Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) solves an inverse problem to estimate the conductivity distribution within a body from electrical simulation and measurements at the body surface, where the inverse problem is based on a solution of Laplace's equation in the body. Most commonly, a finite element model (FEM) is used, largely because of its ability to describe irregular body shapes. In this p...

We present a Finite Element Method (FEM) implementation for cloth simulation on the GPU. The advantages of FEM are twofold: the realism of cloth simulations using this method is improved compared with other methods like the widely used mass-spring one, and it has a wider application rank because it can be used for general triangulated cloth meshes. We are able to detect collisions between cloth...

1. Background/Problem In real-time surgery simulation and planning, the Finite Element Method (FEM) is often used to simulate small and large deformation of human tissue for applications such as laparoscopy training [4], needle insertion planning [1], and image registration [2]. In using FEM, assumptions must be made about material properties and the scale of deformation of human tissues in and...

An overall objective of energy efficiency in the built environment is to improve building and systems performances in terms of durability, comfort and economics. In order to predict, improve and meet a certain set of performance requirements related to the indoor climate of buildings and the associated energy demand, building energy simulation (BES) tools are indispensable. Due to the rapid dev...

S. A. Aksenov, E. N. Chumachenko, I. V. Logashina, Higher School of Economics, Department of Mechanics and Mathematical Simulation, Moscow, Russia T. Kubina, VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Ostrava, Czech Republic The application of finite element simulation to the problem of roll pass design for round bar rolling is considered. Two roll p...

Sheet metal extrusion is a metal forming process in which the movement of a punch penetrates a sheet metal surface and it flows through a die orifice; the extruded parts can be deflected to have an extrusion cavity and protrusion on the opposite side. Therefore, this process results in a narrow region of highly localized plastic deformation due to the formation and microstructure effect on the ...

Simulation of a large number of deformable bodies is often difficult because complex high-level modeling is required to address both multi-body contact and viscoelastic deformation. This necessitates the combined use of a discrete element method (DEM) and a finite element method (FEM). In this study, a quadruple discrete element method (QDEM) was developed for dynamic analysis of viscoelastic m...

This paper presents a voxel-based animation technique which employs either a massspring model or a nite elementmodel. The voxel-based mesh is generated in a pre-processing step. Two volumetric objects, a voxelized chair and scanned muscle are used as case studies with di erent models. The mass-spring model is used to show an animation sequence of a falling and bouncing chair. Wireframe display ...