Monotonicity Analysis in Optimum Design of Marine Risers

1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 849-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Papalambros ◽  
M. M. Bernitsas
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Design ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Static Pressure ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
Marine Risers ◽  
Two Dimensional Model ◽  
Polynomial Expression ◽  
Monotonicity Analysis

The optimal design of marine risers used for drilling and production of oil in offshore operations is studied. The optimization problem is formulated on a two-dimensional model for bending of circular tubular beams under tension and internal and external static pressure. A general polynomial expression describes the external hydrodynamic loads. Monotonicity analysis is used to identify active constraints, determine design rules, and reduce the size of the problem.

Commitment to pro- versus counter-attitudinal behavior and the dynamics of social representations

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Tafani ◽  
Lionel Souchet
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Cognitive Restructuring ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Dimensional Model ◽  
Students Attitudes

This research uses the counter-attitudinal essay paradigm ( Janis & King, 1954 ) to test the effects of social actions on social representations. Thus, students wrote either a pro- or a counter-attitudinal essay on Higher Education. Three forms of counter-attitudinal essays were manipulated countering respectively a) students’ attitudes towards higher education; b) peripheral beliefs or c) central beliefs associated with this representation object. After writing the essay, students expressed their attitudes towards higher education and evaluated different beliefs associated with it. The structural status of these beliefs was also assessed by a “calling into question” test ( Flament, 1994a ). Results show that behavior challenging either an attitude or peripheral beliefs induces a rationalization process, giving rise to minor modifications of the representational field. These modifications are only on the social evaluative dimension of the social representation. On the other hand, when the behavior challenges central beliefs, the same rationalization process induces a cognitive restructuring of the representational field, i.e., a structural change in the representation. These results and their implications for the experimental study of representational dynamics are discussed with regard to the two-dimensional model of social representations ( Moliner, 1994 ) and rationalization theory ( Beauvois & Joule, 1996 ).

Pulse Antennas: Accurate Solution of Two-Dimensional Model Problems for Structures with Gratings as Dispersive Elements

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
A. I. Vyazmitinova ◽  
V. L. Pazynin ◽  
Andrei Olegovich Perov ◽  
Yurii Konstantinovich Sirenko ◽  
H. Akdogan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Accurate Solution ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Two Dimensional Model
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