KOT ENGENHARIA, Author at KOT ENGENHARIA

TO BE SITUATED: UNDERSTANDING THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

How to certify that the material used in the airplane wing was chosen with the essential properties for flight? How to guarantee that the steel structure of a building is adequate to all the conditions this one will be submitted? Looking around, there is an awareness of the use of different material in diverses circumstances and the perception of constant interaction...

Discrete Element Method: What is it?

Background In the last 40 years modern science showed a major advance in methodologies of computational analysis. This intense development of technologies, allied to new numeric methods, made possible to create theoretical models with daily applications to the companies. The Continuum Mechanics theory was consolidated by Trusdell, Eringen and others scientists' studies. Thereby, significant progress in comprehension of solid and fluids...