...A. Kaveh; H. Rahami; S.R. Mirghaderi; M. Ardalan Asl Purpose In the analysis of some near‐regular structures one can solve the regular part independently and then superimpose the effect of the additional part. For such models, the matrices corresponding to regular part have canonical forms...

.... Beside crack propagation, the technique enables the analysis of fragmentation of initially intact continuum. The capability of modelling fragmentation is essential in various structure‐structure interaction analyses such as projectile impact analysis and ice‐structure interaction analysis. Design...

...Hua‐Peng Chen; Nenad Bicanic Purpose The paper aims to identify both the location and severity of damage in complex framed buildings using limited noisy vibration measurements. The study aims to directly adopt incomplete measured mode shapes in structural damage identification and effectively...

... on the evaluation of the time variation of the hydrodynamic pressure field on the dam structure, the model is considered as two dimensional. The equation of motion for a gravity dam modeled as a non‐prismatic cantilever beam ( Figure 1) is of the form: (Equation 1) where E is the elasticity modulus...

...R. Rossi; E. Oñate Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse algorithms for fluid‐structure interaction (FSI) from a purely algorithmic point of view. Design/methodology/approach First of all a 1D model problem is selected, for which both the fluid and structural behavior are represented...

... structural mechanics. Design/methodology/approach In trying to maintain the highest level of generality, the finite element method is employed for representing the microstructure at this fine scale and computing the solution. The main focus of this work is the implementation procedure which crucially...

...Adnan Ibrahimbegovic; Ivica Kožar; Pavao Marović; M. Hautefeuille; S. Melnyk; J.B. Colliat; A. Ibrahimbegovic Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the inelastic behavior of heterogeneous structures within the framework of finite element modelling, by taking into the related...

...Adnan Ibrahimbegovic; Ivica Kožar; Pavao Marović; Adnan Ibrahimbegovic; Guillaume Hervé; Pierre Villon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide the methodology for structural design of complex massive structures under impact by a large airplane. Design/methodology/approach Using case...

... responses of this pipeline. The boundary‐element method is first used to get the nonlinear dynamic fluid loading induced by the asymmetric flow. The meshless technique is used to discretize the structure of the pipeline. A numerical example is first presented to verify the effectivity of the present method...

... Structures a, b=coefficients of derivatives in the proposed displacement and velocity, defined in equations (9) and (10), respectively [ C ]ⁿ⁺¹=damping matrix at time tⁿ⁺¹ ω=natural frequency Superscripts...

...A. Kaveh; M. Najimi Purpose This paper aims to study the variation theorems for pin‐jointed structures and rigid‐jointed frames. Design/methodology/approach The generalized force method is explained in a form to illustrate the parallelism of this method and the variation theorem approaches...

...A. Kaveh; M. Shahrouzi Purpose Layout optimization of structures aims to find the optimal topology and member sizes in an integrated manner. For this purpose, the most successful attempts have addressed the outstanding features of the genetic algorithms. Design/methodology/approach This paper...

...M. Rezaiee‐Pajand; H.R. Vejdani‐Noghreiyan Purpose The aim of this paper is to develop a new method for finding multiple bifurcation points in structures. Design/methodology/approach A brief review of nonlinear analysis is presented. A powerful method (called arc‐length) for tracing nonlinear...

... for SMA spring actuator subjected to design constraints. Research limitations/implications The proposed method is only validated for our practical purposes. However, we believe that the optimisation methodology may have other implications in structure design. Originality/value This paper provides...

... an experimental standpoint and load oscillations of numerical origin. Moreover, the scheme embodies a secant stiffness formula able to approximate closely the actual stiffness of a structure. Also an explicit algorithm has been implemented, the EPC‐ρ_b method, endowed with user‐controlled...

...Damijan Markovic; Rainer Niekamp; Adnan Ibrahimbegović; Hermann G. Matthies; Robert L. Taylor Purpose To provide a computational strategy for highly accurate analyses of non‐linear inelastic behaviour for heterogeneous structures in civil and mechanical engineering applications Design...

...Marko Kegl Purpose To present an approach to parameterization based shape optimization of statically loaded structures and to propose its practical implementation. Design/methodology/approach In order to establish a convenient shape parameterization, the design element technique is employed...

..., by computing the optimal form of the shape interface between the phases. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Optimization techniques Structures Modelling Ever increasing demands to achieve more economical design of a given material result in the need to exploit and analyze its...

...Pavao Marović; Željana Nikolić; Mirela Galić Purpose To provide an insight in one relatively simple and efficient numerical model for analysing reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, and to raise a discussion leading to the creation of one universal and robust 3D algorithm. Design...

... Limited 2003 Structures Instability Constraint handling Finite element method Inequality The history of stability theory for mechanical problems dates back to the 18th century and the early works of Euler (1774) , who studied the buckling of beams. A lot of experimental...