Mechanical Behavior Prediction of Asphalt Mastic Based on 2D Micro Finite Element Approach

Stability Analysis of Salt Cavern Gas Storage Using 2D Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Finite-Element Software

Ensuring the stability and integrity of underground gas storage salt caverns is a very complicated subject due to the non-linear and time-dependent behavior of rock salts under complicated thermal and mechanical loading conditions. For this reason, pressure and temperature fluctuations in the caverns and their surrounding strata must be integrated into the analysis and the numerical tools that ...

Prediction of Creep Stiffness of Asphalt Mixture with Micromechanical Finite-Element and Discrete-Element Models

This study presents micromechanical finite-element FE and discrete-element DE models for the prediction of viscoelastic creep stiffness of asphalt mixture. Asphalt mixture is composed of graded aggregates bound with mastic asphalt mixed with fines and fine aggregates and air voids. The two-dimensional 2D microstructure of asphalt mixture was obtained by optically scanning the smoothly sawn surf...

A comparison of micro-mechanical modeling of asphalt materials using finite elements and doublet mechanics

A comparative study is given between two micro-mechanical models that have been developed to simulate the behavior of cemented particulate materials. The first model is a discrete analytical approach called doublet mechanics that represents a solid as an array of particles. This scheme develops analytical expressions for the micro-deformation and stress fields between particle pairs (a doublet)...

Tensile behavior simulation of woven fabric with different weave pattern based on finite element method

A New Stress Based Approach for Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis

This article demonstrates a new approach for nonlinear finite element analysis. The methodology is very suitable and gives very accurate results in linear as well as in nonlinear range of the material behavior. Proposed methodology can be regarded as stress based finite element analysis as it is required to define the stress distribution within the structural body with structural idealization a...