text: Hey, guys. So I am not looking as much for a rate, as for some new ideas. I have been playing with this team for quite a while now, and so far it has worked very well. Although over the past month, I have kind of stagnated on the ladder. I have tried nearly every trick I can come up with in this team, so I am very much open to changes in movesets, or even complete replacements. FYI, my current OU ranking is ACRE : 1750+ and Glicko2 : 1820(+-)35. The team is as follows : - Ferrothorn @ Leftovers Ability : Iron Barbs EV's : 252 HP, 88 Def, 168 SpD Nature : Relaxed (+Def, -Spe) Moves : Stealth Rock / Leech Seed / Power Whip / Gyro Ball Tentacruel : Leftovers Ability : Liquid Ooze EV's : 252 HP, 236 Def, 20 Spe Nature : Bold (+Def,-Atk) Moves : Scald / Rapid Spin / Toxic / Protect Description Ferrothorn and Tentacruel make up the defensive core of my team, so it made sense to describe them together. Together they resist or are immune to 15 of the 17 types, only being neutral to Ground and Flying. Hence they have amazing defensive synergy, being able to switch into each other's counters easily. Tentacruel handles Scizor, Infernape, Volcarona, Terrakion, Conkeldurr etc. while Ferrothorn can take on Lati twins, Starmie, Jolteon, etc. Ferrothorn sets up Stealth Rock, and Power Whip and Gyro Ball give him decent offensive presence as well. Protect is used on Tentacruel to waste turns, get more Leftovers recovery as well preventing SubDisable Gengar from taking advantage. Tentacruel has enough speed EV's to outrun Jellicent and use Toxic before being Taunted. Liquid Ooze is used instead of Rain Dish to surprise opponents, and is very useful against Leech Seed users, Drain Punch Conkeldurr, Giga Drain Venusaur & Volcarona and Horn Leech Sawsbuck. The biggest problem to my defensive core is Landorus(which is a problem for the rest of the team as well). Jellicent can also be a problem if he manages to burn both Ferrothorn and Tentacruel. Most other defensive pokemon can set up hazards with ease due to the lack of offensive pressure. Also these two are helpless against Tornadus, as neither can resist its STAB Hurricane. Gastrodon can be problematic as well, if he lands a Scald burn on Ferrothorn. Rotom-Wash @ Leftovers Ability : Levitate EV's : 232 HP, 56 SpA, 220 Spe Nature : Modest (+SpA,-Atk) Moves : Hydro Pump / Volt Switch / Pain Split / Will-o-wisp Description Rotom-Wash is kind of a bridge between offensive and defensive roles. It can check pokemon like Tornadus, Landorus, Heatran, Mamoswine which create problems for my defensive core. Pokemon which pose problems for my offensive mons like Gliscor, Landorus-T, Ferrothorn, Jellicent are also checked, albeit Ferrothorn requires a bit of prediction. Hydro Pump is a reliable primary STAB move, and more often than not it gets boosted by opposing team's rain. Volt Switch lets me scout, plus Rotom-W and Infernape share very good VoltTurn synergy. Pain Split provides recovery, although it can be shaky at times. Will-o-wisp is useful in crippling Scizor, Garchomp, Dragonite, Terrakion and Landorus-T as Rotom-W can avoid a OHKO from all variants of these pokemon except for Choice Band Garchomp and Terrakion. It can also cripple predicted Breloom switch-ins if Toxic Orb has not activated. The biggest problems for Rotom are specially bulky mons which resist or are neutral to its STABS, such as Jirachi, Celebi, Amoongus, Gastrodon, Latias, Latios. Specially bulky Jellicent can also be annoying as Volt Switch constantly forces Rotom out. Kyurem-B is also problematic, as neither Hydro Pump or Volt Switch can break its substitutes and it is fast enough to avoid Will-o-wisp. Chansey and Blissey are problems too, though Rotom can significantly heal off of their huge HP stats. Infernape @ Life Orb Ability : Blaze EV's : 252 Atk, 4 SpA, 252 Spe Nature : Naive (+Spe, -SpD) Moves : Overheat / Close Combat / U-turn / Stone Edge Description Infernape, with his great mixed attacking prowess, functions primarily as a wall breaker. Ferrothorn, Forretress, Blissey, Chansey, Porygon-2, Bronzong, Celebi, Jirachi, Amoongus, bulky Tyranitar, Heatran are all handled very easily. A one-two combination of Close Combat on the switch, followed by Overheat also secures KO's on Gliscor, Landorus-T, Donphan and Hippowdon most of the time. U-Turn allows Infernape to scout, as well as forming an amazing VoltTurn partnership with Rotom. U-Turn also allows it to damage Slowbro, Celebi, Reuniclus as well as Starmie, Latios and Latias on the switch. Stone Edge is useful in nailing Gyarados, Salamence, Dragonite, Volcarona, Thundrus-T. Volcarona is the most important one, as it is a huge threat to my team. Infernape avoids a OHKO from +1 Fiery Dance, Fire Blast(outside of Sun), Bug Buzz, Giga Drain and HP Rock from Volcarona. If Volcarona carries HP Ground it will KO, though in that case the game is up for me anyways as nothing else can counter it. The biggest threats to Infernape are bulky water types like Tentacruel, Jellicent, Gastrodon, although Close Combat does significant damage to Gastrodon. Latios, Latias, Alakazam, Starmie are also problems if they avoid U-Turn on the switch. Gengar is also problematic, but can't switch in on Overheat or Stone Edge. Keldeo resists 3 out of the 4 moves and is not KO'd by Close Combat unless it is significantly weakened. Terrakion is a shaky check, as non-Scarf variants will speed tie. Infernape is also very susceptible to status as well as Sandstorm, as it compounds recoil damage. Latios @ Choice Scarf Ability : Levitate EV's : 252 SpA, 252 Spe, 4 SpD Nature : Timid (+Spe,-Atk) Moves : Trick / Draco Meteor / Psychic / Surf Description This is the revenge killer on my team. Scarf Latios outruns every unboosted as well most boosted pokemon in the game, and can reliably revenge kill a lot of them. Terrakion, Keldeo, Salamence, Garchomp, Kyurem-B, Haxorus, Hydreigon, Dragonite(even at +2), Alazkazam, Modest Venusaur, Jolteon, Infernape, Starmie are all easily checked by Latios. The moves are all standard, I have chosen Pyschic over Psyshock due to slightly higher base power and to be able to ensure an unconditional OHKO on Conkeldurr. The biggest problems for Latios are specially defensive Tyranitar and Jirachi. They can tank any hit, and kill him in Tyranitar's case or cripple him in Jirachi's case. Latios is also very vulnerable to Pursuit trapping and being setup on after using Draco Meteor, especially if I am forced to bring him out early in the game. Opposing Latias can also be a problem, if she can set up more than one Calm Mind. Mamoswine is also a problem if Latios is the last pokemon I have left, although Latios can survive an Ice Shard if he is healthy enough (roughly more than 70%). Haxorus @ Choice Band Ability : Mold Breaker EV's : 252 Atk, 252 Spe, 4 HP Nature : Jolly (+Spe,-SpA) Moves : Outrage / Earthquake / Superpower / Dual Chop Description Haxorus brings physical power to the team. Dragon, Ground and Fighting provide amazing coverage on a large portion of the OU tier. Even without an Adamant nature, Outrage hits very hard and can KO almost every non-steel type. Earthquake and Superpower combine to help take out Heatran, Tyranitar, Ferrothorn, Rotom-A, Bronzong, Jirachi, Toxicroak, Ninetales. A speed positive nature allows Haxorus to get the jump on speed-neutral Hydreigon, non-scarf Jirachi, non-scarf Kyurem-B. Dual Chop is reliable STAB move to use early game, and is particulary useful to break substitutes. SubPunch Breloom, Focus Sash Smeargle, Subsitute Ninjask are all neutralized by Dual Chop. Dual Chop also lets Haxorus take down Dragonite as Mold Breaker negates Multiscale. Every other Dragon-type, except for Dragonite, is a huge problem for Haxorus. Every one of them can outspeed and OHKO. Priority users like Mamoswine, Scizor and Breloom are also problematic, although neither can get a OHKO. I think its worth noting that Haxorus, at full health, can survive a +2 Extremespeed from Lucario even after Stealth Rock, and can KO in return. Physically bulky behemoths like Landorus-T, Gliscor, Tangrowth and Slowbro can counter Haxorus, although if they are outsped they do risk getting 2HKO'd from Outrage. Skarmory is a perfect counter as it avoids a 2HKO from any move. Threats Rock Polish Landorus and Rock Polish Terrakion are huge threats to my team, as nothing on my team can kill them after the speed boost. I put a lot of emphasis on speed in general, as such my team is quite fast, all 3 offensive team members run speed +ve natures. As a result Trick Room teams are problematic, Reuniclus in particular. My team can handle hyper-offense, weather and balanced teams well, but dedicated stall teams are a problem, and I have lost to them more than once. What I am looking for This section here tells you what help I am looking for. I have been playing with this team for a long time (3-4 months), and I think I have reached the highest ranking it could take me to. What I really need is changes to moves, EV spreads or entire replacements which can take me further. I am open to replacing any pokemon on the team, just keep the following in mind before you suggest a change:- 1) Look at the function the pokemon serves in the team, and suggest a suitable replacement which can take on more or less a similar role. 2) Look at the type synergy of the team as a whole, both offensively and defensivley. Some imbalance is acceptable, but don't suggest changes that cause serious balance issues. Plus changes to help deal with Landorus will be appreciated very, very much. God I hate Landorus!! Thanks for reading, and for any help in advance. :)


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What usually takes several years at costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars has recently been done in a month for just over US$5 million. The task? Building a world-class supercomputer, specifically the Virginia Tech supercomputer. The New York Times has taken its turn at covering the project, which is unofficially dubbed "Big Mac," further increasing Apple's PR reach for the project.
According to the article, the supercomputer, powered by 2,200 IBM G5 processors, has been initially rated at computing 7.41 trillion operations per second. The final number could be much higher, according to school officials, but if not, it would rank as the #4 fastest supercomputing cluster in the world. Earlier this month, we reported that Big Mac could rank as the #2 supercomputer at 17.6 TFlops, but those numbers have seemingly not been achieved as of yet.
The article goes on to compare the US$5M Virginia Tech supercomputer to the likes of Japan's US$250M Earth Simulator, which is currently the world's fastest computer, and Lawrence Livermore's US$10-15M cluster system, which is made up of 2,304 Intel Xeon processors. From the New York Times:
The Virginia Tech supercomputer, put together from 1,100 Apple Macintosh computers, has been successfully tested in recent days, according to Jack Dongarra, a University of Tennessee computer scientist who maintains a listing of the world's 500 fastest machines.
The official results for the ranking will not be reported until next month at a supercomputer industry event. But the Apple-based supercomputer, which is powered by 2,200 I.B.M. microprocessors, was able to compute at 7.41 trillion operations a second, a speed surpassed by only three other ultra-fast computers.
"We are demonstrating that you can build a very high performance machine for a fifth to a tenth of the cost of what supercomputers now cost," said Hassan Aref, the dean of the School of Engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. The computer was put together in a virtual flash. Scientists from the school met with Apple executives two days after the company introduced its new 64-bit desktop computer in June.
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The Mac Observer Spin:How fast is the Big Mac? Hopefully the final numbers can be pulled to be a bit higher than those achieved so far; as we noted before, however, if the project comes out anywhere in the Top 5 at a cost of only US$5 million, it will be a huge coup for Apple. So far, it seems as if things are on track for such a placement.
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Friday, October 5, 2007
Welch's Fruit 'n Yogurt Snacks
After reading the publicity materials and nutrition label on these, I don't think they can be called candy. But I have them and some folks expressed interest in the new Welch's Fruit 'n Yogurt Snacks, I thought I'd do a review.
The snacks come in five flavors: Blueberry, Strawberry, Cherry, Raspberry and Peach. They are little, firm jelly pieces made with real fruit puree covered in a yogurt confection coating.
The first ingredient on the label is Fruit Puree (depends on the flavor, which always includes real fruit of that kind), followed by Fruit Juice Concentrates ... then Sugar. Of course the next item is Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, but I'm guessing that's so low on the proportions it explains why the fat content is only 3 grams per serving (approximately 1 ounce or half the bag) and it says 0 grams of trans fat.
Not all the flavors interest me much, so I'm not even going to open the Peach ones. Some lucky Trick-or-Treater will get that later this month. While getting my samples on the last day of All Candy Expo the guy at the Promotion in Motion booth (they folks who make these for Welch's) apologized for not having any Cherry. I told him that was no big loss either for me.
Generally, the little bits are kind of crumbly. The yogurt confectionery coating isn't like a white chocolate, it's not buttery smooth. It's kind of like a flaky frosting. It's not bad, it's not too sweet and adds a bit of a milky flavor to the whole thing, but also a little chalky texture ... I'm guessing this because so many of the ingredients are dairy powders (whey powder, yogurt powder). But the coating has something to offer - both calcium (10%) and vitamin D (25%) as well as active cultures of Lactobacillus acidophillus and Lactobacillus caseii. Oh, yeah, and 100% of the RDA of vitamin C and 25% of your RDA of vitamin A.
Raspberry: lovely light scent, sweet and tangy. The jelly center is firm, with a nice crumbly chew. It's not sticky, it's not at all like a gummi or a standard jelly candy like Dots or tough like a fruit leather. It doesn't have that fine smoothness that jellies of all kinds have, but the texture is pretty nice. The yogurt coating is only okay, as mentioned above.
Strawberry: smells like light spring flowers and cotton candy (pretty much how fresh strawberries smell to me). There's a slight tangy ice cream scent as well.
Blueberry: this really tastes like blueberries, though it doesn't have the deep flavor profile that the two other berry flavors sport.
The yogurt coating fell off of the centers when I jostled the bags around a lot. I would have recommended throwing these into a snack mix of some sort - nuts, maybe some chocolate panned nuts, dried fruits and pretzels. But I don't know if the could stand up to it.
The ones shown here are a two portion bag (perhaps for parents to share with their kids or kids to share with each other). They're also available in "snack packs" which have less than 100 calories (and I'm guessing are a little under an ounce).
Are they candy? No, they're too fortified.
Are they something you might be able to sell your kids on instead of candy? Possibly ... it's more likely you'll be able to get your kids to eat these as a healthier snack than just chips or perhaps a finicky kid who won't eat fruit might sample them. (There's no significant fiber in there though.) As snacks go, I still think that the Florida's Naturals Sour Fruit Strings do the best job of feeling like "no compromise" on taste, but if your kids like these and think they're candy, then by all means, let them indulge in this instead of something worse.
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Chocolate Poppers
Late last year I did a head to head between Shoogy Boom and Pop Rocks, just to see if the original is actually the best. I actually prefer the Shoogy Boom brand, made by Hleks in Turkey.
While Pop Rocks were displaying their new Pop Rocks Milk Chocolate Bar at the All Candy Expo, Hleks was quietly showing their chocolate popping candies as well. I don't know how long these have been on the market, the copyright on the back of the package says 2003 ... and also says that these are a product of Impact Confections (known for their Warheads line).
These little chocolate spheres are smaller than a malted milk ball but larger (or perhaps just more spherical) than a Peanut M&M. They look a little waxy, but smell pleasantly sweet. (I can figure that I beat them up pretty bad on the trip, because they were unmarred and glossy at the All Candy Expo booth.) Each sphere is milk chocolate mixed with unflavored carbonated hard candies.
With the popping candy mixed with chocolate, I find initially chewing them a bit to expose the carbonated bits helps to activate them. The chocolate isn't stellar on these, but they're just the transportation medium for the popping. They flavor is a little malty, with the popping bits adding only texture and sound with a little extra sweetness.
They can get kind of noisy inside my head and I was surprised at how well I could hear the popping inside other people's heads when I passed them around last night when the neighbors came over.
I don't know if I'd eat them often, but they're kind of fun. I wish the chocolate as a bit better, but these might be fun to mix with other things in a "movie mix" (but maybe you wouldn't be able to hear the movie?) like popcorn, SnoCaps and Junior Mints. I like the spherical design of them a bit better than the bar format of the Milk Chocolate Pop Rocks Bar. I shared most of them, which is the way candy should be!
Brad Kent has this wrapper on his excellent database, so I'm guessing these have been around for a while.
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
Candy Travels - NCA Reveals Top 10 Sweet Destinations
The National Confectioners Association (the people who run the All Candy Expo) released a list of what they call America's Top 10 Sweet Spots for Halloween.
Here are their cities with my notes:
1. Hershey, Pa. Yes, they mentioned the Hershey empire with the park and Chocolate World and the Spa at The Hotel Hershey. But what you may not know is that there are lots of other confections within an hour of Hershey. Don't miss Lititz, PA, home of Wilbur Chocolate and a fantabulous outlet store (with far better prices than you'll find at the Chocolate World mall). Also in Souderton, PA, Asher's Chocolate, Wolfgang in York, PA.
2. New York, N.Y.—They mention M&Ms World & Hershey's in Times Square, Jacques Torres and Dylan's Candy Bar, but miss many of the other confectionery delights: MarieBelle, Kees, Vosges, Pierre Marcolini, Max Brenner and Economy Candy. (See my New York Guide.)
3. Orlando, Fla.—I've never been there. The highlight Disneyworld and other mass-produced candy meccas like Dylan's Candy Bar & Ghirardelli stores.
4. San Francisco, Calif.—this is a huge confectionery town. Ghirardelli, Scharffen Berger, Jelly Belly (in Fairfield) as well as Joseph Schmidt, CocoaBella, the new Charles Chocolates cafe and factory as well as some really great candy shops and don't forget the Ferry Terminal (Recchiuti & Miette). I'll have more in December. (Here's my current guide for the Bay Area.)
5. Chicago, Ill.—Home of Ethel's, Blommer, Ferrara Pan, Tootsie and a bunch of other companies that don't offer tours but you can snuggle down at one of the five Ethel's Chocolate Lounges. Vosges calls Chicago home, as well.
6. Los Angeles, Calif.—This is where I live and I can tell you that the press release was talking about Anaheim in nearby Orange County. (I did a little bit on Disneyland here). No factory tours for you here, but plenty of chocolatiers like Boule, Compartes, Valerie Confections, Jin Patissiere and Artisan du Chocolat. (Here's my local shopping guide.) Don't forget about See's ... if you don't live on the West Coast, it's a must stop that won't break your budget.
7. Boston, Mass.—the one time I visited Boston, I don't think I had ANY candy (but made a wonderful trip to Filene's Basement back when it was actually in the basement.). They highlight Boston's part in making Halloween the holiday that it has come to be (but I can't eat history!)
8. New Orleans, La.—again, another one I've never visited, but any city that loves coffee, pecans and boiled sugar is going to be a favorite. They suggested Evans Creole CandyFactory, Laura's Candy Shop and Aunt Sally's Praline Shop (I got some of their pralines at the All Candy Expo).
9. Las Vegas, Nev.—There's really nothing unique in Las Vegas, except for the sheer density of it all. There are many large branded stores and fine European chocolatiers that want you to sugar up with them. M&Ms World, Ethel's Chocolate Lounge, & Vosges.
10. Kansas City, Mo.—I've never been, but I've certainly had plenty of candy from Kansas City. Russell Stover is there, as is Christopher Elbow and Andre's Confiserie.
The Pacific Northwest is conspicuously absent from this list. Portland and Seattle are amazing chocolate, toffee and caramel towns ... not that I've toured them with that in mind ... yet. If anything, Los Angeles and Orlando don't belong on that list.
If you don't feel like going too far afield, I did a little map last year with the confectioners I'd tried so far ... maybe you can make a little vacation for yourself for the price of a box of chocolates.
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GudFud Stuffed Marshmallows
Stuffed, bite-sized marshmallows are not a new product, but certainly not one that's widely available in the United States.
I've seen them at Japanese grocers and Aji Ichiban before, but never packaged just for Americans. And certainly never in these sassy little three puff portions.
Enter GudFud. They're here to bring us the Asian foamy sweets. They're packaged to look like they're Japanese (terribly cute and with Japanese characters on the label, what they say, I know not) but they're actually made in China. I tried some before and wrote about them here.
The name is a little wacky, and rather Germanic with the umlauts (G?dF?d). Call it fusion! It's supposed to be pronounced Goood Foood.
I've never considered jelly and marshmallows "food", but perhaps I can start thinking of them as "foood."
The little individually wrapped Fruit Jelly Stuffed Marshmallows are a bit smashed when inside the package but fluff back up pretty quickly. There's a lot of packaging, which I guess I didn't notice at first because it's mostly clear. The fruity ones were cute and once unwrapped, completely identical on the outside.
The jelly center is where things get different. The jelly is smooth and soft, not quite flowing, but not quite firm like an "orange slice" would be. Really, kind of like the jelly you'd spread on your toast. The flavor is mild, a little tangy, not terribly complex ... just, well nice.
The mix of fruit and marshmallow isn't really great in my mind. So I tried toasting a package or two. They toasted nicely, though the center didn't get that molten consistency that I'm used to with Jet or Kraft marshmallows. The marshmallow skin puffed well and browned (well, one caught on fire, but consider it a sacrifice to the marshmallow fire god). Still, the toasted flavor and jelly didn't really grab me either.
So what about a Chocolate Stuffed Marshmallow. Though each of these are the same, the little packages still have a different little character on them. Each with a different reaction to getting a chocolate bar stuffed into their cranium.
The chocolate filling isn't firm, it's soft and easy to bite. It still doesn't have a lot of chocolate oomph to it, more like a chocolate cream.
I like that the package has three marshmallows in it and you might be able to just pick them up where you buy candy bars. For those on calorie-restricted diets, a single package with three marshmallows is only 50 calories and practically no fat. I don't know how satisfying they'd be, you might burn more calories opening all the wrappers than you'll take in from the treats.
I expect they'll start showing up in stores soon (they pretty much debuted at the All Candy Expo). If they came in large bags they could be fun Halloween treats. (You can buy a box of singles through their phone order system.)
Check out Sera's review on Candy Addict.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Because you asked ...
Every once in a while I go through the search logs either on this site or the ones that refer people here from the search engines.
Sometimes I know that their questions aren't actually answered when they arrive, so I'll take a stab at it here!
Question: Why is my tongue is irritated from sour foods?
Answer: Sour foods are acidic. Many very sour candies contain high levels of acids such as malic acid and citric acid. At higher levels this can irritate the tongue and tender mouth parts. Luckily the irritation is temporary for most people.
Malic acid is naturally occurring and usually found in apples, more highly concentrated in green (unripe) apples.
Citric acid is also occurs naturally and is found in citrus fruits such as lemons and limes and in lower concentrations in oranges.
Question: What flavor is the red Skittle?
Answer: Red Skittles are strawberry flavored when found in the classic Fruits mix.
Question: What's the difference between Hershey's Mounds and Almond Joy candy bar?
Answer: I think the jingle for the candy bars answers that best:
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I'm trying to migrate my Rails apps to PostGreSql in order to work in the same environnement as on heroku...
I installed postgres, pg, and postgres-pr fine on my mac but I can't get Taps to pull my databases off from Heroku to my postgresql server.
My Rails Apps connect seamlessly to the database.
When I run into the irb this is what I get:
>> require "rubygems"
=> false
>> require "sequel"
=> true
>> DB = Sequel.postgres
NameError: uninitialized constant Sequel::Postgres::PGError
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/sequel-3.17.0/lib/sequel/adapters/postgres.rb:89
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
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from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/sequel-3.17.0/lib/sequel/core.rb:69:in `check_requiring_thread'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/sequel-3.17.0/lib/sequel/core.rb:249:in `tsk_require'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/sequel-3.17.0/lib/sequel/database/connecting.rb:25:in `adapter_class'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/sequel-3.17.0/lib/sequel/database/connecting.rb:63:in `connect'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/sequel-3.17.0/lib/sequel/core.rb:119:in `connect'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/sequel-3.17.0/lib/sequel/core.rb:282:in `adapter_method'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/sequel-3.17.0/lib/sequel/core.rb:289:in `postgres'
from (irb):3
I don't understand what's going wrong.
Does anybody have an idea?
This is what I get Jeremy
BigMac:~ jp$ ruby -rubygems -rpg -e "p PGError"
ruby: no such file to load -- pg (LoadError)
BigMac:~ jp$ ruby -rubygems -rpostgres -e "p PGError"
ruby: no such file to load -- postgres (LoadError)
I'm not sure to understand what you mean by "Check for a pg.rb or postgres.rb somewhere in your path"
Should I scan all the directories in my $PATH and look for an unwanted pg.rb or postgres.rb file?
That's weird because I did install pg and postgre
Here is what I just ran
BigMac:/ jp$ sudo gem install pg
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed pg-0.10.0
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for pg-0.10.0...
Installing RDoc documentation for pg-0.10.0...
BigMac:/ jp$ ruby -rubygems -rpg -e "p PGError"
ruby: no such file to load -- pg (LoadError)
BigMac:/ jp$


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STAMFORD, CT—Emphasizing the importance Mexico plays in Starwood's Americas growth strategy and its prominence in the global travel market, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. has announced plans to expand its hotel portfolio in the country by 30%.
In the upper-upscale hotel segment in Mexico, Starwood has eight new hotels in its development pipeline that will add nearly 1,100 rooms. Mexico is Starwood's largest market in Latin America with 24 hotels and a total of 4,800 rooms, representing eight of the company's nine brands including the recently launched Aloft brand, which made its debut in Cancun.
"Mexico has been a central part of our strategy in the Americas for many years, and we are pleased to see an upswing in the country as U.S. tourists return and business travel picks up," Frits van Paasschen, president and CEO, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, said in a statement. "We are seeing strong demand for new hotel development across all of our brands and have the largest pipeline we have had in the country since before the global economic crisis."
van Paasschen continued: "Mexico is illustrative of the trends we are seeing around the world as rising wealth and ever greater global connectivity fuel new demand for travel along with new travelers. In fact, in the past three years we have more than doubled our base of active SPG members in Mexico, and they are seeking ever more global and diverse destinations."
Starwood currently has eight luxury hotels in Mexico, more than in any other Latin American market between its St. Regis, W and The Luxury Collection brands, and the company will expand its luxury portfolio in the country by 50% over the next three years to meet increasing demand.
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Hyperbolic Hemivariational Inequalities for Dynamic Viscoelastic Contact Problems
- First Online:
- Received:
DOI: 10.1007/s10659-012-9380-7
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- Kulig, A. J Elast (2013) 110: 1. doi:10.1007/s10659-012-9380-7
The paper deals with second order nonlinear evolution inclusions and their applications. First, we study an evolution inclusion involving Volterra-type integral operator which is considered within the framework of an evolution triple of spaces. We provide a result on the unique solvability of the Cauchy problem for the inclusion. Next, we examine a dynamic frictional contact problem of viscoelasticity for materials with long memory and derive a weak formulation of the model in the form of a hemivariational inequality. Then, we embed the hemivariational inequality into a class of second order evolution inclusions involving Volterra-type integral operator and indicate how the result on evolution inclusion is applicable to the model of the contact problem. We conclude with examples of the subdifferential boundary conditions for different types of frictional contact.
KeywordsEvolution inclusion Pseudomonotone operator Volterra-type operator Multifunction Hyperbolic Contact problem Hemivariational inequality Viscoelasticity Clarke subdifferential
Mathematics Subject Classification35L90 35R70 45P05 47H04 47H05 74H20 74H25
1 Introduction
An important number of problems arising in Mechanics, Physics and Engineering Science lead to mathematical models expressed in terms of nonlinear inclusions and hemivariational inequalities. For this reason the mathematical literature dedicated to this field is extensive and the progress made in the last decades is impressive. It concerns both results on the existence, uniqueness, regularity and behavior of solutions for various classes of nonlinear inclusions as well as results on numerical approach of the solution for the corresponding problems.
Our study includes the modeling of a mechanical problem and its variational analysis. We derive the hemivariational inequality for the displacement field from nonconvex superpotentials through the generalized Clarke subdifferential. The novelty of the model is to deal with nonlinear elasticity and viscosity operators and to consider the coupling between two kinds of nonmonotone possibly multivalued boundary conditions which depend on the normal (respectively, tangential) components of both the displacement and velocity. We recall that the notion of hemivariational inequality is based on the generalized gradient of Clarke [6] and has been introduced in the early 1980s by Panagiotopoulos [33, 34]. We also note that the existence of solutions to the second order evolution inclusions as well as to the corresponding dynamic hemivariational inequalities has been studied, for instance, in Migórski [22–25], Migórski and Ochal [27, 28] and Kulig [17, 18].
Finally, in order to illustrate the cross fertilization between rigorous mathematical description and Nonlinear Analysis on one hand, and modeling and applications on the other hand, we provide several examples of contact and friction subdifferential boundary conditions.
The paper is structured as follows. In Sect. 2 we recall some preliminary material. In Sect. 3 we describe the dynamic viscoelastic contact problem and present its classical and weak formulation. Next, we recall a result on the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the second order nonlinear evolution inclusion involving a Volterra-type integral operator. We establish the link between a nonlinear evolution inclusion and the hemivariational inequality, and apply the aforementioned results to the viscoelastic contact problem with a memory term. The review of several examples of contact and friction subdifferential boundary conditions which illustrates the applicability of our results is provided in Sect. 4.
2 Preliminaries
In this section we recall the notation and basic definitions needed in the sequel.
Given a Banach space (X,∥⋅∥ X ), we use the symbol w-X to denote the space X endowed with the weak topology. The class of linear and bounded operators from X to X ∗ is denoted by \(\mathcal{L}(X,X^{*})\). If U⊂X, then we have ∥U∥ X =sup{∥x∥ X :x∈U}. The duality between X and its dual is denoted by \(\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle_{X^{*} \times X}\).
Given v∈H 1 we denote its trace γv on Γ by v, where γ:H 1(Γ;ℝ d )→H 1/2(Γ;ℝ d )⊂L 2(Γ;ℝ d ) is the trace map. Let n denote the outward unit normal vector to Γ. Since Γ is Lipschitz continuous, the normal vector is defined a.e. on Γ. For v∈H 1/2(Γ;ℝ d ) we denote its normal and tangential components by v N =v⋅n and v T =v−v N n.
Let V be a separable Banach space. We identify H with its dual and we consider a Gelfand triple V⊂H⊂V ∗ where all embeddings are compact, dense and continuous (see [7, 44]). We will need the following spaces \(\mathcal{V} = L^{2}(0,T;V)\) and \(\mathcal{W} = \{ w \in\mathcal{V} : w' \in\mathcal{V}^{*} \}\). The time derivative involved in the definition of \(\mathcal{W}\) is understood in the sense of vector valued distributions. It is well known that \(\mathcal{W}\) is a separable Banach space equipped with the norm \(\| v \|_{\mathcal{W}} = \|v\|_{\mathcal{V}} + \|v\|_{\mathcal{V}^{*}}\) and \(\mathcal{W} \subset\mathcal{V} \subset L^{2}(0,T;H) \subset {\mathcal{V}^{*}}\).
Let us recall some definitions needed in the next sections.
Measurable multifunction
Let (Ω,Σ) be a measurable space, \(\mathcal{X}\) be a separable Banach space and \(F \colon\Omega\to{2}^{\mathcal{X}}\). The multifunction F is said to be measurable if for every U⊂X open, we have F −(U)={ω∈Ω:F(ω)∩U≠∅}∈Σ.
Generalized directional derivative
Generalized gradient
Let X be a Banach space. The generalized gradient of a function h:X→ℝ at x∈X, denoted by ∂h(x), is a subset of a dual space X ∗ given by \(\partial{h}(x) =\{ \zeta\in X^{*} \mid h^{0}(x; v) \ge\langle\zeta, v \rangle_{X^{*}\times X}\ \mbox{for all} \ v \in X \}\).
Regular function
A locally Lipschitz function h is called regular (in the sense of Clarke) at x∈X if for all v∈X the one-sided directional derivative h′(x;v) exists and satisfies h 0(x;v)=h′(x;v) for all v∈X.
Finally we state results needed in a sequel whose proofs can be found in Kulig [18].
Lemma 1
- (i)
φ(⋅,y) is continuous for all y∈Y;
- (ii)
φ(x,⋅) is locally Lipschitz on Y for all x∈X;
- (iii)there is a constant c>0 such that for all η∈∂φ(x,y), we havewhere ∂φ denotes the generalized gradient of φ(x,⋅).$$\| \eta\|_{Y^*} \le c \bigl(1 + \| x \|_X + \| y\|_Y \bigr) \quad \mbox{\textit{for\ all}} \ x \in X, \ y \in Y,$$
Proposition 2
Let X be a separable reflexive Banach space, 0<T<∞ and φ:(0,T)×X→ℝ be a function such that φ(⋅,x) is measurable for all x∈X and φ(t,⋅) is locally Lipschitz for all t∈(0,T). Then the multifunction (0,T)×X∋(t,x)↦∂φ(t,x)⊂X ∗ is measurable, where ∂φ denotes the Clarke generalized gradient of φ(t,⋅).
3 Dynamic Viscoelastic Contact Problem with Memory Term
In this section we present a short description of the modeled process, give its weak formulation which is a hyperbolic hemivariational inequality and obtain results on existence and uniqueness of weak solutions.
3.1 Physical Setting of the Problem
The physical setting and the process are as follows. The set Ω is occupied by a viscoelastic body in ℝ d (d=2, 3 in applications) which is referred to as the reference configuration. We assume that Ω is a bounded domain with Lipschitz boundary Γ which is divided into three mutually disjoint measurable parts Γ D , Γ N and Γ C with m(Γ D )>0.
We study the process of evolution of the mechanical state in time interval [0,T], 0<T<∞. The system evolves in time as a result of applied volume forces and surface tractions. The description of this evolution is done by introducing a vector function u=u(x,t)=(u 1(x,t),…,u d (x,t)) which describes the displacement at time t of a particle that has the position x=(x 1,…,x d ) in the reference configuration. We denote by σ=σ(x,t)=(σ ij (x,t)) the stress tensor and by ε(u)=(ε ij (u)) the linearized (small) strain tensor whose components are given by (a compatibility condition) \(\varepsilon_{ij} = \varepsilon_{ij}(u) = \frac{1}{2} (u_{i,j} + u_{j,i})\), where i, j=1,…,d. In cases where an index appears twice, we use the summation convention. We also put Q=Ω×(0,T).
3.2 Weak Formulation of the Problem
- \(\underline{H({\mathcal{A}})}\):
The viscosity operator \({\mathcal{A}} \colon Q \times{ \mathbb {S}^{d}} \to{ \mathbb {S}^{d}}\) is such that
- (i)
\({\mathcal{A}}(\cdot,\cdot, \varepsilon)\) is measurable on Q for all \(\varepsilon\in{ \mathbb {S}^{d}}\);
- (ii)
\({\mathcal{A}}(x, t, \cdot)\) is continuous on \({\mathbb {S}^{d}}\) for a.e. (x,t)∈Q;
- (iii)
\(\| {\mathcal{A}}(x,t,\varepsilon) \|_{{\mathbb {S}^{d}}} \le {\widetilde{a_{1}}}(x,t) + {\widetilde{a_{2}}} \| \varepsilon\|_{{\mathbb {S}^{d}}}\) for all \(\varepsilon\in{ \mathbb {S}^{d}}\), a.e. (x,t)∈Q with \({\widetilde{a_{1}}} \in L^{2}(Q)\), \({\widetilde {a_{1}}}\), \({\widetilde{a_{2}}} \ge0\);
- (iv)
\(( {\mathcal{A}}(x, t, \varepsilon_{1}) - {\mathcal{A}} (x, t, \varepsilon_{2}) ): (\varepsilon_{1} - \varepsilon_{2}) \ge{\widetilde{a_{4}}}\| \varepsilon_{1} - \varepsilon_{2} \|^{2}_{\mathbb {S}^{d}}\) for all ε 1, \(\varepsilon_{2} \in{ \mathbb {S}^{d}}\), a.e. (x,t)∈Q with \({\widetilde{a_{4}}} > 0\);
- (v)
\({\mathcal{A}}(x,t,\varepsilon) : \varepsilon\ge {\widetilde{a_{3}}} \| \varepsilon\|^{2}_{{\mathbb {S}^{d}}}\) for all \(\varepsilon\in{ \mathbb {S}^{d}}\), a.e. (x,t)∈Q with \({\widetilde{a_{3}}} > 0\).
- (i)
Remark 3
It should be remarked that the growth condition \(H({\mathcal{A}})\)(iii) excludes terms with power greater than one, but is satisfied within linearized viscoelasticity, and is satisfied by truncated operators, cf. [11, 41].
- \(\underline{H({\mathcal{B}})}\):
The elasticity operator \({\mathcal{B}} \colon Q \times{ \mathbb {S}^{d}} \to{ \mathbb {S}^{d}}\) is such that
- (i)
\({\mathcal{B}}(\cdot,\cdot, \varepsilon)\) is measurable on Q for all ε∈S d ;
- (ii)
\(\| {\mathcal{B}}(x,t,\varepsilon) \|_{{\mathbb {S}^{d}}} \le {\widetilde{b_{1}}}(x,t) + {\widetilde{b_{2}}} \| \varepsilon\|_{{\mathbb {S}^{d}}}\) for all \(\varepsilon\in{ \mathbb {S}^{d}}\), a.e. (x,t)∈Q with \({\widetilde{b_{1}}} \in L^{2}(Q)\), \({\widetilde {b_{1}}}\), \({\widetilde{b_{2}}} \ge0\);
- (iii)
\(\| {\mathcal{B}}(x,t,\varepsilon_{1}) - {\mathcal{B}} (x,t,\varepsilon_{2})\|_{{\mathbb {S}^{d}}}\le L_{\mathcal{B}} \| \varepsilon_{1} - \varepsilon_{2} \|_{\mathbb {S}^{d}}\) for all ε 1, \(\varepsilon_{2} \in{ \mathbb {S}^{d}}\), a.e. (x,t)∈Q with \(L_{\mathcal{B}} > 0\).
- (i)
Remark 4
If \({\mathcal{B}} (x, t, \cdot) \in{\mathcal{L}}(\mathbb {S}^{d}, \mathbb {S}^{d})\) for a.e. (x,t)∈Q, the conditions \(H({\mathcal{B}})\)(ii) and (iii) hold. Thus the hypothesis \(H({\mathcal{B}})\) is more general than the ones considered in [23–27, 32, 35] where the elasticity operator is assumed to be linear (which corresponds to the Hooke law).
- \(\underline{H({\mathcal{C}})}\):
The relaxation operator \({\mathcal{C}} \colon Q \times{ \mathbb {S}^{d}} \to{ \mathbb {S}^{d}}\) is of the form \({\mathcal{C}}(x,t,\varepsilon) = c(x,t) \varepsilon\) and c(x,t)={c ijkl (x,t)} with c ijkl =c jikl =c lkij ∈L ∞(Q).
- \(\underline{H(f)}\):
f 0∈L 2(0,T;H), f 1∈L 2(0,T;L 2(Γ N ;ℝ d )), u 0∈V, u 1∈H.
- \(\underline{H(j_{k})}\):
The function j k :Γ C ×(0,T)×(ℝ d )2×ℝ→ℝ is such that
- (i)
j k (⋅,⋅,ζ,ρ,r) is measurable for all ζ, ρ∈ℝ d , r∈ℝ,
j k (⋅,⋅,v(⋅),w(⋅),0)∈L 1(Γ C ×(0,T)) for all v, w∈L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d );
- (ii)
j k (x,t,⋅,⋅,r) is continuous for all r∈ℝ, a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T),
j k (x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅) is locally Lipschitz for all ζ, ρ∈ℝ d , a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T);
- (iii)
|∂j k (x,t,ζ,ρ,r)|≤c k0+c k1∥ζ∥+c k2∥ρ∥+c k3|r| for all ζ, ρ∈ℝ d , r∈ℝ, a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T) with c kj ≥0, j=0, 1, 2, 3, where ∂j k denotes the Clarke subdifferential of j k (x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅);
- (iv)
\(j^{0}_{k} (x,t, \cdot, \cdot, \cdot; s)\) is upper semicontinuous on (ℝ d )2×ℝ for all s∈ℝ, a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T), where \(j^{0}_{k}\) denotes the generalized directional derivative of Clarke of j k (x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅) in the direction s.
- (i)
The functions j k for k=3, 4 satisfy the corresponding conditions with the last variable being in ℝ d .
- \(\underline{H(j)_{reg}}\):
The functions j k for k=1,…,4 are such that for all ζ, ρ∈ℝ d , a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T), either all j k (x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅) are regular or all −j k (x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅) are regular for k=1,…,4.
The above hypotheses are realistic with respect to the physical data and the process modeling. We will see this in the specific examples of contact laws which are given in Sect. 4.
3.3 Evolution Inclusion for Hemivariational Inequality
In this section we state a result on the existence of solutions to second order evolution inclusions and apply it to an abstract hemivariational inequality. To this end, let Z=H δ (Ω;ℝ d ), δ∈(1/2,1) and γ:Z→L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d ) be the trace operator. Let γ ∗:L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d )→Z ∗ stand for the adjoint operator to γ.
Definition 5
- \(\underline{H(A)}\):
The operator A:(0,T)×V→V ∗ is such that
- (i)
A(⋅,v) is measurable on (0,T) for all v∈V;
- (ii)
A(t,⋅) is strongly monotone for a.e. t∈(0,T), i.e. there exists m 1>0 such that 〈A(t,v)−A(t,u),v−u〉≥m 1∥v−u∥2 for all u, v∈V, a.e. t∈(0,T);
- (iii)
\(\| A(t, v) \|_{V^{*}} \le a_{0}(t) + a_{1} \| v \|\) for all v∈V, a.e. t∈(0,T) with a 0∈L 2(0,T), a 0≥0 and a 1>0;
- (iv)
〈A(t,v),v〉≥α∥v∥2 for all v∈V, a.e. t∈(0,T) with α>0;
- (v)
A(t,⋅) is hemicontinuous for a.e. t∈(0,T).
- (i)
Remark 6
The hypothesis H(A) implies the operator A is pseudomonotone. Indeed, strong monotonicity clearly implies monotonicity which with hemicontinuity entails (cf. Proposition 27.6(a), p. 586, of Zeidler [44]) pseudomonotonicity. We also recall (cf. Remark 1.1.13 of [8]) that for monotone operators, demicontinuity and hemicontinuity are equivalent notions.
- \(\underline{H(B)}\):
The operator B:(0,T)×V→V ∗ is such that
- (i)
B(⋅,v) is measurable on (0,T) for all v∈V;
- (ii)
B(t,⋅) is Lipschitz continuous for a.e. t∈(0,T), i.e. \(\| B(t, u) - B(t, v) \|_{V^{*}} \le L_{B} \| u - v \|\) for all u, v∈V, a.e. t∈(0,T) with L B >0;
- (iii)
\(\| B(t, v) \|_{V^{*}} \le b_{0}(t) + b_{1} \| v \|\) for all v∈V, a.e. t∈(0,T) with b 0∈L 2(0,T) and b 0, b 1≥0.
- (i)
- \(\underline{H(C)}\):
The operator C satisfies \(C\in L^{2}(0,T; {\mathcal{L}}(V, V^{*}))\).
- \(\underline{H(F)}\):
The multifunction \(F \colon(0,T) \times V \times V \to{\mathcal{P}}_{fc}(Z^{*})\) is such that
- (i)
F(⋅,u,v) is measurable on (0,T) for all u, v∈V;
- (ii)
F(t,⋅,⋅) is upper semicontinuous from V×V into w-Z ∗ for a.e. t∈(0,T), where V×V is endowed with (Z×Z)-topology;
- (iii)
\(\| F(t, u, v) \|_{Z^{*}} \le d_{0}(t) + d_{1} \| u \| + d_{2} \| v \|\) for all u, v∈V, a.e. t∈(0,T) with d 0∈L 2(0,T) and d 0, d 1, d 2≥0.
- (i)
- \(\underline{H(F)_{1}}\):
The multifunction \(F \colon(0,T) \times V \times V \to{\mathcal{P}}_{fc}(Z^{*})\) satisfies H(F) and
- (iv)
\(\langle F(t, u_{1}, v_{1}) - F(t, u_{2}, v_{2}), v_{1} - v_{2} \rangle_{Z^{*}\times Z} \ge -m_{2} \|v_{1} - v_{2}\|^{2} - m_{3} \|v_{1} - v_{2}\| \|u_{1}-u_{2}\|\) for all u i , v i ∈V, i=1, 2, a.e. t∈(0,T) with m 2, m 3≥0.
- (iv)
- \(\underline{(H_{0})}\):
\(f \in{\mathcal{V}}^{*}\), u 0∈V, u 1∈H.
- \(\underline{(H_{1})}\):
\(\alpha> 2 \sqrt{3} c_{e} (d_{1} T + d_{2})\), where c e >0 is the embedding constant of V into Z, i.e., ∥⋅∥ Z ≤c e ∥⋅∥.
- \(\underline{(H_{2})}\):
\(m_{1} > m_{2} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} m_{3}T\).
Theorem 7
Under the hypotheses H(A), H(B), H(C), H(F)1, (H 0), (H 1) and (H 2), Problem \({\mathcal{P}}\) admits a unique solution.
For the proof, we refer to Theorem 8 of [19].
Lemma 8
Under the hypothesis \(H({\mathcal{A}})\), the operator A:(0,T)×V→V ∗ defined by (9) satisfies H(A) with \(a_{0}(t) = \sqrt{2} \| {\widetilde{a_{1}}} (t) \|_{L^{2}(\Omega)}\), \(a_{1} = \sqrt{2} {\widetilde{a_{2}}}\), \(\alpha= {\widetilde{a_{3}}}\), and \(m_{1} = {\widetilde{a_{4}}}\).
Lemma 9
Under the hypothesis \(H({\mathcal{B}})\), the operator B:(0,T)×V→V ∗ defined by (10) satisfies H(B) with \(L_{B} = L_{\mathcal{B}}\), \(b_{0}(t) = \sqrt{2} \| {\widetilde{b}}_{1}(t) \|_{L^{2}(\Omega)}\) and \(b_{1} = \sqrt{2} {\widetilde{b}}_{2}\).
Lemma 10
Under the hypothesis \(H({\mathcal{C}})\), the operator C defined by (11) satisfies H(C).
- \(\underline{H(g)}\):
The function g:Γ C ×(0,T)×(ℝ d )4→ℝ satisfies the following
- (i)
g(⋅,⋅,ζ,ρ,ξ,η) is measurable for all ζ, ρ, ξ, η∈ℝ d ,
g(⋅,⋅,v(⋅),w(⋅),0,0)∈L 1(Γ C ×(0,T)) for all v, w∈L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d );
- (ii)
g(x,t,⋅,⋅,ξ,η) is continuous for all ξ, η∈ℝ d , a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T),
g(x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅,⋅) is locally Lipschitz for all ζ, ρ∈ℝ d , a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T);
- (iii)
\(\| \partial g (x, t,\zeta, \rho, \xi, \eta) \|_{(\mathbb{R}^{d})^{2}} \le c_{g0} + c_{g1} (\| \zeta\| + \| \xi\|) + c_{g2} (\| \rho\| + \|\eta\|)\) for all ζ, ρ, ξ, η∈ℝ d , a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T) with c g0, c g1, c g2≥0, where ∂g denotes the Clarke subdifferential of g(x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅,⋅);
- (iv)
g 0(x,t,⋅,⋅,⋅,⋅;χ,σ) is upper semicontinuous on (ℝ d )4 for a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T) and all χ, σ∈ℝ d where g 0 denotes the generalized directional derivative of Clarke of g(x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅,⋅) in the direction (χ,σ).
- (i)
- \(\underline{H(g)_{reg}}\):
The function g:Γ C ×(0,T)×(ℝ d )4→ℝ is such that either g(x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅,⋅) or −g(x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅,⋅) is regular for all ζ,ρ∈ℝ d , a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T).
Lemma 11
If for k=1,…,k the functions −j k are regular in their last variables, then we proceed in the same way as above and deduce the regularity of −g(x,t,ζ,ρ,⋅,⋅) for (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T) and ζ, ρ∈ℝ d . We use the property (−g)0(x,t,ζ,ρ,ξ,η;χ,σ)=g 0(x,t,ζ,ρ,ξ,η;−χ,−σ) for all ζ, ρ, ξ, η, χ, σ∈ℝ d , a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T) (cf. Proposition 2.1.1 of [6]), and again deduce (15).
- \(\underline{H(G)}\):
The functional G:(0,T)×L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d )4→ℝ is such that
- (i)
G(⋅,w,z,u,v) is measurable for all w, z, u, v∈L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d ),
G(⋅,w,z,0,0)∈L 1(0,T) for all w, z∈L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d );
- (ii)
G(t,w,z,⋅,⋅) is Lipschitz continuous on bounded subsets of L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d )2 for all w, z∈L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d ), a.e. t∈(0,T);
- (iii)
\(\| \partial G (t, w, z, u, v) \|_{L^{2}(\Gamma_{C};\mathbb{R}^{d})^{2}} \le c_{G0} + c_{G1} (\| w \| + \| u \|) + c_{G2} (\| z \| + \| v \| )\) for all w, z, u, v∈L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d ), a.e. t∈(0,T) with c G0, c G1, c G2≥0, where ∂G denotes the Clarke subdifferential of G(t,w,z,⋅,⋅);
- (iv)For all w, z, u, v, \({\overline {u}}\), \({\overline {v}} \in L^{2}(\Gamma_{C};\mathbb{R}^{d})\), a.e. t∈(0,T), we havewhere G 0 denotes the generalized directional derivative of G(t,w,z,⋅,⋅) at a point (u,v) in the direction \(({\overline {u}}, {\overline {v}})\);$$ G^0(t, w, z, u, v; {\overline {u}}, {\overline {v}}) = \int _{\Gamma_C} g^0 \bigl(x, t, w(x), z(x), u(x), v(x); {\overline {u}}(x), {\overline {v}}(x) \bigr) \,d\Gamma,$$(20)
- (v)
\(G^{0} (t, \cdot, \cdot, \cdot, \cdot; {\overline {u}}, {\overline {v}})\) is upper semicontinuous on L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d )4 for all \({\overline {u}}, {\overline {v}} \in L^{2}(\Gamma_{C};\mathbb{R}^{d})\), a.e. t∈(0,T).
- (i)
- \(\underline{H(G)_{reg}}\):
The functional G:(0,T)×L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d )4→ℝ is such that either G(t,w,z,⋅,⋅) or −G(t,w,z,⋅,⋅) is regular for all w, z∈L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d ), a.e. t∈(0,T).
Lemma 12
Under the hypotheses H(g) and H(g) reg hold the functional G defined by (19) satisfies H(G) with \(c_{G0} = c_{g0} \sqrt{5 m(\Gamma_{C})}\), \(c_{G1} = c_{g1} \sqrt{5}\), \(c_{G2} = c_{g2} \sqrt{5}\) and H(G) reg .
First, from H(g)(ii) and Lemma 1, it follows that g(x,t,⋅,⋅,⋅,⋅) is continuous on (ℝ d )4 which together with H(g)(i) implies that g is a Carathéodory function. Hence (x,t)↦g(x,t,w(x),z(x),u(x),v(x)) is measurable for all w, z, u, v∈L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d ) and subsequently the integrand of (19) is a measurable function of x.
Before we establish the properties of the multifunction F given by (22), we need the following auxiliary lemma (cf. [18]).
Lemma 13
Let (Ω,Σ) be a measurable space, Y 1, Y 2 be separable Banach spaces, \(A \in{\mathcal{L}}(Y_{1}, Y_{2})\) and let \(G \colon\Omega\to{\mathcal{P}}_{wkc}(Y_{1})\) be measurable. Then the multifunction \(F \colon\Omega\to{\mathcal{P}}_{wkc}(Y_{2})\) given by F(ω)=AG(ω) for ω∈Ω is measurable.
Lemma 14
Under H(G) and H(G) reg , the multifunction \(F \colon(0,T) \times V \times V \to2^{Z^{*}}\) defined by (22) satisfies H(F) with d 0(t)=c G0∥γ∥, d 1=2c e c G1∥γ∥2 and d 2=2c e c G2∥γ∥2.
The fact that the mapping F has nonempty and convex values follows from the nonemptiness and convexity of values of the Clarke subdifferential of G (cf. Proposition 2.1.2 of [6]). Because the values of the subdifferential ∂G(t,w,z,⋅,⋅) are weakly closed subsets of L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d ), using H(G)1, we can also easily check that the mapping F has closed values in Z ∗.
- \(\underline{H(j_{1})_{1}}\):
j 1:Γ C ×(0,T)×(ℝ d )2×ℝ→ℝ is such thatfor all ζ1, ζ2, ρ 1, ρ 2∈ℝ d , r 1, r 2∈ℝ, a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T) with a constant L 1≥0.$$\bigl| \partial j_1 (x, t,\zeta_1, \rho_1,r_1) - \partial j_1 (x, t,\zeta_2,\rho_2, r_2)\bigr| \le L_1 \bigl( \| \zeta_1- \zeta_2 \| + \| \rho_1 - \rho_2 \| +|r_1 - r_2| \bigr)$$
- \(\underline{H(j_{2})_{1}}\):
- \(\underline{H(j_{3})_{1}}\):
j 3:Γ C ×(0,T)×(ℝ d )3→ℝ is such thatfor all ζ1, ζ2, ρ 1, ρ 2, θ 1, θ 2∈ℝ d , a.e. (x,t)∈Γ C ×(0,T) with a constant L 3≥0.$$\bigl\| \partial j_3 (x, t,\zeta_1, \rho_1,\theta_1) - \partial j_3 (x, t,\zeta_2,\rho_2, \theta_2)\bigr\| \le L_3 \bigl( \|\zeta_1 - \zeta_2 \| + \| \rho_1 -\rho_2 \| + \| \theta_1 - \theta_2 \| \bigr)$$
Remark 15
The hypothesis H(j 2)1 (and H(j 4)1) has been introduced and used earlier in [23] (under the name of relaxed monotonicity condition) in the case when j 2 (and j 4) does not depend on the variables ζ and ρ.
Lemma 16
It is clear that under the hypotheses, the condition H(j) reg holds. By Lemma 11 we know that the integrand g given by (14) satisfies H(g) and H(g) reg . Hence by Lemma 12, it follows that the functional G given by (19) satisfies H(G). Using Lemma 14, under H(G), we obtain that the multifunction F satisfies H(F).
In order to formulate and prove the results on the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the hemivariational inequality in Problem (HVI), we need the following two lemmas.
Lemma 17
Under hypotheses \(H({\mathcal{A}})\), \(H({\mathcal{B}})\), \(H({\mathcal{C}})\), H(f) and H(j k ) for k=1,…,4, every solution of the Problem \(\mathcal{P}\) with the multivalued mapping of the form (22), with G:(0,T)×L 2(Γ C ;ℝ d )4→ℝ of the form (19) and its integrand g:Γ C ×(0,T)×(ℝ d )4→ℝ given by (14), and the operators A, B and C defined by (9), (10) and (11) respectively, is a solution to Problem (HVI).
Lemma 18
Assume the function definitions and hypotheses of Lemma 17. If either j 1=j 3=0 or j 2=j 4=0, then u is a solution to Problem (HVI) if and only if u is a solution to Problem \(\mathcal{P}\).
The case when j 2=j 4=0 can be treated in an analogous way. This completes the proof of the lemma. □
The following are the existence result for the hemivariational inequality in Problem (HVI) which are the direct conclusion from the lemmas above and Theorem 7.
Theorem 19
Theorem 20
Assume the hypotheses of Theorem 19. If, in addition, either j 1=j 3=0 or j 2=j 4=0, then the hemivariational inequality in Problem (HVI) admits a unique solution.
4 Applications to Viscoelastic Mechanical Problems
4.1 Prescribed Normal Stress and Nonmonotone Friction Laws
4.1.1 Nonmonotone Friction Independent of Slip and Slip Rate
4.1.2 Contact with Nonmonotone Normal Damped Response
4.2 Viscous Contact with Tresca's Friction Law
4.3 Other Nonmonotone Friction Contact Laws
We end this section with indications on specific applications of research on contact problems. It is of importance to provide various applications of the theoretical results to contact problems arising in real world. The applications concern the following areas.
Construction and exploitation of machines
The understanding of contact problems are extremely important in various branches of engineering such as structural foundations, bearings, metal forming processes, drilling problems, the simulation of car crashes, the car braking system, contact of train wheels with the rails, a shoe with the floor, machine tools, bearings, motors, turbines, cooling of electronic devices, joints in mechanical devices, ski lubricants, and many more, cf., e.g., Andrews et al. [4], Chau et al. [5], Kuttler and Shillor [20, 21], Rochdi et al. [37] and Sofonea and Matei [43].
The applications concerns the medical field of arthoplasty where bonding between the bone implant and the tissue is of considerable importance. Artificial implants of knee and hip prostheses (both cemented and cement-less) demonstrate that the adhesion is important at the bone-implant interface. These applications are related to contact modeling and design of biomechanical parts like human joints, implants or teeth, cf. Panagiotopoulos [34], Rojek and Telega [38], Rojek et al. [39], Shillor et al. [41] and Sofonea et al. [42].
Plate tectonics and earthquakes predictions
Results may be applicable to models with nonmonotone strain-stress laws in rock layers. Frictional contact between rocks are described by several models, cf. Dumont et al. [9], Ionescu et al. [12, 14], Ionescu and Nguyen [13], Ionescu and Paumier [15, 16] and Rabinowicz [36].
Medicine and biology
Results are applicable to nonmonotone semipermeable membranes and walls (biological and artificial), cf. Duvaut and Lions [10]. In particular, contact problems for piezoelectric materials will continue to play a decisive role in the field of ultrasonic transducers for imaging applications, e.g., medical imaging (sonogram), nondestructive testing and high power applications (medical treatment, sonochemistry and industrial processing), cf. Shillor et al. [41], Sofonea et al. [42].
Research partially supported by a Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No. 295118.
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