OBJECTIVES To evaluate and compare the flexural strength and the elastic moduli of three provisional crown materials (methyl methacrylate based autopolymerized resin, bis acryl composite based autopolymerized resin and urethane dimethacrylate based light polymerized resin) after storing in artificial saliva and testing at intervals of 24 hours and 7 days. STUDY DESIGN A metal master mould wit...

The availability of a real-time non-destructive modality to interrogate the mechanical properties of viscoelastic materials would facilitate many new investigations. We introduce a new optical method for measuring elastic properties of samples which employs magnetite nanoparticles as perturbative agents. Magnetic nanoparticles distributed in silicone-based samples are displaced upon probing wit...

The viscoelastic properties of planar phospholipid (dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine) bilayer membranes at 308 K are studied, many of them for the first time, using the nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation (NEMD) method for membrane area change. First, we present a unified formulation of the intrinsic three-dimensional (3D) and apparent in-plane viscoelastic moduli associated with area ch...

Droplet impact dynamics is vital to the understanding of several phase-change and heat-transfer phenomena. This work examines the role of substrate elasticity on the spreading and retraction behavior of water droplets impacting flat and textured superhydrophobic substrates. Experiments reveal that droplet retraction on flat surfaces decreases with decreasing substrate elasticity. This trend is ...

Expressions for the pressure-dependent apparent elastic constants of cubic crystals are derived in terms of their original secondand third-order elastic constants. New expressions are obtained for the apparent compliances and their pressure derivatives. Results are shown to be in agreement with those based on the apparent elastic moduli. ( 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

S U M M A R Y We discuss analytical results for seismic radiation during rapid episodes of inelastic brittle deformation that include, in addition to the standard moment term, a damage-related term stemming from changes of elastic moduli in the source region. The radiation from the damagerelated term is associated with products of the changes of elastic moduli and the total elastic strain compo...

The aim of this paper is to derive, in the Hilbert space setting, an integral representation formula for the e ective elasticity tensor for a two-component composite of elastic materials, not necessarily wellordered. This integral representation formula implies a relation which links the e ective elastic moduli to the N -point correlation functions of the microstructure. Such relation not only ...

We have prepared GexAsySe1−x−y glasses with mean coordination numbers MCNs from 2.2 to 2.86. Tg was found to generally increase with increasing MCN while the glass density showed a maximum at MCN 2.45 and a minimum at MCN 2.65. The elastic moduli of the glasses were estimated from the shear and compressional wave velocities measured by ultrasonic pulse interferometry. For the first time we simu...

Elastic interactions arising from a difference of lattice spacing between two coherent phases can have a strong influence on the phase separation (coarsening) of alloys. If the elastic moduli are different in the two phases, the elastic interactions may accelerate, slow down or even stop the phase separation process. If Dedicated to John W. Cahn, on the occasion of his 70th birthday