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Honda engines undergo severe testing for evaluation of performance and durability. This paper focuses on a structural durability failure of a steel tube press-fit into an aluminum casting installed on an engine. While the engine is operating, the assembly experiences complex load conditions including modal excitation, high acceleration, as well as, forces and moments caused by system deformation. Traditionally, these loads cannot be measured without completely changing the system. This makes determining a root cause difficult. Therefore, True-Load was used in conjunction with measured strain data to calculate the transient behavior of the loads acting on the components and the stresses experienced by the tube. Analysis of this information allowed the loading conditions driving the failure to be identified. This provided direction for future design iterations.

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The composite rotor blades, by design, are intended to meet performance, stiffness, strength and fatigue requirements, taking into consideration the weight and manufacturability. The design process to achieve an optimum blade configuration is highly iterative, considering several design variables. Further, it is of paramount importance to also make a judicial tradeoff between these design variables to achieve acceptable design in the preliminary design phase. The multi-disciplinary and multi-objective nature of the blade design demands suitable optimization techniques to reduce iterations, errors, time and cost. The present study consists two phases.

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The improvement of fuel efficiency and the development of high power engines have been increasing the thermal load of the engine parts. This is increasing the cases of the thermalmechanical fatigue damage. Thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) failure is caused by the cumulative plastic strain due to cyclic thermal loads, unlike mechanical fatigue failure. In order to predict the TMF lifetime, a nonlinear material equation including viscoelastic plasticity behavior under high temperature thermal load conditions should be constructed and appropriate tests should be conducted to obtain appropriate material parameters. And then the crack propagation model is linked to derive the lifetime prediction formulas. In this paper, an aluminum material model for TMF lifetime prediction is developed. Theoretical formulas were constructed through the process described above, and material parameters were obtained through testing. Also, the derived lifetime prediction equation was composed of ABAQUS UMAT so that it can be used for the lifetime analysis of aluminum.

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This paper illustrates automated capabilities using the Python API in Abaqus/CAE to build, execute, and process complicated geometries with 3D semi-elliptical crack fronts suitable for linear-elastic analyses. These Python scripts adopt the same workflow used in Abaqus/CAE, which enables rapid debugging and post-analysis modifications through the GUI if necessary. These scripts are fully parameterized and support control over a crack’s size, its shape, its location, and its discretization, e.g., the number of elements along its front. Due to the complexity of the required meshes, these scripts produce highly detailed crack-front regions with hundreds of edges, faces, and cells. Furthermore, these scripts support post-processing of stress-intensity factors along the crack front and other quantities of interest.

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Modern engine architectures need compact designs driven by vehicle package constraints. Furthermore, an engine should fit into several vehicle applications and parts have to be modified to match all package configurations. The optimization of the individual parts and the system by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) may help to minimize or even delete these drawbacks. Meanwhile, there are several powerful optimization methods for three-dimensional flows on the market. While comparing their strengths and weaknesses, efficiency and easy handling are also important for engineers in research and product development. In this paper, a combined optimization strategy using CFD topology optimization followed by a shape optimization is presented using the software tools Tosca Fluid and STAR-CCM+.

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Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHEs) are finding increasing applications since they overcome the limitations of rigid and non-deformable traditional electronic boards and circuits. A key parameter in FHE performance is the adhesion of printed conductive silver pastes to the flexible substrate. Prediction of the failure mechanism of the interface, under large deformations and with a considerable material mismatch, is fundamental to future design efforts. However, due to the complex nonlinear behavior of the materials and size of components, common interfacial characterization tests may not always be feasible. In this study, a biaxial loading configuration was designed to extract the mixed mode tractionseparation parameters.

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The stainless-steel target vessel directs the flow of mercury at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) facility in Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, and is struck by cyclic (60hz) proton beam pulses to release neutrons for scientific experiments. The target works under various severe conditions: temperature, radiation, mercury flow, and proton beam pulse pressures. Insufficient strength and durability of the target stainless steel vessel from beam pulse and thermal cyclic loads can lead to mercury leaks and premature target life termination. Neutron production and the scientific user programs at SNS has been disrupted on several occasions due to such incidents.

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Isogeometric analysis (IGA) has shown its attractive feature recently for integrating a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) into a single unified process. For stress analysts, it is common practice to convert a spline/NURBS based CAD model to polynomial based finite element mesh for analysis. However, for complex geometries such as optimized 3D printing objects, it is known that smooth curved geometry cannot be exactly represented by a discretized finite element mesh. As a consequence, the simulation results can either be imprecise or costly due to the geometric misrepresentation or a larger number of degrees of freedom required to achieve the same accuracy. A Tspline based 3D IGA is developed by CMU to fill the gap.

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This paper is related to using Finite Element Analysis to analyze the stresses in the human foot bones when hitting a soccer ball. The result is a determination of the optimal position to hit the ball to have minimal stresses in the foot bones. The results will not only show the direction the ball will travel, but how far it will travel as well. The stresses in the human leg bones are determined for each impact and compared. The primary goal of this research was to show the advantages of utilizing finite element analysis applications in sports. The results will show that accurate results can be attained if the simulations mimic the real case. All simulations are ran using Abaqus/Explicit.

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Ranking the cracks by comparing their K values reveals the most severe crack location and crack shape. The critical crack size for the most severe crack case is determined using the Failure Assessment Diagram method. The evaluation points on the FAD plot are obtained using a combination of elastic K and elastic-plastic J-integral results. Determining the most severe crack location and critical crack size help inspectors prioritize where to look for cracking during the next scheduled maintenance and to select inspection methods to find cracks.

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Additive Manufacturing (AM) is helping to achieve significant time and fabrication cost savings, as well as creating complex geometries and material that are otherwise impossible using conventional manufacturing processes. 3D printed "AS-Built" metal parts are exhibiting surface roughness, warping, defects, and scatter in mechanical properties (strength, stiffness). Path Coverage visualization using machine printing pattern and orientation can detect the formation of voids and defects, which impact mechanical properties related to the as-built part as well as associated AM process simulation.

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