NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF STRESS DIP IN EMBANKMENTS USING ELASTIC MODEL BASED ON ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS METHOD

Author(s):  
Tan NGUYEN ◽  
Thirapong PIPATPONGSA ◽  
Takafumi KITAOKA ◽  
Hiroyasu OHTSU
2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-142
Author(s):  
Paolo Masci ◽  
Sandy Weininger

Abstract This article reports on the development of usability engineering recommendations for next-generation integrated interoperable medical devices. A model-based hazard analysis method is used to reason about possible design anomalies in interoperability functions that could lead to use errors. Design recommendations are identified that can mitigate design problems. An example application of the method is presented based on an integrated medical system prototype for postoperative care. The AAMI/UL technical committee used the results of the described analysis to inform the creation of the Interoperability Usability Concepts, Annex J, which is included in the first edition of the new ANSI/AAMI/UL 2800-1:2019 standard on medical device interoperability. The presented work is valuable to experts developing future revisions of the interoperability standard, as it documents key aspects of the analysis method used to create part of the standard. The contribution is also valuable to manufacturers, as it demonstrates how to perform a model-based analysis of use-related aspects of a medical system at the early stages of development, when a concrete implementation of the system is not yet available.


1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 828-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kelemen ◽  
G. Szekely ◽  
G. Gerig
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2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 822-831
Author(s):  
Hokuto Miyakawa ◽  
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Takuma Nemoto ◽  
Masami Iwase

This paper presents a method for analyzing the throwing motion of a yo-yo based on an integrated model of a yo-yo and a manipulator. Our previous integrated model was developed by constraining a model of a white painted commercial yo-yo and a model of a plain single-link manipulator with certain constraining conditions placed between two models. However, for the yo-yo model, the collisions between the string and the axle of the yo-yo were not taken into account. To avoid this problem, we estimate some of the yo-yo parameters from the experiments, thereby preserving the functionality of the model. By applying the new integrated model with the identified parameters, we analyze the throwing motion of the yo-yo through numerical simulations. The results of which show the ranges of the release angle and the angular velocity of the joint of the manipulator during a successful throw. In conclusion, the proposed analysis method is effective in analyzing the throwing motion of a manipulator.


2020 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 105553
Author(s):  
Rachel Smith ◽  
Joel Balmer ◽  
Christopher G. Pretty ◽  
Tashana Mehta-Wilson ◽  
Thomas Desaive ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Xia ◽  
Pan Guo

Purpose Numerical instability such as spurious oscillation is an important problem in the simulation of heat wave propagation. The purpose of this study is to propose a time discontinuous Galerkin isogeometric analysis method to reduce numerical instability of heat wave propagation in the medium subjected to heat sources, particularly heat impulse. Design/methodology/approach The essential vectors of temperature and the temporal gradients are assumed to be discontinuous and interpolated individually in the discretized time domain. The isogeometric analysis method is applied to use its property of smooth description of the geometry and to eliminate the mesh-dependency. An artificial damping scheme with proportional stiffness matrix is brought into the final discretized form to reduce the numerical spurious oscillations. Findings The numerical spurious oscillations in the simulation of heat wave propagation are effectively eliminated. The smooth description of geometry with spline functions solves the mesh-dependency problem and improves the numerical precision. Originality/value The time discontinuous Galerkin method is applied within the isogeometric analysis framework. The proposed method is effective in the simulation of the wave propagation problems subjecting to impulse load with numerical stability and accuracy.


Author(s):  
Kenyu Uehara ◽  
Takashi Saito

Abstract We have modeled dynamics of EEG with one degree of freedom nonlinear oscillator and examined the relationship between mental state of humans and model parameters simulating behavior of EEG. At the IMECE conference last year, Our analysis method identified model parameters sequentially so as to match the waveform of experimental EEG data of the alpha band using one second running window. Results of temporal variation of model parameters suggested that the mental condition such as degree of concentration could be directly observed from the dynamics of EEG signal. The method of identifying the model parameters in accordance with the EEG waveform is effective in examining the dynamics of EEG strictly, but it is not suitable for practical use because the analysis (parameter identification) takes a long time. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to test the proposed model-based analysis method for general application as a neurotechnology. The mathematical model used in neuroscience was improved for practical use, and the test was conducted with the cooperation of four subjects. model parameters were experimentally identified approximately every one second by using least square method. We solved a binary classification problem of model parameters using Support Vector Machine. Results show that our proposed model-based EEG analysis is able to discriminate concentration states in various tasks with an accuracy of over 80%.


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