Engineering Computations: Volume 38 Issue 4

Experimental investigation and modeling study of the fiber orientation behavior

Maoyuan Li, Yun Zhang, Shi Zhang, Binkui Hou, Huamin Zhou

The orientation behavior of fiber is of great significance in improving the performance of fiber-reinforced polymer products. Generally, the Folgar–Tucker equation can accurately…

A hybrid computational method for optimization design of bistable compliant mechanism

Ngoc Le Chau, Ngoc Thoai Tran, Thanh-Phong Dao

Compliant mechanism has been receiving a great interest in precision engineering. However, analytical methods involving their behavior analysis is still a challenge because there…

Effect of journal misalignment on the static characteristics of an innovative journal bearing with adjustable elements in load-on-pad and load-between-pad configurations

H. Girish, Raghuvir Pai

The purpose of this paper is to theoretically analyze an innovative form of variable bearing configuration having four pads with unique adjustability principle operated under…

A new two-lane lattice hydrodynamic model on a curved road accounting for the empirical lane-changing rate

Qingying Wang, Rongjun Cheng, Hongxia Ge

The purpose of this paper is to explore how curved road and lane-changing rates affect the stability of traffic flow.

Plasma generation optimization: a new physically-based metaheuristic algorithm for solving constrained optimization problems

Ali Kaveh, Hossein Akbari, Seyed Milad Hosseini

This paper aims to present a new physically inspired meta-heuristic algorithm, which is called Plasma Generation Optimization (PGO). To evaluate the performance and capability of…

An extended car-following model integrating average speed and electronic throttle dynamics of multiple preceding vehicles

Shihao Li, Rongjun Cheng, Hongxia Ge, Pengjun Zheng

The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of the electronic throttle (ET) dynamics and the average speed of multiple preceding vehicles on the stability of traffic…

Distribution of adjacent prime numbers in the Ulam spiral

Vicente Jara-Vera, Carmen Sánchez-Ávila

The distribution of natural numbers in the Ulam spiral manifests a series of unexpected regularities of the elusive prime numbers. Their sequencing remains a topic of research…

Large-strain consolidation analysis of PVD-installed soft soil considering the discharge capacity variation according to depth and time

Ba-Phu Nguyen, Ananta Man Singh Pradhan, Tan Hung Nguyen, Nhat-Phi Doan, Van-Quang Nguyen, Thanh-Canh Huynh

The consolidation behavior of prefabricated vertical drain (PVD)-installed soft deposits mainly depends on the PVD performance. The purpose of this study is to propose a numerical…

A comparative analysis of Lagrange multiplier and penalty approaches for modelling fluid-structure interaction

Jacobus D. Brandsen, Axelle Viré, Sergio R. Turteltaub, Gerard J.W. Van Bussel

When simulating fluid-structure interaction (FSI), it is often essential that the no-slip condition is accurately enforced at the wetted boundary of the structure. This paper aims…

A numerical algorithm based on scale-3 Haar wavelets for fractional advection dispersion equation

Sapna Pandit, R.C. Mittal

This paper aims to propose a novel approach based on uniform scale-3 Haar wavelets for unsteady state space fractional advection-dispersion partial differential equation which…

Analysis of tooth stiffness of nutation face gear

Guangxin Wang, Lili Zhu, Peng Wang

The purpose of this paper is to obtain the single-tooth stiffness, single-tooth time-varying meshing stiffness and comprehensive meshing stiffness of the internal and external…

Manufacturing intelligent Corvus corone module for a secured two way image transmission under WSN

Bilal Alhayani, Abdallah Ali Abdallah

The manufacturing of intelligent and secure visual data transmission over the wireless sensor network is key requirement nowadays to many applications. The two-way transmission of…

Dynamic reliability and variance-based global sensitivity analysis of pipes conveying fluid with both random and convex variables

Bingqian Chen, Anqiang Wang, Qing Guo, Jiayin Dai, Yongshou Liu

This paper aims to solve the problem that pipes conveying fluid are faced with severe reliability failures under the complicated working environment.

An h-version adaptive FEM for eigenproblems in system of second order ODEs: vector Sturm-Liouville problems and free vibration of curved beams

Yongliang Wang

This study aims to overcome the involved challenging issues and provide high-precision eigensolutions. General eigenproblems in the system of ordinary differential equations…

Steel strip surface inspection through the combination of feature selection and multiclass classifiers

Z.F. Zhang, Wei Liu, Egon Ostrosi, Yongjie Tian, Jianping Yi

During the production process of steel strip, some defects may appear on the surface, that is, traditional manual inspection could not meet the requirements of low-cost and…

Study of error compensations and sensitivity analysis for 6-Dof serial robot

Xi Luo, Yingjie Zhang, Lin Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to improve the positioning accuracy of 6-Dof serial robot by the way of error compensation and sensitivity analysis.

Impact of point source on fissured poroelastic medium: Green’s function approach

Shishir Gupta, Soumik Das, Rachaita Dutta

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mathematical model comprising a heterogeneous fluid-saturated fissured porous layer overlying a non-homogeneous anisotropic…

Ground filtering algorithm for mobile LIDAR using order and neighborhood point information

Siyuan Huang, Limin Liu, Jian Dong, Xiongjun Fu, Leilei Jia

Most of the existing ground filtering algorithms are based on the Cartesian coordinate system, which is not compatible with the working principle of mobile light detection and…

Investigation of the relationship between intensity measures and engineering demand parameters of cable-stayed bridges using intra-plate earthquakes

Jin-Hai He, Yu-Tao Pang, Xinzhi Dang, Wan-Cheng Yuan

The purpose of the study is to investigate and reveal this relationship of various engineering demand parameters (EDPs) of this structural type and intensity measures (IMs) under…

The determination of the most suitable inertia weight strategy for particle swarm optimization via the minimax mixed-integer linear programming model

Volkan Soner Özsoy

This paper aims to consider each strategy of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) as a unit in data envelopment analysis (DEA) and uses the minimax mixed-integer linear…