Engineering Computations: Volume 31 Issue 1

OpenMp solvers for parallel finite element and meshless analyses

S.H. Ju

This paper develops C++ and Fortran-90 solvers to establish parallel solution procedures in a finite element or meshless analysis program using shared memory computers…

Comparison of different fracture modelling approaches to gravity dam failure

Jianwen Pan, Yuntian Feng, Feng Jin, Chuhan Zhang, David Roger Jones Owen

There is not a unified modelling approach to finite element failure analysis of concrete dams. Different behaviours of a dam predicted by different fracture methods with…

A new laminates encoding scheme for the genetic algorithm-based optimization of stiffened composite panels

Aleksandr Cherniaev

The genetic algorithm (GA) technique is widely used for the optimization of stiffened composite panels. It is based on sequential execution of a number of specific…

Using CFD model of furnace for improvement of the quality of alumina-containing sinter

Alexander V. Aleksandrov, Valera V. Aleksandrov

The purpose of the study is to improve the quality of alumina-containing sinter produced in a rotary kiln. Simulating sintering furnace assessment of technical solutions…

An efficient analytical treatment of twelve order boundary value problems

Majid Khan

In this article, the author proposed a new analytical solution procedure for 12 order differential equation. The new analytical technique namely homotopy analysis…

Higher-order linked interpolation in triangular thick plate finite elements

Dragan Ribarić, Gordan Jelenić

In this work, the authors aim to employ the so-called linked-interpolation concept already tested on beam and quadrilateral plate finite elements in the design of…

On the multigrid cycle strategy with approximate inverse smoothing

George A. Gravvanis, Christos K. Filelis-Papadopoulos

The purpose of this paper is to propose multigrid methods in conjunction with explicit approximate inverses with various cycles strategies and comparison with the other…