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    Finite Element Analysis for the Treatment of Proximal Femoral Fracture

    Ching-Chi Hsu1, Jinn Lin2, Yongyut Amaritsakul3, Takalamesar Antonius3, Ching-Kong Chao3,4
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.11, No.1, pp. 1-14, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2009.011.001
    Abstract Dynamic hip screw and gamma nail have been widely used to treat the patients with proximal femoral fractures, but clinical failures of those implants are still to be found. This study developed three-dimensional finite element models to investigate the biomechanical performances of the implants. Two kinds of commercially available implants (dynamic hip screw and gamma nail) and one newly designed implant (double screw nail) under three kinds of the proximal femoral fractures (neck fracture, subtrochanteric fracture, and subtrochanteric fracture with gap) were evaluated. Double screw nail showed better biomechanical performances than dynamic hip screw and gamma nail. Two commercially available… More >

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    A Fictitious Time Integration Method for a Quasilinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problem, Defined in an Arbitrary Plane Domain

    Chein-Shan Liu1
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.11, No.1, pp. 15-32, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2009.011.015
    Abstract Motivated by the evolutionary and dissipative properties of parabolic type partial differential equation (PDE), Liu (2008a) has proposed a natural and mathematically equivalent approach by transforming the quasilinear elliptic PDE into a parabolic one. However, the above paper only considered a rectangular domain in the plane, and did not treat the difficulty arisen from the quasilinear PDE defined in an arbitrary plane domain. In this paper we propose a new technique of internal and boundary residuals in a fictitious rectangular domain, which are driving forces for the ordinary differential equations based on the Fictitious Time Integration Method (FTIM). Several numerical… More >

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    Hydroplaning Analysis for Tire Rolling over Water Film with Various Thicknesses Using the LS-DYNA Fluid-Structure Interactive Scheme

    Syh-Tsang Jenq1,2, Yuen-Sheng Chiu2
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.11, No.1, pp. 33-58, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2009.011.033
    Abstract Current work studies the transient hydroplaning behavior of 200 kPa inflated pneumatic radial tires with various types of tread patterns. Tires were numerically loaded with a quarter car weight of 4 kN, and then accelerated from rest rolling over a water film with a thickness of 5, 10 and 15 mm on top of a flat pavement. Tire structure is composed of outer rubber tread and inner fiber reinforcing composite layers. The Mooney-Rivlin constitutive law and the classical laminated theory (CLT) were, respectively, used to describe the mechanical behavior of rubber material and composite reinforcing layers. The tire hydroplaning phenomenon… More >

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    A Three-Dimensional Meshless Scheme with Background Grid for Electrostatic-Structural Analysis

    Ming-Hsiao Lee, Wen-Hwa Chen
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.11, No.1, pp. 59-78, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2009.011.059
    Abstract On the analysis of electrostatic-structural coupled problems as encountered in many electrostatic driven MEMS devices, the electrostatic analysis domain is often extremely distorted due to the deflection of the structure. This kind of problem is difficult to be dealt with by almost all kinds of available numerical methods. A new three-dimensional meshless scheme with background grid is thus proposed herein. By this scheme, a three-dimensional fixed background grid with regularly-distributed nodes is utilized. Another set of discretized boundary grid is employed to describe the boundary surfaces of both the structure and the electrostatic field. The analysis electrostatic/structural domains are modeled… More >

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