Current knowledge of the behavior of heavy quadricycles under impact is still very poor. One of the most significant causes is the lack of energy absorption in the vehicle frame or its steel chassis structure. For this reason, special steels (with yi...
Rayleigh damping is proportional to the combination of the structural mass matrix and stiffness matrix and is widely used in structural seismic analysis. The accuracy of seismic analysis of nuclear power structures directly depends on the value of th...
An explicit finite element method is proposed to solve the u-p-formed dynamic equation of saturated porous media. In this method, a special discretization is implemented to discretize the global computational domain into local node systems of the ind...
Background/Objectives: Fracture of ceramic femoral heads in total hip arthroplasty is a rare but catastrophic complication requiring urgent revision surgery. Most finite element studies are limited to static loading and do not capture dynamic behavio...
In dental implant insertion, an artificial foundation is prepared for the prosthetic device, which involves the surgical positioning of the implant in the jaw bone. The success of dental implants relies on the osseointegration process. The biomechani...
This paper presents a validated computational workflow for simulating the fire-induced collapse of steel moment-resisting frames, comparing static general and dynamic explicit analysis procedures. Whereas most existing studies employ dynamic explicit...
This paper introduces a new explicit integration method for second-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) commonly encountered in engineering applications. Traditionally, these problems are solved either by reformulating them as first-order sys...
Microelectromechanical (MEM) Accelerometers measure the accelerations or vibrations experienced by objects due to inertial forces or mechanical excitations. To improve their proof mass displacement, several alternatives have been used, such as the de...
In order to accurately analyze the liquefaction and the reinforcement effect of saturated silty and sandy soils treated by dynamic compaction, a hydro-mechanically coupled explicit analysis method was proposed. The method, in combination with the cap...
The saturated soil site-pile foundation-superstructure system, with large degrees of freedom or strong nonlinear problems, often involves a large amount of calculation and low computational efficiency. In this paper, a fully explicit finite differenc...
Wire rope joints are critical components requiring detailed mechanical analysis. This study investigates the stress/strain characteristics at the joint root under axial impact and combined tension-bending loads. A mathematical model was derived from...
End milling is a process that is widely used for producing components in aerospace applications, automobile applications, and many other fields. It is crucial to forecast a workpiece’s deformation behaviour during the machining process to choos...
A transmission tower-line system consists of many towers and cables, which is a long-span structure. Due to topographical restrictions, the structure inevitably passes through wide areas prone to landslide hazards. The landslide causes the failure of...
Monolithic precast reinforced concrete (RC) frames with cast-in-place joint cores and grouted-sleeve splices are increasingly adopted in seismic regions, yet connection degradation is not carried through to system-level fragility: existing studies ta...
Homogeneous TC4 titanium alloy suffers from the strength–ductility trade-off and exhibits insufficient anti-penetration capacity under high-strain-rate impact. TiCp-reinforced functionally graded titanium matrix composites (FGTMCs) with a &ldqu...
The development of artillery in Europe at the end of the Middle Ages brought a necessary change in military architecture. This change was a radical rethinking of the entire geometry and architectural design of city walls which required an increase in...
The aim of this paper is to present an explicit analytical biomechanical multibody procedure able to be implemented in the solution of the musculoskeletal systems inverse dynamics problems. The model is proposed in formal multibody analysis and imple...
This paper proposes an integrated numerical–experimental methodology for the durability assessment and optimisation of a passenger-car rear axle. A dedicated rear-suspension durability test bench was designed to impose a controlled cyclic verti...
The structural assessment of masonry construction often requires the use of nonlinear 2D and 3D finite element analysis. This work describes a strategy for using energy outputs from such analyses to accurately assess failure conditions precipitated b...
In this paper, a novel method for the evaluation of the surface fatigue strength of a stainless-steel component is proposed. The use of stainless steel is necessary indeed, whenever a component has to work in a particularly aggressive environment tha...
Bird strikes have long been a source of concern for all airlines across the world. It is the most significant design criterion for aircraft engine fan blades. As it is not practical to manufacture and test aviation engines repeatedly for minor design...
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are a class of linear anionic periodic polysaccharides containing disaccharide repetitive units. These molecules interact with a variety of proteins in the extracellular matrix and so participate in biochemically crucial pro...
Mechanical damage and bruising of fruit is a critical problem in the food industry. Minimizing brusing and damage can be achieved by designing energy-absorbing structures and packaging systems in order to ensure the long-term quality of fresh produce...
A methodology to predict key aspects of the structural response of masonry walls under blast loading using artificial neural networks (ANN) is presented in this paper. The failure patterns of masonry walls due to in and out-of-plane loading are compl...
The mechanical method has become a new construction method for connected aisles in metro tunnels due to its advantages of fast construction speed, high safety, and minimal ground disturbance. During the tunneling process, the interaction mechanism be...
Local scour reduces the lateral restraint provided by surrounding soil and may amplify the impact-induced response of bridge foundations. This study investigates the response of a lattice-shaped diaphragm wall (LSDW) foundation–soil system unde...
Open-canopy pesticide application technology is not affected by the canopy structure and can substantially increase droplet penetration and deposition in the middle and lower rice canopy. However, the optimal working position of the canopy opener is...
Assuming that settlement morphologies and landscape structures are the result of economic transformations, the present study illustrates a statistical framework investigating metropolitan growth due to the inherent changes in landscape configurations...
There exist various methods for solving the dynamic analysis problem in earthquake engineering. While numerical integration techniques are conventionally classified as either explicit or implicit approaches, both categories suffer from fundamental co...
Social psychological studies show that people’s explicit attitude bias in public expression can differ from their implicit attitude bias in mind. However, the current automatic attitude analysis does not distinguish between explicit and implici...
Interhemispheric and frontoparietal functional connectivity have been reported to increase during explicit information processing. However, it is unclear how and when interhemispheric and frontoparietal functional connectivity interact during explici...
This paper studies a three-dimensional second-order rational difference system, which generalizes earlier scalar and bidimensional models. We derive explicit closed-form solutions for general initial conditions and identify special cases that simplif...
This paper is devoted to the random vibration analysis of jacket platforms under wave loads using the explicit time-domain approach. The Morison equation is first used to obtain the nonlinear random wave loads, which are discretized into random loadi...
This paper investigates the existence of pseudosolutions for a class of fractional retarded dynamic equations on time scales in Banach spaces endowed with the weak topology. The proposed model combines fractional dynamics, explicit delay effects, and...
The growing demand for the application of jacket platforms in deep water requires more attention on the assessment of structural reliability. This paper is devoted to the dynamic reliability analysis of jacket platforms subjected to random wave loads...
The exact traveling-wave solutions, equilibrium structures, stability characteristics, bifurcation phenomena, and complicated nonlinear dynamics of a space-time fractional modified Benjamin–Bona–Mahony (mBBM) equation are thoroughly discu...
A closed-form dynamic model of the planar multi-link flexible manipulator is presented. The assumed modes method is used with the Lagrangian formulation to obtain the dynamic equations of motion. Explicit equations of motion are derived for a three-l...
Rapid post-disaster building damage assessment requires recognizing explicit structural failures and interpreting implicit situational cues in visually complex scenes. Whereas conventional automated methods are often confined to detecting explicit da...
This study analyzes a modified Holling–Tanner predator–prey system with linear harvesting and supplementary food for the predator. The framework examines how harvesting interacts with predation and external resources to determine system d...
Accurate seismic safety assessment of nuclear power plant (NPP) structures with pile foundations on soft soil sites requires consideration of soil nonlinearity and pile–soil–structure interaction (PSSI). This study develops an efficient p...
This paper presents a theoretical framework to enhance the prediction of dynamic responses in complex mechanical systems, such as vehicle structures, by incorporating both translational and rotational degrees of freedom. Traditional receptance coupli...
Rock bursts are a natural phenomenon that are caused by high stresses and faults within the deep geological profile. The framework within deep mining excavations, comprising various rock and face supports such as cable bolts, is required to withstand...
This paper deals with the analytical investigation of a multirotor system connected by a flexible coupling subjected to dynamic angular misalignment. A novel analytical approach is employed for this purpose, namely the optimal auxiliary functions met...
This study establishes a rigorous monotonicity and composition analysis for fractional difference operators defined via the generalized Mittag-Leffler kernel. A fundamental criterion linking the sign of the discrete Atangana–Baleanu–Riema...
In this paper, a rigorous formalism of information transfer within a multi-dimensional deterministic dynamic system is established for both continuous flows and discrete mappings. The underlying mechanism is derived from entropy change and transfer d...
Accurate crop classification requires effective representation of crop-growth dynamics and traceable classification decisions. This study proposes a prototype-matching framework guided by quantitative temporal and phenological features to establish e...
Xanthione is a sulfated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon which exhibits unique anti-Kasha properties and substantial sensitivity to its medium. Due to this sensitivity however, this makes xanthione-based systems very difficult to simulate. Further, xa...
Sequential systems are commonly analysed with probabilistic, state-space, dynamical and learning-based methods, yet these approaches may define state spaces broader than the states that an active system can actually reach under structural constraints...
This paper introduces the Reverse Poisson Counting Process (RPCP), a stochastic model derived from the Poisson counting process with limited and random capacity, characterized by counting backward from a defined maximum level. Explicit analytical for...
Nonstandard finite-difference (NSFD) methods, pioneered by R. E. Mickens, offer accurate and efficient solutions to various differential equation models in science and engineering. NSFD methods avoid numerical instabilities for large time steps, whil...
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