background and aims. the purpose of this study was to evaluate initial force and force decay of commercially available elastomeric ligatures and elastomeric separators in active tieback state in a simulated oral environment. materials and methods. a total of 288 elastomeric ligatures and elastomeric separators from three manufacturers (dentaurum, rmo, 3m unitek) were stretched to 100% and 150% ...

The paper presents a Galerkin approach for the solution of the nonlinear beam equations. Nonlinear beam analysis is required when analyzing helicopter blades or high-aspect-ratio wings. The present analysis improves on earlier solution techniques based on nonlinear finite element approach used in Refs. 1 and 2, and is the ideal choice for beam-like structures undergoing large motion. Furthermor...

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Abstract. This article is devoted to the study of the finite element approximation for a nonlocal nonlinear parabolic problem. Using a linearised Crank-Nicolson Galerkin finite element method for a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation, we establish the convergence and error bound for the fully discrete scheme. Moreover, important results on exponential decay and vanishing of the solutions in f...

The principal objective of this research is to reduce the elapsed time of largescale nonlinear dynamic structural finite element analysis using parallel computing techniques. The major tasks and contributions of this research are: (a) employing the general sparse matrix technique to reduce the computing time and storage requirements for both sequential and parallel substructure analysis (b) emp...