Engineering Computations: Volume 31 Issue 5

Topology design of plates considering different volume control methods

Diego Esteves Campeão, Sebastian Miguel Giusti, Andre Antonio Novotny

– The purpose of this paper is to compare between two methods of volume control in the context of topological derivative-based structural optimization of Kirchhoff plates.

Prediction of convective heat transfer of Al2O3-water nanofluid considering particle migration using neural network

Mehdi Bahiraei, Seyed Mostafa Hosseinalipour, Morteza Hangi

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to investigate the particle migration effects on nanofluid heat transfer considering Brownian and thermophoretic forces. It also tries to…

Efficient solution of the fuzzy eigenvalue problem in structural dynamics

Yuying Xia, M. Friswell

Many analysis and design problems in engineering and science involve uncertainty to varying degrees. This paper is concerned with the structural vibration problem involving…

Crashworthiness optimization of new thin-walled cellular configurations

Shujuan Hou, Zhidan Zhang, Xujing Yang, Hanfeng Yin, Qing Li

The purpose of this paper is to optimize a new thin-walled cellular configurations with crashworthiness criteria, so as to improve the crashworthiness of components of a vehicle…

The importance of a full 3D fluid dynamic analysis to evaluate the flow forces in a hydraulic directional proportional valve

Riccardo Amirante, Luciano Andrea Catalano, Paolo Tamburrano

The purpose of this paper is to present a full 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of the flow field through hydraulic directional proportional valves, in order to…

Numerical prediction on microstructure evolution for multi-stage hot forging of micro-alloyed piston

Jun Chen, Jin Wang

The purpose of this paper is to build a flow stress model and microstructure evolution models which can be used to fulfill the multi-physics prediction of hot forging process, in…

Numerical research on relationship between flow pattern transition and condensation heat transfer in microchannel

Dongliang Sun, Jinliang Xu, Peng Ding

Based on the numerical research on the relationship between the flow pattern transition and the condensation heat transfer in circular microchannels, the purpose of this paper is…

Simple and efficient numerical tools for the analysis of parachutes

Roberto Flores, Enrique Ortega, Eugenio Onate

The purpose of this paper is to describe a set of simple yet effective, numerical method for the design and evaluation of parachute-payload system. The developments include a…

Analytical-numerical procedure incorporating cracking in RC beams

K.A. Patel, Sandeep Chaudhary, A.K. Nagpal

The purpose of this paper is to develop, for use in everyday design, a procedure that incorporates the effect of concrete cracking in reinforced concrete (RC) beams at service…

Implementing slack cables in the force density method

Petros Christou, Antonis Michael, Miltiades Elliotis

The purpose of this paper is to present a solution strategy for the analysis of cable networks which includes an extension to the force density method (FDM) in an attempt to…