...@mech.pk.edu.pl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Mechanical behaviour of materials Vibration Engineering computations Differential quadrature Spline interpolation Free vibration Composite shell To determine the nth degree spline function using the end conditions given...

... be contacted at: chunqi.Lian@unisa.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Mechanical behaviour of materials Simulation Concretes Porosity Porous concrete Modelling Strength Particle flow code PFC F =vector of bond resultant force F _n =vector of bond normal...

...., 2009 ; Javadi and Rezania, 2009a, b ; Rezania et al., 2008). The parametric study is also conducted to understand the contribution of each parameter in the developed models. Rubbers Concretes Mechanical behaviour of materials One of the most significant advantages of EPR...

... in numerical simulation has always been a concern in the mechanical and engineering fields. Rocks Mechanical behaviour of materials Numerical analysis Simulation © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 T.T. Yu can be contacted at: tiantangyu@hhu.edu.cn In the XFEM, the partially...

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.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Finite element analysis Structures Actuators Mechanical behaviour of materials We present in this paper a method for the design optimisation of shape memory alloy (SMA) spring actuators whose purpose is the control of active endoscopes...