Assessment of Acid Mining Drainage (AMD) Formation in the Ore Stock and Waste Dam Reservoir Areas: An example of Gümüşhane by Enver Akaryalı, Mehmet Ali Gücer, Selçuk Alemdağ

“…In addition, compacted clay (50 cm thick) was laid in order to make impermeable in the stock area, and the resulting vertical profile was modeled in the finite element network system and water discharges determined. …”
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Evolution and trend of landslide research in India based on a decade long publication record by Ashutosh Kainthola, Vishnu Himanshu Ratnam Pandey, Gaurav Kushwaha, Kumari Priya, P. K. Singh, T. N. Singh

“…Researchers duly examined susceptibility, vulnerability, and risk using statistical techniques, with kinematic analysis and Slope Mass Rating (SMR) being notable empirical methods. The finite-element method was preferred for numerical slope failure analysis. …”
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Optimization of Magnesium Alloy Wheel Dynamic Impact Performance by Xin Jiang, Hai Liu, Rui Lyu, Yoshio Fukushima, Naoki Kawada, Zhenglai Zhang, Dongying Ju

“…Damping test methods were designed to establish the damping performance parameters of the magnesium alloy material. A finite element analysis model of magnesium alloy wheels was established with certain boundary conditions and constraints. …”
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Damage Identification in Large-Scale Structures Using Time Series Analysis and Improved Sparse Regularization by Huihui Chen, Xiaojing Yuan

“…Firstly, the model reduction technique is introduced to condense the unconcerned degrees of freedom (DOFs) of the finite element model (FEM) of the large-scale structure, and then the sensitivity of the autoregression (AR) coefficient with respect to the damage coefficient for the large-scale structure has been deduced, which can reduce the uncertainty, which comes from modal identification, in modal parameter sensitivity. …”
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Investigation of Shock Initiation in Covered Charges under Shock Wave and Fragment Impacts by Xingwang Chen, Jinxiang Wang, Kui Tang, Hongfei Wang, Yuanbo Li

“…Explosive initiation standards coupled with shock wave evolution characteristics were applied to specify the crucial conditions of explosive detonation. Finite element program, for instance, was applied for the simulation of shock initiation processes in pressed charges (when TNT was covered with a steel plate containing a penetrated notch), and then, numerical simulations were validated by experimental findings. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis of the Johnson-Cook Model for Ti-6Al-4V in Aeroengine Applications by Carlos Beecher, Héctor Sepúlveda, Angelo Oñate, Anne Marie Habraken, Laurent Duchêne, Gonzalo Pincheira, Víctor Tuninetti

“…This study presents a comprehensive sensitivity analysis of the Johnson-Cook plasticity and progressive damage model parameters for Ti-6Al-4V in blade containment simulations. Using finite element models, key plasticity parameters (yield strength (<i>A</i>), strain-hardening constant (<i>B</i>), strain-rate sensitivity (<i>C</i>), thermal softening coefficient (<i>m</i>), and strain-hardening exponent (<i>n</i>)) and damage-related parameters (<i>d</i>1, <i>d</i>2, <i>d</i>3, <i>d</i>4, and <i>d</i>5) were systematically varied by ±5% to assess their influence on stress distribution, plastic deformation, and damage indices. …”
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Explosive Performance Assessment of Buried Steel Pipeline by Seyed-Mohammad Seyed-Kolbadi, Mohammad Safi, Ayoub Keshmiri, S. Mahdi S. Kolbadi, Masoud Mirtaheri

“…In this investigation, problem of explosion wave’s propagation effects on buried pipes simulated by ABAQUS/CAE 6.10-1 was studied based on the finite element method. Surface explosion effects on gas buried pipe lines and their dynamic response have been investigated depending on properties and their characteristics. …”
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Image-Driven Hybrid Structural Analysis Based on Continuum Point Cloud Method with Boundary Capturing Technique by Kyung-Wan Seo, Junwon Park, Sang I. Park, Jeong-Hoon Song, Young-Cheol Yoon

“…It was shown that the CPCM is more efficient in this hybrid simulation framework than the weak-form-based numerical schemes. Unlike the finite element method (FEM), it can avoid aligning boundary nodes with regression points. …”
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Investigation of support structure configurations for selective laser melting of In718 by Yi Nie, Chenlong Xu, Zhongkui Liu, Lihang Yang, Tianqi Li, Yinfeng He

“…A coupled thermo-structural finite element simulation using ANSYS was performed to evaluate the temperature, deformation, and thermal stress evolution during the printing process of the three supported cantilever structures. …”
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Spatiotemporal Evolution Characteristics of Fluid Flow through Large-Scale 3D Rock Mass Containing Filling Joints: An Experimental and Numerical Study by Qian Yin, Hongwen Jing, Tantan Zhu, Lizhou Wu, Haijian Su, Liyuan Yu

“…A water inrush phenomenon happens as a result of connected flowing channels induced by migration of fillings. Using the finite element of COMSOL multiphysics, the influences of filling joint permeability, matrix permeability, and joint thickness as well as the inlet water pressure on seepage evolution in the jointed rock mass were, respectively, investigated. …”
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Excitation and Propagation of Longitudinal L (0, 2) Mode Ultrasonic Guided Waves for the Detection of Damages in Hexagonal Pipes: Numerical and Experimental Studies by Xiang Wan, Meiru Liu, Xuhui Zhang, Hongwei Fan, Qinghua Mao, Ming Dong, Xing Wang, Hongwei Ma

“…Dispersion curves of hexagonal pipes are firstly derived by using semianalytical finite element method. Based on these dispersion curves, longitudinal L (0, 2) mode at 100 kHz is selected to inspect hexagonal pipes. …”
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Design of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator and Its Application in Flexible Gripper by Xiaoyu Meng, Jiaqing Xie, Haoran Pang, Wenchao Wei, Jiping Niu, Mingqiang Zhu, Fang Gu, Xiaohuan Fan, Haiyan Fan

“…Based on the performance test results of the dielectric elastomer (DE), the bending deformation process of DEAs with different shapes was simulated by Finite Element Method (FEM) simulation. DEAs with different shapes were prepared through laser cutting and the relationship between the voltage and the bending angle, and the output force of the DEAs was measured. …”
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Randomized radial basis function neural network for solving multiscale elliptic equations by Yuhang Wu, Ziyuan Liu, Wenjun Sun, Xu Qian

“…For each subproblem, similar to the Petrov–Galerkin finite element method, a linear system will be formulated on the foundation of a weak formulation. …”
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Face Boundary Formulation for Harmonic Models: Face Image Resembling by Hung-Tsai Huang, Zi-Cai Li, Yimin Wei, Ching Yee Suen

“…Face combination and resembling are performed by employing blending curves for generating the face boundary, and face images are converted by numerical methods for harmonic models, such as the finite difference method (FDM), the finite element method (FEM) and the finite volume method (FVM) for harmonic models, and the splitting–integrating method (SIM) for the resampling of constituent pixels. …”
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Research progress of Ti2AlNb alloy and feasibility analysis of its application in aero engines by PEI Huiping, LIU Dong, YAO Lipan, SHAO Tianmin, LIU Qiaomu, LIU Liangliang, CHEN Qianming

“…In response to the lightweight design requirements of future high-performance aviation engines， a combination of statistical comparison， control experiments， finite element simulation analysis， and other methods are used to analyse the material properties， alloy cold/hot processing performance， weight reduction benefits， etc. …”
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A holistic physics-informed neural network solution for precise destruction of breast tumors using focused ultrasound on a realistic breast model by Salman Lari, Hossein Rajabzadeh, Mohammad Kohandel, Hyock Ju Kwon

“…This technique employs concentrated ultrasonic waves to generate intense heat, effectively destroying cancerous tissue. In previous finite element method (FEM) models, the computational demands of handling extensive datasets, multiple dimensions, and discretization posed significant challenges. …”
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Wear and crack initiation prediction of rail irregularity welding zone by LIN Fengtao, WANG Zixu, TAN Rongkai, ZHANG Zihao, DU Ruiting, SHI Zhiqin

“…In order to investigate the relation between abrasion and crack initiation in the welded zone of rails and axle weight and friction coefficient, through the field measurement of a large number of uneven weld zones, two kinds of typical weld zone uneven data were fitted, and two kinds of typical uneven wheel-rail contact finite element models of upper convex and lower concave weld zones were established. …”
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Investigation of Chip Morphology in Elliptical Vibration Micro-Turning of Silk Fibroin by Zhengjian Wang, Xichun Luo, Jining Sun, Wenkun Xie, Yinchuan Piao, Yonghang Jiang, Xiuyuan Chen

“…This study introduces elliptical vibration micro-turning as a method for producing silk fibroin particles in the form of cutting chips to serve as carriers for drug delivery systems. A hybrid finite element and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (FE-SPH) model was used to investigate how vibration parameters, such as frequency and amplitude, influence chip formation and morphology. …”
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Case study of natural convection topology optimization based on finite volume method by Honglei Liu, Shuzhe Guo, Ce Liu, Fei Du, Baotong Li, Jun Hong

“…This study applies natural convection topology optimization to various engineering cases, including 2D, 3D, inclined, and inverted heat sink with various boundary conditions. Notably, finite element method has long been used as the analysis module of the topology optimization since early studies, which is different from most computational fluid dynamics software that uses finite volume method (FVM). …”
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Numerical modeling of land subsidence induced by groundwater extraction considering unsaturated effects and using element-free Galerkin (EFG) method by A. Tourei, A. Pak, M. A. Iranmanesh

“…To ascertain the reliability of the modeling, we compared the results obtained from the EFG method with those from the Finite Element Method (FEM). The comparative analysis of EFG and FEM models demonstrates discrepancies of 5.51% in land subsidence and 13.35% in hydraulic head reduction, which are satisfying. …”
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