in soft soil areas, equal-length piles are often adopted in the retaining system. a decrease in the bending moment value borne by the retaining structure along the pile depth (below the excavation bottom), leads to an inadequate use of the pile bending capacity near the pile bottom. this paper presents retaining systems with long and short pile combinations, in which the long piles ensure integ...

Accuracy and speed are two of the most important problems in the real-time Finite Element Method (FEM)-based simulations of surgical cutting [1][2]. While the latter can be gradually eased through GPU-based acceleration[3][4], the former hasn't been properly addressed even until recently. To enable realistic and accurate simulation, the cutting line should follow the exact movement of the user-...

The paper deals with implementation of the optimizing process into multi-axial rainflow analysis and cumulative damage calculation. It’s presented computational program FEA_FAT compiled in MATLAB. Stress is realized by finite element procedure can be calculated using two fundamental ways – critical plane approach so called integral approach. Testing example presents random stress prediction a s...