J. Sladek, V. Sladek, M. Wonsche, Ch. Zhang

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 79-80, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.079

Abstract It is well known that the coupling nature of piezoelectric materials has led to their wide applications. Interface failure is one of the most dominant failure mechanisms in laminated piezoelectric elements and structures. A meshless method based on the local Petrov-Galerkin approach is proposed, to solve the interface crack problem between two dissimilar piezoelectric solids. Permeable and impermeable electrical boundary conditions are considered on the crack faces. Stationary governing equations for electrical fields and the elastodynamic equations with an inertial term for two-dimensional (2-D) mechanical fields are considered. Nodal points are spread on the analyzed domain, and each node is… More >

Xianyu Su, Qican Zhang, Wenjing Chen

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 77-78, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.077

Abstract Fourier transform method has been widely sued on fringe analysis in optical metrology, including the structured illumination metrology and the interference metrology. The Fourier transform profilometry is one of the popular non-contact 3-D shape measurement methods, where a Ronchi grating or sinusoidal grating is projected onto a 3-D diffuse surface, and the resulting deformed grating image is detected by a CCD camera and processed by a computer. This method requires only one frame of the deformed fringe pattern to retrieve the surface of measured object, so it has obvious advantage for real-time data acquisition and 3-D measurement of dynamic process.… More >

LI Tao, Gao Jian, ZHANG Yi-ping

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 75-76, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.075

Abstract This paper presents a method for the large strain consolidation analysis of soft-clay road embankment with stochastic parameters to random excitation. Based on the large strain theory of continuum material, Biot consolidation theory and Neumann stochastic finite element method (NSFEM), the large strain consolidation NSFEM (LSC-NSFEM) has been established. A program of LSC-NSFEM is designed to analyze soft-clay road embankment. The residue iteration method is used to deal with the nonlinear fluctuating part of stiffness matrix, and the approximate algorithm of the fluctuating part of stiffness matrix is designed to improve LSC-NSFEM program efficiency. More >

Xuedong Bai

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 73-74, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.073

Abstract The in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) method has been developed to probe the novel properties of nanomateials. It is powerful in a way that it can directly correlate the microstructure of the nanomaterials with their physical properties for the same nanoscale sample. In this talk, I will report on the construction and applications of a home-made in-situ TEM platform for nanomanipulation and nanomeasurements.

Mechanics and electromechanical coupling of individual nanowires have been studied inside TEM. The mechanism of resistance switching effects of nanoscale ionic conductors has been revealed by in-situ TEM high-resolution observation. And the transport properties of carbon… More >

Yao-Ming Zhang, Zhao-Yan Liu, Jeng-Tzong Chen

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 71-72, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.071

Abstract Abstract The presentation is mainly devoted to the research on the regularized boundary integral equations with indirect unknowns for anisotropic elastic problems. Based on a new idea, a novel regularization technique is pursued, in which the nonsingular indirect BIE excluding the CPV and HFP integrals is established. The proposed indirect BEM has many advantages. Firstly, the anisotropic problems to be considered can be solved directly without transforming them into isotropic ones so that no inverse transform is required. Secondly, the proposed method doesn't need to calculate multiple integral as the Galerkin method, and but rather treat CPV integrals indirectly, so… More >

Yan Liu, Xiong Zhang, Yanping Lian

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 69-70, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.069

Abstract The analyses of bird strike are of great concern to aircraft designers, because bird strikes can cause very serious problems to flight safety. Meshfree particle methods are suitable for simulating bird strike problems owing to their advantages in dealing with large deformation, fracture and fluid-structure interaction. The material point method (MPM) is employed to analyze the impacting of bird on windshield in this talk in which both the bird and the windshield are discretized by material points. The material model of the bird is accompanied by an appropriate equation of state (EOS) to model the flow behavior during impact, while… More >

Dalin Tang¹, Chun Yang², Satya Atluri³

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 67-68, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.067

Abstract Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Many victims of the disease died suddenly without prior symptoms. It is a great challenge for clinicians and researchers to develop screening techniques and assessment methodologies to identify those patients for early treatment and prevention of the fatal clinical event. Considerable effort has been devoted investigating mechanisms governing atherosclerotic plaque progression and rupture [Friedman, Bargeron, Deters, Hutchins and Mark (1987); Friedman and Giddens (2005); Giddens, Zarins, Glagov, S. (1993); Ku, Giddens, Zarins and Glagov (1985); Gibson et al. (1993); Liu and Tang (2010); Stone et al. (2003); Yang, Tang, Atluri et… More >

Wei-Ming Lee, Jyun-Sian He, Jhong-Sian Guo

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 65-66, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.065

Abstract A semi-analytical approach is presented to solve two-dimensional interior and exterior acoustic problems with elliptical boundaries. The eigenproblems for the interior domain and the scattering problems for the exterior domain are both to be investigated. To satisfy the Helmholtz equation in elliptical coordinates, the multipole expansion for the acoustic pressure is formulated in terms of angular and radial Mathieu functions. The boundary conditions are satisfied by uniformly collocating points on the boundaries. The acoustic pressure at each boundary point is directly calculated in each local elliptical coordinate system. For the multiply connected domain problems, the normal derivative of the acoustic… More >

Hanxing Zhu

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 131-132, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.017.131

Abstract This paper aims to study the size-dependent elastic properties of micro- and nano-sized open-celled foams. To simplify the analysis, we use perfect regular body-centered cubic structure (i.e. BCC foam), which has cubic symmetry and only three independent elastic constants. Taking strut bending, twisting and axial compression/stretching as the deformation mechanisms, Zhu, Knott and Mills (JMPS, V45, pp. 319-343, 1997) have obtained closed form results of all the three independent elastic constants (i.e. the Young's modulus E11 , the shear modulus G12 and the Poisson ratio v12 ) as functions of the bending stiffness, the torsional stiffness and the compression/stretching stiffness… More >

Xiuqing Qian, Yanping Cao, Kunya Zhang, Zhicheng Liu

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 129-130, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.017.129

Abstract Depth-sensing instrumented indentation tests are widely used to probe the mechanical properties of materials at a local area and small scales. Generally, indented solid was assumed semi-infinite plane solid because the contact region is small comparing the indented solid. However, for some biomaterial, such as skin, cornea and sclera, the effect of the curvature of the surface cannot be ignored. Using systematic finite element analysis and dimensional analysis, a method to determine the elastic modulus of the materials with curved surface is proposed using flat punch indentation in this paper.

An axisymmetric, two-dimensional model was adopted and four-node bilinear… More >