Machinery fault diagnosis has progressed over the past decades with the evolution of
machineries in terms of complexity and scale. High-value machineries require condition …

The current literature on three-dimensional (3D) needle-punched composites tends to
address the aspects of preforms fabrication and composites characterization respectively …

Piezoelectric composites have emerged as a versatile platform with immense potential for
tailoring electro-mechanical properties to cater to a wide spectrum of applications. Central to …

Since early publications in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the finite volume method has
been shown suitable for solid mechanics analyses. At present, there are several flavours of …

In the present report some basic issues of and some of the modeling strategies used for
studying static and quasistatic problems in continuum micromechanics of materials are …

It is well known that the strongly location-dependent microstructures observed in metal parts
made using additive manufacturing (AM) processes differ from those found in components …

The current article presents a fully coupled cell-centred Finite Volume solution methodology
for linear elasticity and unstructured meshes. Details are given of the novel implicit …

Abstract For 3D needled C/C-SiC composites, the in-plane fibers are transferred to out-of-
plane direction by needling technology to enhance the delamination resistance capacity …

Nanoporous materials find a wide range of applications spanning diverse disciplines. For
sufficiently small nanopores, surface effects must be accounted for in calculating …

A new approach based on combination of cell-center finite volume method (CC FVM) and
Timoshenko beam theory has been developed to analyze static and free vibration of …