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The mesh flexibility offered by the virtual element method through the permission of arbitrary element geometries, and the seamless incorporation of `hanging' nodes, has made the method increasingly attractive in the context of adaptive…

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This paper presents a methodology aiming at easing considerably the generation of high-quality meshes for complex 3D domains. We show that the whole mesh generation process can be controlled with only five parameters to generate in one…

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We consider mechanics of composite materials in which thin inclusions are modeled by lower-dimensional manifolds. By successively applying the dimensional reduction to junctions and intersections within the material, a geometry of…

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We propose to combine the ideas of mass redistribution and component mode synthesis. More specifically, we employ the MacNeal method, which readily leads to a singular mass matrix, and an accordingly modified version of the Craig-Bampton…

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