Micro-Macro Simulation of Sintering Process by Combining Monte Carlo and Finite Element Methods

Combining Monte Carlo and finite difference methods for effective simulation of dam behavior

0965-9978/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2011.09.023 ⇑ Corresponding author. Assistant professor. Tel.: +9 334 4287. E-mail addresses: [email protected]. (M. Zarghami). 1 Graduate. Monte Carlo simulation provides a probabilistic approach to evaluate the physical behavior of infrastructures. Therefore, the performance could be achieved in a more realistic man...

Stochastic Programming by Monte Carlo Simulation Methods

We consider in this paper stochastic programming problems which can be formulated as an optimization problem of an expected value function subject to deterministic constraints. We discuss a Monte Carlo simulation approach based on sample average approximations to a numerical solution of such problems. In particular, we give a survey of a statistical inference of the sample average estimators of...

Methods of Monte Carlo Simulation

Finite element simulation of pyroplastic deformation, anisotropic shrinkage and heterogeneous densification for ceramic materials during liquid phase sintering process

Pyroplastic deformation is a distortion of the ceramic shape during the sintering process. It occurs because the flow of the vitreous phase at high temperature and the applied stress due to the weight of the product during sintering process. The aim of this paper deals with describing a numerical-experimental method to evaluate the pyroplastic deformation, to predict the anisotropic shrinkage a...

Estimation of the physical properties of nanocomposites by finite-element discretization and Monte Carlo simulation.

This paper reviews and enhances numerical models for determining thermal, elastic and electrical properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced polymer composites. For the determination of the effective stress-strain curve and thermal conductivity of the composite material, finite-element analysis (FEA), in conjunction with the embedded fibre method (EFM), is used. Variable nanotube geometry, alignme...