To represent the surfaces of objects using trimmed NURBS is the most common way in current available CAD-systems. Examples of such surfaces are ship hulls, the outer surfaces of aeroplanes or the interior of cars. For visualization purposes such surfaces are approximated by triangles. Even for small parts, like the door of a car thousands of triangles are needed for such an approximation. The I...

A NURBS-based isogeometric finite element formulation is developed and adopted to the free vibration analysis of finite square and skew laminated plates. Variable stiffness plies are assumed due to implementation of curvilinear fiberreinforcements. It is assumed due to employment of tow placement technology, in each ply of variable stiffness composite laminated plate the fiber reinforceme...

A non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS)-based interface-enriched generalized finite element method is introduced to solve problems with complex discontinuous gradient fields observed in the structural and thermal analysis of the heterogeneous materials. The presented method utilizes generalized degrees of freedom and enrichment functions based on NURBS to capture the solution with non-conformi...

This paper introduces a novel method to convert trimmed NURBS surfaces to untrimmed subdivision surfaces with Bézier edge conditions. We take a NURBS surface and its trimming curves as input, from this we automatically compute a base mesh, the limit surface of which fits the trimmed NURBS surface to a specified tolerance. We first construct the topology of the base mesh by performing a cross-fi...