We evaluated three methods for fixing a medial meniscal autograft to determine which method restored tibial contact mechanics closest to normal. The contact mechanics (maximum pressure, mean pressure, contact area, and location of the center of maximum pressure) of the medial tibial articular surface were determined using pressure-sensitive film while knee specimens were loaded in compression t...

Multi phase fluids are common in energy-related geotechnical problems, including gaswater, gas-oil, ice-water, hydrate-water, and oil-water fluid conditions. The generalization of classical unsaturated soil mechanics concepts to energy geotechnology requires physical understanding of surface tension, contact angle, capillary pressure, solubility and nucleation. Eventually, these pore-level proc...

We have recently applied a multilevel multiintegration technique to numerically solve the normal and tangential loading of rough surfaces in Hertz-type contact problems [1]. After the qualitative analysis presented in [2], a more refined attempt to generalise the results obtained using continuum mechanics-based approaches and to extend their validity to nanoscale contacts is performed here. The...

Iterative solver with preconditioning is the most powerful choice for large-scale scientific computation, especially for the parallel computing. In nonlinear problems such as contact simulations for geophysics, the condition numbers of the coefficient matrices are usually large due to special constraint conditions. The result is slow convergence of the iterative solver. In this study, a new pre...

To be feasible for computationally intensive applications such as parametric studies, optimization, and control design, large-scale finite element analysis requires model order reduction. This is particularly true in nonlinear settings that tend to dramatically increase computational complexity. Although significant progress has been achieved in the development of computational approaches for t...