Engineering Computations: Volume 35 Issue 8

Stochastic design optimization accounting for structural and distributional design variables

Xuchun Ren, Sharif Rahman

This paper aims to present a new method, named as augmented polynomial dimensional decomposition (PDD) method, for robust design optimization (RDO) and reliability-based design…

A gradient-based shape optimization scheme via isogeometric exact reanalysis

Chensen Ding, Xiangyang Cui, Guanxin Huang, Guangyao Li, K.K. Tamma, Yong Cai

This paper aims to propose a gradient-based shape optimization framework in which traditional time-consuming conversions between computer-aided design and computer-aided…

High-order quasi-conforming triangular Reissner-Mindlin plate element

Changsheng Wang, Xiaoxiao Sun, Xiangkui Zhang, Ping Hu

A higher-order Reissner-Mindlin plate element method is presented based on the framework of assumed stress quasi-conforming method and Hellinger-Reissner variational principle. A…

Double-diffusive natural convection in an inclined enclosure with heat generation and Soret effect

Safae Hasnaoui, Abdelkhalek Amahmid, Abdelghani Raji, Hassen Beji, Mohammed Hasnaoui, Youssef Dahani, Haykel Benhamed

The purpose of this paper is to study numerically thermosolutal natural convection within an inclined rectangular cavity in the presence of Soret effect and heat generation. The…

Multi-objective optimal design of flexible-joint parallel robot

Fabian Andres Lara-Molina, Didier Dumur, Karina Assolari Takano

This paper aims to present the optimal design procedure of a symmetrical 2-DOF parallel planar robot with flexible joints by considering several performance criteria based on the…

Application of SPH-FE method for fluid-structure interaction using immersed boundary method

Farhoud Kalateh, Ali Koosheh

This paper aims to propose a new smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH)-finite element (FE) algorithm to study fluid–structure interaction (FSI) problems.

Automatic vehicle detection and counting approach using low-rank representation and locality-constrained linear coding

Qizi Huangpeng, Wenwei Huang, Hanyi Shi, Jun Fan

Vehicles estimation can be used in evaluating traffic conditions and facilitating traffic control, which is an important task in intelligent transportation system. The paper aims…

Finite elements simulation of improvised explosively formed projectiles

Ricardo Castedo, Anastasio Pedro Santos, José Ignacio Yenes, José Ángel Sanchidrián, Lina María López, Pablo Segarra

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the applicability of the LS-DYNA software using a Lagrangian formulation in the jet formation, flight and penetration of improvised…

An efficient algorithm for generation of conforming mesh for three-dimensional discrete fracture networks

Soheil Mohajerani, Duruo Huang, Gang Wang, Seyed-Mohammad Esmaeil Jalali, Seyed Rahman Torabi

This study aims to develop an efficient algorithm for generation of conforming mesh for seepage analysis through 3D discrete fracture networks (DFN).

Model of the wheel motion state under path constraints based on the Darboux frame in 3D space

He Zhang, Shaowei Yang, Zhengfeng Ma

Existing three-dimensional (3D) road-surface models use approximation methods such as a set of discrete triangular patches and cannot accurately describe changes in the…

Meshfree method analysis of Biot’s consolidation using the node-based smoothed point interpolation method (NS-PIM)

ShiYang Pan, TongChun Li, Jing Cheng, Ping Yuan, Xinyang Ning

The purpose of the article is to extend the node-based smoothed point interpolation method (NS-PIM) for soil consolidation analysis based on the Biot’s theory.

An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils

Alireza Ahangar Asr, Asaad Faramarzi, Akbar A. Javadi

This paper aims to develop a unified framework for modelling triaxial deviator stress – axial strain and volumetric strain – axial strain behaviour of granular soils with the…