Engineering Computations: Volume 25 Issue 3

Finite element analyses and simulations of gears and gear drives: A bibliography 1997‐2006

Ludvík Prášil, Jaroslav Mackerle

The finite element method (FEM) has become the prevalent technique used for analyzing physical phenomena in the field of structural, solid and fluid mechanics. The output of…

Convergence behavior of 3D finite elements for Neo‐Hookean material

Erwin Stein, Gautam Sagar

The purpose of this paper is to examine quadratic convergence of finite element analysis for hyperelastic material at finite strains via Abaqus‐UMAT as well as classification of…

A finite volume approach to simulation of polymer melt flow in channels

P.S.B. Zdanski, M. Vaz, G.R. Inácio

Numerical simulation of polymer injection processes has become increasingly common in mould design. In industry, such a task is accomplished mainly by using commercial packages…

Mixed‐mode stress intensity factors of a three‐dimensional crack in a bonded bimaterial

T.Y. Qin, B.J. Zhu, N.A. Noda

This paper aims to calculate the mixed‐mode stress intensity factors (SIFs) of a 3D crack meeting the interface in a bimaterial under shear loading by a hypersingular integral…

Optimal structural design family by genetic search and ant colony approach

A. Kaveh, M. Shahrouzi

Genetic Algorithm, as a generalized constructive search method, has already been applied to various fields of optimization problems using different encoding schemes. In…