the development of yielded or failure zone due to an engineering construction is a subject of study in different disciplines. in petroleum engineering, depletion from and injection of gas into a porous rock can cause development of a yield zone around the reservoir. studying this phenomenon requires elasto-plastic analysis of geomaterial, in this case the porous rocks. in this study, which is a...

This paper presents 2D and 3D modeling of hysteresis motor using high temperature superconducting element Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide (YBCO) in the rotor. These hysteresis motors aim to improve the performance in comparison with that of conventional hysteresis motors. Various performance parameters of high temperature superconducting hysteresis motor are computed from the proposed 2D and 3D mod...

The present study introduces a new approach to determining optimal electrode positions in transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Electric field and 3D conduction current density were analyzed using 3D finite element method (FEM) formulated for a dc conduction problem. The electrode positions for minimal current injection were optimized by changing the Cartesian coordinate system into t...

In addition to manufacturing cost and production rates, damage resistance has become a major issue for the composites industry. Three-dimensional (3D) woven composites have superior through-thickness properties compared to two-dimensional (2D) laminates, for example, improved impact damage resistance, high interlaminar fracture toughness and reduced notch sensitivity. The performance of 3D wove...

This article investigates the neutral voltage difference signal, VNO for fault diagnosis. The aforementioned signal is of between common star point stator and load. under-study faults are demagnetization static eccentricity faults, while machine in which investigated an axial flux permanent magnet (AFPM) synchronous generator, suitable wind power applications. study was conducted using a 3D fin...

The partition of unity is an essential ingredient for meshless methods named by GFEM, PUFEM (partition of unity FEM), XFEM(extended FEM), RKPM(reproducing kernel particle method), RPPM(reproducing polynomial particle method), the method of clouds in the literature. There are two popular choices for partition of unity: a piecewise linear FEM mesh and the Shepard-type partition of unity. However,...

The nose bridge between the inlet valve and exhaust valve is the most fragile part on the cylinder head. Fatigue crack is the major failure mode. It is necessary to analyze the structure strength and reliability (SSR) of this zone. In this paper, a three-dimensional (3D) model for a engine cylinder head is built up using Pro/Engineer wildfire 2.0, and the 3D FEM analysis of the SSR is carried o...

The nite element method (FEM) has proven to be a popular spatial discretization technique in the simulation of complex physical systems in many areas of science and engineering. Implicit solution schemes, used in the time discretization, require the application of the inverse of an operator which is usually linear or linearized; thus, after the FEM discretization, a linear set of discrete equat...

In many FEM applications, hexahedral meshes are necessary to get the best results. However the automatic generation of an hexahedral mesh from an arbitrary 3D geometry still remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose an extension of the reliable Whisker Weaving algorithm [6]. The Whisker Weaving algorithm starts from a pre-meshed quadrilateral surface, it generates hexahedral meshes for a l...