In the last decades, high priority has been given by research community to development of low-damage structures, and reparability become fundamental for minimizing environmental economic impact reconstruction. this context, European Research Fund Coal Steel (RFCS) project DISSIPABLE was carried out, with aim test large-scale structures where dissipation is concentrated on replaceable components...

The problem of existence of continuous storage functions for dissipative nonlinear systems is considered. It is shown that, if a nonlinear system is dissipative in the state x∗, then, under certain assumptions, a continuous storage function can be constructed on a set of points accessible from x∗ by concatenation of a finite number of forward and backward motions of the system. Most of these as...

We consider a class of ordinary differential equations describing one-dimensional quasiperiodically forced systems in the presence of large damping. We give a fully constructive proof of the existence of response solutions, that is quasi-periodic solutions which have the same frequency vector as the forcing. This requires dealing with a degenerate implicit function equation: we prove that the l...

Bénard convection, is one of the more intensely studied dissipative systems, both theoretically and empirically. It is therefore a useful starting point for discussing the properties of dissipative structures and developing an analogy between such structures and development and evolution. Both the simplifications involved in the Bénard cells and the possibilities that are nonetheless allowed ar...

The effects of dissipative heating on hurricane intensity are examined using a 72-h explicit simulation of Hurricane Andrew (1992) with a state-of-the-art, three-dimensional, nonhydrostatic mesoscale (cloud resolving) model (i.e., MM5). It is found that the inclusion of dissipative heating increases the central pressure deficit of the storm by 5–7 hPa and its maximum surface wind by about 10% p...

Friction and wear, often treated as unrelated, distinct phenomena, are manifestations of the same dissipative physical processes occurring at sliding interfaces. Friction force dissipates power and generates entropy. Wear irreversibly changes a material structure, often with loss of material. Associated with both friction and wear is production of irreversible entropy by interfacial dissipative...

Building a computational formula which is expressed by system of nonlinear partial differential equations in two components was done this job. The matter energy transfer free convection dissipative liquid running horizontal channel with porous medium examined study, and we describe the behavior fluid flow through temperature distribution within it. Numerical methods were used as ODE45 method, o...

Abstract Conditions are investigated for systems of the form Mz’ N+Az + y(z), where y is quadratic, which lield a point dissipative system. Application of the conditions are made to the problem of ezistence of linear feedback controls u Kz for systems of the form Mz’= N + A= + y(=) + Bu which force the system to be point dissipative. The basic results have eztensions to more general classes of ...