Slope analysis based on local strength reduction method and variable-modulus elasto-plastic model

Employing an ideal elasto-plastic model,the typically used strength reduction method reduced the strength of all soil elements of a slope.Therefore,this method was called the global strength reduction method(GSRM).However,the deformation field obtained by GSRM could not reflect the real deformation of a slope when the slope became unstable.For most slopes,failure occurs once the strength of some regional soil is sufficiently weakened; thus,the local strength reduction method(LSRM)was proposed to analyze slope stability.In contrast with GSRM,LSRM only reduces the strength of local soil,while the strength of other soil remains unchanged.Therefore,deformation by LSRM is more reasonable than that by GSRM.In addition,the accuracy of the slope's deformation depends on the constitutive model to a large degree,and the variable-modulus elasto-plastic model was thus adopted.This constitutive model was an improvement of the Duncan–Chang model,which modified soil's deformation modulus according to stress level,and it thus better reflected the plastic feature of soil.Most importantly,the parameters of the variable-modulus elasto-plastic model could be determined through in-situ tests,and parameters determination by plate loading test and pressuremeter test were introduced.Therefore,it is easy to put this model into practice.Finally,LSRM and the variable-modulus elasto-plastic model were used to analyze Egongdai ancient landslide.Safety factor,deformation field,and optimal reinforcement measures for Egongdai ancient landslide were obtained based on the proposed method.

Static output feedback stabilization for second-order singular systems using model reduction methods

In this paper,the static output feedback stabilization for large-scale unstable second-order singular systems is investigated.First,the upper bound of all unstable eigenvalues of second-order singular systems is derived.Then,by using the argument principle,a computable stability criterion is proposed to check the stability of secondorder singular systems.Furthermore,by applying model reduction methods to original systems,a static output feedback design algorithm for stabilizing second-order singular systems is presented.A simulation example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the design algorithm.

Frequency-domain generelaized singular peruturbation method for relative error model order reduction

A new mixed method for relative error model order reduction is proposed. In the proposed method the frequency domain balanced stochastic truncation method is improved by applying the generalized singular perturbation method to the frequency domain balanced system in the reduction procedure. The frequency domain balanced stochastic truncation method, which was proposed in [15] and [17] by the author, is based on two recently developed methods, namely frequency domain balanced truncation within a desired frequency bound and inner-outer factorization techniques. The proposed method in ttiis paper is a carry over of the frequency-domain balanced stochastic truncation and is of interest for practical model order reduction because in this context it shows to keep the accuracy of the approximation as high as possible without sacrificing the computational efficiency and important system properties. It is shown that some important properties of the frequency domain stochastic balanced reduction technique are extended to the proposed reduction method by using the concept and properties of the reciprocal systems. Numerical results show the accuracy, simplicity and flexibility enhancement of the method.

A Teaching Experiment in Modelling through Scale Reduction Methods： A Bridge to Later Trigonometric Methods

In a teaching experiment, Japanese Grade 9 students investigated how to measure the height of an aerial balloon using different models involving angles and distances, and also to evaluate the models they developed. As novices to mathematical modelling, they needed to decide which of several possible models were both valid and practicable, and the errors in measurement that are likely to arise. Opportunities to construct and use paper models, as scale reductions of the real situation, and discussing their results in small groups were effective in moving forward the thinking of many students on the dimensions mentioned above. While students were less able to identify different sources of errors, many came to appreciate the need to learn trigonometric techniques that are more suitable in dealing with problems of this kind.

Methods in Model Order Reduction(MOR) field

Nowadays,the modeling of systems may be quite large,even up to tens of thousands orders.In spite of the increasing computational powers,direct simulation of these large-scale systems may be impractical.Thus,to industry requirements,analytically tractable and computationally cheap models must be designed.This is the essence task of Model Order Reduction(MOR).This article describes the basics of MOR optimization,various way of designing MOR,and gives the conclusion about existing methods.In addition,it proposed some heuristic footpath.

Simplified Homogeneous Balance Method and Its Applications to the Whitham-Broer-Kaup Model Equations

A nonlinear transformation of the Whitham-Broer-Kaup (WBK) model equations in the shallow water small-amplitude regime is derived by using a simplified homogeneous balance method. The WBK model equations are linearized under the nonlinear transformation. Various exact solutions of the WBK model equations are obtained via the nonlinear transformation with the aid of solutions for the linear equation.

Application of strength reduction method to dynamic anti-sliding stability analysis of high gravity dam with complex dam foundation

Considering that there are some limitations in analyzing the anti-sliding seismic stability of dam-foundation systems with the traditional pseudo-static method and response spectrum method, the dynamic strength reduction method was used to study the deep anti-sliding stability of a high gravity dam with a complex dam foundation in response to strong earthquake-induced ground action. Based on static anti-sliding stability analysis of the dam foundation undertaken by decreasing the shear strength parameters of the rock mass in equal proportion, the seismic time history analysis was carried out. The proposed instability criterion for the dynamic strength reduction method was that the peak values of dynamic displacements and plastic strain energy change suddenly with the increase of the strength reduction factor. The elasto-plastic behavior of the dam foundation was idealized using the Drucker-Prager yield criterion based on the associated flow rule assumption. The result of elasto-plastic time history analysis of an overflow dam monolith based on the dynamic strength reduction method was compared with that of the dynamic linear elastic analysis, and the reliability of elasto-plastic time history analysis was confirmed. The results also show that the safety factors of the dam-foundation system in the static and dynamic cases are 3.25 and 3.0, respectively, and that the F2 fault has a significant influence on the anti-sliding stability of the high gravity dam. It is also concluded that the proposed instability criterion for the dynamic strength reduction method is feasible.

Application of the Method of Characteristics to Population Balance Models Considering Growth and Nucleation Phenomena

The population balance modeling is regarded as a universally accepted mathematical framework for dynamic simulation of various particulate processes, such as crystallization, granulation and polymerization. This article is concerned with the application of the method of characteristics (MOC) for solving population balance models describing batch crystallization process. The growth and nucleation are considered as dominant phenomena, while the breakage and aggregation are neglected. The numerical solutions of such PBEs require high order accuracy due to the occurrence of steep moving fronts and narrow peaks in the solutions. The MOC has been found to be a very effective technique for resolving sharp discontinuities. Different case studies are carried out to analyze the accuracy of proposed algorithm. For validation, the results of MOC are compared with the available analytical solutions and the results of finite volume schemes. The results of MOC were found to be in good agreement with analytical solutions and superior than those obtained by finite volume schemes.

Source Apportionment of Ambient PM_(10) in the Urban Area of Longyan City,China:a Comparative Study Based on Chemical Mass Balance Model and Factor Analysis Method

In order to identify the day and night pollution sources of PM10 in ambient air in Longyan City,the authors analyzed the elemental composition of respirable particulate matters in the day and night ambient air samples and various pollution sources which were collected in January 2010 in Longyan with inductivity coupled plasma-mass spectrometry（ICP-MS）.Then chemical mass balance（CMB） model and factor analysis（FA） method were applied to comparatively study the inorganic components in the sources and receptor samples.The results of factor analysis show that the major sources were road dust,waste incineration and mixed sources which contained automobile exhaust,soil dust/secondary dust and coal dust during the daytime in Longyan City,China.There are two major sources of pollution which are soil dust and mixture sources of automobile exhaust and secondary dust during the night in Longyan.The results of CMB show that the major sources are secondary dust,automobile exhaust and road dust during the daytime in Longyan.The major sources are secondary dust,soil dust and automobile exhaust during the night in Longyan.The results of the two methods are similar to each other and the results will guide us to plan to control the PM10 pollution sources in Longyan.

BALANCED TRUNCATED MODELS OF C INTERCONNECT CIRCUITS AND THEIR SIMULATION

The Balanced Truncation Method (BTM) is applied to an even distributed RC interconnect case by using Wang's closed-forms of even distributed RC interconnect models. The results show that extremely high order RC interconnect can be high-accurately approximated by only third order balanced model. Related simulations are executed in both time domain and frequency domain. The results may be applied to VLSI interconnect model reduction and design.

Model reduction and active control of flexible beam using internal balance technique

The internal balance technique is effective for the model reduction in flexible structures, especially the ones with dense frequencies. However, due to the difficulty in extracting the internal balance modal coordinates from the physical sensor readings, research on this topic has been mostly theoretical so far, and little has been done in experiments or engineering applications. This paper studies the internal balance method theoretically as well as experimentally and designs an active controller based on the reduction model. The research works on a digital signal processor （DSP） TMS320F2812- based experiment system with a flexible beam and proposes an approximate approach to access the internal balance modal coordinates. The simulation and test results have shown that the proposed approach is feasible and effective, and the designed controller is successful in restraining the beam vibration.

Stable Routh-Padé-type approximation in model reduction of interval systems

An interval Pade-type approximation is introduced and then Routh-Pade-type method （IRPTM） is presented to model reduction in interval systems. The denominator in reduced model is obtained from the stable Routh table, and its numerator is constructed by the interval Pade-type definition. Compared to the existing Routh-Pade method, IRPTM does not need to solve linear interval equations theoretical analysis shows that IRPTM has example is given to illustrate our method. Hence, we do not have to compute smaller computational cost than that interval division in the process. Moreover, of Routh-Pade method. A typical numerical

Model Reduction of 2-D IIR Filters

The work presented in this paper concerns with analysis and synthesis of the two-dimensional Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters based on model order reduction. The synthesis is performed with two methods, the Prony's method (Prony modified) and Iterative method, in the spatial domain, and with the method of Semi-Definite iterative Programming (SDP), in the frequency domain. After synthesis, we make an order reduction of the filter model by the Quasi-Gramians method.

On the Modal and Non-Modal Model Reduction of Metallic Structures with Variable Boundary Conditions

Vibration mode based model reduction methods like Component Mode Synthesis (CMS) will be compared to methods coming from control engineering, namely moment matching (MM) and balanced truncation (BT). Conclusions based on the theory together with a numerical demonstration will be presented. The key issues on which the paper is focused are the reduction of metallic structures, the sensitivity of the reduced model to varying boundary conditions, full system response, accurate statics and the possibility to determine “a priori” the number of needed modes (trial vectors). These are important topics for the use of reduction methods in general and in particular for the implementation of FE models in multi body system dynamics where model reduction is widely used. The intention of this paper is to give insight into the methods nature and to clarify the strengths and limitations of the three methods. It turns out, that in the considered framework CMS delivers the best results together with a clear strategy for an “a priori” selection of the modes (trial vectors).

Exponentially Convergent Multiscale Finite Element Method

We provide a concise review of the exponentially convergent multiscale finite element method(ExpMsFEM)for efficient model reduction of PDEs in heterogeneous media without scale separation and in high-frequency wave propagation.The ExpMsFEM is built on the non-overlapped domain decomposition in the classical MsFEM while enriching the approximation space systematically to achieve a nearly exponential convergence rate regarding the number of basis functions.Unlike most generalizations of the MsFEM in the literature,the ExpMsFEM does not rely on any partition of unity functions.In general,it is necessary to use function representations dependent on the right-hand side to break the algebraic Kolmogorov n-width barrier to achieve exponential convergence.Indeed,there are online and offline parts in the function representation provided by the ExpMsFEM.The online part depends on the right-hand side locally and can be computed in parallel efficiently.The offline part contains basis functions that are used in the Galerkin method to assemble the stiffness matrix;they are all independent of the right-hand side,so the stiffness matrix can be used repeatedly in multi-query scenarios.

高速公路建设期碳排放量化分析及特性研究

将高速公路建设过程划分为材料生产、材料运输和施工3个阶段,利用碳排放因子法构建高速公路建设期各个阶段的碳排放核算模型,以秦唐高速公路为研究对象进行定量分析,并提出高速公路建设期碳减排建议。计算结果表明:秦唐高速公路建设期总碳排放量为43.72万t,碳排放强度为1.58万t/km,各阶段碳排放占比分别为91.51%,7.81%和0.68%;材料生产阶段碳排放量最高为40.00万t,碳排放强度为1.44万t/km,其中水泥和钢材的生产加工为高速公路材料生产阶段碳排放的关键;在所有单位工程中,超过80%的碳排放来自交叉工程、桥涵工程和路基工程,其中交叉工程碳排放量最大,占总工程的36.84%。

基于W2ID准则的RichModel隐写检测特征选取方法

数字隐写是信息安全领域一个重要分支,其通过将秘密信息嵌入到数字图像、声音、视频等文件中并通过公开信道(如:Email邮箱、微博推文和即时通信等)进行传递,从而实现信息的隐蔽通信.图像自适应隐写是近年来数字隐写技术的研究热点,而Rich Model特征是检测图像自适应隐写的一大类主流高维特征,这类高维特征在实现对图像自适应隐写较高检测正确率的同时,带来了高额的计算开销和和存储开销,并使得隐写检测中的分类器训练变得极为困难.为此,本文提出了一种基于加权类间距离和类内距离差异准则(W2ID准则)的图像Rich Model隐写检测特征选取方法(记为W2ID-α方法).首先,在对Fisher-based方法这一隐写检测特征经典选取方法进行原理分析的基础上,指出该方法可能存在误删有用特征分量、保留冗余和冲突特征分量的不足;然后,通过将"类内距离差异"原则引入到隐写检测特征分量的可分性度量,提出了基于类间距离和类内距离差异的特征可分性度量准则(简记为2ID准则),给出了类内距离差异的一个相关性质;同时,为了合理体现"类间距离"的重要性,本文提出了基于频数统计加权法的权重分配算法,为该准则分配合理权重,使得对特征分量可分性的度量结果相比传统的Fisher准则更为准确;最后,依据W2ID准则的度量结果,基于决策粗糙集α-正域约简方法约简隐写检测特征分量,并在约简特征分量过程中,将每次处理一个特征分量改进为每次处理一组特征分量,以提升决策粗糙集α-正域约简的效率.提出的W2ID-α方法因无需设置可分性下限,避免了阈值设置不准确可能造成去除有用特征分量的问题,从而消除了现有Steganalysis-α隐写检测特征选取方法依赖经验参数的问题.基于数字隐写领域通用的BOSSbase-1.01图像库10 000幅原始图像和基于经典SI-UNIWARD隐写方法生成的多组隐写图像,针对从这些图像组每幅图像中提取的35263维J+SRM特征和17000维GFR特征(两类典型的图像Rich Model隐写检测特征),进行了一系列特征选取实验,结果表明:本文提出的W2ID-α方法能够在大幅降低Rich Model隐写检测特征维数的同时,基于选取后特征的隐写检测提高了对隐写图像的检测正确率,与Fisher-based、Steganalysis-α和PCA-based等现有典型特征选取方法相比具有显著优势,如对嵌入率=0.1的SI-UNIWARD隐写图像,基于提出的W2ID-α方法将J+SRM特征从35 263维降到2723维的同时,还提高了 3.63%的检测正确率.

Advanced System-Level Model Reduction Method for Multi-Converter DC Power Systems

For dynamic stability analysis and instability mechanism understanding of multi-converter medium voltage DC power systems with droop-based double-loop control,an advanced system-level model reduction method is proposed.With this method,mathematical relationships of control parameters(e.g.,current and voltage control parameters)between the system and its equivalent reduced-order model are established.First,open-loop and closed-loop equivalent reduced-order models of current control loop considering dynamic interaction among converters are established.An instability mechanism(e.g.,unreasonable current control parameters)of the system can be revealed intuitively.Theoretical guidance for adjustment of current control parameters can also be given.Then,considering dynamic interaction of current control among converters,open-loop and closed-loop equivalent reduced-order models of voltage control loop are established.Oscillation frequency and damping factor of DC bus voltage in a wide oscillation frequency range(e.g.,10–50 Hz)can be evaluated accurately.More importantly,accuracy of advanced system-level model reduction method is not compromised,even for MVDC power systems with inconsistent control parameters and different number of converters.Finally,experiments in RT-BOX hardware-in-the-loop experimental platform are conducted to validate the advanced system-level model reduction method.

AUTO-DARBOUX TRANSFORMATION AND EXACT SOLUTIONS OF THE BRUSSELATOR REACTION DIFFUSION MODEL

Firstly, using the improved homogeneous balance method, an auto-Darboux transformation (ADT) for the Brusselator reaction diffusion model is found. Based on the ADT, several exact solutions are obtained which contain some authors' results known. Secondly, by using a series of transformations, the model is reduced into a nonlinear reaction diffusion equation and then through using sine-cosine method, more exact solutions are found which contain soliton solutions.

Second-order difference scheme for a nonlinear model of wood drying process

A numerical simulation for a model of wood drying process is considered. The model is given by a couple of nonlinear differential equations. One is a nonlinear parabolic equation and the other one is a nonlinear ordinary equation. A difference scheme is derived by the method of reduction of order. First, a new variable is introduced and the original problem is rewritten into a system of the first-order differential equations. Secondly, a difference scheme is constructed for the later problem. The solvability, stability and convergence of the difference scheme are proved by the energy method. The convergence order of the difference scheme is secondorder both in time and in space. A prior error estimate is put forward. The new variable is put aside to reduce the computational cost. A numerical example testifies the theoretical result.