With aging the ability of the crystalline lens to adapt to different viewing distances decreases. Until now there is no satisfying treatment available. It is possible to influence the deformability of the crystalline lens by inducing cuts using femtosecond (fs)-laser. To test the influence of several different cutting geometries is expensive and a huge amount of crystalline lenses is needed. Fi...

The aim of this work is to evaluate and to compare the elastic shakedown domain obtained by two different approaches, an incremental simulation realised with an elastoplastic constitutive law and a simplified method, in an axisymmetrical structure subjected to a cyclic thermal and mechanical loading. The elastoplastic model has been developed by Electricité De France and implemented in the Fini...

— We introducé two a posteriori error estimators for piecewise îinear nonconforming finit e element approximation of second order e Hipt ie problems. We prove that these estimators are equivalent to the energy norm of the error, Finally, we present several numerical experiments showing the good behavior of the estimators when they are used as local error indicators for adaptive refinement. Résu...

The present work describes the structure of a generic modeling tool for stochastic dynamic programming problems (also called Markov Decision Processes – MDPs). Deterministic problems are handled as particular cases of MDP’s. The program is intended for general purpose problems and its structure permits independent modeling and solving. It is designed to capture the essential modeling elements o...

Notre-Dame du Nil (2012) de Scholastique Mukasonga raconte le quotidien lycée jeunes filles Butare au Rwanda en 1973, et roman se finit sur les violences génocidaires qui précédèrent coup d’État Juvénal Habyarimana. Le style réaliste nombreuses invitations à lire ce comme un clés permettent d’opposer son usage la fiction, veut transparent révélateur des l’œuvre, celui personnages comploteurs, v...

-An analysis of toughening of magnesia partially stabilized zirconia (Mg-PSZ) due to dilatational transformation is presented in this paper. Transformation toughening of Mg-PSZ is attributed to the stress-induced phase transformation of tetragonal zirconia to monoclinic structure in the neighborhood of a macro-crack tip. A rate (incremental) type constitutive model is developed, using a microme...

Structural system identification using recursive methods has been a research direction of increasing interest in recent decades. The two prominent methods, including the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and the Particle Filter (PF), also known as the Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC), are advantageous in this field. In this study, the system identification of a shake table test of a 4-story steel struct...

The paper demonstrates reduced order modeling (ROM) of the strongly coupled system level dynamic analysis of micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) by lumped finite elements (FE) and substructuring implemented in the ANSYS/Multiphysics program. Index terms Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS), Finite elements (FE), Coupled analysis, Reduced order modeling (ROM)

  In the current work, the seismic analysis of bent region in buried pipes is performed, and effects of soil properties and modeling methods on pipe’s response are investigated. To do this task Beam, Beam-Shell Finite Element modeling and a Continuum shell FE models of a 90 degrees elbow are employed. In the Beam model, the pipe is simulated by beam elements while combined shell-beam elements a...