Journal of Simulation and Analysis of Novel Technologies in Mechanical Engineering
Volume:1 Issue: 2, 2008

In this paper the process of laser forming has been investigated using an analytical and an experimental method for three levels scans velocity. A coupled analysis has been performed in ANSYS®. Also in order to prove the predictive methods, experiments on thin sheet metals have been done when a laser of a fair power was used. Before done, experiments were designed with full factorial chosen as the experiment scheme planning. For performing experiments a CO2 laser a maximum power of 200 watt is used. A CMM is used to measuring the bending angle of the workspice. Finally, a statistical analysis on the experimental data was performed. The comparison between numerical and experimental results shows the bending angle decreased by increasing the scan velocity also rate of the bending angle decreased by increasing the scan velocity.

In the present work, FGM shells integrated with magnetostrictive layers acting as distributed sensors and actuators are modeled to control vibration attenuation of FGM shells with simply supported boundaryconditions. To achieve a mechanism for actively control of the oscillation amplitude of the integrated structure, a negative velocity proportional feedback control law is implemented in the study. Theoretical formulation is based on the first order shear deformation shell theory, taking into consideration transverse shear deformation and rotary inertia effects. Material properties are assumed to be temperature-dependent and graded in the thickness direction according to different volume fraction functions. A FGM cylindrical shell made up of a mixture of ceramic and metal is considered. The magnetostrictive layers are also considered to be made of Terfenol-D. The influence of vibration attenuation characteristics of magnetostrictive layers, the location of these layers and control parameters on vibration suppression is investigated.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of using CVT (Continuous Variable Transmission) in Samand automobile. For this analysis, the conventional Samand and a Samand equipted with CVT are modeled and simulated by using Simulink based software (ADVISOR) and the performances are compared. This analysis includes the effect of driving cycle, fuel consumption and the efficiency of components of the power train. The results show that the fuel economy is increased while using CVT. Finally, the overall cost analysis for incorporating CVT is done and the economical advantage is discussed.

This paper investigates symmetrical buckling of orthotropic circular and annular plates of continuous variable thickness. Uniform compression loading is applied at the plate outer boundary. Thickness varies linearly along radial direction. Inner edge is free, while outer edge has different boundary conditions: clamped, simply and elastically restraint against rotation. The optimized RayLeigh-Ritz method is applied for buckling analysis. In this method, a polynomial function that is based on static deformation of orthotropic circular plates in bending is used. Also, byemploying an exponential parameter in deformation function, eigenvalue is minimized in respect to that parameter. The advantage of this procedure is simplicity in comparison with other methods, while whole algorithm for solution can be coded for computer programming. The effect of variation of radius, thickness, different boundary conditions, ratio of radial Young Modulus to circumferential one, ratio of outer radius to inner one in annular plates on critical buckling coefficient are investigated. The obtained results show that in plate with identical thickness, increasing of outer radius decreases the critical buckling coefficient. In addition increasing of thickness of the plates results in increase of critical buckling coefficient.

CNG vessels are used in many vehicles. Mass production of CNG pressure vessels requires exact understanding of process effective parameters. In this paper, the numerical analysis has been used to study the manufacturing parameters. The entire manufacturing processes, including deep drawing, redrawing and ironing, of an aluminum liner sample of CNG pressure vessel (without spinning) have been simulated by Finite Element technique. The deep drawing process has been modeled by using flat dies. Then, drawing force and wall thickness variations have been studied. In order to achieve the final diameter of the liner, the redrawing process has been implemented in a flat die. To obtain a uniform wall thickness, the ironing process has been simulated in two stages, and the required force and the change of wall thickness for each process have been recorded. The results of this paper have been compared with the published results obtained by other researcher and found a good correlation between them.

In the present paper, nonlinear radial and hoop thermoelastic stresses analysis of a disk made of FGMs material is investigated. According to this purpose, finite element method is used. In the present method, second-order one-dimensional element (with three node points) is proposed. The geometrical and stress boundary conditions are defined in the state of non-existence of external pressure and then zero radial stress in the outer layer of the disk, and zero displacement in the center of the disk. Also the temperature distribution is assumed as linear. The material properties changes including temperature-dependency are modeled. Finally, a numerical example is proposed to show the radial displacements, radial and hoop thermoelastic stresses versus radius of the disk for different power (N) from Power-law and different angular velocities. The results show that by increasing both two parameters, N and angular velocity of the disk, the amounts of displacement and stress are increased. At last, temperature-dependency and temperature-independency of material properties is investigated.

This paper presents the application of the method of generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) for the analysis of hydrodynamic thrust bearings. GDQ is a simple, efficient, high-order numerical technique and it uses the information on all grid points to approach the derivatives of the unknown function. The effectiveness of the solution technique is verified by comparing the GDQ computed results with the results of analytical solutions, FEM and FDM results from the published literature. It's seen from the results that GDQ method can easily compete with the existing methods of solution of lubrication problems in respect to its analytical simplicity, smaller computer storage requirements and capability of producing accurate results with very high computational efficiency.

In this paper the buckling coefficient of FGM rectangular plates calculated by the new version of differential quadrature method (DQM). At the first the governing differential equation for plate has been calculated and then according to the new version of differential quadrature method (DQM) the existence derivatives in equation , convert to the amounts of function in the grid points inside of the region is solved .With doing this , The equation will be converted to an eigen value problem and the buckling coefficient is obtained .
In the solving of this problem two kinds of loading for all edges are simply supported or clamped are considered and also the effect of power law index over the buckling coefficient is considered . For the case Isotropic the results are compared well with finite element and finite difference results.This fact indicates that the new version of DQ method can be employed for obtaining buckling loads of plates subjected to non–uniform distributed loading for other boundary conditions.