Meenakshi Malik¹, Rainu Nandal¹, Surjeet Dalal², Vivek Jalglan³, Dac-Nhuong Le^4,5,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.3, pp. 887-906, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016272

Abstract The last several decades have witnessed an exponential growth in the means of transport globally, shrinking geographical distances and connecting the world. The automotive industry has grown by leaps and bounds, with millions of new vehicles being sold annually, be it for personal commuting or for public or commodity transport. However, millions of motor vehicles on the roads also mean an equal number of drivers with varying levels of skill and adherence to safety regulations. Very little has been done in the way of exploring and profiling driving patterns and vehicular usage using real world data. This paper focuses on… More >

Fulu Wei^1,2, Zhenggan Cai¹, Yongqing Guo^1,*, Pan Liu², Zhenyu Wang³, Zhibin Li²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.3, pp. 753-767, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.014661

Abstract The differences in traffic accident severity between urban and rural areas have been widely studied, but conclusions are still limited. To explore the factors influencing the occurrence of roadside accidents in urban and rural areas, 3735 roadside traffic accidents from 2017 to 2019 were analyzed. Fourteen variables from the aspects of driver, vehicle, driving environment, and other influencing factors were selected to establish a Bayesian binary logit model of roadside crashes. The deviance information criterion and receiver operating characteristic curve were used to test the goodness of fit for the traffic crash model. The results show that: (1) the Bayesian… More >

Yudong Zhang^1,*, Qilong Wang², Sean H. Y. Yuan³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.2, pp. 385-387, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.016386

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Tingting Zhao¹, Y. T. Feng^2,*, Jie Zhang¹, Zhihua Wang¹, Zhiyong Wang¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.2, pp. 721-735, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.015913

Abstract This paper presents a convex polyhedral based discrete element method for modelling the dynamic behaviour of rockfills for resisting high speed projectile penetration. The contact between two convex polyhedra is defined by the Minkowski overlap and determined by the GJK and EPA algorithm. The contact force is calculated by a Minkowski overlap based normal model. The rotational motion of polyhedral particles is solved by employing a quaternion based orientation representation scheme. The energy-conserving nature of the polyhedral DEM method ensures a robust and effective modelling of convex particle systems. The method is applied to simulate the dynamic behaviour of a… More >

Jie Wang, Fuhang Jiang, Wenchang Zhao, Haibo Chen^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.2, pp. 645-681, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.015894

Abstract A combined shape and topology optimization algorithm based on isogeometric boundary element method for 3D acoustics is developed in this study. The key treatment involves using adjoint variable method in shape sensitivity analysis with respect to non-uniform rational basis splines control points, and in topology sensitivity analysis with respect to the artificial densities of sound absorption material. OpenMP tool in Fortran code is adopted to improve the efficiency of analysis. To consider the features and efficiencies of the two types of optimization methods, this study adopts a combined iteration scheme for the optimization process to investigate the simultaneous change of… More >

Xinqing Li¹, Qinghai Zhao^1,*, Hongxin Zhang¹, Tiezhu Zhang², Jianliang Chen¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.2, pp. 683-704, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.015685

Abstract This paper presents a robust topology optimization design approach for multi-material functional graded structures under periodic constraint with load uncertainties. To characterize the random-field uncertainties with a reduced set of random variables, the Karhunen-Loève (K-L) expansion is adopted. The sparse grid numerical integration method is employed to transform the robust topology optimization into a weighted summation of series of deterministic topology optimization. Under dividing the design domain, the volume fraction of each preset gradient layer is extracted. Based on the ordered solid isotropic microstructure with penalization (Ordered-SIMP), a functionally graded multi-material interpolation model is formulated by individually optimizing each preset… More >

Jindan Lyu¹, Longdi Cheng^1,*, Bugao Xu^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.2, pp. 737-751, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.015153

Abstract Compact spinning with pneumatic grooves is a spinning process to gather fibers by blended actions of airflow and mechanical forces. Modified from the ring spinning system, the lateral compact spinning with pneumatic grooves can improve yarn appearance and properties due to generated additional twists. In this study, we investigated additional twists of the lateral compact spinning with pneumatic grooves via a finite element (FE) method. An elastic thin rod was used to model a fiber to simulate its dynamic deformation in the three-dimensional space, and the space bar unit was used to simplify the fiber model for the dynamic analysis.… More >

Yanlong Zhang¹, Yanhui Zhou², Jiming Wu^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.2, pp. 487-514, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.014950

Abstract In this article, we study a 2D nonlinear time-fractional Rayleigh-Stokes problem, which has an anomalous sub-diffusion term, on triangular meshes by quadratic finite volume element schemes. Time-fractional derivative, defined by Caputo fractional derivative, is discretized through formula, and a two step scheme is used to approximate the time first-order derivative at time , where the nonlinear term is approximated by using a matching linearized difference scheme. A family of quadratic finite volume element schemes with two parameters are proposed for the spatial discretization, where the range of values for two parameters are , . For testing the precision of numerical… More >

Changkye Lee¹, Sundararajan Natarajan², Jack S. Hale³, Zeike A. Taylor⁴, Jurng-Jae Yee^1,*, Stéphane P. A. Bordas^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.2, pp. 411-436, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.014947

Abstract This work presents a locking-free smoothed finite element method (S-FEM) for the simulation of soft matter modelled by the equations of quasi-incompressible hyperelasticity. The proposed method overcomes well-known issues of standard finite element methods (FEM) in the incompressible limit: the over-estimation of stiffness and sensitivity to severely distorted meshes. The concepts of cell-based, edge-based and node-based S-FEMs are extended in this paper to three-dimensions. Additionally, a cubic bubble function is utilized to improve accuracy and stability. For the bubble function, an additional displacement degree of freedom is added at the centroid of the element. Several numerical studies are performed demonstrating… More >

Muhammad Farman¹, Ali Akgül^2,*, Aqeel Ahmad¹, Dumitru Baleanu^3,4,5, Muhammad Umer Saleem⁶

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.2, pp. 753-769, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.014882

Abstract COVID-19 acts as a serious challenge to the whole world. Epidemiological data of COVID-19 is collected through media and web sources to analyze and investigate a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equation to understand the outbreaks of this epidemic disease. We analyze the diseases free and endemic equilibrium point including stability of the model. The certain threshold value of the basic reproduction number R₀ is found to observe whether population is in disease free state or endemic state. Moreover, the epidemic peak has been obtained and we expect a considerable number of cases. Finally, some numerical results are presented which… More >