Professor of Mechanics, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. It's easy to construct finite-element models with errors. And it's just as easy to correct them, when you know how. The first step in a ...

Fibre-reinforced composite materials have become indispensable in numerous applications in various industries such as automotive, aerospace, and construction, due to their exceptional mechanical ...

Numerous spine Finite Element (FE) models have been developed to assess spinal tolerances, spinal loadings and low back pain-related issues. However, justified simplifications, in terms of tissue ...

Under the Engineering Roadmap, Biocore and FRI—with funding support provided by the NFL—collaborated with partners at the University of Virginia, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, KTH Royal ...

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 ...