Optimization of Bicycle Frames Using Genetic Algorithms

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Mao Huang ◽  
Kuo Juei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Factor Of Safety ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Equilibrium Equations ◽  
Fitness Value ◽  
Two Dimensional Model ◽  
Bicycle Frame ◽  
The Mean

A bicycle frame is optimized for the lightest weight by using genetic algorithms in this study. Stresses of five rods in the bicycle frame less than the material yielding strength with consideration of the factor of safety are the constraints. A two-dimensional model of the frame is created. Equilibrium equations are derived and loads acting on rods are determined. A known function is used to verify feasibility of the program generated. Effects of the mutation rate, the crossover rate and the number of generation on the mean and the standard deviation of the fitness value are studied. The optimal solutions with the outer diameters and the inner diameters of the front frame rods to be 0.040 m and 0.038 m, respectively, the outer diameters and the inner diameters of the rear frame rods to be 0.024 m and 0.021m, respectively, and the weight of the bicycle frame to be 0.896 kg are recommended for the bicycle frame.

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

Consolidation and Shearing Tests by Two-Dimensional Model Powder Particles

1969 ◽  
Vol 18 (189) ◽  
pp. 489-493
Author(s):  
Kaoru UMEYA ◽  
Nobuyuki KITAMOIR ◽  
Ryuichi HARA ◽  
Tatsuo YOSHIDA
Keyword(s):  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Two Dimensional Model ◽  
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