SOME STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO ENGINEERING MECHANICS PROBLEMS

Statistical Mechanics Ideas and Techniques Applied to Selected Problems in Ecology

Ecosystem dynamics provides an interesting arena for the application of a plethora concepts and techniques from statistical mechanics. Here I review three examples corresponding each one to an important problem in ecology. First, I start with an analytical derivation of clumpy patterns for species relative abundances (SRA) empirically observed in several ecological communities involving a high ...

Probability Densities for Some One-Dimensional Problems in Statistical Mechanics

Statistical mechanics applied to cooperative ligand binding to proteins.

By using the lattice statistical argument, we have shown that for a protein whose subunits have the same number of neighbors, the three parameters (K(AB), K(BB), and K(S)K(t)) in the sequential theory formulated by Koshland, Nemethy, and Filmer [Biochemistry (1966) 5, 365] can be reduced to two parameters. One of the parameters, Z, measures the strength of the subunit interactions and is relate...

Software Engineering applied to Manufacturing Problems

Optimization approaches have traditionally been viewed as tools for solving manufacturing problems, the optimization approach is not suitable for many problems arising in modern manufacturing systems due to their complexity and involvement of qualitative factors. In this paper we use a tool of software engineering applied to manufacturing problems. We use the Heuristics Lab software to determin...

HYBRID TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO OPTIl\tIIZATION PROBLEMS

A function dependent on the solution of a set of differential equations containing adjust~ able parameters, can be minimized by systematic search procedures in parameter space. Such procedures can be implemented by a hybrid system consisting of a general purpose analog computer and a digital expansion providing parallel logic building blocks. Programming of such a system is illustrated for a si...