The performance of any finite element (FE) structural analysis is directly related to the global number of nodes and degrees of freedom (DOF) of the discretized structure and mesh distribution attributes. It is obvious that the appropriate numerical analysis needs finer elements in the zone of interest, e.g. zone of high stress concentration and intensity, and coarser elements for farther porti...

A mesh is said to be dendritic if it contains elements with mid-side (edge) nodes when the predominant element topology has only corner nodes. A dendritic mesh is illustrated in Figure 1 where the predominant element is a four-node quadrilateral, but has also several five-node quadrilateral elements each with one mid-edge node plus four corner nodes. Such meshes arise when an approximately unif...

In this paper, a plane quadrilateral element with rotational degrees of freedom is developed. Present formulation is based on a hybrid functional with independent boundary displacement and internal optimum strain field. All the optimality constraints, including being rotational invariant, omitting the parasitic shear error and satisfying Fliepa’s pure bending test, are considered. Moreover, the...

the efficacy of bacterial cultures and is900-specific polymerase chain reaction (pcr) was compared for the detection of mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (map) from the mesenteric lymph nodes of goats. samples were collected from 75 goats slaughtered in ilam, in southwest of iran. tissue homogenates were inoculated onto four media. the genomic dna was extracted directly from mesenteri...

the star-mesh transformation allows the reduction of nodes in an electrical circuit. the gauss elimination method allows the reduction of unknowns in a system of linear equations . triangular decomposition can be used to find the inverse of a matrix. in this paper the coherence between these methods are discussed. it is shown that the gauss elimination method gives the same formula for star-mes...

The efficacy of bacterial cultures and IS900-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was compared for the detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) from the mesenteric lymph nodes of goats. Samples were collected from 75 goats slaughtered in Ilam, in southwest of Iran. Tissue homogenates were inoculated onto four media. The genomic DNA was extracted directly from mesenteri...

The need for compatibility between degrees of freedom of various elements is a major problem encountered in practice during the modeling of complex structures; the problem is generally solved by an additional rotational degree of freedom [1-3]. This present paper investigates possible improvements to the performances of strain based cylindrical shell finite element [4] by introducing an additio...