Piezoelectric actuators and sensors have been broadly used for design of smart structures over the last two decades. Different theoretical assumptions have been considered in order to model these structures by the researchers. In this paper, an enhanced piezolaminated sandwich beam finite element model is presented. The facing layers follow the Euler-Bernoulli assumption while the core layers a...

The continuum mechanic simulation of micro-structural damage process is important in the study of ductile fracture mechanics. In this paper, the continuum damage mechanics model formulation proposed by Lematire has been validated against ductile damage evolution experimentally measured in A533B-C1 steel under stress triaxiality conditions. First, a &#10procedure to identify the model parameters...

The continuum mechanic simulation of micro-structural damage process is important in the study of ductile fracture mechanics. In this paper, the continuum damage mechanics model formulation proposed by Lematire has been validated against ductile damage evolution experimentally measured in A533B-C1 steel under stress triaxiality conditions. First, a procedure to identify the model parameters f...

Abstract: Since soil dynamic behaviour is nonlinear in nature therefore a nonlinear viscoelastic model for isotropic materials is proposed in this study. This model is a combination of inelasticity and nonlinear damping. In this model, the shear modulus is taken as a function of the excitation level. The viscosity is assumed to vary nonlinearly. The validity of this model is checked for low amp...

In this paper we investigate a nonlinear evolution model described by the Rosenau-KdV equation. We propose a three-level average implicit finite difference scheme for its numerical solutions and prove that this scheme is stable and convergent in the order of O(τ2 + h2). Furthermore we show the existence and uniqueness of numerical solutions. Comparing the numerical results with other methods in...

modelling of crack propagation by finite element method under mixed mode conditions is of prime importance in fracture mechanics. this paper describes an application of finite element method to the analysis of mixed mode crack growth in linear elastic fracture mechanics. crack growth process is simulated by an incremental crack-extension analysis based on the maximum principal stress criterion,...

We present a systematic method for developing low order nonlinear models from physically based, large scale finite element models of rapid thermal processing (RTP) systems. These low order models are extracted from transient results of a detailed finite element model using the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method. Eigenfunctions obtained from the POD method are then used as basis functi...