...Bimo Prananta; Toni Kanakis; Jos Vankan; Rien van Houten Purpose The present paper aims to describe the model updating of a small aircraft dynamic finite element model (FEM) to improve its agreement with ground vibration test (GVT) data. Design/methodology/approach An automatic updating method...

... strength design of AAS by means of nonlinear finite element (FE) has been used in this paper. The key of the simulation is that a special technique is proposed to cope with the arresting forces exerted on the tapes as boundary conditions, so the time history of stress/force distribution of AAS key...

...Amit Karmakar; P.K. Sinha A transient dynamic finite element procedure is presented for failure analysis of centrally‐impacted laminated composite pretwisted rotating plates. A nine‐noded, three‐dimensional degenerated composite shell element is developed and used for the present finite element...

...D. Graillet; J.‐P. Ponthot Implicit and explicit time integration schemes in conjunction with the finite element method are presented for the transient response of highly non‐linear problems such as impact situations exhibiting important material dissipation. Surprisingly the implicit schemes lead...