Multiscale piezoelectric materials and structures have shown their promising potential of
applications in sensor, energy harvester, actuator and so on. However, the large complexity …

This paper makes an attempt to develop a new numerical method named piezoelectric
element differential method to simulate electro–mechanical behaviors of piezoelectric …

The average response and isotropy of the 3D representative volume elements (RVEs) for
random short fiber reinforced elastomer composites (SFECs) have been explored by finite …

The extended multiscale finite element method (EMsFEM) has been more and more widely
used in the multiscale analysis of the mechanical properties of heterogeneous materials and …

Numerical coarsening is an approach that constructs coarsened shape (or basis) functions
for simulating heterogeneous structures on a coarse mesh, and seeks the fine mesh solution …

This paper develops a finite element formulation and computational model for coupling
electric and finite strain dynamic fields with widely discrepant frequencies, governing the …

Fibre reinforced composite (FRC) have been widely used in engineering applications for the
purpose of strengthening or lightening of the structures. Many modern applications such as …

This paper develops a high performance scalable computational model for simulating
coupled transient electric and finite deformation dynamic fields with widely discrepant …

In electrically conductive composites placed in an electric field, heat is released and non-
uniform temperature fields are formed. This circumstance, in turn, induces strains and …

We present an adaptation of the multiscale finite element method to the analysis of sandwich
beams and plates with complex lattice layers. The proposed modification significantly …