Abstract: In this paper, a shell finite element formulation to analyze highly deformable shell structures composed of homogeneous rubberlike materials is presented. The element is a triangular shell of anyorder with seven nodal parameters. The shell kinematics is based on geometrically exact Lagrangian description and on the ReissnerMindlin hypothesis. The finite element can represent thickness...

For a surface F in 3-space that is represented by a set S of sample points, we construct a coarse approximating polytope P that uses a subset of S as its vertices and preserves the topology ofF . In contrast to surface reconstruction we do not use all the sample points, but we try to use as few points as possible. Such a polytope P is useful as a ‘seed polytope’ for starting an incremental refi...

let r and s be reduced rings with identities whose idempotents are central, and let m be an(r, s)-bimodule such that annr (m)=0. in this paper, we determine first the structure of automorphisms ofthe triangular ring, =sr mt0, and then, for all automorphisms α ,β of t we determine the structureof (α,β)-derivations of t.

The main purpose of this paper is to determine the fine spectrum of the generalized upper triangular double-band matrices uv over the sequence spaces c0 and c. These results are more general than the spectrum of upper triangular double-band matrices of Karakaya and Altun[V. Karakaya, M. Altun, Fine spectra of upper triangular doubleband matrices, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics...

The problem we are dealing with is the following: find two sequences an and bn such that the average of the first bn triangular numbers (starting with the triangular number 1) is still a triangular number, precisely the an-th triangular number. We get also some side results: for instance one of the sequence instrumental to finding the asked for sequences turns out to be a bisection of the seque...

we survey some recent results on cocharacters of upper triangular matrices. in particular, we deal both with ordinary and graded cocharacter sequence; we list the principal combinatorial results; we show di erent tech-niques in order to solve similar problems.

In this paper, some elementary operations on triangular fuzzynumbers (TFNs) are defined. We also define some operations on triangularfuzzy matrices (TFMs) such as trace and triangular fuzzy determinant(TFD). Using elementary operations, some important properties of TFMs arepresented. The concept of adjoints on TFM is discussed and some of theirproperties are. Some special types of TFMs (e.g. pu...

We present a parallelization of Parlett s algorithm for computing arbitrary functions of upper triangular matrices The parallel algorithm preserves the numerical stability properties of the serial algorithm and is suitable for implementation on coarse grain parallel computers The algorithm ob tains a speedup of for matrices of size greater than as our analysis and actual implementation on a pro...