Piezoelectric materials are widely fabricated and investigated for potential applications in microelectromechanical systems as direct converters between mechanical electrical signals, where some show pyroelectric features involving thermo-electro-mechanical interactions. This study aimed to introduce a novel numerical technique predict the behaviors of piezoelectric structures, based on strong-...

Electro-magnetic forces provide a potentially power full means in designing dynamic experiments with active control of the loading conditions. This article deals with the development of computational models to simulate the thermo-mechanical response of electro-magnetically loaded metallic structures. The model assumes linear electromagnetic constitutive equations and time-independent electric i...

in recent year, the evolutionary structural optimization (eso) method, has been applied as an effective tool for structures design. the concept of eso method is to use the finite element  results in each iteration of process and removal of inefficient material based on these results. in this method there are several experimental parameters such as rejection rate and evolutionary rate that are e...

Background & Aims of the Study: Heavy metals are one of the most important environmental pollutants which agricultural and industrial activities and urban development increased their entry rate to the underground resources. This study aimed to investigate the concentration of chromium, nickel and manganese in groundwater resources in Asadabad plain....

a method for deformation computation based on strain tensor elements, as an alternative to the usual way of application of gradient of displacement vector, is proposed. the method computes directly the strain tensor elements from the computed/observed changes in distances and angles between the stations of a geodetic network in two epochs of observations. displacement vector which is determined...

The effects of selected membrane, plate and flat shell finite element formulations on optimal topologies are numerically investigated. Two different membrane components are considered. The first is a standard 4-node bilinear quadrilateral, and the other is a 4-node element accounting for in-plane (drilling) rotations. Plate elements selected for evaluation include discrete Kirchhoff quadrilater...