FINITE ELEMENTS IN ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

Bifurcation and post-bifurcation of an inflated and extended residually-stressed circular cylindrical tube with application to aneurysms initiation and propagation in arterial wall tissue

Bi-material topology optimization for energy dissipation with inertia and material rate effects under finite deformations

Dealing with a nonlinear material behavior and its variability through PGD models: Application to reinforced concrete structures

Numerical solution of fluid-structure interaction problems by means of a high order Discontinuous Galerkin method on polygonal grids

On the crack opening and energy dissipation in a continuum based disconnected crack model

A novel hybrid shell element formulation (QUAD+ and TRIA+) : a benchmarking and comparative study

A general mesh smoothing method for finite elements

A locally stabilized central difference method

Effect of aggregate shapes on local fields in 3D mesoscale simulations of the concrete creep behavior

A modal coordinate catenary model for the real-time simulation of the pantograph-catenary dynamic interaction

An integrative simulation concept for extrusion blow molded plastic bottles

Extended finite element method and anisotropic damage plasticity for modelling crack propagation in concrete

On the application of principles of artificial intelligence for eigenstrain reconstruction of volumetric residual stresses in non-uniform Inconel alloy 740H weldments

Material model calibration against axial-torsion-pressure experiments accounting for the non-uniform stress distribution

Structural design considering the uncertainty of load positions using the phase field design method

A comparative study of shear band tracking strategies in three-dimensional finite elements with embedded weak discontinuities

A 3D automatic mesh refinement X-FEM approach for fatigue crack propagation

Co-rotating rigid beam with generalized plastic hinges for the nonlinear dynamic analysis of planar framed structures subjected to impact loading

A multiscale approach with the Virtual Element Method: Towards a VE2 setting

Advanced modeling and numerical simulations for the thermo-chemico-mechanical behaviour of materials with damage and hydrogen, based on the thermodynamics of irreversible processes

Direct nodal imposition of surface loads using the divergence theorem

A parallel non-invasive mixed domain decomposition - Implementation and applications to mechanical assemblies

A sequential non-iterative approach for modeling multi-ionic species reactive transport during localized corrosion

Bulk material models in Cohesive Zone Elements for simulation of joining zones

A new method for embedding predefined interfaces in finite elements

Size effect in nanocomposites: XFEM/level set approach and interface element approach

Numerical analysis of size effect in RC beams scaled along height or length using elasto-plastic-damage model enhanced by non-local softening

Robust low cost meta-modeling optimization algorithm based on meta-heuristic and knowledge databases approach: Application to polymer extrusion die design

Convergence improvement in computation of strain-softening solids by the arc-length method

On the advantages of hybrid beam-shell structural finite element models for the efficient analysis of metal wind turbine support towers

Finite Element solution of the fiber/matrix interface crack problem: Convergence properties and mode mixity of the Virtual Crack Closure Technique

Sheet metal forming analysis using a large strain anisotropic multiplicative plasticity formulation, based on elastic correctors, which preserves the structure of the infinitesimal theory

Eliminating mesh sensitivities in microstructure design with an adjoint algorithm

A strategy to stabilize the transient analysis and increase the approximation accuracy of dual Craig-Bampton reduced systems

A ten node tetrahedral Macro-Cosserat Point Element (MCPE): Part II: Nonlinear elastic-viscoplastic materials

Treatments of the singularity in the level set method for unstructured meshes

The successive node snapping scheme: A method to obtain conforming meshes for an evolving curve in 2D and 3D

An asynchronous integration method for accelerated finite element analysis

Symmetrical node-to-node formulation for thermal contact problems between non-conforming or non-matching meshes

An enhanced finite element model for reinforced concrete members under torsion with consistent material parameters

New elements with harmonic shape functions in adaptive mesh refinement

Modelling of structures made of filiform beams: Development of a curved finite element for wires

On the energy-sampling stabilization of Nodally Integrated Continuum Elements for dynamic analyses

A high-performance multiscale space-time approach to high cycle fatigue simulation based on hybrid CPU/GPU computing

Scalable TFETI based algorithm with adaptive augmentation for contact problems with variationally consistent discretization of contact conditions

An improved Padé approximant in the ANM algorithm: Application to the post-buckling of shells

A simple and robust Coulomb frictional algorithm based on 3 additional degrees-of-freedom and smoothing