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    Fourier Analysis of Mode Shapes of Damaged Beams

    Kanchi Venkatesulu Reddy1, Ranjan Ganguli2
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.5, No.2, pp. 79-98, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2007.005.079
    Abstract This paper investigates the effect of damage on beams with fixed boundary conditions using Fourier analysis of the mode shapes in spatial domain. A finite element model is used to obtain the mode shapes of a damaged fixed-fixed beam. Then the damaged beams are studied using a spatial Fourier analysis. This approach contrasts with the typical time domain application of Fourier analysis for vibration problems. It is found that damage causes considerable change in the Fourier coefficients of the mode shapes. The Fourier coefficients, especially the higher harmonics, are found to be sensitive to both damage size and location and… More >

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    How to Achieve Kronecker Delta Condition in Moving Least Squares Approximation along the Essential Boundary

    Jin Yeon Cho1
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.5, No.2, pp. 99-116, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2007.005.099
    Abstract A novel way is proposed to fulfill Kronecker delta condition in moving least squares (MLS) approximation along the essential boundary. In the proposed scheme, the original MLS weight is modified to boundary interpolatable (BI) weight based on the observation that the support of weight function is exactly the same as the support of MLS nodal shape function. The BI weight is zero along the boundary edges except the edges containing the nodal point associated with the concerned weight. In order to construct the BI weight from the original weight, concept of edge distance function is introduced, and the BI weight… More >

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    Wave Propagation around Thin Structures using the MFS

    L. Godinho A. 1, A. Tadeu1, P. Amado Mendes1
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.5, No.2, pp. 117-128, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2007.005.117
    Abstract This paper presents a strategy for using the Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS) to model the propagation of elastic waves around thin structures, like empty cracks or thin rigid screens, located in a homogeneous elastic medium. The authors make use of a simple approach for modeling these propagation conditions using the MFS together with decomposition of the domain into distinct regions. This approach makes it possible to avoid the undetermined system of equations that arises from imposing boundary conditions at both sides of a thin structure. The numerical implementation of the MFS is performed in the frequency domain, making use… More >

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    A Numerical Study of Strain Localization in Elasto-Thermo-Viscoplastic Materials using Radial Basis Function Networks

    P. Le1, N. Mai-Duy1, T. Tran-Cong1, G. Baker2
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.5, No.2, pp. 129-150, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2007.005.129
    Abstract This paper presents a numerical simulation of the formation and evolution of strain localization in elasto-thermo-viscoplastic materials (adiabatic shear band) by the indirect/integral radial basis function network (IRBFN) method. The effects of strain and strain rate hardening, plastic heating, and thermal softening are considered. The IRBFN method is enhanced by a new coordinate mapping which helps capture the stiff spatial structure of the resultant band. The discrete IRBFN system is integrated in time by the implicit fifth-order Runge-Kutta method. The obtained results are compared with those of the Modified Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (MSPH) method and Chebychev Pseudo-spectral (CPS) method. More >

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    The Computation of Modified Landau-Lifshitz Equation under an AC Field

    Chein-Shan Liu1,2
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.5, No.2, pp. 151-160, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2007.005.151
    Abstract An accurate magnetization requires that both the reversible and irreversible components be modeled. The classical Landau-Lifshitz model deals with only the irreversible component of magnetization. We first subject the Landau-Lifshitz equation to an AC external field by performing a computation through the closed-form solution and the resulting hysteresis loop is displayed to show its deficiency. Then we modify the Landau-Lifshitz model into a new one by including a reversible part and an irreversible part accompanying with the switching criteria between these two states. With the new solutions we display the influence of parameters on the hysteresis loops of magnetic materials… More >

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