Modal analyses are essential steps in structural design. Simple and quick numerical procedures design tools for modal dynamic analysis of bonded joints would be an attractive option to increase the efficiency process its early phases. This paper offers a simple tool dedicated single lap with balanced unbalanced adherends various boundary conditions. Based on macro-element technique developed Ta...

The a posteriori error analysis of conforming finite element discretisations of the biharmonic problem for plates is well established, but nonconforming discretisations are more easy to implement in practice. The a posteriori error analysis for the Morley plate element appears very particular because two edge contributions from an integration by parts vanish simultaneously. This miracle does no...

As a consequence of its particulate nature, soil exhibits a highly complex response to applied loads and deformations. Traditionally, geotechnical engineers have coupled continuum numerical analysis tools (such as the finite element method) with complex constitutive models to analyze soil response. This approach does not explicitly consider the particle-scale interactions underlying the macro-s...

In this study the performance of three macro-models in predicting the nonlinear response of different walls is investigated. The macro-models used are: Equivalent Beam Model, Multiple Vertical Line Element Model and a shear panel model developed by Massone et al. (2006). The walls are classified as slender, intermediate, and squat walls according to their shear-span ratio. First, three single w...

We investigate a macro-element variant of the hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method, using patches standard simplicial elements that can have non-matching interfaces. Coupled via HDG technique, our method enables local refinement by uniform subdivision each macro-element. By enforcing one spatial discretization for all macro-elements, we arrive at problems per are embarrassingly parall...