Filipe L. A. Ribeiro^1,*, Andre R. Barbosa², Luis C. Neves³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.120, No.3, pp. 657-676, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2019.06296

Abstract Although pre-Northridge earthquake steel moment resisting frame buildings have been shown to be susceptible to brittle connection failures, they still represent a large fraction of the existing steel buildings in the United States of America. In this study, the performance of the 3- and 9-story Los Angeles pre-Northridge SAC buildings are analyzed considering ductile and brittle beam-column connection failures, and their uncertainty. This paper contributes to understanding the influence of uncertainty associated with connections brittle fracture on building interstory deformation capacity and its impact on bias and variability of fragility functions and loss assessment. The results show that considering brittle… More >

Xudong Liu¹, Yunhan Cai¹, Bing Jia², Shengzhang Wang^1,*, Guanghong Ding¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.116, No.2, pp. 215-228, 2018, DOI: 10.31614/cmes.2018.04158

Abstract Our study evaluated the hemodynamic performance of an axial flow blood pump surgically implanted in idealized total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) models. This blood pump was designed to augment pressure from the inferior vena cava (IVC) to the pulmonary circulation. Two Fontan procedures with single and bilateral superior vena cava (SVC) were compared to fit the mechanical supported TCPC physiologies. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses of two Pump-TCPC models were performed in the analyses. Pressure-flow characteristics, energy efficiency, fluid streamlines, hemolysis and thrombosis analyses were implemented. Numerical simulations indicate that the pump produces pressure generations of 1 mm to 24 mm… More >

Liu Jianfei^1,2, Sun Shuli^1,3, Wang Dachuan¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.14, No.1, pp. 31-44, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2006.014.031

Abstract Local transformation, or topological re-connection, is one of effective procedures of mesh improvement method, especially in three-dimensional situation. The commonly used local transformations for tetrahedral mesh involve changing in mesh topology (i.e. node-element connectivity relationship) within a relatively small region composed of several tetrahedra, such as 2-3 flip, 3-2 flip, 2-2 flip, 4-4 flip, etc. Although these local transformations are easy to implement and effective in removing poorly-shaped tetrahedra, it is still possible to improve the quality of mesh further by expanding the space of transformation region. In this paper, the concept of optimal tetrahedralization for small polyhedron and corresponding… More >

G. Shi ¹, P. Zhao ¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 67-92, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.071.067

Abstract Based on molecular mechanics and the concept of flexible connection used in the flexibly connected frames, a new structural mechanics model, a 2-D frame composed of anisotropic beams and flexible connections, is proposed for the simulation of the static and dynamic flexural behavior of monolayer graphene. The equivalent beam representing the C-C bond in the new molecular structural mechanics (MSM) model has two salient features compared with other MSM models presented for the analysis of carbon nanotubes: one is that the flexible connections at the beam ends are used to account for the bond-angle variations between the C-C bonds of… More >

Y.F. Nie¹, S. Chang¹, X.K. Fan¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.19, No.2, pp. 135-144, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2007.019.135

Abstract A new parallel mechanism for Node-based Seamless Finite Element Method was proposed in this paper, which possessed the following three prominent points: realizing the workload balance for the parallel processes naturally, achieving synchronization of all the schedules under complex parallel environment, and filling up the gap between pre-processing and main processing. To support the scheme, three specific solutions of the parallel mechanism were proposed in this paper, all of which achieved the highly efficient parallel seamless connection between the FEM mesh generation process and structure analysis process. Two of the three schemes, i.e. dynamic scheme and self-adaptive scheme, enabled both… More >

Yecai Guo^1,2,*, Chen Li^1,2, Qi Liu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.3, pp. 829-843, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03729

Abstract Visual degradation of captured images caused by rainy streaks under rainy weather can adversely affect the performance of many open-air vision systems. Hence, it is necessary to address the problem of eliminating rain streaks from the individual rainy image. In this work, a deep convolution neural network (CNN) based method is introduced, called Rain-Removal Net (R²N), to solve the single image de-raining issue. Firstly, we decomposed the rainy image into its high-frequency detail layer and low-frequency base layer. Then, we used the high-frequency detail layer to input the carefully designed CNN architecture to learn the mapping between it and its… More >