In recent years, impedance measurement method by piezoelectric (PZT) wafer activesensor (PWAS) has been widely adopted for non-destructive evaluation (NDE). In this method, theelectrical impedance of a bonded PWAS is used to detect a structural defect. The electro-mechanicalcoupling of PZT materials constructs the original principle of this method. Accordingly, the electricalimpedance of PWAS c...

Abstract This chapter explains the methodology to simulate total hip arthroplasty. Three-dimensional (3D) model of a femur was created from the Visible Human Project computed tomography dataset. Four different models of cementless hip stem were constructed from various file formats. Triangular surface mesh was manually repaired to ensure good finite element model for analyses. The implant surfa...

This paper deals with the numerical computation of the structural and acoustic response of a building to an incoming wave field generated by high-speed surface railway traffic. The source model consists of a moving vehicle on a longitudinally invariant track, coupled to a layered ground modelled with a boundary element formulation. The receiver model is based on a substructuring formulation and...

the theory of contact mechanics deals with stresses and deformations which arise when the surfaces of two solid bodies are brought into contact. in elastic deformation contact occurs over a finite area. a regular method for determining the dimensions of this area is hertz contact model. appearance of atomic force microscope results in introduction of contact mechanics into biology. low elastici...

As detailed in recent reports [2 §1; 3; & op. cit. therein], a need has long been well established and many investigations undertaken at NCAR and elsewhere, to create high-resolution numerical simulation methods for atmospheric dynamics, that are accurate similarly to spectral methods and computationally efficient similarly to finite-element type methods. Two research codes that demonstrate the...

We study the ability of high order numerical methods to propagate discrete waves at the same speed as the physical waves in the case of the one-way wave equation. A detailed analysis of the finite element method is presented including an explicit form for the discrete dispersion relation and a complete characterisation of the numerical Bloch waves admitted by the scheme. A comparision is made w...

background: the aim of this study was to compare the skeletal and dental changes of a toothborne (hyrax) and a bone-borne (smile distractor) expansion devices using three-dimensional model of a human skull. materials and methods: a finite element model of human skull was generated using data from 3-d ct scans of an 11-year-old female child. then a hyrax expander (tooth-borne appliance) and smil...

A parallel element-by-element ,nultilevel strategy is developed and applied to two nonlinear, coupled PDE system.•. Spectral (p) finite elements are used to discretize the lems and the multilevel solution strategy uses projections between bases of different degree (level). The projection methods for the p-multilevel schemes are developed and analyzed for Lagrange and hierarchic bases. The appro...

We study the dispersion and dissipation of the numerical scheme obtained by taking a weighted averaging of the consistent (finite element) mass matrix and lumped (spectral element) mass matrix for the small wavenumber limit. We find and prove that for the optimum blending the resulting scheme (a) provides 2p+4 order accuracy for p-th order method (two orders more accurate compared with finite a...