Yong Li^1,*, Joel P. Conte², Philip E. Gill³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.120, No.3, pp. 517-543, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2019.06269

Abstract In the field of earthquake engineering, the advent of the performance-based design philosophy, together with the highly uncertain nature of earthquake ground excitations to structures, has brought probabilistic performance-based design to the forefront of seismic design. In order to design structures that explicitly satisfy probabilistic performance criteria, a probabilistic performance-based optimum seismic design (PPBOSD) framework is proposed in this paper by extending the state-of-the-art performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) methodology. PBEE is traditionally used for risk evaluation of existing or newly designed structural systems, thus referred to herein as forward PBEE analysis. In contrast, its use for design purposes is limited… More >

M. Dehghan¹, M. Abbaszadeh², A. Mohebbi³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.100, No.5, pp. 399-444, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.100.399

Abstract In this paper three numerical techniques are proposed for solving the system of N-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (CNLS) equations. Firstly, we obtain a time discrete scheme by approximating the first-order time derivative via the forward finite difference formula, then for obtaining a full discretization scheme, we use the Kansa’s approach to approximate the spatial derivatives via radial basis functions (RBFs) collocation methodology. We introduce the moving least squares (MLS) approximation and radial point interpolation method (RPIM) with their shape functions, separately. It should be noted that the shape functions of RPIM unlike the shape functions of the MLS approximation have kronecker… More >

H. Yoshikawa¹, R. Matsuura², N. Nishimura¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.94, No.6, pp. 553-565, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2013.094.553

Abstract The convolution integrals with respect to time in the time domain boundary integral equation method (TD-BIEM) are calculated approximately using the Lubich convolution quadrature method (CQM). The influence matrices in the discretized boundary integral equation are computed with the Laplace transform of the fundamental solution in TD-BIEM with the Lubich CQM. These matrices, however, are dense, and both the computational cost and memory requirements are high. In this paper, we apply Adaptive Cross Approximation (ACA) to the influence matrices to achieve a fast solver of TD-BIEM with the Lubich CQM. Moreover, we reduce the computational time of TD-BIEM with the… More >

Chun-Ying Wu^1,3, Xue-Yan Liu², A. Scarpas², Xiu-Run Ge³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.12, No.2, pp. 149-158, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2006.012.149

Abstract For the spectral analysis of the three-dimensional multi-layered pavement, 3D layer spectral element method is presented to solve the problems of bounded layer system subjected to a transient load pulse. In spectral element, each layer is treated as one spectral element. The wave propagation inside each layer element is achieved by the superposition of the incident wave and the reflection wave. Fast Fourier transformation is used to transform FWD datum from time domain to frequency domain. The accuracy and efficiency of 3D layer spectral element approach were verified by analyzing the Falling weight deflectometer(FWD) testing model with the spectral methods… More >

Chein-Shan Liu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.9, No.3, pp. 229-252, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2009.009.229

Abstract When the given input data are corrupted by an intensive noise, most numerical methods may fail to produce acceptable numerical solutions. Here, we propose a new numerical scheme for solving the Burgers equation forward in time and backward in time. A fictitious time τ is used to transform the dependent variable u(x,t) into a new one by (1+τ )u(x,t) =: v(x,t,τ), such that the original Burgers equation is written as a new parabolic type partial differential equation in the space of (x,t,τ). A fictitious damping coefficient can be used to strengthen the stability in the numerical integration of a semi-discretized… More >

Yu Wang^1,2,*, Yan Cao², Liancheng Zhang², Hongtao Zhang³, Roxana Ohriniuc⁴, Guodong Wang⁵, Ruosi Cheng⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1171-1187, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05575

Abstract Network traffic anomaly detection has gained considerable attention over the years in many areas of great importance. Traditional methods used for detecting anomalies produce quantitative results derived from multi-source information. This makes it difficult for administrators to comprehend and deal with the underlying situations. This study proposes another method to yet determine traffic anomaly (YATA), based on the cloud model. YATA adopts forward and backward cloud transformation algorithms to fuse the quantitative value of acquisitions into the qualitative concept of anomaly degree. This method achieves rapid and direct perspective of network traffic. Experimental results with standard dataset indicate that using… More >

Chao Zhang¹, Chunhe Yang¹, Shangwei Wu^2,3, Xiaolong Zhang^1,2, Wen Nie^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.3, pp. 761-775, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04363

Abstract This paper presents a direct traction boundary integral equation method (DTBIEM) for two-dimensional crack problems of materials. The traction boundary integral equation was collocated on both the external boundary and either side of the crack surfaces. The displacements and tractions were used as unknowns on the external boundary, while the relative crack opening displacement (RCOD) was chosen as unknowns on either side of crack surfaces to keep the single-domain merit. Only one side of the crack surfaces was concerned and needed to be discretized, thus the proposed method resulted in a smaller system of algebraic equations compared with the dual… More >