What Are FEM, FDM and FVM? FEM, FDM and FVM differ from one another in important ways. Understanding these distinctions is key to selecting the method most appropriate for your purposes. The ...

Implicit magnitudes and distribution of excessive contact pressures under hand orthoses hinder clinicians from precisely adjusting them to relieve the pressures. To address this, contact pressure ...

Probabilistic analysis of buckling is of critical importance for reliability-based design of thin-walled load-bearing structures, and for improved understanding of the structural instabilities ...

Biomechanical studies on the arachnid-like front 'legs' of an extinct apex predator show that the 2-foot (60-centimeter) marine animal Anomalocaris canadensis was likely much weaker than once assumed.

A periodic structure consists of repeating unit cells. From man-made multi-span bridges to naturally occurring atomic grids, periodic structures are present everywhere. Brillouin (1953) first used the ...

In this work, the time-dependent deformation and recovery of the nanolattices is measured by a nanoindentation system. The Finite element analysis (FEA) with a defect diffusion model is employed to ...

Finite Element (FE) models of brain mechanics have improved our understanding of the brain response to rapid mechanical loads that produce traumatic brain injuries. However, these models have rarely ...

Abstract: Thin-shell (TS) models are generally used in the analysis of thin regions with linear constitutive properties, although specialized versions of TS models have been developed for ...

This paper focuses on the wall reinforcement design of toroidal shells with openings. Five 304 stainless steel test models were manufactured, and geometric measurements, three-dimensional scanning, ...