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Showing 1 to 20 of 438 for “"Optimal design"”.
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Banking and optimal design
… behave during credit cycles and analyzes optimal design in financial markets and other contexts. In the first chapter, I analyze the credit cyclicality of nonbanks. Little is known about non-depository institutions' direct lending behavior, especially to small businesses. Using a novel …
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Optimal design of Hagen-Cockerall raft
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1979.
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On the Optimal Design of Leniency Programmes
… 4, we provide a model to characterize the optimal leniency pro- gramme when colluding �rms can invest resources to avoid detection. We show that the optimal �ne discount rate depends positively on the severity of the �ne and negatively on the probability of investigation and the cost of …
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Optimal design strategies for base-isolated bridges
… the damaging effects of earthquakes. For this design strategy, flexible supports are placed between the deck and substructure. This changes the lowest periods of vibration of the bridge and shifts it to a period where little energy is present in the earthquake motions.
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Optimal design and operation of batch processes
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1990.
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Optimal design of fabric formed concrete beams
… to the rising need for material efficient designs that also incorporate attractive aesthetic and construction related features. The thesis approaches the topic of the optimization of the design of fabric formed concrete beams. The thesis proposes two methods: an analytical optimization …
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The sensitivity equation method for optimal design
… for approximately solving infinite dimensional optimal design problems. The SEM couples a trust-region/quasi-Newton optimization algorithm with gradient information provided by apprOXimately solving the sensitivity equation for (design) sensitivities. The sensitivity equation is (in the problems …
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Parametric Optimal Design Of Uncertain Dynamical Systems
… framework to support the parametric optimal design of uncertain dynamical systems. Uncertainty comes from various sources, such as: system parameters, initial conditions, sensor and actuator noise, and external forcing. Treatment of uncertainty in design is of paramount practical …
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Optimal design and operation of energy polygeneration systems
… when exposed to market fluctuations. The optimal design of an energy polygeneration system that converts coal and biomass to electricity, liquid fuels (naphtha and diesel) and chemical products (methanol) with carbon dioxide (CO²) capture under different economic scenarios is investigated. …
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Bayesian D-Optimal Design for Generalized Linear Models
Bayesian optimal designs have received increasing attention in recent years, especially in biomedical and clinical trials. Bayesian design procedures can utilize the available prior information of the unknown parameters so that a better design can be achieved. However, a difficulty in dealing with …
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Optimal design of composite fuselage frames for crashworthiness
… techniques to address the problem of designing composite fuselage frames for crashworthiness. A key feature of any optimization strategy for increasing structural crashworthiness is a progressive failure analysis. Currently, the most widely used analysis methods for progressive failure …
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Optimal design of geodesically stiffened composite cylindrical shells
… system can be used to obtain minimum-weight designs of composite stiffened structures. Ply thicknesses, ply orientations, and stiffener heights can be used as design variables. Buckling, displacement, and material failure constraints can be imposed on the design. The system is used to conduct …
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Optimal design of sound absorbing systems with microperforated panels
… of the preferred solutions. These panels can be designed in many ways, and usually feature many small (sub-millimeter) holes and typically surface porosities on the order of 1 percent. The detailed acoustical properties of MPPs depend on their hole shape, the hole diameter, the thickness of the …
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Optimal Design and Planning of Hybrid AC/DC Microgrid
<p>The traditional approach for microgrid design and deployment has been mainly focused on AC systems. DC microgrids, however, are gaining attention due to numerous advantages they provide over AC microgrids, such as removing the need for synchronization and frequency adjustment as well as …
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Optimal design of water distribution networks with reliability considerations
… distribution systems. Such a tool can be used by design engineers to create systems which are both economical in total cost commensurate with meeting targets for a specified level of reliability.The introduction describes how water supply and distribution systems are normally designed, what they …
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Mathematical modeling, simulation, and optimal design of pharmaceutical crystallizers
… kinetics estimation, steady-state process design, and the design of dynamic feedback control structures. Comparisons to experimental data are made where possible to keep the simulations relevant and grounded in reality. Simulations 1 and 3 are the first to simulate their corresponding …
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Economically Optimal Design of Particulate Air Pollutant Control Equipment
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T22:48:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412199.pdf: 4266540 bytes, checksum: a5a2498042c23f1216258867e9cc74e6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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