Abstract: Rigorous principles are derived for designing hydraulic cylinders optimizing a wide range of objective functions and stress constraints. Monotonicity and dominance are illustrated as general ...

Abstract: The least cost allocation of sure-fit machine tolerances for Speckhart’s exponential cost model is solved in closed form, without numerical iteration, as a geometric program with zero degrees ...

Abstract: A general, sufficient test for proving a local minimum to be the global minimum is presented. The test uses a special lower bounding function and methods for constructing this special bounding ...