Engineering Computations: Volume 9 Issue 1

STATIC CONTACT PROBLEMS—A REVIEW

ZHI‐HUA ZHONG, JAROSLAV MACKERLE

Contact problems are among the most difficult ones in mechanics. Due to its practical importance, the problem has been receiving extensive research work over the years. The finite…

THREE‐DIMENSIONAL TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF TWO COUPLED SUBMERGED CYLINDRICAL SHELLS

R.K. SINGH, T. KANT, A. KAKODKAR

This paper focuses attention on a three field coupled problem consisting of two cylindrical shells submerged in an acoustic medium. Method of partitioning is used successfully to…

THREE NODE TRIANGULAR BENDING ELEMENTS WITH ONE DEGREE OF FREEDOM PER NODE

J.K. HAMPSHIRE, B.H.V. TOPPING, H.C. CHAN

This investigation assesses the bending performance of triangular plate elements with only three translational degrees of freedom per node in which the out‐of‐plane degree of…

FORGING OF A CONNECTING ROD: 3D FINITE ELEMENT CALCULATIONS

N. SOYRIS, L. FOURMENT, T. COUPEZ, J.P. CESCUTTI, G. BRACHOTTE, J.L. CHENOT

This paper presents the results of the simulation of the forging of a connecting rod. The calculation has been carried out by the code FORGE3 developed at the CEMEF laboratory…

INCIPIENT FLOW OF ELASTICO‐VISCOUS FLUID IN A PIPE

TEJWANT SINGH

The theoretical derivation of the start‐up laminar flow of incompressible viscous fluid in a long pipe as suggested by Szymanski, could not be verified experimentally. This leads…