recent developments in nanostructured products draw considerable attention to ultrafine grained materials. these materials are normally manufactured by different severe plastic deformation (spd) methods. in the present study, analytical models and finite element method (fem) are used to calculate strain imposed to a specimen that was deformed by equal channel angular pressing (ecap). in additio...

Article history: Received: 14.7.2015. Received in revised form: 17.10.2015. Accepted: 19.10.2015. The fatigue performance of steel truss integral joint is analyzed based on multi-scale FEM. Numerical results are verified with experimental ones. The fatigue performance of steel truss integral joint is analyzed using a sea-crossing suspension bridge as its background. The 1:2 scale model fatigue ...

(2) 8;<1>j(r); i = 1, ... ,N mentioned above. A review of the basis sets used in the quantum chemical calculations is given by Wilson [13]. The new developments are the two dimensional fully numerical finite difference method (FDM) [14] and the finite element method (FEM) [15]. It has been shown in both methods that the accuracy to calculate e.g., the total energy is many orders of magnitude be...

Leakage reactance is one of the most important specifications in transformer that has significant impact on its overall design. Variation in leakage reactance serves as a diagnostic measure to indicate mechanical integrity of power transformers before and after a short circuit test that demonstrates mechanical strength of transformer windings. This paper presents an approach for leakage reactan...

We present a new numerical method for the solution of field equations. The essence of the method is to directly provide a discrete formulation of field laws, without using and requiring a differential formulation. It is proved that, for linear interpolation, the stiffness matrix so obtained coincides with the one of the Finite Element Method. For quadratic interpolation, however, the present st...

A novel hybrid boundary element-finite element scheme which is accelerated by an adaptive multi-level fast multipole algorithm is presented to simulate 3D plane wave electromagnetic induction responses in the Earth. The remarkable advantages of this novel scheme are the complete removal of the volume discretization of the air space and the capability of simulating large-scale complicated geoele...

In this paper we present an overview of the possibilities of the finite increment calculus (FIC) approach for deriving computational methods in mechanics with improved numerical properties for stability and accuracy. The basic concepts of the FIC procedure are presented in its application to problems of advection-diffusion-reaction, fluid mechanics and fluid-structure interaction solved with th...

The present paper refers to some examples that use the finite element method (FEM) in the process of analysis, design and optimization of the permanent magnet (PM) generators used in wind applications. The 2D-FEM program Opera 13 of Vector Fields is used in the analyzed examples. These examples refer to two types of radial flux low speed PM generators of 5 KW for wind applications. Some possibi...