A secant function based shear deformable finite element model is developed for the flexural behavior of laminated composite and sandwich plates with various conditions. The structural kinematics of ...

* If the absolute value of the denominator is close to zero then there will be an error message * The other error message is if the secant method does not converge to ...

In trigonometry, the secant function, commonly abbreviated as sec, is the multiplicative inverse of the cosine function. In other words, sec refers to the ratio of the hypotenuse to an adjacent side ...

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1 Guangdong Polytechnic of Water Resource and Electric Engineering, Guangzhou, China. 2 School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. Deflection ...

Abstract: The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in power systems has aroused interest in distributed economic dispatch (DED). While quadratic cost functions are usually ...

Utilizing root-finding methods such as Bisection Method, Fixed-Point Method, Secant Method, and Newton's Method to solve for the roots of functions ...

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ABSTRACT: The objective of this research is the presentation of a neural network capable of solving complete nonlinear algebraic systems of n equations with n unknowns. The proposed neural solver uses ...

Abstract: A secant/finite difference algorithm based on trust region strategy is presented. This algorithm is designed to solve the minimax optimization problem of a finite number of functions, whose ...