Alexander G. TYAPIN

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 51-52, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.051

Abstract The author extends the previously proposed combined asymptotic method of seismic SSI analysis for the multiply-supported structures. One of the examples of such structures in Nuclear Power Plant is the transportation portal linked to the reactor building by horizontal beams.
The first step still is (like for single-base structure) to develop the dynamic stiffness matrices condensed to the rigid contact surfaces in the frequency domain separately for the soil foundation and for the structure.
For the soil foundation special computer codes like SASSI are used for this purpose. Seismic forces acting to the fixed basements… More >

H. Watanabe, M. Suzuki, N. Ito

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 49-50, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.049

Abstract Gas-liquid two-phase flow is a system containing gas and liquid phase. While the gas-liquid two-phase flow is important for applications such as power plants and pump cavitations, it is difficult to study gas-liquid multiphase flow theoretically or numerically since it is multi-scale and multi-physics system involving not only flow but also phase transitions. In order to overcome the difficulties, we study the two-phase flow with full particle simulations. In the full-particle simulation, phase boundaries create and annihilate spontaneously, and therefore, multi-physics phenomena are naturally simulated. We developed a parallel molecular dynamics (MD) simulation code which More >

Philippe G. CIARLET

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 47-48, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.047

Abstract Intrinsic methods in elasticity have been introduced in a landmark series of papers by Wei-Zhang Chien in 1944. During the last two decades, Professor Wojciech Pietraszkiewicz and his group have achieved major advances in their analysis from the mechanical and engineering viewpoints, as well as in their actual implementation.
However, it was only in 2004 that their mathematical analysis began to be carried out in earnest, first for three-dimensional elasticity and more recently for elastic shells, by the author and his group.
This presentation will briefly review and discuss various problems as yet unresolved in… More >

Yasuhiro Kajima, Miyabi Hiyama, Shuji Ogata

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 45-46, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.045

Abstract There has been increased interest to understand through computer simulation the dynamics of micro-droplets; for example, the coalescence and/or disruption of water droplets as a fundamental process of the cloud formation for the earth climate estimation, the formation and size-controlling mechanism of the ink-droplet for advanced ink-jet printer. Since long-time simulations of such water droplets at atomistic scale are required, we often choose the rigid-body type inter-atomic potential as the TIP4P. In the present paper, we propose the improved angular-momentum Verlet (IAMV) method for the time evolution of the rigid molecules, by enforcing complete time-reversibility… More >

S.J. Zhu, Q.H Zeng, J.J Lou, Q.W He

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 43-44, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.043

Abstract Line spectra are the most visible signs of the ships' radiated noise spectrum. The potential of chaotifying vibration isolation systems to reduce line spectra and improve its capability of concealment have been recently reported. Basically, as the existing isolation system design is based on linear theory, it is difficult to produce the nonlinear chaotic motion; and if the vibration isolation system(VIS) is designed directly using the nonlinear theory, it is also difficult to produce the chaotic motion because of the difficulties in accurate calculation of vibration isolation device parameters. In this paper, a controller design More >

Jiancheng Xu, Yong Li

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 41-42, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.041

Abstract We propose a non-iterative approach to extract the unknown phase shift in phase shifting interferometry without the assumption of equal distribution of measured phase in [0,2I?]. According to the histogram of the phase difference between two adjacent frames, the phase shift can be accurately extracted by finding the bin of histogram with the highest frequency. The main factors that influence the accuracy of the proposed method are analyzed and discussed, such as the random noise, the quantization bit of CCD, the number of fringe patterns used and the bin width of histogram. It shows that More >

Song Zhang, Yajun Wang, Laura Ekstrand, Ying Xu, Yuanzheng Gong

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 39-40, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.039

Abstract High-speed, high-resolution 3-D shape measurement has become increasingly important, with broad applications including medicine, homeland security, and entertainment. Techniques such as structured light, stereovision, and LIDAR have led the way in this field. In recent years, we have made some progress, developing an unprecedented 60 Hz system utilizing a digital fringe projection and phase-shifting method and simultaneously achieving 40 Hz 3-D shape acquisition, reconstruction, and display. However, a conventional digital fringe projection system requires the computer to generate sinusoidal fringe patterns to be sent to the projector. Because 8 bits are usually needed to represent… More >

Ryoichi Yamamoto

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 37-38, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.037

Abstract We developed a unique method for direct numerical simulations (DNS) of dense colloidal dispersions [3, 5]. This method, called the smoothed profile method (SPM), enables us to compute the time evolutions of colloidal particles, ions, and host fluids simultaneously by solving Newton, advection-diffusion, and Navier-Stokes equations so that the electro- hydrodynamic couplings can be fully taken into account. We have applied the SPM successfully for simulating dynamics of various particle dispersions, including colloids in liquid crystals [1, 2], electrophoresis of charged colloids [4, 5], particle diffusion in fluids [7, 8], dispersion rheology [9, 11], tumbling More >

Xiaoping Zhang

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 35-36, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.035

Abstract In this paper, we first discuss the midpoint rule for evaluating hypersingular integrals with the kernel \qopname \relax osin-2(x-s)/2 defined on a circle, and the key point is placed on its pointwise superconvergence phenomenon. We show that this phenomenon occurs when the singular point s is located at the midpoint of each subinterval and obtain the corresponding supercovergence analysis. Then we apply the rule to construct a collocation scheme for solving the relevant hypersingular integral equation, by choosing the midpoints as the collocation points. It's interesting that the inverse of coefficient matrix for the resulting More >

Zonghua Zhang

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 33-34, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.033

Abstract Optical full-field fringe projection techniques have been widely studied in academia and applied to many actual industrial fields of automatic inspection, reverse engineering, heritage protection, cosmetic surgery, and so on. With the advent of color CCD cameras and Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) based color Digital Light Processing (DLP) projectors, their major red, green and blue channels have been used as a carrier to code fringe patterns. Since three fringe patterns can be simultaneously projected and captured by a color image, the acquisition time reduces to 1/3 of the value by projecting only gray fringe patterns.… More >