In this work, the nonlinear buckling and post-buckling behavior of shallow arches made of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) is investigated. Arches are susceptible to large deflections, due to their slenderness, especially when the external load exceeds the serviceability limit point. Beyond this, loss of stability may occur, the famous snap-through buckling. For this reason, curved beams can be used in...

Due to their dual behavior under tension and compression, structures with tension-only members show non-linear behavior. To analize such structures, it is necessary to use a nonlinear analysis scheme. Nonlinear analysis methods generally use gradual loading techniques with/without modification of stiffness matrix of the structure. These methods, in addition to being time consuming algorithms, a...

Dombi family of t-norms includes a parametric family of continuous strict t-norms, whose members are increasing functions of the parameter. This family of t-norms covers the whole spectrum of t-norms when the parameter is changed from zero to infinity. In this paper, we study a nonlinear optimization problem in which the constraints are defined as fuzzy relational equations (FRE) with the Dombi...

In this paper, the authors present a modified convergent analytic algorithm for the solution of nonlinear boundary value problems by means of a variable parameter method and briefly, the method is called optimal variable parameter method. This method, based on the embedding of a parameter and an auxiliary operator, provides a computational advantage for the convergence of the approximate soluti...

Variational inequality theory besides being elegant, exciting and rich, also provides us a unified and natural framework to study a large class of linear and nonlinear problems arising in mathematical and engineering sciences. Equally important is the area of operations research known as complementarity theory, which has received much attention during the last twenty years. It has been shown by...

Let F (uε) + ε(uε − w) = 0 (1) where F is a nonlinear operator in a Hilbert space H, w ∈ H is an element, and ε > 0 is a parameter. Assume that F (y) = 0, and F ′(y) is not a boundedly invertible operator. Sufficient conditions are given for the existence of the solution to (1) and for the convergence limε→0 ‖uε−y‖ = 0. An example of applications is considered. In this example F is a nonlinear ...

As an application of Hirota bilinear method, perturbation expansion truncated at different levels is used to obtain exact soliton solutions to (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear evolution equation in much simpler way in comparison to other existing methods. We have derived bilinear form of nonlinear evolution equation and using this bilinear form, bilinear Backlund transformations and construction of ...

one of the difficulties of data envelopment analysis(dea) is the problem of deciency discriminationamong efficient decision making units(dmus) and hence, yielding large number of dmus as efficientones. the main purpose of this paper is to overcome this inability. one of the methods for rankingefficient dmus is minimizing the coefficient of variation (cv) for inputs-outputs weights. in this pap...