In this paper, we present a full-space barrier method designed for stress-constrained mass minimization problems with discrete material options. The advantages of the full-space barrier method are twofold. First, in the full-space the stress constraints are provably concave, which facilitates the construction of convex subproblems within the optimization algorithm. Second, by using the full-spa...

The implementation and evaluation of a high fidelity material model for dry fabrics is the main objective of this paper. Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators (IADs) and other airinflated structures quite often utilize woven fabrics due to their lightweight and high loading carrying capabilities. Design optimization of these inflated structures relies on a detailed understanding of the woven fabr...

In this paper, a physical and mathematical model of interaction between fabric expanding automobile airbag biological objects is formulated. Bioobjects are represented using finite element models anthropometric dummies the Hybrid III 50th Male type. As material, multi-layer orthotropic material was used. The method corpuscular particles used for numerical simulation functioning in LS-DYNA multi...

We obtain the existence and the uniqueness at the same time in the reconstruction of orthotropic conductivity in two space dimensions by using two sets of internal current densities and boundary conductivity. The curl free equation of Faraday’s law is taken instead of the elliptic equation in a divergence form which is typically used in electrical impedance tomography. A reconstruction method b...

In laparoscopic operations of abdominal hernias some recurrences still take place, even when applying a surgical mesh. This is usually caused by a failure of the connection between the tissue and the implant. The study deals with the influence of an implant's orientation on forces in joints, which connect the mesh to human tissues. In the paper, the implant is modelled as a membrane structure w...

In this paper, we studied the viscoelastic behaviors of isolated aortic elastin using combined modeling and experimental approaches. Biaxial stress relaxation and creep experiments were performed to study the time-dependent behavior of elastin. Experimental results reveal that stress relaxation preconditioning is necessary in order to obtain repeatable stress relaxation responses. Elastin exhib...

This article investigates the pulsating flow of a compressible two-phase bubble of viscous fluid contained in an elastic orthotropicle direct axis tube. In this work, one-dimensional linear equations have been used. It is assumed that the tube is rigidly attached to the certain environment. In the case of finite length the pressure is applied at the end of its faces. In the limited process, rel...

Analysis for the propagation of plane harmonic thermoelastic waves in an infinite homogeneous orthotropic plate of finite thickness in the generalized theory of thermoelasticity with two thermal relaxation times is studied. The frequency equations corresponding to the extensional (symmetric) and flexural (antisymmetric) thermoelastic modes of vibration are obtained and discussed. Special cases ...

Fracture analysis of orthotropic cracked media is investigated by applying the recently developed extended isogeometric analysis (XIGA) (Ghorashi et al., 2012) using the T-spline basis functions. The signed distance function and orthotropic crack tip enrichment functions are adopted for extrinsically enriching the conventional isogeometric analysis approximation for representation of strong dis...

A method is presented to find orthotropic elastic symmetries and constants directly from the elastic coefficients in the overall stiffness matrix of trabecular bone test specimens. Contrary to earlier developed techniques, this method does not require pure orthotropic behavior or additional fabric measurements. The method uses high-resolution computer reconstructions of trabecular bone specimen...