The Taurus has a MacPherson strut type of suspension in the front and rear of the car, as shown in Figure 1. The various types of joints in the suspension are modeled with connector elements. These specialized elements provide an easy and versatile way to model physical mechanisms with point-to-point connections that can exhibit complex kinematic and kinetic relationships. A list of model joint...

In this study, we propose the first unified implementation strategy for peridynamics in commercial finite element method (FEM) software packages based on their application programming interface using peridynamics-based (PeriFEM). Using ANSYS and ABAQUS as examples, present numerical results details of PeriFEM FEM software. is a reformulation traditional solving peridynamic equations numerically...

Finite-element simulation of the hot pressing process has been performed using ABAQUS. The viscoelastic polymer (polymethyl methacrylate) used in this study has mechanical properties that depend on the temperature and working pressure. Based on the nonlinear viscoelastic model, the polymer material behaviour is simulated successfully with the data obtained from material tests. Simulation result...