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    Solid Element with Four-Point Integration in Plane for Bulk Forming

    Ting Du1, J. P. Xu1, Y.Q. Liu2, Z. B. Zhang1
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.51, No.2, pp. 93-114, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.051.093
    Abstract An eight-node hexahedral element with four-point quadrature in plane is developed using the assumed strain method, which can eliminate volumetric locking of incompressible material and absence of the portion of shear velocity strain related with hourglass mode to suppress hourglass mode and shear locking. In this approach, the radial return algorithm is adopted for more precise calculation of internal forces, stress and strain. In addition, a co-rotational coordinates system is established to make bending simulation much more effective, and the system is applicable to arbitrary 3D anisotropic yield criteria. A large elastic-plastic deformation of unconstrained thick plate bending example is… More >

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    Vibration Analysis of Arbitrarily Shaped Membranes

    S.Yu. Reutskiy1
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.51, No.2, pp. 115-142, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.051.115
    Abstract In this paper a new numerical technique for problems of free vibrations of arbitrary shaped non-homogeneous membranes:∇2w + k2q(x)w = 0, x∈ Ω⊂R2, B[w] = 0, x∈∂Ω is presented. Homogeneous membranes of a complex form are considered as a particular case. The method is based on mathematically modeling of physical response of a system to excitation over a range of frequencies. The response amplitudes are then used to determine the resonant frequencies. Applying the method, one gets a sequence of boundary value problems (BVPs) depending on the spectral parameter k. The eigenvalues are sought as positions of the maxima of… More >

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    An Implementation of the Longman's Integration Method on Graphics Hardware

    E. Mesquita1, J.Labaki 1 and L.O.S.Ferreira1
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.51, No.2, pp. 143-168, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.051.143
    Abstract There is a growing trend towards solving problems of computational mechanics by parallelization strategies. The traditional approach is to implement the parallelization procedures on CPUs based on the MPI or OpenMP paradigms. Recent efforts have been made to implement computational tasks on general-purpose programmable graphics hardware (GPGPU). The GPU is specially well-suited to address problems that can be formulated in form of data-parallel computations with high arithmetic intensity. This work addresses the implementation of the Longman's integration method on graphics hardware. A serial implementation of Longman's method was rewritten under the SIMD (Single Input Multiple Data) parallel programming paradigm. The… More >

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    Multi-Point Shape Optimization of Airfoils at Low Reynolds Numbers

    D.N. Srinath1, Sanjay Mittal1, Veera Manek2
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.51, No.2, pp. 169-190, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.051.169
    Abstract A continuous adjoint method is formulated and implemented for the multi-point shape optimization of airfoils at low Re. The airfoil shape is parametrized with a non-uniform rational B-Spline (NURBS). Optimization studies are carried out for two different objective functions. The first involves an inverse function on the lift coefficient over a range of Re. The objective is to determine a shape that results in a lift coefficient of 0.4 at three values of Re: 10, 100 and 500. The second objective involves a direct function on the lift coefficient over a range of angles of attack,a. The lift coefficient is… More >

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