Oil and gas pipelines are the main channel to ensure national energy security economic development due safety efficiency of transportation coast. To achieve an optimal state pipeline operation in terms is crucial important issue throughout life cycle a system. However, optimization problem network system typical Mixed Integer Non-Linear Problem (MINLP) which extremely difficult solve. An soluti...

Nonlinear behavior of a functionally graded cantilever beam is analyzed under non-uniform hygro-thermal effect. To solve this problem, finite element method is applied within plane solid continua. Total Lagrangian approach is utilized in the nonlinear kinematic relations. Newton-Raphson method with incremental displacement is used in nonlinear solution. Comparison study is performed. Effects of...

There is a need to provide haptic and tactile feedback to surgeons during robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS). Such feedback is also essential for palpation based diagnostic during cancer removal using MIS. There have been recent efforts at developing a mechatronic finger to mimic some of the palpation capabilities of a human finger. These mechatronic fingers typically record force...

One of the most commonly used statistical models for characterizing the variations of tree diameter at breast height is Weibull distribution. The usual approach for estimating parameters of a statistical model is the maximum likelihood estimation (likelihood method). Usually, this works based on iterative algorithms such as Newton-Raphson. However, the efficiency of the likelihood method is not...

Displacement measurement was conducted on compact normal and shear specimens made of acrylic homogeneous material subjected to mixed-mode loading by digital image correlation. The intelligent hybrid method proposed by Nishioka et al. was applied to the stress-strain analysis near the crack tip. The accuracy of stress-intensity factor at the free surface was discussed from the viewpoint of both ...

This paper applies genetic algorithms to the problem of induction motor parameter determination. Generally available manufacturers published data like starting torque, breakdown torque, full load torque, full load power factor etc, are used to determine the motor parameters for subsequent use in studying machine transients. Results from several versions of the genetic algorithm are presented as...

The in ltration process is generally described by a nonlinear di erential equation, which can be solved by iteration methods such as a Newton-Raphson method. In this paper we propose a Discrete Event System Speci cation(DEVS) model for Green-Ampt in ltration. We show that this model can be approximated using Genetic Algorithm optimization of a fuzzy system. The fuzzy approximation is shown to b...

A number of facts about quadratic algebraic problems and applied Newton–Raphson like methods are presented. The main results are about solution structure, loading trajectories, load flow feasibility boundaries and Newton–Raphson solutions. Various practically important applications of these properties are discussed. Although motivated by power flow problems, the results are valid for any proble...

In engineering applications, the singularity, and the forward and inverse displacement of spatial parallel manipulators have received a great deal of attention. This paper presents a new simple but effective methodology to investigate these problems based on the analysis of the degree of freedom (DoF) of the spatial parallel manipulator. Through numerical method, the singularity and the forward...

In this article the homotopy continuation method (HCM) to solve the forward kinematic problem of the 3-PRS parallel manipulator is used. Since there are many difficulties in solving the system of nonlinear equations in kinematics of manipulators, the numerical solutions like Newton-Raphson are inevitably used. When dealing with any numerical solution, there are two troublesome problems. One is ...