Engineering Computations: Volume 37 Issue 9
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International journal for computer-aided engineering and softwareTable of contents
Higher-order assumed strain plane element immune to mesh distortion
Mohammad Rezaiee-Pajand, Nima Gharaei-Moghaddam, Mohammadreza RamezaniThis paper aims to propose a new robust membrane finite element for the analysis of plane problems. The suggested element has triangular geometry. Four nodes and 11 degrees of…
An adaptive collocation method for structural fuzzy uncertainty analysis
Lei Wang, Chuang Xiong, Qinghe ShiConsidering that uncertain factors widely exist in engineering practice, an adaptive collocation method (ACM) is developed for the structural fuzzy uncertainty analysis.
Zoned deformation prediction model for super high arch dams using hierarchical clustering and panel data
Jiang Hu, Fuheng MaThe purpose of this study is to develop and verify a methodology for a zoned deformation prediction model for super high arch dams, which is indeed a panel data-based regression…
Suppression of secondary flows in a centrifugal impeller by optimisation design
Xing Xie, Zhenlin Li, Baoshan Zhu, Hong WangThe purpose of this study is to suppress secondary flows and improve aerodynamic performance of a centrifugal impeller.
An isogeometric analysis approach for solving the Reynolds equation in textured piston ring – cylinder liner contacts
Wei Liu, Zhengdong Huang, Yunhua LiuThe purpose of this study is to propose an isogeometric analysis (IGA) approach for solving the Reynolds equation in textured piston ring cylinder liner (PRCL) contacts.
Compaction effects on permeability of spherical packing
Duzhou Zhang, Zhiguo Tian, Zhiqiang Chen, Dengyun Wu, Gang Zhou, Shaohua Zhang, Moran WangThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the evolution of the permeability of spherical packing during cold compaction by pore-scale modeling.
Adaptive anisotropic response surface method based on univariate dimension-reduction model and its high-order revision
Wenliang Fan, Wentong Zhang, Min Li, Alfredo H.-S. Ang, Zhengliang LiBased on univariate dimension-reduction model, this study aims to propose an adaptive anisotropic response surface method (ARSM) and its high-order revision (HARSM) to balance the…
Prognosis and fail detection in a dynamic rotor using artificial immunological system
Roberto Outa, Fabio Roberto Chavarette, Vishnu Narayan Mishra, Aparecido C. Gonçalves, Luiz G.P. Roefero, Thiago C. MoroIn recent years, the mechanical industries began to apply many investments in research and technological development to obtain efficient methods to analyze the integrity of…
Risk decision based sensor scheduling in target tracking
Ce Pang, Ganlin ShanThis paper aims to introduce a new target tracking method based on risk theory in a 2-D discrete environment. After that, the related sensor scheduling method is proposed. This…
Microstructural modelling of autogenous shrinkage in Portland cement paste at early age
Huy Quang Do, Shashank Bishnoi, Karen Louise ScrivenerThis paper aims to develop a numerical, micromechanical model to predict the evolution of autogenous shrinkage of hydrating cement paste at early age (up to 7 days). Autogeneous…
UNAT: UNstructured Acceleration Toolkit on SW26010 many-core processor
Hongbin Liu, Hu Ren, Hanfeng Gu, Fei Gao, Guangwen YangThe purpose of this paper is to provide an automatic parallelization toolkit for unstructured mesh-based computation. Among all kinds of mesh types, unstructured meshes are…
h-adaptive topology optimization considering variations of material properties and energy error density recovery
Jéderson da Silva, Jucélio Tomás Pereira, Diego Amadeu F. TorresThe purpose of this paper is to propose a new scheme for obtaining acceptable solutions for problems of continuum topology optimization of structures, regarding the distribution…
Numerical solution of nonlinear stochastic Itô – Volterra integral equation driven by fractional Brownian motion
S. Saha Ray, S. SinghThis paper aims to study fractional Brownian motion and its applications to nonlinear stochastic integral equations. Bernstein polynomials have been applied to obtain the…
A different approach to the network method: continuity equation in flow through porous media under retaining structures
Encarnación Martínez-Moreno, Gonzalo Garcia-Ros, Ivan AlhamaThis study aims to present a new numerical model for the simulation of water flow through porous media of anisotropic character, based on the network simulation method and with…
Solution of direct and inverse conduction heat transfer problems using the method of fundamental solutions and differential evolution
Adam Basílio, Fran Sérgio Lobato, Fábio de Oliveira AroucaThe study of heat transfer mechanisms is an area of great interest because of various applications that can be developed. Mathematically, these phenomena are usually represented…
Seismic performance assessments of school buildings in Taiwan using artificial intelligence theories
Ching-Shan ChenTaiwan experiences frequent seismic activity. Major earthquakes in recent history have seriously damaged the school buildings. School buildings in Taiwan are intended to serve…
Shear wave propagation in magneto poroelastic medium sandwiched between self-reinforced poroelastic medium and poroelastic half space
Sindhuja Ala, Rajitha Gurijala, Malla Reddy PeratiThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of reinforcement, inhomogeneity and initial stress on the propagation of shear waves. The problem consists of magneto…
Direct modifications of tetrahedral meshes
YuFei Guo, YongQing Hai, JianFei LiuDuring the industrial design process, a product is usually modified and analyzed repeatedly until reaching the final design. Modifying the model and regenerating a mesh for every…
A cyclic symmetric model for the investigation of vibration reduction of hard-coating blisk
Wei Sun, Shuai Yang, Junnan Gao, Xianfei YanIt is very important to create a useful cyclic symmetric model for the investigation of the vibration reduction effect of hard-coating blisk. This study aims to develop a cyclic…
Influence of mechanical imperfection on the transference of Love-type waves in viscoelastic substrate overloaded by visco-micropolar composite structure
Manisha Maity, Santimoy Kundu, Raju Kumhar, Shishir GuptaThis mathematical analysis has been accomplished for the purpose of understanding the propagation behaviour like phase velocity and attenuation of Love-type waves through…
A Chebyshev convex method for mid-frequency analysis of built-up structures with large convex uncertainties
Wu Qin, Hui Yin, D.J. Yu, Wen-Bin ShangguanThis paper aims to develop an efficient numerical method for mid-frequency analysis of built-up structures with large convex uncertainties.
Structure optimization of plough blades in a ploughshare mixer using the DEM simulations
Ziqiang Fang, Songlin Peng, Jiangang Yi, Jun DuThe purpose of this paper is to optimize the structure of plough blades in a ploughshare mixer using the discrete element method (DEM) simulations.
Development of semi-implicit midpoint and Romberg stress integration algorithms for single hardening soil constitutive models
Divyanshu Kumar Lal, Arghya DasSemi-implicit type cutting plane method (CPM) and fully implicit type closest point projection method (CPPM) are the two most widely used frameworks for numerical stress…
Identification of pipe inner surface in heat conduction problems by deep learning and effective thermal conductivity transform
Haolong Chen, Zhibo Du, Xiang Li, Huanlin Zhou, Zhanli LiuThe purpose of this paper is to develop a transform method and a deep learning model to identify the inner surface shape based on the measurement temperature at the outer boundary…
Composite fuzzy-wavelet-based active contour for medical image segmentation
Hiren Mewada, Amit V. Patel, Jitendra Chaudhari, Keyur Mahant, Alpesh ValaIn clinical analysis, medical image segmentation is an important step to study the anatomical structure. This helps to diagnose and classify abnormality in the image. The wide…
An enhanced adaptive butterfly optimization algorithm rigorously verified on engineering problems and implemented to ISAR image motion compensation
Deniz UstunThis study aims to evolve an enhanced butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA) with respect to convergence and accuracy performance for numerous benchmark functions, rigorous…
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