Upper and Lower Bounds for Incipient Failure in a Body Under Gravitational Loading

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 586-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Chamberlain, ◽  
D. J. Horrobin, ◽  
K. A. Landman, and ◽  
J. E. Sader

Recent numerical work has investigated incipient failure of yield stress materials under gravitational loading, for both the rectangular block and cylinder geometries [Chamberlain et al.; 2001, Int. J. Mech. Sci. 43(3):793-815, 2002, Int. J. Mech. Sci. 44(8):1779-1800]. While the rectangular block solution is exact, the cylinder solutions give lower bounds on the height of incipient failure. Consequently, we construct upper bound solutions for the height of incipient failure of a cylinder under gravitational loading. This closes the cylinder problem and quantifies the accuracy of the Haar-Karman hypothesis used in slip-line analysis. For completeness, we also give a simple lower bound solution for the cylinder, as well as upper and lower bound solutions for the two-dimensional rectangular block. These results have the advantage of being analytical, in contrast to the previous purely numerical results.

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 766-768
Author(s):  
N. Inoue ◽  
H. Nakagawa ◽  
T. Nakayama ◽  
M. Shimono ◽  
T. Tanaka

A new method for obtaining statically admissible states of stress in plane strain in the mathematical theory of plasticity is presented. After deriving a general solution, the proposed procedure is exemplified by a known solution of a thick circular cylinder subjected to internal pressure. The method is applied to a thick circular cylinder subjected to internal pressure and shear, and a lower-bound solution is given.


Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Tobias Rupp ◽  
Stefan Funke

We prove a Ω(n) lower bound on the query time for contraction hierarchies (CH) as well as hub labels, two popular speed-up techniques for shortest path routing. Our construction is based on a graph family not too far from subgraphs that occur in real-world road networks, in particular, it is planar and has a bounded degree. Additionally, we borrow ideas from our lower bound proof to come up with instance-based lower bounds for concrete road network instances of moderate size, reaching up to 96% of an upper bound given by a constructed CH. For a variant of our instance-based schema applied to some special graph classes, we can even show matching upper and lower bounds.


Algorithmica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungbum Jo ◽  
Rahul Lingala ◽  
Srinivasa Rao Satti

AbstractWe consider the problem of encoding two-dimensional arrays, whose elements come from a total order, for answering $${\text{Top-}}{k}$$ Top- k queries. The aim is to obtain encodings that use space close to the information-theoretic lower bound, which can be constructed efficiently. For an $$m \times n$$ m × n array, with $$m \le n$$ m ≤ n , we first propose an encoding for answering 1-sided $${\textsf {Top}}{\text {-}}k{}$$ Top - k queries, whose query range is restricted to $$[1 \dots m][1 \dots a]$$ [ 1 ⋯ m ] [ 1 ⋯ a ] , for $$1 \le a \le n$$ 1 ≤ a ≤ n . Next, we propose an encoding for answering for the general (4-sided) $${\textsf {Top}}{\text {-}}k{}$$ Top - k queries that takes $$(m\lg {{(k+1)n \atopwithdelims ()n}}+2nm(m-1)+o(n))$$ ( m lg ( k + 1 ) n n + 2 n m ( m - 1 ) + o ( n ) ) bits, which generalizes the joint Cartesian tree of Golin et al. [TCS 2016]. Compared with trivial $$O(nm\lg {n})$$ O ( n m lg n ) -bit encoding, our encoding takes less space when $$m = o(\lg {n})$$ m = o ( lg n ) . In addition to the upper bound results for the encodings, we also give lower bounds on encodings for answering 1 and 4-sided $${\textsf {Top}}{\text {-}}k{}$$ Top - k queries, which show that our upper bound results are almost optimal.


10.37236/3097 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fateme Raei Barandagh ◽  
Amir Rahnamai Barghi

Let $n>1$ be an integer and $p$ be a prime number. Denote by $\mathfrak{C}_{p^n}$ the class of non-thin association $p$-schemes of degree $p^n$. A sharp upper and lower bounds on the rank of schemes in $\mathfrak{C}_{p^n}$ with a certain order of thin radical are obtained. Moreover, all schemes in this class whose rank are equal to the lower bound are characterized and some schemes in this class whose rank are equal to the upper bound are constructed. Finally, it is shown that the scheme with minimum rank in $\mathfrak{C}_{p^n}$ is unique up to isomorphism, and it is a fusion of any association $p$-schemes with degree $p^n$.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-181
Author(s):  
Audra McMillan ◽  
Adam Smith

Abstract Block graphons (also called stochastic block models) are an important and widely studied class of models for random networks. We provide a lower bound on the accuracy of estimators for block graphons with a large number of blocks. We show that, given only the number $k$ of blocks and an upper bound $\rho$ on the values (connection probabilities) of the graphon, every estimator incurs error ${\it{\Omega}}\left(\min\left(\rho, \sqrt{\frac{\rho k^2}{n^2}}\right)\right)$ in the $\delta_2$ metric with constant probability for at least some graphons. In particular, our bound rules out any non-trivial estimation (that is, with $\delta_2$ error substantially less than $\rho$) when $k\geq n\sqrt{\rho}$. Combined with previous upper and lower bounds, our results characterize, up to logarithmic terms, the accuracy of graphon estimation in the $\delta_2$ metric. A similar lower bound to ours was obtained independently by Klopp et al.


2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (07) ◽  
pp. 877-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTIN KUTRIB ◽  
ANDREAS MALCHER ◽  
MATTHIAS WENDLANDT

We investigate the descriptional complexity of deterministic one-way multi-head finite automata accepting unary languages. It is known that in this case the languages accepted are regular. Thus, we study the increase of the number of states when an n-state k-head finite automaton is simulated by a classical (one-head) deterministic or nondeterministic finite automaton. In the former case upper and lower bounds that are tight in the order of magnitude are shown. For the latter case we obtain an upper bound of O(n2k) and a lower bound of Ω(nk) states. We investigate also the costs for the conversion of one-head nondeterministic finite automata to deterministic k-head finite automata, that is, we trade nondeterminism for heads. In addition, we study how the conversion costs vary in the special case of finite and, in particular, of singleton unary lanuages. Finally, as an application of the simulation results, we show that decidability problems for unary deterministic k-head finite automata such as emptiness or equivalence are LOGSPACE-complete.


2010 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 363-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHARLES R. JOHNSON ◽  
YULIN ZHANG

Given are tight upper and lower bounds for the minimum rank among all matrices with a prescribed zero–nonzero pattern. The upper bound is based upon solving for a matrix with a given null space and, with optimal choices, produces the correct minimum rank. It leads to simple, but often accurate, bounds based upon overt statistics of the pattern. The lower bound is also conceptually simple. Often, the lower and an upper bound coincide, but examples are given in which they do not.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document