A 2D Finite Element Model (F.E.M.) of chip formation process, set up with an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (A.L.E.) formulation, proposed in the software Abaqus/Explicit TM v6.3, is shown. The experimental validation showed a good qualitative agreement. Thus, FEM of cutting process can be considered as a promising and reliable tool for machining development within the near future.

Semi-Lagrangian guiding center simulations are performed on sinusoidal perturbations of cartesian grids, and on deformed polar grid with different boundary conditions. Key ingredients are: the use of a B-spline finite element solver for the Poisson equation and the classical backward semi-Lagrangian method (BSL) for the advection. We are able to reproduce standard Kelvin-Helmholtz and diocotron...

We outline a solution method for mixed finite element discretizations based on dissecting the problem into three separate steps. The first handles the inhomogeneous constraint, the second solves the flux variable from the homogeneous problem, whereas the third step, adjoint to the first, finally gives the Lagrangian multiplier. We concentrate on aspects involved in the first and third step main...

Finite element analysis for cross rolling of AISI 304 austenitic stainless steel has been carried out by rotating the plate by 90° in between the passes. To analyze stress and strain fields in the material for cross rolling, a full 3D model of work-roll and plate has been developed using rigid-viscoplastic finite element method. The stress and strain fields, considering von Mises yield criteria...

A numerical method for the computation of the best constant in a Sobolev inequality involving the spacesH2(Ω) and C0(Ω) is presented. Green’s functions corresponding to the solution of Poisson problems are used to express the solution. This (kind of) non-smooth eigenvalue problem is then formulated as a constrained optimization problem and solved with two different strategies: an augmented Lagr...

it is well-known that dam-reservoir interaction has significant effects on the response of dams to the earthquakes. this phenomenon should be considered more exactly in the seismic design of dams with a rational and reliable dynamic analysis method. in this research, seismic analysis of the dam-reservoir is studied as a wave propagation problem by using legendre spectral element method (sem). t...

Abstract. We present a Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method (DPG) for finite element discretization scheme of second order elliptic boundary value problems. The novel approach emanates from a one-element weak formulation of the differential problem (that is typical of Discontinuous Galerkin methods (DG)) which is based on introducing variables defined in the interior and on the boundary of the ...

Brinson’s one-dimensional constitutive modeling for shape memory alloy (SMA) is extended to consider the asymmetric tensile and compressive behavior as well as the torsional behavior. The incremental finite element method using linear Timoshenko beam elements is formulated by the total Lagrangian approach for the superelastic, large deformation analysis of SMA helical springs. The NiTi helical ...