Stability of underground structures is assessed by comparing rock strength with induced stresses resulted from ground stresses. Rock mass surrounding the opening may fail either by fracture or excessive deformation caused. Accurate calculation of induced stresses is therefore fundamental in the stability analysis of an opening. Although numerical methods, particularly finite element method, are...

This paper is part of a study to develop robots for farming. As such power requirement to operate equipment attach to such robots become an important factor. Soil-tool interaction plays major role in power consumption, thus predicting accurately the forces which act on the blade during the farming is very important for optimal designing of farm equipment. In this paper, a finite element investi...

Symbolic computation is employed to automatically derive formulas in finite element analysis (FEA) and to generate parallel numeric code. Key FEA computations parallelized include element stiffness computations and solution of global system of equations. An element-by-element preconditioned conjugate gradient method is used to solve the global system of equations in parallel. Derived formulas a...

In the dissertation, structural Finite Element Analysis is carried out. Both linear and non linear analysis is considered for the investigation. Geometry non linearity, material non linearity and boundary non linearity also called as contact analysis is considered. All the boundary conditions, loadings, material definitions considered are real in nature. Experimental validations are considered ...

This paper deals with the modeling of punching shear failure in reinforced concrete slabs using nonlinear finite element analysis. The 3D finite element analyses (FEA) were performed with the appropriate modeling of element size and mesh, and the constitutive modeling of concrete. The FE numerical models are validated by comparing with the experimental results obtained from tested specimens and...

this paper presents a novel salient pole synchronous generator i.e. permanentmagnet-assisted salient-pole synchronous generator (pma-sgs). due to saturationof conventional synchronous generators (sgs), permanent-magnet-assisted salientpolesynchronous generators (pma-sgs) are presented. pma-sgs are a new type ofsalient-pole synchronous machines with extra permanent magnets (pms) betweenthe adjac...

In this paper, layerwise theory (LT) along with the first, second and third-order shear deformation theories (FSDT, SSDT and TSDT) are used to determine the stress distribution in a simply supported square sandwich plate subjected to a uniformly distributed load. Two functionally graded (FG) face sheets encapsulate an elastomeric core while two epoxy adhesive layers adhere the core to the face ...

Manual, semi-conventional, and conventional weed eradication are the three forms of utilized. Farmers benefit greatly from usage weeding equipment in combating pests fields. The blade you use determines how successful at weeding. As a result, it is required to examine weeds blade. With tetrahedral mesh, simulation utilizing finite element analysis approach allows for optimization design, comput...