The effects of dynamic soil–structure interaction (SSI) have been extensively studied in the last few decades, and proper analysis for linear elastic case frequency domain has established successfully. However, SSI is rarely considered design building structures, instead, buildings are frequently analyzed using a rigid base assumption quasi-static loading conditions that ignore its nature. Ackn...

Transition metal fluorides (such as FeF3 or CoF2) promise significantly higher theoretical capacities (>571 mAh g(-1)) than the cathode materials currently used in Li-ion batteries. However, their practical application faces major challenges that include poor electrochemical reversibility induced by the repeated bond-breaking and formation and the accompanied volume changes and the difficulty o...

Image reconstruction in soft-field tomography is based on an inverse problem formulation, where a forward model is fitted to the data. In medical applications, where the anatomy presents complex shapes, it is common to use finite element models (FEMs) to represent the volume of interest and solve a partial differential equation that models the physics of the system. Over the last decade, there ...

Radio-Frequency (RF) ablation is a minimally invasive method for treatment of primary and metastatic hepatic tumors. A catheter is introduced transcutaneously into the tumor, and tissue is heated up by application of radio-frequency current. In this work, I present the application of the Finite Element Method (FEM) for creating models of hepatic RF ablation to evaluate and improve catheter desi...

In this paper, we use the hybrid h-p version of the finite element method to study the effect of an open transverse crack on the vibratory behavior of rotors, the one-dimensional finite element Euler-Bernoulli beam is used for modeling the rotor, the shape functions used are the Hermite cubic functions coupled to the special Legendre polynomials of Rodrigues. The global matrices of the equation...

The coupling of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with finite element methods (FEM) yields computationally efficient models that link fundamental material processes at the atomistic level with continuum field responses at higher length scales. The theoretical challenge involves developing a seamless connection along an interface between two inherently different simulation frameworks. Various ...

Post-transcriptional control regulates many aspects of germline development in the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite. This nematode switches from spermatogenesis to oogenesis and is, therefore, capable of self-fertilization. This sperm-oocyte switch requires 3' UTR-mediated repression of the fem-3 mRNA. Loss of fem-3 repression results in continuous spermatogenesis in hermaphrodites. Althoug...

This study aimed to quantitatively identify the influence of block impact angle and shape on effect reinforced concrete (RC) sheds. The smooth particle hydrodynamic (SPH) method finite element (FEM) were coupled used solve simulation difficulty large deformation sand buffer layer in RC shed. SPH was simulate area that experienced deformation. Concrete, reinforced, bedrock, non-impact simulated ...