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A BOUNDARY ELEMENT FORMULATION FOR MICROMECHANICAL HOMOGENIZATION OF POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS WITH PIEZOELECTRIC COUPLING
2019
A novel boundary element formulation for the evaluation of the effective properties of threedimensional polycrystalline aggregates with piezoelectric coupling is presented. The aggregates are modelled at the scale of their constituent crystals and are artificially generated through Voronoi-Laguerre tessellations. The electro-mechanical behaviour of each crystal is represented upon introducing an ad-hoc mesh of its boundary and a generalised integral representation of the governing equations of the piezoelectric problem. The behaviour of the whole aggregate is then retrieved upon introducing a suitable set of electro-mechanical interface conditions at the grain boundaries. With respect to cl…
A boundary element model for piezoelectric dynamic strain sensing of cracked structures
2011
A piezoelectric sensor model is here presented for the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of damaged structures. A boundary element approach based on the Dual Reciprocity BEM is then used to model and analyze the transient response of a piezoelectric patch bonded on a cracked beam. The BE model is written for the piezoelectric problem employing generalized displacements. The multidomain boundary element technique is implemented to model non-homogeneous and cracked configuration, taking contact conditions into account. Analyses have been carried out for an isotropic beam with a piezoelectric strip attached on it and dynamical results for the undamaged structure have been compared with FE res…
A computational procedure for the investigation of whipping effect on ITER High Energy Piping and its application to the ITER divertor primary heat t…
2015
Abstract The Tokamak Cooling Water System of nuclear facility has the function to remove heat from plasma facing components maintaining coolant temperatures, pressures and flow rates as required and, depending on thermal-hydraulic requirements, its systems are defined as High Energy Piping (HEP) because they contain fluids, such as water or steam, at a pressure greater than or equal to 2.0 MPa and/or at a temperature greater than or equal to 100 °C, or even gas at pressure above the atmospheric one. The French standards contemplate the need to consider the whipping effect on HEP design. This effect happens when, after a double ended guillotine break, the reaction force could create a displa…
Modelling leaky photonic wires: a mode solver comparison
2006
We present results from a mode solver comparison held within the framework of the European COST P11 project. The structure modelled is a high-index contrast photonic wire in silicon-oninsulator subject to substrate leakage. The methods compared are both in-house developed and commercial, and range from effective index and perturbation methods, over finite-element and finite-difference codes, beam propagation methods, to film mode matching methods and plane wave expansion methods.
Finite Element Studies On Friction Stir Welding Processes of Tailored Blanks
2008
Although friction stir welding (FSW) has been successfully used to join materials that are difficult-to-weld or unweldable by fusion welding methods, it is still in its early development stage and, therefore, its potential has not been fully exploited yet. FSW appears to be a very promising process for tailor-welded blanks to overcome the difficulties encountered in traditional fusion welding processes for obtaining a sound welding with good nugget integrity. In this paper the friction stir welding process for tailored blanks of aluminum alloy is investigated through a FEM developed by the authors. In particular FSW for sheets with different thicknesses is studied. For each setup a differen…
Platform switching on wide-diameter external hex implants: a finite element analysis.
2012
Objectives: The objective of this work was to use finite element analysis to compare the effect of forces coming to bear on abutments 4.1 or 5.0 mm in diameter connected to a 5.0 mm implant (i.e. with or without platform swit - ching). Study design: A 3D CAD model of a 5 x 11.5 mm external hex implant was developed, complete with a connection screw and either of two abutments, one 4.1 and the other 5 mm in diameter, to assess the influence of two loading conditions, i.e. 200 N loaded either axially or off center on the top of the abutment. Results and conclusions: In the symmetrically loaded models, greater stresses were transmitted to the bone in the area below the neck of the implant in t…
Iterative Regularization Techniques in Image Reconstruction
2000
In this survey we review recent developments concerning the efficient iterative regularization of image reconstruction problems in atmospheric imaging. We present a number of preconditioners for the minimization of the corresponding Tikhonov functional, and discuss the alternative of terminating the iteration early, rather than adding a stabilizing term in the Tikhonov functional. The methods are examplified for a (synthetic) model problem.
Finite element approximation of vector fields given by curl and divergence
1981
In this paper a finite element approximation scheme for the system curl is considered. The use of pointwise approximation of the boundary condition leads to a nonconforming method. The error estimate is proved and numerically tested.
Determination of strain and stress distribution on shearwalls by using the speckle photography technique
2003
Abstract Speckle photography (SP) is a powerful tool that is adequate to determine small displacements in micrometer range. This information shows other characteristics of structure deformation under loads and can be determined as stress and strain distribution. In this paper we present the results of the application of the SP technique used to study the behaviour of discontinuities in a shearwall model. These structural elements are very important to the stability of buildings. The displacement whole field around the discontinuities and loading points was determined using the pointwise method. This allows us to determine stress distribution at the point of interest by means of the suitable…
On the numerical solution of the distributed parameter identification problem
1991
A new error estimate is derived for the numerical identification of a distributed parameter a(x) in a two point boundary value problem, for the case that the finite element method and the fit-to-data output-least-squares technique are used for the identifications. With a special weighted norm, we get a pointwise estimate. Prom the error estimate and also from the numerical tests, we find that if we decrease the mesh size, the maximum error between the identified parameter and the true parameter will increase. In order to improve the accuracy, higher order finite element spaces should be used in the approximations.