290 research outputs found

    A tension approach to controlling the shape of cubic spline surfaces on FVS triangulations

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    We propose a parametric tensioned version of the FVS macro-element to control the shape of the composite surface and remove artificial oscillations, bumps and other undesired behaviour. In particular, this approach is applied to C1 cubic spline surfaces over a four-directional mesh produced by two-stage scattered data fitting methods

    Blurred constitutive laws and bipotential convex covers

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    In many practical situations, incertitudes affect the mechanical behaviour that is given by a family of graphs instead of a single one. In this paper, we show how the bipotential method is able to capture such blurred constitutive laws, using bipotential convex covers

    Polar decomposition based corotational framework for triangular shell elements with distributed loads

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    A polar decomposition based corotational formulation for deriving geometrically nonlinear triangular shell elements is proposed. This formulation is novel in two aspects. (1) Original formulas for the projector operator and its variation are presented, leading to simple algorithms for the computation of the nodal residual vector and of the consistent tangent stiffness tensor. (2) For the first time in the context of a corotational kinematic description, a rigorous treatment of distributed dead and follower loads is performed, thoroughly accounting for the various contributions entailed in the residual vector and in the tangent stiffness. Numerical simulations of popular benchmark problems are reported, showing the effectiveness of the proposed approach. An accessible and adaptable MATLAB toolkit implementing the present formulation is provided as supplementary material

    The inertia tensor of an incompressible fluid bounded by walls in rigid body motion

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    L'étagement optimum des groupes de fusées en fonctionnement parallèle

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