Approximately 75% of installed offshore wind turbines (OWTs) are supported by monopiles, a foundation whose design is dominated by lateral loading. Monopiles are typically designed using the p-y method which models soil-pile resistance using decoupled, nonlinear elastic Winkler springs. Because cyclic soil behavior is difficult to predict, the cyclic py method accounts for cyclic soil-pile inte...

Malalignment of the tibial tray in total knee arthroplasty has been linked to several complications including tibial tray subsidence, leading to revision surgery. However, quantitative biomechanical evidence to directly support the mechanism of failure is not available. We developed a model to study tibial tray micromotion and subsidence in vitro under multiaxial physiological loading condition...

Rock structures are subjected to cyclic tension-compression loading due to a blasting, earthquake, traffic and injection-production in underground storage case. Therefore study the fatigue behavior of rock samples under this type of loading is required. In this study, the accumulated fatigue damage for a Green Onyx rock sample which consisted of only one mineral composition with two-step high-l...

nowadays acoustic emission (ae) testing based on the kaiser effect (ke) is increasingly used to estimate the in-situ stress in laboratories. in this work, this effect is assessed on cylindrical specimens in numerical simulations of the cyclic loadings including loading, unloading, and re-loading cycles using a 3d code called the particle flow code (pfc) based upon the distinct element method. t...

Different calcaneal plates with locked screws were compared in an experimental model of a calcaneal fracture. Four plate models were tested, three with uniaxially-locked screws (Synthes, Newdeal, Darco), and one with polyaxially-locked screws (90 degrees +/- 15 degrees ) (Rimbus). Synthetic calcanei were osteotomised to create a fracture model and then fixed with the plates and screws. Seven sp...

During earthquake excitations, reinforced concrete bridge columns can be subjected to a combination of axial load, shear force, flexural moments, and torsional moments. The torsional moment can be much more significant in columns of bridges that are skewed, curved, have unequal spans, or unequal column heights. Combined loading including torsion can result in complex flexural and shear failure ...

The in vivo lumbar spine of the anaesthetized feline was subjected to passive cyclic anterior flexion-extension at 0.25 Hz and 40 N peak load for cumulative 60 min duration. Displacement (or displacement neuromuscular neutral zones-DNNZ) and tension (or tension neuromuscular neutral zones-TNNZ) at which reflexive EMG activity from the multifidi muscles was initiated and terminated were recorded...

neither damage mechanics model nor elastoplastic constitutive law can solely describe the behavior of concrete satisfactorily. in fact, they both fail to represent proper unloading slopes during cyclic loading. to overcome the disadvantages of pure plastic models and pure damage approaches, the combined effects need to be considered. in this regard, various classes of plastic-damage models have...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to evaluate, in vitro, the tensile bond strength to dentin of Scotchbond Universal (SU), All-Bond Universal (AU) and One Coat 7 Universal (OC7) adhesives applied in self-etch mode, after 24 h of storage and after 500,000 loading cycles, using Clearfil SE Bond (SE) as a control. MATERIALS AND METHODS The adhesives were applied on the dentin of bovine teeth, followed by th...

Identification of functional programmable mechanical stimulation (PMS) on tendon not only provides the insight of the tendon homeostasis under physical/pathological condition, but also guides a better engineering strategy for tendon regeneration. The aims of the study are to design a bioreactor system with PMS to mimic the in vivo loading conditions, and to define the impact of different cyclic...