3D printing is a relatively new, rapidly expanding method of manufacturing that found numerous applications in healthcare, automotive, aerospace and defense industries and in many other areas. In this review, applications in medicine that are revolutionizing the way surgeries are carried out, disrupting prosthesis and implant markets as well as dentistry will be presented. The relatively new fi...

For a number of materials used in modern practice, calculations according to the classical theory elasticity give incorrect results. To ensure reliable operation structures, there is need for new theories. At present, particular interest practical applications asymmetric moment elasticity. In work, by method hypotheses, three-dimensional equations are reduced plates. The hypotheses plates formu...

An overview on the development of hybrid fundamental solution based finite element method (HFS-FEM) and its application in engineering problems is presented in this paper. The framework and formulations of HFS-FEM for potential problem, plane elasticity, three-dimensional elasticity, thermoelasticity, anisotropic elasticity, and plane piezoelectricity are presented. In this method, two independ...

In this paper, topology optimization is utilized for damage detection in three dimensional elasticity problems. In addition, two mode expansion techniques are used to derive unknown modal data from measured data identified by installed sensors. Damages in the model are assumed as reduction of mass and stiffness in the discretized finite elements. The Solid Isotropic Material with Penalization (...

In this paper, static analysis of two dimensional functionally graded plates based on three dimensional theory of elasticity is investigated. Graded finite element method has been used to solve the problem. The effects of power law exponents on static behavior of a fully clamped 2D-FGM plate have been investigated. The model has been compared with result of a 1D-FGM plate for different boundary...

A variational limit defined on the space of one-dimensional Young measures is obtained from three-dimensional elasticity via dimension reduction. The physical requirement that the energy becomes infinite when the volume locally vanishes is taken into account. The rate at which it blows up characterizes the domain of the limit energy. The obtained limit problem uniquely determines the energy den...