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The paper presents a detailed analysis and extended formulation of a rate-independent regularized damage model proposed by Mielke and Roub\'i\v{c}ek (2006). Localization properties are studied in the context of a simple one-dimensional…
This paper is concerned with an approximation scheme for rate-independent systems governed by a non-smooth dissipation and a possibly non-convex energy functional. The scheme is based on the local minimization scheme introduced in [EM06],…
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Identifying the location of a disturbance and its magnitude is an important component for stable operation of power systems. We study the problem of localizing and estimating a disturbance in the interconnected power system. We take a…
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We propose a multi-objective global pattern search algorithm for the task of locating and quantifying damage in flexible mechanical structures. This is achieved by identifying eigenfrequencies and eigenmodes from measurements and matching…
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We present a model for rate-independent, unidirectional, partial damage in visco-elastic materials with inertia and thermal effects. The damage process is modeled by means of an internal variable, governed by a rate-independent flow rule.…
We prove integrated local energy decay for the damped wave equation on stationary, asymptotically flat space-times in (1 + 3) dimensions. Local energy decay constitutes a powerful tool in the study of dispersive partial differential…
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A damage-plasticity constitutive model for the description of fracture in plain concrete is presented. Two approaches, the local model comprising the adjustment of the softening modulus and the nonlocal model based on spatial averaging of…
Based on the work of Xu and Zhou [Math.Comput., 69(2000), pp.881-909], we establish new three-level and multilevel finite element discretizations by local defect-correction technique. Theoretical analysis and numerical experiments show that…
An epidemic model with distributed time delay is derived to describe the dynamics of infectious diseases with varying immunity. It is shown that solutions are always positive, and the model has at most two steady states: disease-free and…
Integral-type nonlocal damage models describe the fracture process zones by regular strain profiles insensitive to the size of finite elements, which is achieved by incorporating weighted spatial averages of certain state variables into the…
This paper proposes a novel technique to reduce the computational burden associated with the simulation of localised failure. The proposed methodology affords the simulation of damage initiation and propagation whilst concentrating the…
We study the decay rate for the energy of solutions of a damped wave equation in a situation where the Geometric Control Condition is violated. We assume that the set of undamped trajectories is a flat torus of positive codimension and that…
Motivated by the need to localise faults along electrical power lines, this paper adopts a frequency-domain approach to parameter estimation for an infinite-dimensional linear dynamical system with one spatial variable. Since the time of…
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Localized corrosion is one of the most common causes of early degradation of engineering structures. To non-destructively determine the location, size and rate of localized corrosion in porous media, a new technique, electrochemical…