AN APPLICATION OF THE DISCRETE MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE TO THE SEGMENTATION OF A WALL FOR NONLINEAR SLOPES |
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| Authors: | CECÍLIA MARIA PARREIRA JOSÉ A SOEIRO FERREIRA |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Departamento de Engenharia Civil , Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto , Porto Codex, 4099, Portugal;2. Departamento de Engenharia Electrotecnica e de Computadores , Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto , Porto Codex, 4099, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | A problem consisting of the optimal design of a segmented wall on a surface having a nonlinear slope contour is considered. It is formulated as an optimal control problem and a solution procedure based on the Discrete Maximum Principle is developed. An application to a real case, which previously had been solved by a Dynamic Programming based method, is included together with some critical comments on the above-mentioned technique. |
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| Keywords: | Segmented walls discrete maximum principle |
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