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    Natural Boundary Element Method for Stress Field in Rock Surrounding a Roadway with Weak Local Support

    Shuncai Li1,2,3, Zhengzhu Dong2, Dan Ma2
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 93-110, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.071.093
    Abstract Weak local support is a very common phenomenon in roadway support engineering. It is a problem that needs to be studied thoroughly at the theoretical level. So far, the literature on stress field theory of rock surrounding a roadway is largely restricted to analytical solutions of stress for roadways with a uniform support or no support at all. The corresponding stress solution under conditions of local or weak local support has not been provided. Based on a mechanical model of weak local support at the boundary of a circular roadway and the boundary element method on boundary value problems of… More >

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    Accurate Time Integration of Linear Elastodynamics Problems

    A. Idesman 1
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 111-148, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.071.111
    Abstract The paper deals with the following issues of existing time-integration methods for a semi-discrete system of elastodynamics equations: a) the quantification and the suppression of spurious high frequencies; b) the selection of the amount of numerical dissipation for a time-integration method; and c) accurate time integration of low modes. The finite element method used in the paper or other methods can be applied for the space discretization. A new two-stage time-integration procedure consisting of basic computations and the filtering stage is developed. For accurate integration of all frequencies, a time-integration method with zero (or small) numerical dissipation is applied for… More >

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    Turbulentlike Quantitative Analysis on Energy Dissipation in Vibrated Granular Media

    Zhi Yuan Cui1, Jiu Hui Wu1, Di Chen Li1
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 149-156, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.071.149
    Abstract A quantitative rule of the vibrated granular media's energy dissipation is obtained by adopting the turbulence theory in this letter. Our results show that, similar to the power spectrum in fully developed fluid turbulence as described in Kolmogorov's theory, the power spectrum of vibrated granular media also exhibits a k - 5 / 3 (k is the wave number) power which characterizes the local isotropic flow. What's more, the mean energy dissipation rate in vibrated granular media rises with the increase of particle size and volume ratio. The theoretical results in this letter can be verified by the previous experimental… More >

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    A New Insight into the Differential Quadrature Method in Solving 2-D Elliptic PDEs

    Ying-Hsiu Shen1, Chein-Shan Liu1,2
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 157-178, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.071.157
    Abstract When the local differential quadrature (LDQ) has been successfully applied to solve two-dimensional problems, the global method of DQ still has a problem by requiring to solve the inversions of ill-posed matrices. Previously, when one uses (n-1)th order polynomial test functions to determine the weighting coefficients with n grid points, the resultant n ×n Vandermonde matrix is highly ill-conditioned and its inversion is hard to solve. Now we use (m-1)th order polynomial test functions by n grid points that the size of Vandermonde matrix is m×n, of which m is much less than n. We find that the (m-1)th order… More >

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