Engineering Computations: Volume 37 Issue 9

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International journal for computer-aided engineering and software
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Higher-order assumed strain plane element immune to mesh distortion

Mohammad Rezaiee-Pajand, Nima Gharaei-Moghaddam, Mohammadreza Ramezani

This paper aims to propose a new robust membrane finite element for the analysis of plane problems. The suggested element has triangular geometry. Four nodes and 11 degrees of…

An adaptive collocation method for structural fuzzy uncertainty analysis

Lei Wang, Chuang Xiong, Qinghe Shi

Considering that uncertain factors widely exist in engineering practice, an adaptive collocation method (ACM) is developed for the structural fuzzy uncertainty analysis.

Zoned deformation prediction model for super high arch dams using hierarchical clustering and panel data

Jiang Hu, Fuheng Ma

The purpose of this study is to develop and verify a methodology for a zoned deformation prediction model for super high arch dams, which is indeed a panel data-based regression…

Suppression of secondary flows in a centrifugal impeller by optimisation design

Xing Xie, Zhenlin Li, Baoshan Zhu, Hong Wang

The purpose of this study is to suppress secondary flows and improve aerodynamic performance of a centrifugal impeller.

An isogeometric analysis approach for solving the Reynolds equation in textured piston ring – cylinder liner contacts

Wei Liu, Zhengdong Huang, Yunhua Liu

The purpose of this study is to propose an isogeometric analysis (IGA) approach for solving the Reynolds equation in textured piston ring cylinder liner (PRCL) contacts.

Compaction effects on permeability of spherical packing

Duzhou Zhang, Zhiguo Tian, Zhiqiang Chen, Dengyun Wu, Gang Zhou, Shaohua Zhang, Moran Wang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the evolution of the permeability of spherical packing during cold compaction by pore-scale modeling.

Adaptive anisotropic response surface method based on univariate dimension-reduction model and its high-order revision

Wenliang Fan, Wentong Zhang, Min Li, Alfredo H.-S. Ang, Zhengliang Li

Based on univariate dimension-reduction model, this study aims to propose an adaptive anisotropic response surface method (ARSM) and its high-order revision (HARSM) to balance the…

Prognosis and fail detection in a dynamic rotor using artificial immunological system

Roberto Outa, Fabio Roberto Chavarette, Vishnu Narayan Mishra, Aparecido C. Gonçalves, Luiz G.P. Roefero, Thiago C. Moro

In recent years, the mechanical industries began to apply many investments in research and technological development to obtain efficient methods to analyze the integrity of…

Risk decision based sensor scheduling in target tracking

Ce Pang, Ganlin Shan

This paper aims to introduce a new target tracking method based on risk theory in a 2-D discrete environment. After that, the related sensor scheduling method is proposed. This…

Microstructural modelling of autogenous shrinkage in Portland cement paste at early age

Huy Quang Do, Shashank Bishnoi, Karen Louise Scrivener

This paper aims to develop a numerical, micromechanical model to predict the evolution of autogenous shrinkage of hydrating cement paste at early age (up to 7 days). Autogeneous…

UNAT: UNstructured Acceleration Toolkit on SW26010 many-core processor

Hongbin Liu, Hu Ren, Hanfeng Gu, Fei Gao, Guangwen Yang

The purpose of this paper is to provide an automatic parallelization toolkit for unstructured mesh-based computation. Among all kinds of mesh types, unstructured meshes are…

h-adaptive topology optimization considering variations of material properties and energy error density recovery

Jéderson da Silva, Jucélio Tomás Pereira, Diego Amadeu F. Torres

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new scheme for obtaining acceptable solutions for problems of continuum topology optimization of structures, regarding the distribution…

Numerical solution of nonlinear stochastic Itô – Volterra integral equation driven by fractional Brownian motion

S. Saha Ray, S. Singh

This paper aims to study fractional Brownian motion and its applications to nonlinear stochastic integral equations. Bernstein polynomials have been applied to obtain the…

A different approach to the network method: continuity equation in flow through porous media under retaining structures

Encarnación Martínez-Moreno, Gonzalo Garcia-Ros, Ivan Alhama

This study aims to present a new numerical model for the simulation of water flow through porous media of anisotropic character, based on the network simulation method and with…

Solution of direct and inverse conduction heat transfer problems using the method of fundamental solutions and differential evolution

Adam Basílio, Fran Sérgio Lobato, Fábio de Oliveira Arouca

The study of heat transfer mechanisms is an area of great interest because of various applications that can be developed. Mathematically, these phenomena are usually represented…

Seismic performance assessments of school buildings in Taiwan using artificial intelligence theories

Ching-Shan Chen

Taiwan experiences frequent seismic activity. Major earthquakes in recent history have seriously damaged the school buildings. School buildings in Taiwan are intended to serve…

Shear wave propagation in magneto poroelastic medium sandwiched between self-reinforced poroelastic medium and poroelastic half space

Sindhuja Ala, Rajitha Gurijala, Malla Reddy Perati

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of reinforcement, inhomogeneity and initial stress on the propagation of shear waves. The problem consists of magneto…

Direct modifications of tetrahedral meshes

YuFei Guo, YongQing Hai, JianFei Liu

During the industrial design process, a product is usually modified and analyzed repeatedly until reaching the final design. Modifying the model and regenerating a mesh for every…

A cyclic symmetric model for the investigation of vibration reduction of hard-coating blisk

Wei Sun, Shuai Yang, Junnan Gao, Xianfei Yan

It is very important to create a useful cyclic symmetric model for the investigation of the vibration reduction effect of hard-coating blisk. This study aims to develop a cyclic…

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Influence of mechanical imperfection on the transference of Love-type waves in viscoelastic substrate overloaded by visco-micropolar composite structure

Manisha Maity, Santimoy Kundu, Raju Kumhar, Shishir Gupta

This mathematical analysis has been accomplished for the purpose of understanding the propagation behaviour like phase velocity and attenuation of Love-type waves through…

A Chebyshev convex method for mid-frequency analysis of built-up structures with large convex uncertainties

Wu Qin, Hui Yin, D.J. Yu, Wen-Bin Shangguan

This paper aims to develop an efficient numerical method for mid-frequency analysis of built-up structures with large convex uncertainties.

Structure optimization of plough blades in a ploughshare mixer using the DEM simulations

Ziqiang Fang, Songlin Peng, Jiangang Yi, Jun Du

The purpose of this paper is to optimize the structure of plough blades in a ploughshare mixer using the discrete element method (DEM) simulations.

Development of semi-implicit midpoint and Romberg stress integration algorithms for single hardening soil constitutive models

Divyanshu Kumar Lal, Arghya Das

Semi-implicit type cutting plane method (CPM) and fully implicit type closest point projection method (CPPM) are the two most widely used frameworks for numerical stress…

Identification of pipe inner surface in heat conduction problems by deep learning and effective thermal conductivity transform

Haolong Chen, Zhibo Du, Xiang Li, Huanlin Zhou, Zhanli Liu

The purpose of this paper is to develop a transform method and a deep learning model to identify the inner surface shape based on the measurement temperature at the outer boundary…

Composite fuzzy-wavelet-based active contour for medical image segmentation

Hiren Mewada, Amit V. Patel, Jitendra Chaudhari, Keyur Mahant, Alpesh Vala

In clinical analysis, medical image segmentation is an important step to study the anatomical structure. This helps to diagnose and classify abnormality in the image. The wide…

An enhanced adaptive butterfly optimization algorithm rigorously verified on engineering problems and implemented to ISAR image motion compensation

Deniz Ustun

This study aims to evolve an enhanced butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA) with respect to convergence and accuracy performance for numerous benchmark functions, rigorous…

Cover of Engineering Computations

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0264-4401

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1758-7077

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0264-4401

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1984

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

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hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof. Chenfeng Li