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S.N. Atluri
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Finite-Element Alternating Method for a Cost-Effective Determination of Weight-Function and S. I. F.’s for Multiple Cracks in Mixed-Mode Fracture
It is well known that a combination of the Schwarz alternating method and the finite element method is a efficient numerical method to calculate stress intensity factors of engineering structural components. N...
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Dynamic Analysis of Finitely Stretched and Rotated 3-D Space-Curved Beams
A novel theory and its computational implementation are presented for the analysis of strongly nonlinear dynamic response of highly-flexible space-beams that undergo large overall motions as well as elastic mo...
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Analysis of Traveling Wave Responses of Structures
The prediction of transient response of structures, in the form of traveling waves, is very important for controlling the dynamic behavior of structures. It is well known that the standard semi-discrete form o...
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Multi-Field Variational Problems in Computational Mechanics
A set of multi-field variational problems, which may be summarized from the genera] mixedhybrid finite element methods in comptational mechanics, are investigated. The existence, uniqueness, and convergence pr...
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Some Recent Developments in Finite-Strain Elastoplasticity Using the Field Boundary Element Method
A new boundary integral equation is derived directly for velocity gradients in a finite strain elasto-plastic solid. These integral equations for velocity gradients do not involve hyper-singularities (when the...
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An Endochronic Approach in Small-Deformation Computational Elasto-Plasticity and Creep
A synopsis of a recently developed methodology for computational small deformation elasto-plasticity and creep analyses, based on a variant of an endochronic theory proposed by Valanis [1], is presented. The a...
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Nonlinearities in the Dynamics and Control of Space Structures: Some Issues for Computational Mechanics
This article deals with nonlinearities that arise in the study of dynamics and control of highly flexible large-space-structures. Broadly speaking, these nonlinearities have various origins: (i) geometrical: due ...
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Computational Studies on New Types of Path Independent Integral in Dynamic Fracture Mechanics
The so called J integral has played an important role in the enormous strides that have been made in the past 15 years or so in the subject of the mechanics of fracture. However it is now well understood that ...
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A New Endochronic Elasto-Plasticity Approach for Fatigue Crack Growth
A new endochnonic elasto-plasticity approach to analyze fatigue crack growth under general spectrum loading is presented. The endochronic theory incorporated in the present analysis can express accurately plas...
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Energy-Release Rates in Dynamic Fracture: Path-Invariant Integrals, and Some Computational Studies
In this paper, the subject of path-invariant contour integrals that quantify the rate of energy release at a crack-tip, propagating under mixed-mode, unsteady conditions, with a non-constant velocity, is criti...
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Hybrid and Mixed Finite Elements in Fluid Mechanics
In this paper certain new concepts in the solution of Navier Stokes equations, for an incompressible fluid flow problem, using mixed and hybrid finite elements, are presented. These new methods are compared an...
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Elastic-Plastic Analyses of a Three-Point Bend Specimen and a Fracturing Pipe
An assumed displacement, hybrid finite element method was used to analyze the elastic-plastic plane strain state of a three point bend specimen. A shell code was used to analyze the elastic dynamic propagation...
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New General and Complementary Energy Theorems, Finite Strain, Rate Sensitive Inelasticity and Finite Elements: Some Computational Studies
General variational theorems for the rate problems of rate-dependent finite strain inelasticity, in terms of the appropriate rates of the first and second Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensors, the symmetrized Biot-L...
