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Brinkgreve, R.B.J. (author), Post, M. (author)
Displacement-based finite element calculations are primarily used for serviceability limit state (SLS) analysis, but the finite element method also offers possibilities for ultimate limit state (ULS) design in geotechnical engineering. The combined use of SLS and ULS calculations with partial safety factors according to the different design...
conference paper 2015
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Naeimi, M. (author), Li, Z. (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author), Wu, J. (author), Petrov, R.H. (author), Sietsma, J. (author)
The coupled mechanical–thermal behaviour of wheel and rail materials under rolling contact is studied to determine the temperature rise due to the frictional heat. The wheel–rail frictional rolling contact problem is solved using the three–dimensional finite element (FE) method. The FE model considers the wheel tread–rail top contact with...
conference paper 2015
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Ahmed, A. (author)
In order to arrive at safe and reliable design of composite structures, understanding of the mechanisms and mechanics of damage growth in these materials is of paramount significance. Numerical models, if designed, implemented and used carefully, can be helpful not only to understand the mechanisms and mechanics of damage growth but also to...
doctoral thesis 2014
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Van der Put, T.A.C.M. (author)
The results of an investigation of splitting of joints of [1] are used for a discussion of design methods and as necessary answer on comments and for confirmation of the extended fracture mechanics theory which accounts for the part of the external energy which is needed for plastic dissipation at the dowels, (which cause the crack opening). It...
journal article 2014
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Deng, X. (author), Naeimi, M. (author), Li, Z. (author), Qian, Z. (author)
A modeling procedure to predict the residual fatigue life of rail at squats seeds is developed in this article. Two models are involved: a 3D explicit Finite Element (FE) model to compute the stress and strain at squats in rail, and the J-S fatigue damage model to determine the residual fatigue life on the basis of the computed stress and strain...
conference paper 2014
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Sandhaas, C. (author), Van de Kuilen, J.W.G. (author)
Wood is highly anisotropic and shows ductile behaviour in compression and brittle behaviour in tension and shear where both failure modes can occur simultaneously. A 3D material model for wood based on the concepts of continuum damage mechanics was developed. A material subroutine containing the developed model was implemented into a standard FE...
journal article 2013
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Coenders, J.L. (author)
This paper presents two novel open source software developments for design and engineering in the built environment. The first development, called “sustainability-open” [1], aims on providing open source design, analysis and assessment software source code for (environmental) performance of buildings, structures and infrastructure. The aim of...
conference paper 2013
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Molodova, M. (author)
This thesis discusses a new method for detection of short track irregularities, particularly squats, with axle box acceleration (ABA) measurements. A squat is a surface initiated short track defect, associated with high frequency vibrations of the wheel-rail system. High stresses in the contact patch at squats cause accumulation of plastic...
doctoral thesis 2013
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Radtke, F.K.F. (author)
Failure patterns and mechanical behaviour of high performance fibre-reinforced cementitious composites depend to a large extent on the distribution of fibres within a specimen. A discrete treatment of fibres enables us to study the influence of various fibre distributions on the mechanical properties of the material. The numerical analysis of...
doctoral thesis 2012
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Sandhaas, C. (author), Van de Kuilen, J.W. (author), Blass, H.J. (author)
conference paper 2012
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Labeur, R.J. (author), Wells, G.N. (author)
A hybrid method for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations is presented. The ethod inherits the attractive stabilizing mechanism of upwinded discontinuous Galerkin methods hen momentum advection becomes significant, equal-order interpolations can be used for the velocity nd pressure fields, and mass can be conserved locally. Using continuous...
journal article 2012
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Nguyen, V.P. (author)
The conventional multiscale homogenization theory, which has mainly been applied to determine constitutive laws for bulk materials, suffers from two drawbacks when applied to softening materials. Firstly, the coarse scale response is sensitive to the finite element mesh used to discretize the coarse scale domain. Secondly, increasing the size of...
doctoral thesis 2011
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Van der Meer, F.P. (author)
There is no state of the art computational model that is good enough for predictive simulation of the complete failure process in laminates. Already on the single ply level controversy exists. Much work has been done in recent years in the development of continuum models, but these fail to predict the correct failure mechanism in cases where...
doctoral thesis 2010
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De Boer, A. (author)
Introduction (chapter 1) In analysis software models the infrastructural constructions are often reduced to geometrical linear and surface models (plane stress and shell models). The selection of a model much depends on the speed of the analysis process and the total processing time. The increased computer power has boosted the visualisation of...
doctoral thesis 2010
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Guo, Z. (author), Sluys, L.J. (author)
The simulation of rubber-like material behaviour by means of the finite element method has been described in this study. Proper material models were selected for the numerical description of static hyper-elasticity. The combinations of a continuum damage mechanics concept and a pseudo-elastic concept with Gao's elastic law were used to simulate...
journal article 2008
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Guo, Z. (author)
The simulation of rubber-like material behaviour by means of the finite element method has been described in this study. Proper material models for the numerical description of static hyper-elasticity, the ideal Mullins effect and the Mullins effect with permanent deformation were proposed, respectively. The second focus of this study was the...
doctoral thesis 2006
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Pannachet, T. (author)
Accuracy of a finite element solution depends greatly on the spatial discretisation of the problem domain. The more refined/enriched discretisation provides better accuracy but also requires more computational cost. For modelling of quasi-brittle failure, the process zone where failure takes place can be very small, thus it is very cost...
doctoral thesis 2006
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Meijers, S.J.H. (author)
doctoral thesis 2003
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De Bondt, A.H. (author)
doctoral thesis 1999
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Kullaa, J. (author)
The tensile constitutive behaviour of fibre-reinforced brittle materials can be extended to two or three dimensions by using the finite element method with crack models. The three approaches in this study include the smeared and discrete crack concepts and a multi-surface plasticity model. The tensile relation represents the crack normal stress...
journal article 1997
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