This paper presents an agile simulation-aided shape editing system for personal fabrication applications. The finite element structural analysis and geometric design are seamlessly integrated within our system to provide users interactive structure analysis feedback during mesh editing. Observing the fact that most editing operations are actually local, a domain decomposition framework is emplo...

The Wave Based Method (WBM) is a deterministic prediction method. Due to its enhanced computational efficiency as compared to other deterministic prediction techniques for steady-state dynamic analysis such as the Finite Element Method (FEM), the WBM is applicable for problem analysis in the lowand midfrequency range. It has been shown already that the WBM is superior to the FEM for the predict...

In control of a linear collider, the ground motion is one of the big problems. Various things can be considered as a factor of the ground motion, environmental vibration, atmospheric pressure variation, and the earth tides, etc. This time, we measured the slow ground motions using the tunnel of the underground hydroelectric power station "Shintoyone" located in the granite region. For the follo...

Truss structures are widely used in construction of large-scale buildings. Design of steel structures is standardised in detail through set of European standards called EUROCODE. One of these standards, ENV 1993-1-8 deals with design of joints, but it does not cover the design of conical element for reduction of circular hollow section to the joint. Finite element method was used in this paper ...

1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In a low frequency analysis of vibration in a built-up structure, the eigen frequencies and the corresponding eigenmodes help the understanding of how and why the structure behaves as it does. These eigen solutions are also useful in calculations of forced response by modal super-position procedures. However, as frequency increases there are more and more modes with increasi...

This paper considers the extension of the frequency application range of the finite element method (FEM) applied to steady-state acoustic problems. This is achieved by the hybrid coupling of the FEM with the wave based method (WBM). The WBM is a computationally efficient alternative for the FEM, but it is restricted to acoustic problems of moderate geometrical complexity. The hybrid finite elem...

The end face-seals joint simultaneously the function of seal, bearing and heat exchanger. In order to improve the design of end-face seals the analysis of this type of joint by means of finite element method, was developed. The temperature distribution is indispensable to the analysis of displacement and stress in this type of face seal. In this work the values of temperature and stress in end-...

The nose bridge between the inlet valve and exhaust valve is the most fragile part on the cylinder head. Fatigue crack is the major failure mode. It is necessary to analyze the structure strength and reliability (SSR) of this zone. In this paper, a three-dimensional (3D) model for a engine cylinder head is built up using Pro/Engineer wildfire 2.0, and the 3D FEM analysis of the SSR is carried o...

This paper is concerned with the hp-version of the finite element method (hp-FEM) to treat a variational inequality that models frictional contact in linear elastostatics. Such an approximation of higher order leads to a nonconforming discretization scheme. We employ Gauss-Lobatto quadrature for the approximation of the nonsmooth frictiontype functional and take the resulting quadrature error i...