The perpetual points have been defined recently as characteristic points in a dynamical system. In many unexcited linear and nonlinear mechanical systems, the perpetual points are associated with rigid body motions and form the perpetual manifolds. The mechanical systems that admit rigid body motions as solutions are called perpetual. In the extern...

By Fotios Georgiades

The procedure for identifying concrete damage plasticity material model parameters is presented in this paper. Concrete damage plasticity material model represents a constitutive model which is based on a combination of theory of plasticity and theory of damage mechanics. This material model is often used in solving geotechnical problems due to its...

By Dragan M. Rakić, Aleksandar S. Bodić, Nikola J. Milivojević, Vladimir Lj. Dunić, Miroslav M. Živković

The purpose of this research was to investigate the prospect of continuous flow modelling in LS-DYNA using SPH-FEM coupling. The both methods (SPH and FEM) are based on the continuum mechanics, however, SPH implementation uses Lagrangian material framework, while FEM uses an Eulerian formulation for the fluid analysis, and Lagrangian formulation fo...

By Marko Topalović, Aleksandar Nikolić, Snežana Vulović, Vladimir P. Milovanović

Heart wall tissue plays a crucial role in living organisms by generating the mechanical force for blood flow. This tissue has a complex internal structure comprised mostly of muscle cells, in which biochemical energy is transformed into mechanical active stress under rhythmical electrical excitation. The overall heart functioning depends, among oth...

By Miloš Kojić, Miljan Milošević, Bogdan Milićević, Vlada Geroski, Vlada Simić, D. Trifunović, G. Stanković, Nenad Filipović

The present work displays an extensive numerical analysis for the thermo-hydrodynamic (THD) behavior in finite length journal bearings lubricated with different types of nano-lubricants considering cavitation effect. The effects of nanoparticle concentrations, cavitation and temperature rise on the performance parameters of such bearings have been ...

By Saba.Y. Ahmed, Basim A. Abass, Zainab H. Kadhim

The Prognostic and Health Management (PHM) becomes a research topic in its own right and tends to be more and more visible within the scientific community such as in Nasa Society, which has provided datasets for experiments. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performance of a data-driven prognostic technique used for predicting Remaining ...

By Asmaa Motrani, Rachid Noureddine, Farid Noureddine

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the major health concerns globally, mainly caused by inadequate blood flow in different body parts. The lack of blood flow is often due to abnormal narrowing of blood vessels, and a systematic technique to boost blood flow in these areas can help cure the disease. One such method uses elevated temperatures to infl...

By Ignatius Fernandes, Nitin Bodke

The ferrofluid flow model of the Shliomis and continuity equation for the film and porous interface with the theory of Darcy, the modified Reynolds equation for ferrofluid squeeze film between curved annular plates is discussed with the impact of the rotation of Ferro-particles and slip velocity at the boundary. Beavers and Joseph’s slip cond...

By Niru C. Patel, Jimit R. Patel

The paper develops a method for approximation of the discontinuous functions of two variables by discontinuous interlination splines using arbitrary triangular elements. Experimental data are one-sided traces of a function given along a system of lines (such data are commonly used in remote methods, in particular in tomography). The paper also prop...

By V. Mezhuyev, O. M. Lytvyn, I. Pershyna, O. Nechuiviter

In the present paper, M05-2X/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory was used to investigate antiradical activity of cyanidin towards highly damaging radical species (.OH, .OCH3, .OOH and .OOCH3). The applied method successfully reproduces the values of reaction enthalpies (ΔHBDE, ΔHIP, and ΔHPA). These parameters are important to determine ...

By Dejan Milenković, Jelena Đorović, Edina Avdović, Žiko Milanović, Marko Antonijević