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Xinpu Shen1
Structural Longevity, Vol.9, No.1, pp. 1-22, 2013, DOI:10.3970/sl.2013.009.001
Abstract Zipper fracturing (‘zipper frac’) is a popular reservoir stimulation method
used to develop unconventional resources, particularly for tight sand oil, shale oil,
and shale gas. Adequately understanding the influence of neighboring stimulation
stages on generating the desired stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) has significant
impact on fracturing design. To discover the mechanism of interaction between
neighboring stimulation stages, numerical simulation was performed on the stimulation process step-by-step using the coupled hydro-mechanical Finite Element
Method. A continuum damage model is used to simulate fracture phenomena created by fluid injection used for reservoir stimulation.
Numerical results presented here include: 1) distribution of the… More >
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Yang Lu1, Li Shi-Min1, Cao Peng2, Shen Xin-Pu1
Structural Longevity, Vol.9, No.1, pp. 23-36, 2013, DOI:10.3970/sl.2013.009.023
Abstract Based on the finite element software ABAQUS, the dynamic time history of the concrete gravity dam has been analyzed. Considering the gravity dam’s
action of dynamic water pressure effect under the earthquake, we made a layer of
user unit and given the unit quality through the door subroutine UEL relying on
additional quality law, and the unit has been attached to the dam. By the statistics
and analysis about displacement, stress, damage and energy of the feature points
of the dam, we can conclude that: the dam stress and displacement of the most
unfavorable moment most concentrated in a fairly… More >
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Yung-Wei Chen1, Jiang-Ren Chang2, Fu-Hsuan Hsieh2, Che-Wei Chen2
Structural Longevity, Vol.9, No.1, pp. 37-58, 2013, DOI:10.3970/sl.2013.009.037
Abstract Since numerical instability phenomena always arise in the solving
process for parameters identification of structural vibration. To resolve such a problem, the multi scaling characteristic time expansion method (MSCTEM) in conjunction with the natural regularization method is adopted to overcome the higher
order numerical oscillation problem when polynomial series expansion is necessary. Due to inclusion of the characteristic length (CL) in the scheme, the ill-posed
problem of the constructed Vandwemonde matrix will be overcome and will also
increase the term number of polynomial series. Thus, the ill condition and numerical instability of numerical calculations can be resolved. Besides, to overcome… More >
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Yung-Wei Chen1, Jiang-Ren Chang2, Wun-Sin Jhao2, Juan-Chen Huang3
Structural Longevity, Vol.9, No.1, pp. 59-73, 2013, DOI:10.3970/sl.2013.009.059
Abstract In this paper, the group preserving scheme (GPS) is adopted to simulate the dynamic ship maneuvering behaviors. According to the mathematical
model of the maneuvering ship motion, ship dynamic behaviors are affected by the
ship hull resistance, rudder and propulsive propeller forces, and main engine induced force; therefore, the conventional approach uses the high order time integration to simulate the ship dynamic behaviors and results in the numerical instability.
Due to the characteristics of the cone structure, Lie-algebra, and group property of
the GPS, this research introduces the non-linear GPS to simulate the dynamic ship
behaviors. Through the group weighting… More >