Free Vibration of Partially Supported Cylindrical Shells by S. Mirza, Y. Alizadeh

“…Some of the important applications for this type of problem can be found in the cracked fan and rotor blades that can be idealized as partially supported shells with varying unsupported lengths. A finite element model based on small deflection linear theory was developed to obtain numerical solutions for this class of problems. …”
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Buckling Analysis of Laminated Composite Panel with Elliptical Cutout Subject to Axial Compression by Hamidreza Allahbakhsh, Ali Dadrasi

“…The numerical analysis was performed using the Abaqus finite-element software. The effect of the location and size of the cutout and also the composite ply angle on the buckling load of laminated composite cylindrical panel is investigated. …”
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Dynamics of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (Darrieus Type) by A. F. Abdel Azim El-Sayed, C. Hirsch, R. Derdelinckx

“…A computing package that combines finite element methods for evaluating the resonance frequencies and modes of turbine subcomponents (blade, tower and shaft) together with the aerodynamic calculations for forces and moments taking into consideration the dynamic stall as well as the dynamic response is developed. …”
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Decoupling the Stationary Navier-Stokes-Darcy System with the Beavers-Joseph-Saffman Interface Condition by Yong Cao, Yuchuan Chu, Xiaoming He, Mingzhen Wei

“…This paper proposes a domain decomposition method for the coupled stationary Navier-Stokes and Darcy equations with the Beavers-Joseph-Saffman interface condition in order to improve the efficiency of the finite element method. The physical interface conditions are directly utilized to construct the boundary conditions on the interface and then decouple the Navier-Stokes and Darcy equations. …”
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Adaptivity in Crashworthiness Calculations by Ted Belytschko, Sang-Ho Lee, I-Sheng Yeh, Jerry I. Lin, Chen-Shyh Tsay, James M. Kennedy

“…h-Adaptive finite element methods for nonlinear transient analysis by explicit time integration are described. …”
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Comparison of Mechanical Impedance Methods for Vibration Simulation by Jeffrey A. Gatscher, Grzegorz Kawiecki

“…A test structure was used to simulate an equipment and support foundation system. Detailed finite element analysis was performed to aid in computation of cumulative damage totals. …”
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BUCKLING OF BEAMS WITH A BOUNDARY ELEMENT TECHNIQUE by ABDERRAZEK MESSAOUDI, LASZLO PETER KISS

“…Within this article, the critical load findings of these beams are compared to those obtained using commercial finite element software, and the results are in excellent correlation. …”
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Pseudo-analytic finite partition approach to temperature distribution problem in Human limbs by V. P. Saxena, J. S. Bindra

“…The region is divided into annular sub-regions and Ritz variational finite element method is applied along the radial direction, while for the angular direction, Fourier Series has been used due to uniformity in each annular part.…”
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Buckling and Vibration Performance of a Composite Laminated Plate with Elastic Boundaries Subjected to Local Thermal Loading by Yonggan Sun

“…The model is based on first-order shear deformation theory using the finite element method. The influence of boundary conditions, heating area, and heating location on buckling and vibrations of a composite laminated plate was investigated, and there were two stages in which the critical temperature increased sharply during the transition from free boundary to simply supported and rigid fixed boundaries. …”
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Controlling Terahertz Surface Plasmon Properties on a Periodically Structured Silicon Surface by Gagan Kumar

“…The results are confirmed independently through finite element method based numerical simulations and compared with theory. …”
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Analytic Model of Microcantilevers as Low Frequency Generator by Sandeep Arya, Saleem Khan, Parveen Lehana

“…Finite element method (FEM) based simulation has been carried out, and an analytic model of microcantilevers using piezoelectric excitations is proposed. …”
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A Class of Spectral Element Methods and Its A Priori/A Posteriori Error Estimates for 2nd-Order Elliptic Eigenvalue Problems by Jiayu Han, Yidu Yang

“…The special work of this paper is as follows. (1) We prove a priori and a posteriori error estimates for spectral and spectral element methods. (2) We compare between spectral methods, spectral element methods, finite element methods and their derived p-version, h-version, and hp-version methods from accuracy, degree of freedom, and stability and verify that spectral methods and spectral element methods are highly efficient computational methods.…”
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Dynamic Stability of an Elastic Rotating System: Shell-Disc-Shaft by P. Ruge, P. Senker

“…The equations of motion are formulated using virtual work and an Finite Element approach. Special attention is paid to a kinematically consistent coupling of the elastic shell and disc. …”
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Dynamic Model Updating Using Virtual Antiresonances by Walter D’Ambrogio, Annalisa Fregolent

“…The method is applied to the Finite Element model updating of the GARTEUR benchmark, used within an European project on updating. …”
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Vibration Analysis of a Two-Step Sine Movable Tooth Drive by Lizhong Xu, Jinan Yang

“…In this study, a 3D model of a two-step sine movable tooth drive is developed in the UG software. The finite element model (FEM) analysis package, ANSYS, is used to calculate the natural frequencies and vibration modes of the drive system. …”
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A Numerical Solution to Fractional Diffusion Equation for Force-Free Case by O. Tasbozan, A. Esen, N. M. Yagmurlu, Y. Ucar

“…A collocation finite element method for solving fractional diffusion equation for force-free case is considered. …”
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Seismic Resistance and Displacement Mechanism of the Concrete Footing by Abdoullah Namdar, Yun Dong

“…A realistic seismic simulation of the concrete footing has been made by using finite element method (FEM) software called ABAQUS. The effect of concrete footing embedment in soil on concrete footing-soil foundation interaction has numerically been simulated for considering displacement, stress, strain, and seismic acceleration load response at the base of a concrete footing. …”
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Fracture and Fatigue Analyses of Cracked Structures Using the Iterative Method by Longgang Tian, Ziling Cheng

“…The overall structure which contains no crack is analyzed by the traditional finite element method (FEM), and the crack itself is analyzed using analytical solution or other numerical solutions which are effective and efficient for solving crack problems. …”
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Maximum Norm Analysis of a Nonmatching Grids Method for Nonlinear Elliptic PDES by A. Harbi, M. Boulbrachene

“…We provide a maximum norm analysis of a finite element Schwarz alternating method for a nonlinear elliptic PDE on two overlapping subdomains with nonmatching grids. …”
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Numerical study of delamination process of the CFRP composite by Eva Kormaníková, Kamila Kotrasova

“…The cohesive interface model, integrated into the Finite Element Method, was applied to determine the critical force away from the crack tip. …”
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