄动理论相结合提出求解有界不确定参数结构静力位移所在集合上下界的摄动数值算法。由于不需计算导数，故所提出的方法不仅可以拓广非概率凸集合理论模型的适用范围，而且可以提高计算效率。     

Inf-dif-stability of oblique perturbation

Laurent and Rockafellar have studied certain problems of perturbation and of stability in convex minimization problems. Laurent has discussed inf-dif-stability conditions respectively for horizontal perturbation and for vertical perturbation. In this paper, we generalize some results of Laurent^[1] by giving several inf-dif-stability conditions of oblique perturbation.Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

An adaptive algorithm of precise integration for transient analysis

This paper presents an improved precise integration algorithm for transient analysis of heat transfer and some other problems. The original precise integration method is improved by means of the inverse accuracy analysis so that the parameterN, which has been taken as a constant and an independent parameter without consideration of the problems in the original method, can be generated automatically by the algorithm itself. Thus, the improved algorithm is adaptive and the accuracy of the algorithm is not dependent on the length of the time step in the integration process. It is shown that the numerical results obtained by the method proposed are more accurate than those obtained by the conventional time integration methods such as the difference method and others. Four examples are given to demonstrate the validity, accuracy and efficiency of the new method. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 19872016, 19872017), the National Key Basic Research Special Foundation (G1999032805) and the Foundation for University Key Teachers by the Ministry of Education of China.