Engineering Computations: Volume 40 Issue 3

Implicit integration of an anisotropic egg-shaped elastoplastic model for saturated soft clay

Luying Ju, Zihai Yan, Mingming Wu, Gangping Zhang, Jiajia Yan, Tianci Yu, Pan Ding, Riqing Xu

The purpose of this paper is to suggest an implicit integration method for updating the constitutive relationships in the newly proposed anisotropic egg-shaped elastoplastic…

Effect of porosity distribution on vibration and damping behavior of inhomogeneous curved sandwich beams with fractional derivative viscoelastic core

Mustafa Taşkin, Özgür Demir

The purpose of this paper is to parametrically investigate the vibration and damping characteristics of a functionally graded (FG) inhomogeneous and porous curved sandwich beam…

A new multiobjective tiki-taka algorithm for optimization of assembly line balancing

Mohd Fadzil Faisae Ab. Rashid, Ariff Nijay Ramli

This study aims to propose a new multiobjective optimization metaheuristic based on the tiki-taka algorithm (TTA). The proposed multiobjective TTA (MOTTA) was implemented for a…

Nonlinear analysis of the semi-active particle damping vibration isolation system based on fractional-order theory

Cheng Xue, Zhaowang Xia, Xingsheng Lao, Zhengqi Yang

The purpose of this study is to provide some references about applying the semi-active particle damper to enhance the stability of the pipe structure.

Free vibration disturbance and local mesh refinement induced by microcrack damage in circularly curved beams

Yongliang Wang

This study aimed to solve the engineering problem of free vibration disturbance and local mesh refinement induced by microcrack damage in circularly curved beams. The accurate…

Flow behavior and aerodynamic noise characteristics of ultra-high-speed elevator based on large eddy simulation

Xu Zhang, Hao Jing, Qing Zhang, Ruijun Zhang, Lixin Liu

This paper aims to guide the implementation of noise reduction measures in hoistway and reduce the aerodynamic noise generated by elevator operation, this paper aims to propose an…

Robust adaptive control of nonlinear dynamic systems using hybrid sliding mode regressive neural learning technique

Ho Pham Huy Anh, Nguyen Tien Dat

The proposed Sliding Mode Control-Global Regressive Neural Network (SMC-GRNN) algorithm is an integration of Global Regressive Neural Network (GRNN) and Sliding Mode Control…

Estimation of the wind drift factor and uncertainty analysis based on CFD computer simulations

Ricardo Sbragio, Marcelo Ramos Martins

The purpose of this work is to present a procedure for determining the wind drift factor through two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of the wind acting…

Uniformly convergent computational method for singularly perturbed time delayed parabolic differential-difference equations

Jugal Mohapatra, Sushree Priyadarshana, Narahari Raji Reddy

The purpose of this work is to introduce an efficient, global second-order accurate and parameter-uniform numerical approximation for singularly perturbed parabolic…

An adaptive binary-tree subdivision method for evaluation of nearly singular integrals in 3D BEM

Chuanming Ju, J. Zhang, Yudong Zhong, Xianfeng Du, Jun Li, Baotao Chi

The purpose of this paper is to present an adaptive binary-tree element subdivision method (BTSM) for the evaluation of nearly singular integrals in three-dimensional boundary…