Rockfill dams are nowadays often preferred over concrete dams because of their economic advantages, their flexible design and thank to the great advance achieved in geosciences and geomechanics. Unfortunately their behavior ...

The meshless method Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is one of the primarily developed numerical methods in the meshless methods family. It has been proven to work well with problems of free surface fluid flows. For ...

Masonry is an ancient building material that has been used throughout the history, and it is still used nowadays. Masonry constitutes the main building technique adopted in historical constructions, and a deep understanding ...

The idea is to work on the developement of an explicit solver using B-Bar type elements on structured meshes. The idea is to begin with a completely structured mesh, to employ immersed-type techniques in the application ...

Porosity is one of the most common defects in casting production. When some parts of the casting begin to solidify they contract due to the difference of densities between the liquid and solid phases. The areas that are ...

The improvements in terms of computational power provides the capability to analyze with more detail the materials behavior. On one hand, going deeper in the materials to study an increasingly smaller dimension and capture ...

Investigating the possibilities of VMS techniques in the simulation of a heat exchanger

This work presents a series of benchmarks and the consequent analysis of the results for the non-linear shell element implementation within Kratos program of CIMNE research organization at the UPC BARCELONATECH ...