light-weight and high strength alloys such as al-mg alloys are used in order to reduce the weight of industrial components. however these materials should be formed at elevated temperatures due to their poor formability at room temperature. hot metal gas forming is one of the high-tech forming processes that is used to solve this problem. recent investigation on tube hydroforming showed positiv...

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...

the finite element method (fem) is one of advanced methods in modeling of solid mechanics used in the design and analyzing of prosthesis in the human body. one of the important factors in designing a femur (the linkage between basin and knee) which is under complicated stresses is to minimize the amount of the stress in the components of the prosthesis due to the body weight. in this research t...

The Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is a technique used in fracture mechanics to predict how objects deform as cracks form and propagate through them. Here, we propose the use of XFEM to model the deformations resulting from cutting through organ tissues. We show that XFEM has the potential for being the technique of choice for modelling tissue retraction and resection during surgery. Can...

A Finite Element Method (FEM) mesh is converted to a reluctance network through an original magnetostatic formulation based on face shape functions. This meshed reluctance network is coupled with an standard one, characterizing a 0D system. Both approaches are fully-compatible and the hybridized problem can be solve with a single circuit solver. The approach is tested in 2D on a magnetic circui...

An adaptive nite element–boundary element algorithm is proposed to compute an approximate solution of a given boundary value problem. The convergence in H ( ) is controlled by a boundary element based a-posteriori error estimator from which an adaptive re nement strategy is derived. Corresponding error estimates are given based on appropriate boundary element error estimates in negative Sobolev...

Particle compound material is the composition of different particles with inhomogeneous and non-uniform properties. Particle compound material is the most complicated engineering material whose properties vary according to the applications, method of manufacturing and ratio of its ingredients. The quasi-homogeneous materials like building materials and constituents of tablets, pellets etc are s...

An adaptive automatic cell generation for elasto-plastic problems has been developed which eliminates the need of user definition of the cells. These are progressively generated only on those points where plasticity occurs. Unnecessary domain computations are avoided, which leads to a gain in efficiency. The new method has been tested on examples and the accuracy of the results is in agreement ...