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A computationally efficient, finite element idealization is presented to analyse galloping, which is characterized by large amplitude vibrations of iced, multi-span, electrical transmission lines. A three-node, isoparametric cable element having three translational and a torsional degree-of-freedom at each node is developed to model a conductor. Support insulator strings and remote conductor sp...

This paper deals with the Finite element modelling of Pressure vessels. Considering the fact that required thickness of hemispherical head for internal pressure loading is only half of that necessary for the cylindrical shell, authors have tried to develop a finite element model taking due consideration on welding involved at the end connections of cylinder to shell end in modelling using shell...

In this paper, the accuracy of non-linear finite element computations in application to surgical simulation was evaluated by comparing the experiment and modelling of indentation of the human brain phantom. The evaluation was realised by comparing forces acting on the indenter and the deformation of the brain phantom. The deformation of the brain phantom was measured by tracking 3D motions of X...

Efforts to improve the properties and reliability of piezoelectric materials have often concentrated on processing dense ceramic material by techniques such as fine particle size powder production, grain size control, hot pressing, hot isostatic pressing and controlled atmosphere sintering [1–3]. However, it has been shown that lowering the density and introducing significant amounts of open po...

To describe the mechanical behaviour of biological tissues and transport processes in biological tissues, conservation laws such as conservation of mass, momentum and energy play a central role. Mathematically these are cast into the form of partial differential equations. Because of nonlinear material behaviour, inhomogeneous properties and usually a complex geometry, it is impossible to find ...

In this paper, we develop a new finite element model for a cable suspended in water. Global existence and uniqueness of solutions of the truncated system is shown for a slightly simplified equation describing the motion of a cable having negligible added mass and supported by fixed end-points. Based on this, along with well known results on local existence and uniqueness of solutions for symmet...