Automatically choosing suitable native storage structures for XML documents arriving at the XML DBMS is a challenging task for its storage manager. While some of the critical parameters require pre-specification, others can be determined by pre-analysis or sampling of the incoming document or by just making experience-driven “educated guesses”. In this paper, we discuss approaches to achieve an...

The aim of this work is to study the asymptotic behavior of a structure made of plates of thickness 2δ when δ→0. This study is carried on within the frame of linear elasticity by using the unfolding method. It is based on several decompositions of the structure displacements and on the passing to the limit in fixed domains. We begin with studying the displacements of a plate. We show that any d...

The numerical simulation of structural parts made from polymers is becoming increasingly important. Although highly sophisticated material laws are available in commercial finite element programs, there are still open questions, especially for crashworthiness analysis. In this paper, we restrict our attention to the explicit solver of LS-DYNA, see [1] and [2]. However, the results are transfera...

We prove two existence theorems for the integrodifferential equation of mixed type: x′(t) = f (t,x(t), t0k1(t,s)g(s,x(s))ds, ∫ a 0k2(t,s)h(s,x(s))ds), x(0) = x0, where in the first part of this paper f , g, h, x are functions with values in a Banach space E and integrals are taken in the sense of Henstock-Kurzweil (HK). In the second part f , g, h, x are weakly-weakly sequentially continuous fu...