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Flexoelectricity refers to a phenomenon which involves a coupling of the mechanical strain gradient and electric polarization. In this study, a meshless Fragile Points Method (FPM), is presented for analyzing flexoelectric effects in…

The Fragile Points Method (FPM) is an elementarily simple Galerkin meshless method, employing Point-based discontinuous trial and test functions only, without using element-based trial and test functions. In this study, the algorithmic…

A meshless Fragile Points Method (FPM) is presented for analyzing 2D flexoelectric problems. Local, simple, polynomial and discontinuous trial and test functions are generated with the help of a local meshless differential quadrature…

Notched components are commonly used in engineering structures, where stress concentration may easily lead to crack initiation and development. The main goal of this work is to develop a simple numerical method to predict the structural…

In this paper, a new method, named the Fragile Points Method (FPM), is developed for computer modeling in engineering and sciences. In the FPM, simple, local, polynomial, discontinuous and Point-based trial and test functions are proposed…

This study presents an adaptive coupling peridynamic least-square minimization with the finite element method (PDLSM-FEM) for fracture analysis. The presented method utilizes the PDLSM modeling discontinuities while maximizing the FEM…

Meshfree methods for in silico modelling and simulation of cardiac electrophysiology are gaining more and more popularity. These methods do not require a mesh and are more suitable than the Finite Element Method (FEM) to simulate the…

This research explored a novel explicit total Lagrangian Fragile Points Method (FPM) for finite deformation of hyperelastic materials. In contrast to mesh-based methods, where mesh distortion may pose numerical challenges, meshless methods…

Understanding the nature of brittle failure in ferroelectric materials is essential, but difficult due to the complex interaction between mechanical and electrical concentrated fields near the crack tip. In this work, an extended…

In this work, the finite elements method (FEM) is used to analyse the growth of fretting cracks. FEM can be favourably used to extract the stress intensity factors in mixed mode, a typical situation for cracks growing in the vicinity of a…

Modeling the propagation of cracks at the microscopic level is fundamental to understand the effect of the microstructure on the fracture process. Nevertheless, microscopic propagation is often unstable and when using phase field fracture…

A new and effective computational approach is presented for analyzing transient heat conduction problems. The approach consists of a meshless Fragile Points Method (FPM) being utilized for spatial discretization, and a Local Variational…

Three kinds of Fragile Points Methods based on Petrov-Galerkin weak-forms (PG-FPMs) are proposed for analyzing heat conduction problems in nonhomogeneous anisotropic media. This is a follow-up of the previous study on the original FPM based…

The propagation front of a crack generates large strain gradients and it is therefore a strong source of gradient-induced polarization (flexoelectricity). Herein, we demonstrate that, in piezoelectric materials, a consequence of…

This paper presents the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the modeling of crack propagation in 2D within the context of linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). By exploiting the advantage of mesh flexibility in the VEM, we establish an…

Numerical simulation of nonlinear elastic wave propagation in solids with cracks is indispensable for decoding the complicated mechanisms associated with the nonlinear ultrasonic techniques in Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). Here, we…

Electro-active materials are classified as electrostrictive and piezoelectric materials. They deform under the action of an external electric field. Piezoelectric material, as a special class of active materials, can produce an internal…

This work develops a polygonal finite element method (PFEM) for the analysis of steady-state and transient thermal stresses in two dimensional continua. The method employs Wachspress rational basis functions to construct conforming…

In this study, a fast multipole method (FMM) is used to decrease the computational time of a fully-coupled poroelastic hydraulic fracture model with a controllable effect on its accuracy. The hydraulic fracture model is based on the…

In computational engineering, ensuring the integrity and safety of structures in fields such as aerospace and civil engineering relies on accurate stress prediction. However, analytical methods are limited to simple test cases, and…