Optimal design of pitched laminated wood beams

The optimal design of a pitched laminated wood beam is considered. An engineering formulation is given in which the volume of the beam is minimized. The problem is then reformulated and solved as a generalized geometric (signomial) program. Sample designs are presented.This research was partially supported by the Office of Naval Research under Contracts Nos. N00014-75-C-0267 and N00014-75-C-0865; by the US Energy Research and Development Administration Contract No. E(04-3)-326 PA-18; and by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. DCR75-04544 at Stanford University. This work was carried out during the first author's stay at the Management Science Division of the University of British Columbia and the Systems Optimization Laboratory of Stanford University. The authors are indebted to Mr. S. Liu and Mrs. M. Ratner for their assistance in performing the computations.     

Generalized Nonlinear Lagrangian Formulation for Bounded Integer Programming

Several nonlinear Lagrangian formulations have been recently proposed for bounded integer programming problems. While possessing an asymptotic strong duality property, these formulations offer a success guarantee for the identification of an optimal primal solution via a dual search. Investigating common features of nonlinear Lagrangian formulations in constructing a nonlinear support for nonconvex piecewise constant perturbation function, this paper proposes a generalized nonlinear Lagrangian formulation of which many existing nonlinear Lagrangian formulations become special cases.     

Optimal design of a dry-type natural-draft cooling tower by geometric programming

In this paper, the optimal design of dry-type natural-draft cooling towers is investigated. Using physical laws and engineering design relations that govern the system, a rather detailed optimization model is developed. This model is then reformulated as a geometric programming problem. A primary consideration in this reformulation is how certain polynomial equations may be effectively replaced by inequalities. A numerical example follows.     

Relaxation Through Homogenization for Optimal Design Problems with Gradient Constraints

The problem of the relaxation of optimal design problems for multiphase composite structures in the presence of constraints on the gradient of the state variable is addressed. A relaxed formulation for the problem is given in the presence of either a finite or infinite number of constraints. The relaxed formulation is used to identify minimizing sequences of configurations of phases.     

Optimal scheduling of inspection times in a production process with a finite planning horizon

Inspection models applicable to a finite planning horizon are developed for the following lifetime distributions: uniform, exponential, and Weibull distribution. For a given lifetime distribution, maximization of profit is used as the sole optimization criterion for determining an optimal planning horizon over which a system may be operated as well as ideal inspection times. Illustrative examples (focusing on the uniform and Weibull distributions and using Mathematica programs) are given. For some situations, evenly spreading inspections over the entire planning horizon are seen to result in the attainment of desirable profit levels over a shorter planning horizon. Scope for further research is given as well. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

多约束非线性整数规划的一种改进的算法

多约束非线性整数规划是一类非常重要的问题,非线性背包问题是它的一类特殊而重要的问题.定义在有限整数集上极大化一个可分离非线性函数的多约束最优化问题.这类问题常常用于资源分配、工业生产及计算机网络的最优化模型中,运用一种新的割平面法来求解对偶问题以得到上界,不仅减少了对偶间隙,而且保证了算法的收敛性.利用区域割丢掉某些整数箱子,并把剩下的区域划分为一些整数箱子的并集,以便使拉格朗日松弛问题能有效求解,且使算法在有限步内收敛到最优解.算法把改进的割平面法用于求解对偶问题并与区域分割有效结合解决了多约束非线性背包问题的求解.数值结果表明了改进的割平面方法对对偶搜索更加有效.     

储药柜设计问题解析

就2014年"高教社杯"全国大学生数学建模竞赛D题"储药柜的设计"提出了一种求解方法。在题目的分析和求解过程中,同时针对参赛论文中出现的问题作了简要的说明与点评。     

Optimal design and control of queues

We have divided this review into two parts. The first part is concerned with the optimal design of queueing systems and the second part deals with the optimal control of queueing systems. The second part, which has the lion’s share of the review since it has received the most attention, focuses mainly on the modelling aspects of the problem and describes the different kinds of threshold (control) policy models available in the literature. To limit the scope of this survey, we decided to limit ourselves to research on papers dealing with the three policies (N, T, and D), where a cost function is designed specifically and optimal thresholds that yield minimum cost are sought.     

Optimal infrastructure design and expansion of broadband wireless access networks

This paper investigates the important infrastructure design and expansion problem for broadband wireless access networks subject to user demand constraints and system capacity constraints. For the problem, an integer program is derived and a heuristic solution procedure is proposed based on Lagrangean relaxation. In the computational experiments, our Lagrangean relaxation based algorithm can solve this complex design and expansion problem quickly and near optimally. Based on the test results, it is suggested that the proposed algorithm may be practically used for the infrastructure design and expansion problem for broadband wireless access networks.     

一类资源最优配置的充要条件及其应用

本文研究了由工业投资、教育投资等问题中导出的一类非线性规划问题,应用Kuhn-Tucher定理得到了Rn中向量x=(x1,x2,…,xn)是这问题最优解的充分必要条件．应用这一结果导出了求解一类资源最优配置问题的新算法．这是一个具有计算复杂度为O(mn(m n))的多项式型算法．     

Hub-and-spoke network design and fleet deployment for string planning of liner shipping

All shipping liner companies divide their service regions into several rotations (strings) in order to operate their container vessels. A string is the ordered set of ports at which a container vessel will call. Each port is usually called at no more than twice along one string, although a single port may be called at several times on different strings. The size of string dictates the number of vessels required to offer a given frequency of service. In order to better use their shipping capacity, groups of Liner Service Providers sometimes make a short term agreement to merge some of their service routes (in a certain region) into one main ocean going rotation and p feeder rotations. In order to minimize the weighted sum of transit time, and fixed deployment costs, this paper proposes a mixed integer linear programming model of the network design, and an allocation of proper capacity size and frequency setting for every rotation. Given that none of the existing general-purpose MIP solvers is able to solve even very small problem instances in a reasonable time, we propose a Lagrangian decomposition approach which uses a heuristic procedure and is capable of obtaining practical and high quality solutions in reasonable times. The model will be applied on a real example, and we shall present some of the results obtained by our model which show how it facilitates a better use of assets and a significant reduction in the use of fuel, therefore allowing a more environmentally friendly service.     

易拉罐形状和尺寸的最优设计

从用料最省的角度研究了易拉罐的形状和尺寸的优化设计问题,首先通过多次测量取平均值的方法得到了题目所需的数据．然后就问题二和问题三分别建立了优化模型,并借助数学软件进行了求解,得到了最优设计的尺寸．最后设计出了椭球形状的易拉罐作为自己的最优设计．     

Numerical Simulation of the Two-Hydrodynamic Film Thickness

We investigate, from a numerical point of view, the coefficients identification problem, for the Elrod–Adams model of cavitation, in the frame of the hydrodynamic lubrication. We relax the control problem, and propose a relaxed augmented Lagrangian algorithm, with a given loop length. Some numerical results are given.     

Optimization of design tolerances using nonlinear programming

A possible mathematical formulation of the practical problem of computer-aided design of electrical circuits (for example) and systems and engineering designs in general, subject to tolerances onk independent parameters, is proposed. An automated scheme is suggested, starting from arbitrary initial acceptable or unacceptable designs and culminating in designs which, under reasonable restrictions, are acceptable in the worst-case sense. It is proved, in particular, that, if the region of points in the parameter space for which designs are both feasible and acceptable satisfies a certain condition (less restrictive than convexity), then no more than 2 ^k points, the vertices of the tolerance region, need to be considered during optimization.This paper was presented at the 6th Annual Princeton Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, 1972. The author has benefitted from practical discussions with J. F. Pinel and K. A. Roberts of Bell-Northern Research. V. K. Jha programmed some numerical examples connected with this work. C. Charalambous, P. C. Liu, and N. D. Markettos have made helpful suggestions. The work was supported by Grant No. A-7239 from the National Research Council of Canada.     

Small arrays of maximum coverage

Given a set S of symbols, and integers and , an array is said to cover a t‐set of columns if all sequences in appear as rows in the corresponding subarray of A. If A covers all t‐subsets of columns, it is called an ‐covering array. These arrays have a wide variety of applications, driving the search for small covering arrays. Here, we consider an inverse problem: rather than aiming to cover all t‐sets of columns with the smallest possible array, we fix the size N of the array to be equal to and try to maximize the number of covered t‐sets. With the machinery of hypergraph Lagrangians, we provide an upper bound on the number of t‐sets that can be covered. A linear algebraic construction shows this bound to be tight; exactly so in the case when v is a prime power and divides k, and asymptotically so in other cases. As an application, by combining our construction with probabilistic arguments, we match the best‐known asymptotics of the covering array number , which is the smallest N for which an ‐covering array exists, and improve the upper bounds on the almost‐covering array number .     

The multi-product newsboy problem with supplier quantity discounts and a budget constraint

This paper considers the multi-product newsboy problem with both supplier quantity discounts and a budget constraint, while each feature has been addressed separately in the literature. Different from most previous nonlinear optimization models on the topic, the problem is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear programming model due to price discounts. A Lagrangian relaxation approach is presented to solve the problem. Computational results on both small and large-scale test instances indicate that the proposed algorithm is extremely effective for the problem. An extension to multiple constraints and preliminary computational results are also reported.     

三维水平井轨道设计模糊最优控制模型

建立了三维水平井井眼轨道设计模糊非线性多目标最优控制模型 ,利用模糊集理论把该模型转化为非线性规划问题 ,并把该模型应用到水平井的实际生产中 ,得到满意的结果 .     

Conditions and Algorithm for Optimal Solution of Probabilistic Constrained Programming

1.IntroductionAsweknow,theerroralwaysexistsinmeasurementanditisnormallydistributed,soweconsideraprobabilisticconstrainedprogrammingasbelow:WhereAeRTxnisastochaJsticmatrix,A1)A2,...,A.aretherowsofAandeachAinormallydistributedwithmeanmiandcovariancematrixDi,BER"x"isdeterministicmatrix,xisann-dimensionaldecisionvariable,b,c,daredeterministicvectorsofdimensionrtnfmrespectively,pisconstantreliabilitylevel,1相似文献   

An efficient code for the minimization of highly nonlinear and large residual least squares functions

A new code for solving the unconstrained least squares problem is given, in which a Quasi-NEWTON approximation to the second order term of the Hessian is added to the first order term of the GAUSS-NEWTON method and a line search based upon a quartile model is used. The new algorithm is shown numerically to be more efficient on large residual problems than the GAUSS-NEWTON method and a general purpose minimization algorithm based upon BFGS formula. The listing and the user's guide of the code is also given.