the use of structural adhesives in automotive structures has been increased recently for their role in noise, vibration and harshness (nvh). therefore, the dynamic behavior of structures containing bonded joints has become an area with numerous investigations over the past decades. development of accurate formulations capable of representing adhesively bonded joint dynamics is a step forward in...

Detailed investigation on biomechanics of a complex structure such as the human lumbar spine requires the use of advanced computer-based technique for both the geometrical reconstruction and the stress analysis. In the present study, the computer-assisted tomography (CAT) and finite element method (FEM) are merged to perform detailed three dimensional nonlinear analysis of the human ligamentous...

We consider a monolithic scheme for fluid–structure interaction problems involving an incompressible quasi-Newtonian fluid. The monolithic formulation is obtained using the Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) method with matching conditions at the fluid–structure interface. The stability and error analysis are performed for the finite element approximation. Finally, some numerical experiments t...

Finite element method (FEM) was used for numerical simulation of the airflow field in a simplified model of the human vocal tract for vowel /a:/ with prescribed periodic oscillations of the vocal folds. The viscous fluid is modeled by 2D compressible Navier-Stokes equations in Arbitrary LagrangianEulerian (ALE) formulation and considering the turbulence. The computed flow field pattern is compa...

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The occurrence of spurious solutions is a well-known limitation of the standard nodal finite element method when applied to electromagnetic problems. The two commonly used remedies that are used to address this problem are (i) The addition of a penalty term with the penalty factor based on the local dielectric constant, and which reduces to a Helmholtz form on homogeneous domains (regularized f...

This study is concerned with the formulation of three dimensional mapped infinite elements with 1/r and 1/ decay types. These infinite elements are coupled with conventional finite elements and their application to some problems of soil structure interaction are discussed. The effeciency of the coupled finite-infinite elements formulation with respect to computational effort, data preparation a...

Slab method of analysis has been used for solving metal forming problems for a long time. However it has been restricted to plane strain and axisymmetric problems due to limitations in its formulations. In this paper a new formulation has been proposed so that it could be applied to three dimensional problems in metal forming. A parametric slab has been considered in this analysis and the force...