in this paper, the effects of carbon nanotube (cnt) orientation and aggregation on the static behavior of functionally graded nanocomposite cylinders reinforced by cnts are investigated based on a mesh-free method. the used nanocomposites are made of the straight cnts that are embedded in an isotropic polymer as matrix. the straight cnts are oriented, randomly or aligned or local aggregated int...

this work reports the effect of nanotube aspect ratio and waviness index on stress and displacement distributions of functionally graded nanocomposite cylinders reinforced by wavy single walled carbon nanotubes based on a mesh-free method. the mechanical properties of these composites are assumed to be graded along radial direction and estimate by a micro mechanical model. in the mesh-free anal...

An automatic adaptive quadrilateral mesh conversion scheme for the generation of adaptive refinement meshes over analytical curved surfaces is proposed. The starting point of the quadrilateral mesh generator is a background triangular mesh of the curved surface. By a carefully controlled process to merge two triangles at a time the triangular mesh can be completely converted to quadrilaterals. ...

We present a method for creating large 2D graded, guaranteed quality, Delaunay meshes on parallel machines. The method decouples the mesh generation procedure for each subdomain, and thus eliminates the communication between processors, while the final mesh is of guaranteed quality. This work extents our previous result on the uniform Delaunay Decoupling method [19], by allowing the element siz...

We develop LNG FEM, a software package for graded mesh generation and for solving elliptic equations. LNG FEM generates user-specified graded meshes on arbitrary two-dimensional domains with straight edges, for different boundary conditions, once initial information is passed to the program by appropriately filling out some source files. We focus on a detailed instruction on the implementation ...

This paper is devoted to the presentation and analysis of some linear and quadratic finite volume (FV) schemes for elliptic problems with singular solutions due to the non-smoothness of the domain. Our FV schemes are constructed over specially-designed graded triangular meshes. We provide sharp parameter selection criteria for the graded mesh, such that both the linear and quadratic FV schemes ...

Typical volume meshes in three dimensions are designed to conform to an underlying two-dimensional surface mesh, with volume mesh element size growing larger away from the surface. The surface mesh may be uniformly spaced or highly graded, and may have fine resolution due to extrinsic mesh size concerns. When we desire that such a volume mesh have good aspect ratio, we require that some space-f...

|In this paper, an extension of the previously developed 2-D dynamic bubble system for 3-D automatic mesh generation using tetrahedral nite elements is presented. Initially, set of vertices inside the entire analysis region is generated using 3-D dynamic bubble system, followed by automatic mesh generation according to the Delaunay tessellation algorithm and the generated set of vertices. The p...

Finite Elements in Analysis and Design ()-This paper gives a status on anisotropic mesh gradation. We present two 3D anisotropic formulations of mesh gradation. The metric at each point defines a well-graded smooth continuous metric field over the domain. The mesh gradation then consists in taking into account at each point the strongest size constraint given by all these continuous metric fiel...