PURPOSE Unlike standard dental implants, the stabilization of orthodontic microscrews removed after treatment is done without osseointegration and achieved by several components: cortical bone thickness (CBT), microscrew geometry, and drilling depth. The purpose of this study was to evaluate 10 different microscrews and the influence of their geometric parameters with different CBT and drilling...

This paper presents the design of a deployable and foldable tsunami pod for older and disabled people who cannot run to higher grounds during a tsunami attack. In our design, we adopt an ellipsoid structure and use finite element method (FEM) to model the structure. Then, we conduct numerical simulation and confirm the safety based on the von Mises equivalent value and the Head Injury Criterion...

Distribution-free statistical tests offer clear advantages in situations where the exact unadjusted p-values are required as input for multiple testing procedures. Such situations prevail when testing for differential expression of genes in microarray studies. The Cramér-von Mises two-sample test, based on a certain L-distance between two empirical distribution functions, is a distribution-free...

BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY The finite element method (FEM) has frequently been used to investigate the behavior of the aortic valve, but studies on the performance and behavior of free-hand autologous pericardial aortic valves reconstructed using specially designed valve molds have not been performed. The study aim was to demonstrate the effectiveness of a three-dimensional (3-D) cusp of t...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare stress distributions of implant-supported crown placed in fibula bone model with those in intact mandible model using three-dimensional finite element analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two three-dimensional finite element models were created to analyze biomechanical behaviors of implant-supported crowns placed in intact mandible and fibula model....

A semi-analytical iterative method as one of the newest analytical methods is used for the elastic analysis of thick-walled spherical pressure vessels made of functionally graded materials subjected to internal pressure. This method is accurate, fast and has a reasonable order of convergence. It is assumed that material properties except Poisson’s ratio are graded through the thickness directio...

Consider a linear regression model with unknown regression parameters 0 and independent errors of unknown distribution. Block the observations into q groups whose independent variables have a common value and measure the homogeneity of the blocks of residuals by a Cramér-von Mises q-sample statistic Tq( ). This statistic is designed so that its expected value as a function of the chosen regress...

 longevity of osseointegrated implants are intensely influenced by biomechanical factors. Control of these factors prevents mechanical complications, which include fracture of screws, components, or materials veneering the framework. In this study, the impact of length and threads pitch of dental implants on the stress distribution and maximum Von Mises stress in implant-abutment complex and ja...

PURPOSE Vertically unstable sacral transforaminal fractures can be stabilized with a transiliac internal fixator (TIFI) or two iliosacral screws (IS). This study was designed to compare stiffness between TIFI and IS. METHODS Using CT images finite element model of the pelvis was developed. Denis II type fracture was simulated and fixed either with TIFI or two IS. The sacral base was loaded ve...