Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 167 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Thesis (Ph.D)--Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. / Committee Chair: Houdre, Christian; Committee Member: Bakhtin, Yuri; Committee Member: Foley, Robert; Committee Member: Koltchinskii, Vladimir; Committee Member: Lifshitz, Mikhail; Committee Member: Matzinger, Heinrich; Committee Member: Popescu, Ionel. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Rhode Island, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-177).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Ενώ η πραγματική ανάλυση φαίνεται να έχει προβάδισμα όσο αφορά στον τρόπο επίλυσης των περισσότερων προβλημάτων λογισμού που διδάσκονται τόσο σε σχολικό όσο και σε πανεπιστημιακό επίπεδο, η πραγματικότητα είναι διαφορετική. Ουσιαστικά, ελάχιστα προβλήματα της εφαρμοσμένης ανάλυσης λύνονται αναλυτικά, καθώς οι λύσεις που προκύπτουν είναι συχνά υπό μορφή ολοκληρωμάτων που δεν υπολογίζονται στοιχειωδώς. Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία γίνεται προσπάθεια αντιμετώπισης κάποιων ολοκληρωμάτων με τεχνικές της ασυμπτωτικής ανάλυσης. Αφότου αποσαφηνιστούν κάποιες βασικές έννοιες της ασυμπτωτικής ανάλυσης, παρουσιάζονται πέντε μέθοδοι υπολογισμού ολοκληρωμάτων μέσω ασυμπτωτικών αναπτυγμάτων. Το σύνολο τους, καλύπτει ένα αρκετά ευρύ φάσμα ανάλυσης και υπολογισμού τέτοιου τύπου ολοκληρωμάτων και η κάθε μια από αυτές, εξιδεικεύεται σε συγκεκριμένες περιπτώσεις, ανάλογα με το χώρο στον οποίο ανήκουν οι υπό ολοκλήρωση συναρτήσεις καθώς και το πεδίο ολοκλήρωσης. / -

One of the most important branches of applied mechanics is the theory of plates - defined to be plane structural elements whose thickness is very small when compared to the two planar dimensions. There is an abundance of plate theories in the literature modeling classical elastic solids that fit this description. Recently, however, there has been a steady growth of interest in modeling materials with microstructures that exhibit length-scale dependent behavior, generally known as Cosserat elastic materials. Concurrently, there has also been an increased interest in the construction of reduced dimensional models of such materials owing to advantages like reduced computational effort and a simpler, yet elegant, resulting mathematical formulation. The objective of this work is the formulation and implementation of a theory of elastic plates with microstructure. The mathematical underpinning of the approach used is the Variational Asymptotic Method (VAM), a powerful tool used to construct asymptotically correct plate models. Unlike existing Cosserat plate models in the literature, the VAM allows for a plate formulation that is free of a priori assumptions regarding the kinematics. The result is a systematic derivation of the two-dimensional constitutive relations and a set of geometrically-exact, fully intrinsic equations gov- erning the motion of a plate. An important consequence is the extraction of the drilling degree of freedom and the associated stiffness. Finally, a Galerkin approach for the solution of the fully-intrinsic formulation will be developed for a Cosserat sur- face analysis which will also be compatible with more traditional plate solvers based on the classical theory of elasticity. Results and validation are presented from linear static and dynamic analyses, along with a discussion on some challenges and solution techniques for nonlinear problems.One of the most important branches of applied mechanics is the theory of plates - defined to be plane structural elements whose thickness is very small when compared to the two planar dimensions. There is an abundance of plate theories in the literature modeling classical elastic solids that fit this description. Recently, however, there has been a steady growth of interest in modeling materials with microstructures that exhibit length-scale dependent behavior, generally known as Cosserat elastic materials. Concurrently, there has also been an increased interest in the construction of reduced dimensional models of such materials owing to advantages like reduced computational effort and a simpler, yet elegant, resulting mathematical formulation. The objective of this work is the formulation and implementation of a theory of elastic plates with microstructure. The mathematical underpinning of the approach used is the Variational Asymptotic Method (VAM), a powerful tool used to construct asymptotically correct plate models. Unlike existing Cosserat plate models in the literature, the VAM allows for a plate formulation that is free of a priori assumptions regarding the kinematics. The result is a systematic derivation of the two-dimensional constitutive relations and a set of geometrically-exact, fully intrinsic equations gov- erning the motion of a plate. An important consequence is the extraction of the drilling degree of freedom and the associated stiffness. Finally, a Galerkin approach for the solution of the fully-intrinsic formulation will be developed for a Cosserat sur- face analysis which will also be compatible with more traditional plate solvers based on the classical theory of elasticity. Results and validation are presented from linear static and dynamic analyses, along with a discussion on some challenges and solution techniques for nonlinear problems.

This thesis explores opportunities in the mathematical modelling of metal rolling processes, specifically asymmetrical sheet rolling. With the application of control systems in mind, desired mathematical models must make adequate predictions with short computational times. This renders generic numerical approaches inappropriate. Previous analytical models of symmetrical sheet rolling have relied on ad hoc assumptions about the form of the solution. The work within this thesis begins by generalising symmetric asymptotic rolling models: models that make systematic assumptions about the rolling configuration. Using assumptions that apply to cold rolling, these models are generalised to include asymmetries in roll size, roll speed and roll-workpiece friction conditions. The systematic procedure of asymptotic analysis makes this approach flexible to incorporating alternative friction and material models. A further generalisation of a clad-sheet workpiece is presented to illustrate this. Whilst this model was formulated and solved successfully, deterioration of the results for any workpiece inhomogeneity demonstrates the limitations of some of the assumptions used in these two models. Attention is then turned to curvature prediction. A review of workpiece curvature studies shows that contradictions exist in the literature; and complex non-linear relationships are seen to exist between asymmetries, roll geometry and induced curvature. The collated data from the studies reviewed were insufficient to determine these relationships empirically; and neither analytical models, including those developed thus far, nor linear regressions are able to predict these data. Another asymmetric rolling model is developed with alternative asymptotic assumptions, which shows non-linear behaviour over ranges of asymmetries and geometric parameters. While quantitative curvature predictions are not achieved, metrics of mechanisms hypothesised to drive curvature indicate these non-linear curvature trends may be captured with further refinement. Finally, coupling a curved beam model with a curvature predicting rolling model is proposed to model the ring rolling process. Both of these parts are implemented but convergence between them is not yet achieved. By analogy this could be extended with shell theory and a three-dimensional rolling model to model the wheeling process.

We give asymptotics near the boundary for the distribution of the first exit time of the isotropic alpha-stable Levy process on bounded Lipschitz sets in real euclidean space. These asymptotics bear some relation to the existence of limits in the Yaglom sense of alpha-stable processes. Our approach relies on the uniform integrability of the ratio of Green functions on bounded Lipschitz sets. We use bounds for the heat remainder to give the first two terms in the small time asymptotic expansion of the trace of the heat kernel of unimodal Levy processes satisfying some weak scaling conditions on bounded Lipschitz domains.

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Modern technologies require the materials with combinations of properties that can not be met by conventional single phase materials. This requirement leads to the development of composite materials or other materials with engineered microstructures, such as polymer composites and nanotube. Though the well-established finite element analysis (FEA) has the ability to analyze a small portion of such material, for the whole structure, the total degrees of freedom of a finite element model can easily exceed the bearable time in analysis or the capability of the best mainstream computers. To reduce the total degrees of freedom and save the computational efforts, an efficient way is to use a simpler and coarser mesh at the structure level with the micro level complexities captured by a homogenization method. Throughout the dissertation, the homogenization is carried on by variational asymptotic method which has been developed recently as the Variational Asymptotic Method for Unit Cell Homogenization (VAMUCH). This methodology is also expandable to the structure analysis as long as a representative structural element (RSE) can be obtained from structure. In the present research, the following problems are handled: (1) Maximizing the flexibility of choosing a RSE; (2) Bounding the effective properties of a random RSE; (3) Obtaining the equivalent plate stiffnesses for a corrugated plate from a RSE; (4) Extending the shell element of relative degree of freedom to analyze thin-walled RSE. These problems covered some important topics in homogenization theory. Firstly, the rules need to be followed when choosing a unit cell from a structure that can be homogenized. Secondly, for a randomly packed structure, the efficient way to predict effective material properties is to predict their bounds. Then, the composite material homogenization and the structural homogenization can be unied from a mathematical point of view, thus the repeating structure can be always simplified by the homogenization method. Lastly, the efficiency of analyzing thin-walled structures has been enhanced by the new type of shell element. In this research, the first two topics have been solved numerically through the finite element method under the framework of VAMUCH. The third one has been solved both analytically and numerically, and in the last, a new type of element has been implemented in VAMUCH to adapt the characteristics of a thin-walled problem. Numerous examples have demonstrated VAMUCH application and accuracy as a general-purpose analysis tool.