Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences

Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences

Author: Wade H. Shafer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1461303931

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Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences was first conceived, published, and disseminated by the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS)* at Purdue University in 1957, starting its coverage of theses with the academic year 1955. Beginning with Volume 13, the printing and dis semination phases of the activity were transferred to University Microfilms/Xerox of Ann Arbor, Michigan, with the thought that such an arrangement would be more beneficial to the academic and general scientific and technical community. After five years of this joint undertaking we had concluded that it was in the interest of all concerned if the printing and distribution of the volumes were handled by an international publishing house to assure improved service and broader dissemination. Hence, starting with Volume 18, Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences has been disseminated on a worldwide basis by Plenum Publishing Corporation of New York, and in the same year the coverage was broadened to include Canadian universities. All back issues can also be ordered from Plenum. We have reported in Volume 39 (thesis year 1994) a total of 13,953 thesis titles from 21 Canadian and 159 United States universities. We are sure that this broader base for these titles reported will greatly enhance the value of this impor tant annual reference work. While Volume 39 reports theses submitted in 1994, on occasion, certain uni versities do report theses submitted in previous years but not reported at the time.


Computational Modeling of Masonry Structures Using the Discrete Element Method

Computational Modeling of Masonry Structures Using the Discrete Element Method

Author: Sarhosis, Vasilis

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2016-06-09

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 1522502327

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The Discrete Element Method (DEM) has emerged as a solution to predicting load capacities of masonry structures. As one of many numerical methods and computational solutions being applied to evaluate masonry structures, further research on DEM tools and methodologies is essential for further advancement. Computational Modeling of Masonry Structures Using the Discrete Element Method explores the latest digital solutions for the analysis and modeling of brick, stone, concrete, granite, limestone, and glass block structures. Focusing on critical research on mathematical and computational methods for masonry analysis, this publication is a pivotal reference source for scholars, engineers, consultants, and graduate-level engineering students.


Sixth International Conference on Nonlinear Mechanics (ICNM-6)

Sixth International Conference on Nonlinear Mechanics (ICNM-6)

Author: Zhe-wei Zhou

Publisher: DEStech Publications, Inc

Published: 2013-08-30

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 1605951099

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Novel mathematical and modeling approaches to problems in graded materials, biological materials, fluid mechanics and more Covers nanomechanics, multi-scale modeling, interface mechanics and microstructure This series volume contains 128 not previously published research presentations on using nonlinear mechanics to understand and model a wide variety of materials, including polymers, metals and composites, as well as subcellular and cellular tissues. Focus is on numerical and physics approaches to representing multiscale relationships within complex solids and fluids systems, with applications in materials science, energy storage, medical diagnostics and treatment, and biotechnology. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Committees SESSION 1: INVITED LECTURES Micro-Macro Analysis of Creep and Damage Behavior of Multi-Pass Welds Some New Developments in Non-Linear Solid Mechanics Design of Material Systems: Mathematics and Physics of the Archetype-Genome Exemplar Criticism of Generally Accepted Fundamentals and Methodologies of Traffic and Transportation Theory SESSION 2: NONLINEAR CONTINUUM MECHANICS Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Simple Plane Frames of Functionally Graded Materials Thermal Post-Buckling of FG Circular Plates Under Transversely Point-Space Constraint Tunability of Longitudinal Wave Band Gap in One Dimensional Magneto-Elastic Phononic Crystal Teaching Nonlinear Mechanics at the Undergraduate and Graduate Level—Two Examples Geometrically Nonlinear FE Instability Simulations of Hinged Composite Laminated Cylindrical Shells Constitutive Relation of Martensitic Transformation in CuAlNi Based on Atomistic Simulations Soft Behaviors of Beam Shaped Liquid Crystal Elastomers Under Light Actuations XFEM Based Discontinuity Simulation for Saturated Soil Numerical Algorithm of Solving the Problem of Large Elastic-Plastic Deformation by FEM Finite Deformation for Everted Compressible Hypereleastic Cylindrical Tubes Modelling and Non-Linear Free Vibrations of Cable-Stayed Beam Wavelet Solution of a Class of Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems Axial Compression of a Rectangular Rubber Ring Composed of an Incompressible Mooney-Rivlin Material Influence of Concentration-Dependent Elastic Modulus and Charge or Discharge Rate on Tensile Stress in Anode An Integral Equation Approach to the Fully Nonlinear Fluid Flow Problem in an Infinite Channel Over Arbitrary Bottom Topography Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamical Characteristics for Thermoelastic Half-Plane with Voids Tensor Model for Dynamic Damage of Ductile Metals Over a Wide Range of Strain Rates SESSION 3: MULTI-SCALE MECHANICS AND MULTI-PHYSICS MODELING The Nonlinear Magnetoelectric Effect of Layered Magnetoelectric Composite Cylinder with an Imperfect Interface A Solution for Nonlinear Poisson-Neumann Problem of Nb3Sn Superconducting Transport Current Temperature Effect on the Tensile Mechanical Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons Square Inclusion with a Nonlinear Eigenstrain in an Anisotropic Piezoelectric Full Plane Nonlinear Analysis of the Threaded Connection with Three-Dimensional Finite Element Model Effects of Particle Volume Fraction on the Macro-Thermo-Mechanical Behaviors in Plate-Type Dispersion Nuclear Fuel Elements Mechanics of Semiflexible Polymer Chains Under Confinements Study on the Solution of Reynolds Equation for Micro Gas Bearings Using the Alternating-Direction Implication Algorithm Atomistic Study of Li Concentration Dependence of the Mechanical Properties of Graphite Anode in Li-ion Battery 3D Extrusion Simulation of the Single Screw Head and Optimization Design Buckling Behavior of Defective Carbon Nanotubes Elastic Properties of Single-Stranded DNA Biofilm with Strong Interactions Analysis on Thickness Dependence of Jc Caused by Dislocations and Grain Boundaries in YBCO Superconducting Films Operating Strain Response in CICC Coils Through Nonlinear Finite Element Modeling Dynamics Analysis of a Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Electro-Hydraulic Mix-Drive Motion Simulator by KANE Equation Multiscale 3D Fracture Simulation Integrating Tomographic Characterization Research into Compressive Mechanical Properties of Special Piezomagnetic Material Sheets A Numerical Study on Detonation Wave Propagation Using High-Precision and High-Resolution Schemes SESSION 4: STRUCTURAL DYNAMIC AND STRUCTURE-FLUID INTERACTIONS A Study on Pure IL VIV of a Marine Riser in Shear Current Parametric Studies on Nonlinear Flutter of High-Aspect-Ratio Flexible Wings Model Reduction of a Flexible Beam Rotating at High Speed Considering Dynamic Stiffening Vibration Modal Analysis of Cantilever Beams with Complicated Elasticity Boundary Constraint Numerical Simulation of Ahmed Model in Consideration of the FSI Effect Aerodynamic Damping of a Hammerhead Launch Vehicle in Transonic Flow Symmetry Reductions and Explicit Solutions of (3 + 1)-Dimensional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) Equation Nonlinear Behaviors of an Isotropic Incompressible Hyperelastic Spherical Membrane Under Different Dynamic Loads Creep Buckling of Viscoelastic Plate Consdering Higher Order Modes SESSION 5: COMPLEX FLUID FLOW AND NONLINEAR STABILITY Homotopy Analysis of Korteweg-de Vries Equation with Time Delay Homotopy Analysis Method for Bubble Pulsation Equation with Nonlinear Term of Fractional Power Chebyshev Finite Spectral Method for Boussinesq-Type Equations on Staggered Grids Twin Jets in Crossflow Application of Fixed Point Method to Obtain a Semi-Analytical Solution of Stagnation Flow On the Nonlinear Stability of Laminar Flow Between Parallel Planes Boundary Treatments in Lattice Boltzmann Method A Lattice Boltzmann Based Immersed Boundary Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction Numerical Solutions of Convection-Diffusion Equations by Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Steady-State Solutions of the Wave-Bottom Resonant Interaction Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of the Shock Damping and the Shock Increased by Means of Lorentz Force Analysis of the Effects of Nonlinear Characteristics of Lag Dampers on Helicopter Ground Resonance Flow Structures and Sound Radiation in Supersonic Mixing Layers with Nonlinear PSE Method Turbulent Structures in Subsonic Jet Flow Forced by Random Disturbances Exponential p-Stability for a Delayed Recurrent Neural Networks with Impulses Spatial Variation of Scaling Exponents for Structure Functions in a Decaying Turbulence SESSION 6: NONLINEAR DYNAMIC OF STRUCTURE Analysis of Chaos Behavior of Single Mode Vibration of Cable-Stayed Chaotification of Fractional Maps Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of the Dynamic Axial Crushing of Empty Hexagonal Tube Active Control of a Nonlinear Aeroelastic System Using the Receptance Method Dynamics Analysis of the FHN Neuronal Model Analyzing the Effect of the Axial Force to the Natural Frequencies of Arch Stable Periodic Response of One-Way Clutches in a Two-Pulley Belt-Drive Model Supercritical Nonlinear Dynamics of an Axially Moving Viscoelastic Beam with Speed Fluctuation Nonlinear Dynamic Response to a Moving Force of Timoshenko Beams Resting on Pasternak Foundations An Improved Method for the Construction of Nonlinear Operator in Homotopy Analysis Method A Nonlinear Integration Scheme for Evolutionary Differential Equations A Comparative Study of Civil Aircraft Crashworthiness with Different Ground Conditions Improved Dynamic Analysis of Development of Pulmonary Edema The Timescale Function Method for Solving Free Vibration of Nonlinear Oscillator Nonlinear Aeroelastic Analysis of Flexible Wings with High-Aspect-Ratio Considering Large Deflection Differential Quadrature Method for Vibration Analysis of Finite Beams on Nonlinear Viscoelastic Foundations Numerical Simulation on the Strength and Sealing Performance for High-Pressure Isolating Flange Nonlinear Dynamical Stability of the Lattices with Initial Material and Geometric Imperfection Nonlinear Vibration of Symmetric Angle-Ply Laminated Piezoelectric Plates with Linearly Varying Thickness An Exact Free Vibration Frequency Formula for Oscillator with Single-Term Positive-Power Restoring Force An Exact Solution of Synchronization State for a Class of Networked Mass-Spring-Damper Oscillator Systems SESSION 7: INTERFACE MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING APPLICATION Numerical Simulation of Free Surface Collapse in Propellant Tank Restudy on the Adaptive Mesh Technique for Seepage Problems High-Order Series Solutions of Wave and Current Interactions Deformation and Stress Distribution of Arterial Walls of the Aged A p53-Mdm2 Dynamical Model Induced by Laminar Shear Stress in Endothelial Cells Optimized Image Processing Based on CUDA in a Combined Measurement Technique of PIV and Shadowgraph 3D Visualization of the Flow Fields Using Digital In-Line Holography Analysis and Experimental Study on Air Foam Flooding Seepage Flow Mechanics Experimental Measurements for Mechanical and Electrical Conductive Properties of CNT Bundles Analysis on Dynamic Response of Bedding Rock Slope with Bolts under Earthquakes Numerical Prediction of Aerodynamic Noise Radiated from High Speed Train Pantograph Effects of Length on Aerodynamics of High Speed Train Models Free Convection Nanofluid Flow in the Stagnation-Point Region of a Three Dimensional Body Vertical Distribution and Dynamic Release Characteristics of Pollutants from Resuspended Sediment Numerical Simulation of the Contaminant Release Through the Sediment-Overlying Water Interface Analysis on the Aerodynamic and Aero-Noise of MIRA Model Radial Squeeze Force of MR Fluid Between Two Cylinders Nonlinear Buckling Analysis and Ultimate Extended Capacity Research of Downhole Pipe Strings in Ultra-Deep Horizontal Wells A Novel Method of Generating Nonlinear Internal Wave in a Stratified Fluid Tank and Its Theoretical Model SESSION 8: MINI-SYMPOSIUM ON TRAFFIC FLUID Study on Correlation Analysis of Synchronized Flow in the Kerner-Klenov-Wolf Cellular Automation Model Numerical Simulation of Traffic Flow in the Rain or Snow Weather Condition First Order Phase Transitions in the Brake Light Cellular Automation Model Within the Fundamental Diagram Approach The Leader-Follower Winding Behavior of Pedestrians in a Queue Effect of Overpasses in Two-Dimensional Traffic Flow Model with Random Update Rule Analysis of the Density Wave in a New Continuum Model The Phenomenon of High-Speed-Car-Following on Chinese Highways A Lattice Hydrodynamic Model Considering the Difference of Density and its Analysis Experimental Feature of Car-Following Behaviors in a Platoon of 25 Vehicles Car-Following Model for Manual Transmission Vehicles The Mechanism of Synchronized Flow in Traffic Flow Modeling An Asymmetric Stochastic Car-Following Model Based on Extended Tau Theory A Gaussian Distribution Based Dual-Cognition Driver Behavior Model at Cross Traffic A New Traffic Kinetic Model Considering Potential Influence The Effect of Marks on the Pedestrian Evacuation Equilibrium Velocity Distribution Function for Traffic Flow Effects of Antilock Braking System on Driving Behavior Under Emergent Stability Analysis of Pedestrian Flow in Two-Dimensional Optimal Velocity Model with Asymmetric Interaction Simulation-Based Stability Analysis of Car-Following Models Under Heterogeneous Traffic Crossing Speed of Pedestrian at an Unsignalized Intersection Modeling Mixed Traffic Flow at a Crosswalk with Push Button Effects of Game Strategy Update on Pedestrian Evacuation in a Hall Study on Long-Term Correlation of CO and CO2 from Vehicle Emissions on Roadsides with the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Method Bottleneck Effect on a Bidirectional Two-Lane Mixed Traffic Flow


Analysis of Geometrically Nonlinear Structures

Analysis of Geometrically Nonlinear Structures

Author: Robert Levy

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 9401702438

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The availability of computers has, in real terms, moved forward the practice of structural engineering. Where it was once enough to have any analysis given a complex configuration, the profession today is much more demanding. How engineers should be more demanding is the subject of this book. In terms of the theory of structures, the importance of geometric nonlinearities is explained by the theorem which states that "In the presence of prestress, geometric nonlinearities are of the same order of magnitude as linear elastic effects in structures. " This theorem implies that in most cases (in all cases of incremental analysis) geometric nonlinearities should be considered. And it is well known that problems of buckling, cable nets, fabric structures, ... REQUIRE the inclusion of geometric nonlinearities. What is offered in the book which follows is a unified approach (for both discrete and continuous systems) to geometric nonlinearities which incidentally does not require a discussion of large strain. What makes this all work is perturbation theory. Let the equations of equilibrium for a system be written as where P represents the applied loads, F represents the member forces or stresses, and N represents the operator which describes system equilibrium.


Reanalysis of Structures

Reanalysis of Structures

Author: Uri Kirsch

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-02-24

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1402081987

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This book deals with various computational procedures for multiple repeated analyses (reanalysis) of structures, and presents them in a unified approach. It meets the need for a general text covering the basic concepts and methods as well as recent developments in this area. To clarify the presentation, many illustrative examples and numerical results are demonstrated. Previous books on structural analysis do not cover most of the material presented here.


Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures

Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures

Author: René de Borst

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-07-25

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1118376013

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Built upon the two original books by Mike Crisfield and their own lecture notes, renowned scientist René de Borst and his team offer a thoroughly updated yet condensed edition that retains and builds upon the excellent reputation and appeal amongst students and engineers alike for which Crisfield's first edition is acclaimed. Together with numerous additions and updates, the new authors have retained the core content of the original publication, while bringing an improved focus on new developments and ideas. This edition offers the latest insights in non-linear finite element technology, including non-linear solution strategies, computational plasticity, damage mechanics, time-dependent effects, hyperelasticity and large-strain elasto-plasticity. The authors' integrated and consistent style and unrivalled engineering approach assures this book's unique position within the computational mechanics literature. Key features: Combines the two previous volumes into one heavily revised text with obsolete material removed, an improved layout and updated references and notations Extensive new material on more recent developments in computational mechanics Easily readable, engineering oriented, with no more details in the main text than necessary to understand the concepts. Pseudo-code throughout makes the link between theory and algorithms, and the actual implementation. Accompanied by a website (www.wiley.com/go/deborst) with a Python code, based on the pseudo-code within the book and suitable for solving small-size problems. Non-linear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures, 2nd Edition is an essential reference for practising engineers and researchers that can also be used as a text for undergraduate and graduate students within computational mechanics.