Composites are widely used within the transport sector, in particular in the aerospace, automotive and naval manufacturing industries 1,2. In comparison to isotropic materials such as aluminium and ...
Metastatic bone disease patients have an increased risk for pathological fractures 1,2. If a pathological fracture occurs in a weight-bearing bone such as the femur, this leads to a severe decrease in ...
Second-order shell elements: Meshing the thin band with secondorder-shell elements produces precise curvilinear geometry. There was a time when the task of building a model for finite-element analysis ...