Double slip turnout is common in heavy haul railway and due to its complex structure, its maintenance is difficult as well as important. Focusing on No.12 double slip turnout (75 kg/m rail), this study analyzed the intensity of the different slotted rubber pad under iron plate and track stiffness of turnout zone based on the finite element method with a purpose of improving the performance of t...

In this study, the finite element model updating was simulated by reducing the stiffness of the members. Due to lack of access to the experimental results, the data obtained from an analytical model were used in the proposed structural damage scenarios. The updating parameters for the studied structures were defined as a reduction coefficient applied to the stiffness of the members. Parameter v...

This study investigates the influence of stimulus properties on explorative movement parameters in active touch. Using a PHANToM force-feedback device we generated virtual stimuli with different stiffness values. Participants freely explored pair-wise presented stimuli and were asked to select the softer one. Afterwards we analyzed their explorative movements considering the parameters velocity...

Initial destructive experimental studies have demonstrated significant stiffness variations in the damage region and large differences in compression and tension [2]. A quantitative description of the stiffness reduction in an artificial impact damage was demonstrated in [3], employing a non-destructive testing method coupled with an inverse approach. Tensile stiffness distribution of real impa...

Responses of the dynamical systems are highly affected by the natural frequencies and it has a huge impact on design and operation of high-rise and high-speed elevators. In the present paper, the variational iteration method (VIM) is employed to investigate better understanding the dynamics of elevator cable as a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) swing system. Comparisons made among the results o...

Experimental data on the mechanical properties of the tissues of the mammalian cochlea are essential for understanding the frequency- and location-dependent motion patterns that result in response to incoming sound waves. Within the cochlea, sound-induced vibrations are transduced into neural activity by the organ of Corti, the gross motion of which is dependent on the motion of the underlying ...

In this article we present the first results on domain decomposition methods for nonlocal operators. We present a nonlocal variational formulation for these operators and establish the well-posedness of associated boundary value problems, proving a nonlocal Poincaré inequality. To determine the conditioning of the discretized operator, we prove a spectral equivalence which leads to a mesh size ...

This paper presents an overview on applications of hybrid finite element method to thermal analysis of heterogeneous materials. Recent developments on the hybrid fundamental solution based finite element model (FEM) of heat transfer in nonlinear functionally graded materials (FGMs) and composite materials are described. Formulations for all cases are derived by means of modified variational fun...