Paper Accepted: A Maximum Entropy Approach to Assess Debonding in Honeycomb Aluminium Plates
Paper Accepted for Publication in Entropy V. Meruane, V. del Fierro, A. Ortiz-Bernardin, “A maximum entropy approach to assess debonding in honeycomb aluminium plates.” ABSTRACT Honeycomb sandwich structures are used in a wide variety of applications. Nevertheless, due to manufacturing defects or impact loads, these structures can be subject to imperfect bonding or debonding between…
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Paper Submitted: Meshfree Volume-Averaged Nodal Projection Method for Nearly-Incompressible Elasticity
A. Ortiz-Bernardin, J.S. Hale, C. J. Cyron, “Meshfree volume-averaged nodal projection method for nearly-incompressible elasticity,” submitted. ABSTRACT We present a displacement-based Galerkin meshfree method for the analysis of nearly-incompressible linear elastic solids, where low-order simplicial tessellations (i.e., 3-node triangular or 4-node tetrahedral meshes) are used as a background structure for numerical integration of the weak…
Read More »Turbulence in Wind Farm Boundary Layers
Plenary Lecture, 14th Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics Charles Meneveau Louis M. Sardella Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Associate Director, Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A. Phone: 410-516-7802, Fax: 410-516-7254, meneveau@jhu.edu Similar to other renewable energy sources, wind energy is characterized by low power density. Hence, in order…
Read More »The Mechanics and Mathematics of Bodies Described by Implicit Constitutive Equations: Specific Applications
Plenary Lecture, 14th Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics K. R. Rajagopal Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, Forsyth Chair in Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Civil Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Senior Research Scientist, Texas Transportation Institute Department of Mechanical Engineering, Room 314, Engineering Physics Building, College Station, TX 77843-3 123, U.S.A….
Read More »The Mechanics and Mathematics of Bodies Described by Implicit Constitutive Equations: General Considerations
Plenary Lecture, 14th Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics K. R. Rajagopal Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, Forsyth Chair in Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Civil Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Senior Research Scientist, Texas Transportation Institute Department of Mechanical Engineering, Room 314, Engineering Physics Building, College Station, TX 77843-3 123, U.S.A….
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Polygonal and Polyhedral Finite Element Methods in Computational Mechanics
Plenary Lecture, 14th Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics N. Sukumar Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Davis http://dilbert.engr.ucdavis.edu/~suku Generalized barycentric coordinates (e.g., Wachspress, mean value coordinates, maximum-entropy coordinates, and harmonic coordinates) have been widely adopted for applications in geometry processing and as basis functions in polygonal and polyhedral finite element methods. In recent…
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