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In this paper we seek refined yet efficient computational models of large overall motion in statics and dynamics. The efficiency is achieved by the proposed model of 8-node brick element with rotational degree...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2017 4:3
Published on: 9 August 2017
Research Article
We devise a finite element methodology to trace quasi-static through-thickness crack paths in nonlinear elastic solids. The main feature of the proposed method is that it can be directly implemented into exist...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2017 4:2
Published on: 24 June 2017
Research Article
Composites manufacturing processes usually involve multiscale models in both space and time, highly non-linear and anisotropic behaviors, strongly coupled multiphysics and complex geometries. In this framework...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2017 4:1
Published on: 17 January 2017
Research Article
Recently, a multi-level hp-version of the finite element method (FEM) was proposed to ease the difficulties of treating hanging nodes, while providing full hp-approximation capabilities. In the original paper, th...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:33
Published on: 30 December 2016
Erratum
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:32
Published on: 29 December 2016
The original article was published in Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:20
Research article
This paper concerns the application of reduced order modeling techniques to power grid simulation. Swing dynamics is a complex non-linear phenomenon due to which model order reduction of these problems is intr...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:31
Published on: 5 December 2016
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This paper presents a methodology for conducting a 3-D static fracture analysis with applications to a gas turbine compressor blade. An open crack model is considered in the study and crack-tip driving paramet...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:30
Published on: 24 November 2016
Research Article
Many applications are based on the use of materials with heterogeneous microstructure. Prominent examples are fiber-reinforced composites, multi-phase steels or soft tissue to name only a few. The modeling of ...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:29
Published on: 15 November 2016
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In this paper, we discuss a strategy to reduce the computational costs of the simulation of dynamic fracture processes in quasi-brittle materials, based on a combination of domain decomposition (DD) and model ...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:28
Published on: 14 November 2016
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We propose a novel finite element formulation that significantly reduces the number of degrees of freedom necessary to obtain reasonably accurate approximations of the low-frequency component of the deformatio...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:27
Published on: 15 September 2016
Research Article
Gradient damage models can be acknowledged as a unified framework of dynamic brittle fracture. As a phase-field approach to fracture, they are gaining popularity over the last few years in the computational me...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:26
Published on: 30 August 2016
Research Article
Anisotropic material with inextensible fibers introduce constraints in the mathematical formulations. This is always the case when fibers with high stiffness in a certain direction are present and a relatively...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:25
Published on: 11 August 2016
Research Article
When a mathematical or computational model is used to analyse some system, it is usual that some parameters resp. functions or fields in the model are not known, and hence uncertain. These parametric quantitie...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:24
Published on: 11 August 2016
Research Article
The work deals on computational design of structural materials by resorting to computational homogenization and topological optimization techniques. The goal is then to minimize the structural (macro-scale) co...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:23
Published on: 2 August 2016
Research Article
We present an immersed finite element technique for boundary-value and interface problems from nonlinear solid mechanics. Its key features are the implicit representation of domain boundaries and interfaces, t...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:22
Published on: 22 July 2016
Research Article
In this work we provide a combination of isogeometric analysis with reduced order modelling techniques, based on proper orthogonal decomposition, to guarantee computational reduction for the numerical model, a...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:21
Published on: 20 July 2016
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Car crash simulations need a lot of computation time. Model reduction can be applied in order to gain time-savings. Due to the highly nonlinear nature of a crash, an automatic separation in parts behaving line...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:20
Published on: 13 June 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:32
Research Article
A crack initiation and propagation algorithm driven by non-local ductile damage is proposed in a three-dimensional finite strain framework. The evolution of plastic strain and stress triaxiality govern a non-l...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:19
Published on: 7 June 2016
Research Article
The paper deals with the constitutive relation error (CRE) concept which has been widely used over the last 40 years for verification and validation of computational mechanics models. It more specifically focu...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:18
Published on: 3 June 2016
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The goal of the present study is to illustrate the full integration of sensor and imaging data into numerical procedures for the purpose of identification of constitutive laws and their validation. The feasibi...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:17
Published on: 23 May 2016
Research Article
Most large engineering structures are described as assemblies of plates and shells and they are computed as such using adhoc Finite Element packages. In fact their computation in 3D would be much too costly. In t...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:16
Published on: 21 May 2016
Research Article
Many mechanical experiments in plasticity-induced fatigue are prepared by the recourse to finite element simulations. Usual simulation outputs, like local stress estimations or lifetime predictions, are useful...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:15
Published on: 4 May 2016
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In this paper we present an overview of the possibilities of the finite increment calculus (FIC) approach for deriving computational methods in mechanics with improved numerical properties for stability and ac...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:14
Published on: 28 April 2016
Research Article
The proper generalized decomposition (PGD) aims at finding the solution of a generic problems into a low rank approximation. On the contrary to the singular value decomposition (SVD), such a low rank approxima...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:12
Published on: 25 April 2016
Research Article
Discretization processes leading to numerical schemes sometimes produce undesirable effects. One potentially serious problem is that a discretization may produce the loss of validity of some of the physical pr...
Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:13
Published on: 22 April 2016
