Engineering Computations: Volume 20 Issue 7

Experimental and numerical behaviour of railway rivets under quasi‐static promptings

L. Cebulski, C. Boneill, P. Drazetic, E. Markiewicz

The riveting with blind rivets is extensively used in railway structures, which are mainly composed of aluminium. The lack of knowledge in this process makes the railway…

Initial solution estimation to speed up inverse approach in stamping modeling

Y.Q. Guo, H. Naceur, K. Debray, F. Bogard

Nowadays, simplified inverse or one step approaches for the sheet forming modeling are increasingly used in the automobile industry, since they allow to quickly realize the…

Analytical algorithm of inductive field for realising a smart eddy current NDT system

Qimi Jiang, Chun‐Hsien Chen, Li Pheng Khoo

Research effort to integrate an analysis module of inductive field into an eddy current NDT system to realise a hybrid technique, which is capable of automatically analysing the…

Numerical simulation of three‐dimensional steady‐state rolling by the reproducing kernel particle method

S. Xiong, J.M.C. Rodrigues, P.A.F. Martins

This paper presents a numerical approach for analysing three‐dimensional steady‐state rolling by means of the reproducing kernel particle method (RKPM). The approach is based on…

On the performance of enhanced strain finite elements in large strain deformations of elastic shells: Comparison of two classes of constitutive models for rubber materials

Carlo Sansour, Stefanie Feih, Werner Wagner

This paper is concerned with the performance of shell finite elements, well established in locking‐free computations with linear constitutive laws, in the case of non‐linear…

A new volumetric and shear locking‐free 3D enhanced strain element

R.J. Alves de Sousa, R.M. Natal Jorge, R.A. Fontes Valente, J.M.A. César de Sá

This paper focuses on the development of a new class of eight‐node solid finite elements, suitable for the treatment of volumetric and transverse shear locking problems. Doing so…