One of the most important steps in development of a new truck chassis is the prediction of fatigue life span and durability loading of the chassis frame. The age of many truck chassis in Malaysia are of more than 20 years and there is always a question arising whether the chassis is still safe to use. Thus, fatigue study and life prediction on the chassis is necessary in order to verify the saf...

The principal objective for this work was to extend the field of application FEM space frame beam-column connections under static loading and with lateral displacements. A four-storey building modelled load condition. Horizontal vertical structural elements were designed according Eurocode 2. In order understand behavior external node made by column, two beam upper models using correct boundary...

The free vibration of the lattice cylindrical composite shell reinforced with Carbon Nano-tubes (CNTs) was studied in this study. The theoretical formulations are based on the First-order Shear Deformation Theory (FSDT) and then by enforcing the Galerkin method, natural frequencies are obtained. In order to estimate the material properties of the reinforced polymer with nano-tubes, the modified...

BACKGROUND The finite element method (FEM) has been used to simulate cardiac and hepatic radiofrequency (RF) ablation. The FEM allows modeling of complex geometries that cannot be solved by analytical methods or finite difference models. In both hepatic and cardiac RF ablation a common control mode is temperature-controlled mode. Commercial FEM packages don't support automating temperature cont...

Modular steel construction (MSC) consists of the off-site prefabrication a fully finished module and on-site assembling unit. The popularity MSC is on rise, attributable to its technical advantages speed quality buildings with repetitive units. Inter-module connection critical for overall stability load-bearing capacity MSC. An innovative, prefabricated liftable (FPLC) using standard corner fit...

the free vibration of the lattice cylindrical composite shell reinforced with carbon nano-tubes (cnts) was studied in this study. the theoretical formulations are based on the first-order shear deformation theory (fsdt) and then by enforcing the galerkin method, natural frequencies are obtained. in order to estimate the material properties of the reinforced polymer with nano-tubes, the modified...

Cold-formed steel structures are a type of fabrication that is commonly employed in building construction. Before manufacture, they designed precisely to the appropriate dimensions using ABAQUS software. Both strength cross-section and distortional buckling determine load-carrying capability section. It was found thin walls some cold-formed sections suffered under light loads, these elements co...

The most important purpose of cold rolling processes, in addition to obtaining appropriate mechanical features, is to achieve very low and more precise thicknesses’, the issue that is not possible in hot rolling processes. Today, most cold rolling lines designed continuously and usually consist of 4 to 6 fourroller rolling rack. Finished surface of obtained sheets of cold rolling is Harder and ...

This paper presents a framework for tracking left ventricular (LV) endocardium through 2D echocardiography image sequence. The framework is based on fusion of biomechanical (BM) model of the heart with the parametric deformable model. The BM model constitutive equation consists of passive and active strain energy functions. The deformations of the LV are obtained by solving the constitutive equ...