TY - JOUR A1 - Nguyen-Xuan, Hung A1 - Nguyen, Hiep Vinh A1 - Bordas, Stéphane Pierre Alain A1 - Rabczuk, Timon A1 - Duflot, Marc T1 - A cell-based smoothed finite element method for three dimensional solid structures JF - KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering N2 - This paper extends further the strain smoothing technique in finite elements to 8-noded hexahedral elements (CS-FEM-H8). The idea behind the present method is similar to the cell-based smoothed 4-noded quadrilateral finite elements (CS-FEM-Q4). In CSFEM, the smoothing domains are created based on elements, and each element can be further subdivided into 1 or several smoothing cells. It is observed that: 1) The CS-FEM using a single smoothing cell can produce higher stress accuracy, but insufficient rank and poor displacement accuracy; 2) The CS-FEM using several smoothing cells has proper rank, good displacement accuracy, but lower stress accuracy, especially for nearly incompressible and bending dominant problems. We therefore propose 1) an extension of strain smoothing to 8-noded hexahedral elements and 2) an alternative CS-FEM form, which associates the single smoothing cell issue with multi-smoothing cell one via a stabilization technique. Several numerical examples are provided to show the reliability and accuracy of the present formulation. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12205-012-1515-7 SP - 1230 EP - 1242 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Talebi, Hossein A1 - Silani, Mohammad A1 - Bordas, Stéphane Pierre Alain A1 - Kerfriden, Pierre A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - A computational library for multiscale modeling of material failure JF - Computational Mechanics N2 - A computational library for multiscale modeling of material failure KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zhuang, Xiaoying A1 - Huang, Runqiu A1 - Liang, Chao A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - A coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical model of jointed hard rock for compressed air energy storage JF - Mathematical Problems in Engineering N2 - Renewable energy resources such as wind and solar are intermittent, which causes instability when being connected to utility grid of electricity. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) provides an economic and technical viable solution to this problem by utilizing subsurface rock cavern to store the electricity generated by renewable energy in the form of compressed air. Though CAES has been used for over three decades, it is only restricted to salt rock or aquifers for air tightness reason. In this paper, the technical feasibility of utilizing hard rock for CAES is investigated by using a coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) modelling of nonisothermal gas flow. Governing equations are derived from the rules of energy balance, mass balance, and static equilibrium. Cyclic volumetric mass source and heat source models are applied to simulate the gas injection and production. Evaluation is carried out for intact rock and rock with discrete crack, respectively. In both cases, the heat and pressure losses using air mass control and supplementary air injection are compared. KW - Energiespeicherung KW - Druckluft KW - Kaverne KW - Modellierung Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170428-31726 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zhuang, Xiaoying A1 - Huang, Runqiu A1 - Rabczuk, Timon A1 - Liang, C. T1 - A coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical model of jointed hard rock for compressed air energy storage JF - Mathematical Problems in Engineering N2 - A coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical model of jointed hard rock for compressed air energy storage KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Völske, Michael A1 - Gollub, Tim A1 - Hagen, Matthias A1 - Stein, Benno T1 - A keyquery-based classification system for CORE JF - D-Lib Magazine N2 - We apply keyquery-based taxonomy composition to compute a classification system for the CORE dataset, a shared crawl of about 850,000 scientific papers. Keyquery-based taxonomy composition can be understood as a two-phase hierarchical document clustering technique that utilizes search queries as cluster labels: In a first phase, the document collection is indexed by a reference search engine, and the documents are tagged with the search queries they are relevant—for their so-called keyqueries. In a second phase, a hierarchical clustering is formed from the keyqueries within an iterative process. We use the explicit topic model ESA as document retrieval model in order to index the CORE dataset in the reference search engine. Under the ESA retrieval model, documents are represented as vectors of similarities to Wikipedia articles; a methodology proven to be advantageous for text categorization tasks. Our paper presents the generated taxonomy and reports on quantitative properties such as document coverage and processing requirements. KW - Massendaten KW - Taxonomie KW - Dynamic Taxonomy Composition, Keyquery, Classification Systems, Reverted Index, Big Data Problem Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170426-31662 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silani, Mohammad A1 - Ziaei-Rad, S. A1 - Talebi, Hossein A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - A Semi-Concurrent Multiscale Approach for Modeling Damage in Nanocomposites JF - Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics N2 - A Semi-Concurrent Multiscale Approach for Modeling Damage in Nanocomposites KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Le, Ha Thanh A1 - Nguyen, Sang Thanh A1 - Ludwig, Horst-Michael T1 - A Study on High Performance Fine-Grained Concrete Containing Rice Husk Ash JF - International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials N2 - Rice husk ash (RHA) is classified as a highly reactive pozzolan. It has a very high silica content similar to that of silica fume (SF). Using less-expensive and locally available RHA as a mineral admixture in concrete brings ample benefits to the costs, the technical properties of concrete as well as to the environment. An experimental study of the effect of RHA blending on workability, strength and durability of high performance fine-grained concrete (HPFGC) is presented. The results show that the addition of RHA to HPFGC improved significantly compressive strength, splitting tensile strength and chloride penetration resistance. Interestingly, the ratio of compressive strength to splitting tensile strength of HPFGC was lower than that of ordinary concrete, especially for the concrete made with 20 % RHA. Compressive strength and splitting tensile strength of HPFGC containing RHA was similar and slightly higher, respectively, than for HPFGC containing SF. Chloride penetration resistance of HPFGC containing 10–15 % RHA was comparable with that of HPFGC containing 10 % SF. KW - Hochfester Beton KW - Verarbeitungseigenschaft KW - Druckfestigkeit KW - high performance fine-grained concrete, rice husk ash, workability, compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, chloride penetration resistance Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170425-31477 SP - 301 EP - 307 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zhao, Jun-Hua A1 - Jiang, Jin-Wu A1 - Jia, Yue A1 - Guo, Wanlin A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - A theoretical analysis of cohesive energy between carbon nanotubes, graphene and substrates JF - Carbon N2 - Explicit solutions for the cohesive energy between carbon nanotubes, graphene and substrates are obtained through continuum modeling of the van der Waals interaction between them. The dependence of the cohesive energy on their size, spacing and crossing angles is analyzed. Checking against full atom molecular dynamics calculations and available experimental results shows that the continuum solution has high accuracy. The equilibrium distances between the nanotubes, graphene and substrates with minimum cohesive energy are also provided explicitly. The obtained analytical solution should be of great help for understanding the interaction between the nanostructures and substrates, and designing composites and nanoelectromechanical systems. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2013.01.041 SP - 108 EP - 119 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Budarapu, Pattabhi Ramaiah A1 - Gracie, Robert A1 - Bordas, Stéphane Pierre Alain A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - An adaptive multiscale method for quasi-static crack growth JF - Computational Mechanics N2 - This paper proposes an adaptive atomistic- continuum numerical method for quasi-static crack growth. The phantom node method is used to model the crack in the continuum region and a molecular statics model is used near the crack tip. To ensure self-consistency in the bulk, a virtual atom cluster is used to model the material of the coarse scale. The coupling between the coarse scale and fine scale is realized through ghost atoms. The ghost atom positions are interpolated from the coarse scale solution and enforced as boundary conditions on the fine scale. The fine scale region is adaptively enlarged as the crack propagates and the region behind the crack tip is adaptively coarsened. An energy criterion is used to detect the crack tip location. The triangular lattice in the fine scale region corresponds to the lattice structure of the (111) plane of an FCC crystal. The Lennard-Jones potential is used to model the atom–atom interactions. The method is implemented in two dimensions. The results are compared to pure atomistic simulations; they show excellent agreement. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00466-013-0952-6 SP - 1129 EP - 1148 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nguyen-Thanh, Nhon A1 - Muthu, Jacob A1 - Zhuang, Xiaoying A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - An adaptive three-dimensional RHT-splines formulation in linear elasto-statics and elasto-dynamics JF - Computational Mechanics N2 - An adaptive three-dimensional RHT-splines formulation in linear elasto-statics and elasto-dynamics KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2014 SP - 369 EP - 385 ER -