Objective(s): Bioactive silicate ceramics have favorable features for applying as off-the-shelf bone and artificial tissue. Calcium silicate can enhance the generation of an immediate bond with host bone without an intervening rough surface in the bone layer. However, the silicate bioceramics have some drawback regarding their mechanical properties and chemical stabilities. Materials and Method...

Cement-based composite materials like Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECCs) are applicable in the strengthening of structures because of the high tensile strength and strain. Proper mix proportion, which has the best mechanical properties, is so essential in ECC design material to use in structural components. In this paper, after finding the best mix proportion based on uniaxial tensile st...

in this study, a one-dimensional model called dyresm was used to simulate the thermal structure and artificial destratification of 15-khordad reservoir over a period of one year. the simulation showed that the reservoir is warm monomictic and is stratified during 210 days of the simulation year. the model reproduced the temperature of the meta- and hypolimnion very close to the observed data, b...

Liquids in contact with solids are submitted to intermolecular forces making liquids heterogeneous and stress tensors are not any more spherical as in homogeneous bulks. The aim of this article is to show that a square-gradient functional representing liquid-vapor interface free energy corrected with a liquid density functional at solid surfaces is a well adapted model to study structures of ve...

D. M. Krzeminska, T. A. Bogaard, J.-P. Malet, and L. P. H van Beek Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, UMR7516, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, 5 rue Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg, France Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht U...

We describe a mechanical device which can be used as an analog computer to solve the transportation problem. In practice this device is simulated by a numerical algorithm. Tests show that this algorithm is 60 times faster than a current subroutine (NAG library) for an average 1000 × 1000 problem. Its performance is even better for degenerate problems in which the weights take only a small numbe...