AN APPLICATION OF THE DISCRETE MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE TO THE SEGMENTATION OF A WALL FOR NONLINEAR SLOPES

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.

KEY WORDS:

• Segmented walls
• discrete maximum principle