Simulate the test on a masonry barrel arch bridge that was developed at the Structural Technology Lab of the UPC. The arch was tested up to failure. Complete characterisation of the masonry, the infill, the loading and the ...

The finite formulation of the 4-node thin shell element based on Co-rotational (CR) and Timoshenko's theory was presented for the analysis of laminated composite structures. Based on the Timoshenko's theory the present ...

We propose a C0 Interior Penalty Method (C0-IPM) for the computational modelling of flexoelectricity, with application also to strain gradient elasticity, as a simplified case. Standard high-order C0 finite element ...

Cellular automata (CA) models have been used in urban studies for dealing with land use change. Transport and accessibility are arguably the main drivers of urban change and have a direct influence on land use. Land use ...

In this work, we implement two fourth-order compact finite differences (CFD) methods and use them to model wave propagation on a elastic string. The formulation of the first method employs the standard implicit CFD constructed ...

This paper deals with the computational modeling and numerical simulation of contact problems at Unite deformations using the Finite element method. Quasi-static and dynamic problems are considered and two particular ...

EMG analyses have several applications, such as identifying muscle excitation patterns during rehabilitation or training plans, or controlling EMG-driven devices. However, experimental measurements can be time consuming ...

Given a 1.5D terrain, i.e., an x -monotone polygonal line in R 2 with n vertices, and 1 m n viewpoints placed on some of the terrain vertices, we study the problem of computing the parts of the terrain that are visible ...

A new combined strategy to describe failure of quasi-brittle materials is presented thus allowing the complete description of the process, from initiation of damage to crack propagation. For the early stages of the process, ...