ON THE REGULARITY OF THE MINIMUM SOLUTION OF THE RESTRAINED VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS

This paper is concerned with the regularity of minimum solution u of the following functional L(u) = integral(Omega) a alpha(beta)(x)g(ij)(u)D alpha u(i)D(beta)upsilon(i)dx on the restraint E = {u is an element of W-0(1,2) (Omega, R(N))\parallel to u parallel to L(D) = 1}. Under appropriate conditions, the bounded minimum solution u of the above functional is proved to be nothing but Holder continuous.

Monte Carlo Method for the Uncertainty Evaluation of Spatial Straightness Error Based on New Generation Geometrical Product Specification

Straightness error is an important parameter in measuring high-precision shafts. New generation geometrical product speeifieation（GPS） requires the measurement uncertainty characterizing the reliability of the results should be given together when the measurement result is given. Nowadays most researches on straightness focus on error calculation and only several research projects evaluate the measurement uncertainty based on ＂The Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement（GUM）＂. In order to compute spatial straightness error（SSE） accurately and rapidly and overcome the limitations of GUM, a quasi particle swarm optimization（QPSO） is proposed to solve the minimum zone SSE and Monte Carlo Method（MCM） is developed to estimate the measurement uncertainty. The mathematical model of minimum zone SSE is formulated. In QPSO quasi-random sequences are applied to the generation of the initial position and velocity of particles and their velocities are modified by the constriction factor approach. The flow of measurement uncertainty evaluation based on MCM is proposed, where the heart is repeatedly sampling from the probability density function（PDF） for every input quantity and evaluating the model in each case. The minimum zone SSE of a shaft measured on a Coordinate Measuring Machine（CMM） is calculated by QPSO and the measurement uncertainty is evaluated by MCM on the basis of analyzing the uncertainty contributors. The results show that the uncertainty directly influences the product judgment result. Therefore it is scientific and reasonable to consider the influence of the uncertainty in judging whether the parts are accepted or rejected, especially for those located in the uncertainty zone. The proposed method is especially suitable when the PDF of the measurand cannot adequately be approximated by a Gaussian distribution or a scaled and shifted t-distribution and the measurement model is non-linear.

A LOW-COST OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR SOLVING MINIMUM NORM LINEAR SYSTEMS AND LINEAR LEAST-SQUARES PROBLEMS

Recently,the authors proposed a low-cost approach,named Optimization Approach for Linear Systems(OPALS)for solving any kind of a consistent linear system regarding the structure,characteristics,and dimension of the coefficient matrix A.The results obtained by this approach for matrices with no structure and with indefinite symmetric part were encouraging when compare with other recent and well-known techniques.In this work,we proposed to extend the OPALS approach for solving the Linear Least-Squares Problem(LLSP)and the Minimum Norm Linear System Problem(MNLSP)using any iterative low-cost gradient-type method,avoiding the construction of the matrices AT A or AAT,and taking full advantage of the structure and form of the gradient of the proposed nonlinear objective function in the gradient direction.The combination of those conditions together with the choice of the initial iterate allow us to produce a novel and efficient low-cost numerical scheme for solving both problems.Moreover,the scheme presented in this work can also be used and extended for the weighted minimum norm linear systems and minimum norm linear least-squares problems.We include encouraging numerical results to illustrate the practical behavior of the proposed schemes.

The Sparsest Solution to the System of Absolute Value Equations

On one hand,to find the sparsest solution to the system of linear equations has been a major focus since it has a large number of applications in many areas;and on the other hand,the system of absolute value equations(AVEs)has attracted a lot of attention since many practical problems can be equivalently transformed as a system of AVEs.Motivated by the development of these two aspects,we consider the problem to find the sparsest solution to the system of AVEs in this paper.We first propose the model of the concerned problem,i.e.,to find the solution to the system of AVEs with the minimum l0-norm.Since l0-norm is difficult to handle,we relax the problem into a convex optimization problem and discuss the necessary and sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of the unique solution to the convex relaxation problem.Then,we prove that under such conditions the unique solution to the convex relaxation is exactly the sparsest solution to the system of AVEs.When the concerned system of AVEs reduces to the system of linear equations,the obtained results reduce to those given in the literature.The theoretical results obtained in this paper provide an important basis for designing numerical method to find the sparsest solution to the system of AVEs.

Minimizing stress concentrations around an elliptical hole by concentrated forces acting on the uniaxially loaded plate

When concentrated forces are applied at any points of the outer region of an ellipse in an infinite plate, the complex potentials are determined using the conformal mapping method and Cauchy＇s integral formula. And then, based on the superposition principle, the analyt- ical solutions for stress around an elliptical hole in an infinite plate subjected to a uniform far-field stress and concentrated forces, are obtained. Tangential stress concentration will occur on the hole boundary when only far-field uniform loads are applied. When concen- trated forces are applied in the reversed directions of the uniform loads, tangential stress concentration on the hole boundary can be released significantly. In order to minimize the tangential stress concentration, we need to determine the optimum positions and values of the concentrated forces. Three different optimization methods are applied to achieve this aim. The results show that the tangential stress can be released significantly when the op- timized concentrated forces are applied.