What to avoid to succeed as an entrepreneur

[ES] El emprendimiento es motor del crecimiento económico y del desarrollo. En esta investigación se resalta la importancia del emprendimiento en los países emergentes, detallando algunas de las particularidades de los emprendedores de este tipo de regiones. En particular, se observa qué no ha de hacer un emprendedor cuyo objetivo es tener éxito en Latinoamérica. Para ello, se analizan los efectos del asesoramiento formal e informal, del nivel educativo del emprendedor, del grado de innovación de la empresa creada y de variables demográficas como el género y la edad del emprendedor sobre el fracaso empresarial para el caso de El Salvador, uno de los países latinoamericanos con menor índice de éxito empresarial. Mediante el uso de la base de datos del GEM 2012 y de la metodología csQCA, se observa que tanto la innovación como el asesoramiento de profesionales y la educación juegan un papel esencial en el éxito de la empresa.[EN] Entrepreneurship is a driver of economic growth and development. This paper highlights the importance of entrepreneurship in emerging countries and examines characteristics of entrepreneurs in this type of region. In particular, the paper explains what entrepreneurs should strive to avoid if they wish to succeed in Latin America. To do so, an empirical study analyzes the effects of factors that relate to businesses and entrepreneurs in El Salvador, one of the Latin American countries with the lowest rates of business success. In the study, business factors consist of the use of formal and informal advisory services, and degree of innovation. Variables that relate to the entrepreneur are educational attainment, and the demographic variables gender and age. Results from analysis of 2012 GEM data using csQCA methodology show that degree of innovation, advisory services of professionals, and educational attainment play key roles in business success.Mas-Tur, A.; Pinazo-Dallenbach, P.; Tur-Porcar, AM.; Sánchez-Masferrer, M. (2015). What to avoid to succeed as an entrepreneur. Journal of Business Research. 68(11):2279-2284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.06.01122792284681

What to avoid to succeed as an entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship is a driver of economic growth and development. This study highlights the importance of entrepreneurship in emerging countries and examines entrepreneurs' characteristics in these countries. In particular, the study explains what entrepreneurs should avoid to succeed in Latin America. An empirical study analyzes factors that relate to businesses and entrepreneurs in El Salvador, one of the Latin American countries with the lowest rates of business success. In the study, business factors consist of the use of formal and informal advisory services and the degree of innovation. Variables that relate to the entrepreneur are educational attainment and the demographic variables sex and age. Results from analysis of 2012 GEM data using csQCA methodology show that degree of innovation, professional advisory services, and educational attainment play key roles in business success

Superconvergent patch recovery with constraints for three-dimensional contact problems within the Cartesian grid Finite Element Method

"This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Navarro-Jiménez, José M., Héctor Navarro-García, Manuel Tur, and Juan J. Ródenas. 2019. Superconvergent Patch Recovery with Constraints for Three-dimensional Contact Problems within the Cartesian Grid Finite Element Method. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 121 (6). Wiley: 1297 1313. doi:10.1002/nme.6266, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6266. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving."[EN] The superconvergent patch recovery technique with constraints (SPR-C) consists in improving the accuracy of the recovered stresses obtained with the original SPR technique by considering known information about the exact solution, like the internal equilibrium equation, the compatibility equation or the Neumann boundary conditions, during the recovery process. In this paper the SPR-C is extended to consider the equilibrium around the contact area when solving contact problems with the Cartesian grid Finite Element Method. In the proposed method, the Finite Element stress fields of both bodies in contact are considered during the recovery process and the equilibrium is enforced by means of the continuity of tractions along the contact surface.The authors would like to thank Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEO/2016/007), the Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (DPI2017-89816-R), the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (FPU17/03993), and Universitat Politècnica de València (FPI2015) for the financial support to this work.Navarro-Jiménez, J.; Navarro-García, H.; Tur Valiente, M.; Ródenas, JJ. (2020). Superconvergent patch recovery with constraints for three-dimensional contact problems within the Cartesian grid Finite Element Method. 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Large deformation frictional contact analysis with immersed boundary method

[EN] This paper proposes a method of solving 3D large deformation frictional contact problems with the Cartesian Grid Finite Element Method. A stabilized augmented Lagrangian contact formulation is developed using a smooth stress field as stabilizing term, calculated by Zienckiewicz and Zhu Superconvergent Patch Recovery. The parametric definition of the CAD surfaces (usually NURBS) is considered in the definition of the contact kinematics in order to obtain an enhanced measure of the contact gap. The numerical examples show the performance of the method.The authors wish to thank the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad the Generalitat Valenciana and the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia for their financial support received through the projects DPI2013-46317-R, Prometeo 2016/007 and the FPI2015 program.Navarro-Jiménez, J.; Tur Valiente, M.; Albelda Vitoria, J.; Ródenas, JJ. (2018). Large deformation frictional contact analysis with immersed boundary method. 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Robust h-adaptive meshing strategy considering exact arbitrary CAD geometries in a Cartesian grid framework

[EN] Geometry plays a key role in contact and shape optimization problems in which the accurate representation of the exact geometry and the use of adaptive analysis techniques are crucial to obtaining accurate computationally-efficient Finite Element (FE) simulations. We propose a novel algorithm to generate 3D h-adaptive meshes for an Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) based on Cartesian grids and the so-called NEFEM (NURBS-Enhanced FE Method) integration techniques. To increase the accuracy of the results at the minimum computational cost we seek to keep the efficient Cartesian structure of the mesh during the whole analysis process while considering the exact boundary representation of domains given by NURBS or T-Splines. Within the framework of Cartesian grids, the two significant contributions of this paper are: (a) the methodology used for the mesh-geometry intersection, which represents a considerable challenge due to their independence; and (b) the robust procedure used to generate the integration subdomains that exactly represent the CAD model. The numerical examples given show the proper convergence of the method, its capacity to mesh complex 3D geometries and that Cartesian grid-based IBM can be considered a robust and reliable tool in terms of accuracy and computational cost.The authors wish to thank the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad for the financial support received through Project DPI2013-46317-R and the FPI program (BES-2011-044080), also the Generalitat Valenciana for the assistance received through Project PROMETEO/2016/007.Marco, O.; Ródenas, J.; Navarro-Jiménez, J.; Tur Valiente, M. (2017). Robust h-adaptive meshing strategy considering exact arbitrary CAD geometries in a Cartesian grid framework. Computers & Structures. 193:87-109. doi:10.1016/j.compstruc.2017.08.004S8710919

Direct medical image-based Finite Element modelling for patient-specific simulation of future implants

[EN] In patient specific biomedical simulation, the numerical model is usually created after cumbersome, time consuming procedures which often require highly specialized human work and a great amount of man-hours to be carried out. In order to make numerical simulation available for medical practice, it is of primary importance to reduce the cost associated to these procedures by making them automatic. In this paper a method for the automatic creation of Finite Element (FE) models from medical images is presented. This method is based on the use of a hierarchical structure of nested Cartesian grids in which the medical image is immersed. An efficient h-adaptive procedure conforms the FE model to the image characteristics by refining the mesh on the basis of the distribution of elastic properties associated to the pixel values. As a result, a problem with a reasonable number of degrees of freedom is obtained, skipping the geometry creation stage. All the image information is taken into account during the calculation of the element stiffness matrix, therefore it is straightforward to include the material heterogeneity in the simulation. The proposed method is an adapted version of the Cartesian grid Finite Element Method (cgFEM) for the FE analysis of objects defined by images. cgFEM is an immersed boundary method that uses h-adaptive Cartesian meshes non-conforming to the boundary of the object to be analysed. The proposed methodology, used together with the original geometry-based cgFEM, allows prosthesis geometries to be easily introduced in the model providing a useful tool for evaluating the effect of future implants in a preoperative framework. The potential of this kind of technology is presented by mean of an initial implementation in 2D and 3D for linear elasticity problems.With the support of the European Union Framework Programme (FP7) under grant agreement No. 289361 'Integrating Numerical Simulation and Geometric Design Technology (INSIST)', the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain (DPI2010-20542) and the Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEO/2016/007).Giovannelli, L.; Ródenas, J.; Navarro-Jiménez, J.; Tur Valiente, M. (2017). Direct medical image-based Finite Element modelling for patient-specific simulation of future implants. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design. 136:37-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finel.2017.07.010S375713

On the use of stabilization techniques in the Cartesian grid finite element method framework for iterative solvers

"This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Navarro-Jiménez, José Manuel, Enrique Nadal, Manuel Tur, José Martínez-Casas, and Juan José Ródenas. 2020. "On the Use of Stabilization Techniques in the Cartesian Grid Finite Element Method Framework for Iterative Solvers." International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 121 (13). Wiley: 3004-20. doi:10.1002/nme.6344, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6344. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving."[EN] Fictitious domain methods, like the Cartesian grid finite element method (cgFEM), are based on the use of unfitted meshes that must be intersected. This may yield to ill-conditioned systems of equations since the stiffness associated with a node could be small, thus poorly contributing to the energy of the problem. This issue complicates the use of iterative solvers for large problems. In this work, we present a new stabilization technique that, in the case of cgFEM, preserves the Cartesian structure of the mesh. The formulation consists in penalizing the free movement of those nodes by a smooth extension of the solution from the interior of the domain, through a postprocess of the solution via a displacement recovery technique. The numerical results show an improvement of the condition number and a decrease in the number of iterations of the iterative solver while preserving the problem accuracy.The authors wish to thank the Spanish "Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad," the "Generalitat Valenciana," and the "Universitat Politècnica de València" for their financial support received through the projects DPI2017-89816-R, Prometeo 2016/007 and the FPI2015 program, respectively.Navarro-Jiménez, J.; Nadal, E.; Tur Valiente, M.; Martínez Casas, J.; Ródenas, JJ. (2020). 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Simulation of the contact wire wear evolution in high speed overhead contact lines

[EN] The overhead contact line or catenary is the structure composed of support elements and wires responsible for the power supply of the locomotive through sliding contact with the pantograph. This contact causes wear not only on the pantograph contact strips but also in the contact wire, which produces a reduction on its effective section and eventually its replacement, resulting in the stoppage of the rolling stock with its associate economical and operational drawbacks. For this reason, it is important for catenary designers to count with appropriate tools able to predict the contact wire wear behaviour for extending the service life of the system. This work proposes a strategy to simulate the long-term contact wire wear evolution considering the mutual influence between the dynamic behaviour and wear of the system. The method is based on two pillars: the efficient simulation of the catenary-pantograph dynamic interaction and a heuristic wear model which considers mechanical wear due to friction and electrical wear produced by Joule effect and electric arcs. With the proposed simulation tool, we analyse the effect on the long-term contact wire worn height of the train speed.The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (TRA2017-84736-R).Gregori, S.; Gil, J.; Tur, M.; Pedrosa, A.; Fuenmayor, FJ. (2022). Simulation of the contact wire wear evolution in high speed overhead contact lines. En Proceedings of the YIC 2021 - VI ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 295-303. https://doi.org/10.4995/YIC2021.2021.12566OCS29530

3D analysis of the influence of specimen dimensions on fretting stresses

[EN] In this paper, the contact conditions and stresses that arise in a fretting test have been analyzed by means of a three-dimensional finite element model of the contact between a sphere and a flat surface. An h-adaptive process, based on element subdivision, has been used in order to obtain a low discretization error at a reasonable computational cost. The influence of finite dimensions of the specimen in the stress fields has been evaluated. The results have been compared with the classical Cattaneo-Mindlin solution.The authors wish to thank the financial support received from CICYT by means of the project PB97-0696-C02-02.Tur Valiente, M.; Fuenmayor Fernández, F.; J.J. Ródenas; Giner Maravilla, E. (2003). 3D analysis of the influence of specimen dimensions on fretting stresses. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design. 39(10):933-949. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-874X(02)00139-7S933949391

An approach to geometric optimisation of railway catenaries

[EN] The quality of current collection becomes a limiting factor when the aim is to increase the speed of the present railway systems. In this work an attempt is made to improve current collection quality optimising catenary geometry by means of a genetic algorithm (GA). As contact wire height and dropper spacing are thought to be highly influential parameters, they are chosen as the optimisation variables. The results obtained show that a GA can be used to optimise catenary geometry to improve current collection quality measured in terms of the standard deviation of the contact force. Furthermore, it is highlighted that apart from the usual pre-sag, other geometric parameters should also be taken into account when designing railway catenaries.The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received from the FPU program offered by the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (MECD), under grant number [FPU13/04191], and also the funding provided by the Generalitat Valenciana [PROMETEO/2016/007].Gregori Verdú, S.; Tur Valiente, M.; Nadal, E.; Fuenmayor Fernández, F. (2017). An approach to geometric optimisation of railway catenaries. Vehicle System Dynamics. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00423114.2017.1407434S125Nåvik, P., Rønnquist, A., & Stichel, S. (2015). The use of dynamic response to evaluate and improve the optimization of existing soft railway catenary systems for higher speeds. 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