Partial meniscectomy is believed to change the biomechanics of the knee joint through alterations in the contact of articular cartilages and menisci. Although fluid pressure plays an important role in the load support mechanism of the knee, the fluid pressurization in the cartilages and menisci has been ignored in the finite element studies of the mechanics of meniscectomy. In the present study...

Time-dependent creep stress redistribution analysis of thick-walled FGM spheres subjected to an internal pressure and a uniform temperature field is investigated. The material creep and mechanical properties through the radial graded direction are assumed to obey the simple power-law variation throughout the thickness. Total strains are assumed to be the sum of elastic, thermal and creep strain...

We considered relaxation, creep, dissipation, and hysteresis resulting from a six-parameter fractional constitutive model its particular cases. The storage modulus, loss factor, as well their characteristics based on the thermodynamic requirements, were investigated. It was proved that for Maxwell model, modulus increases monotonically, while has symmetrical peaks curve against logarithmic scal...

Structure– phenomenological hereditary model for prediction of viscoelastic properties of layered polymer composites based on hereditary mechanics and theory of laminated plates relationships was elaborated. Interrelated creep and relaxation constitutive equations of layered composite was derived on the basis of algebra of resolvent operators and matrix algorithms. On example of cross-ply carbo...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Russeting in apples (Malus × domestica Borkh.) and pears (Pyrus communis L.) is a disorder of the fruit skin that results from microscopic cracks in the cuticle and the subsequent formation of a periderm. To better understand russeting, rheological properties of cuticular membranes (CM) and periderm membranes (PM) were studied from the russet-sensitive apple 'Karmijn de Sonn...

Assume that each earthquake can produce a series of aftershock independently of its size according to its “local” Omori’s law with exponent 1+θ. Each aftershock can itself trigger other aftershocks and so on. The global observable Omori’s law is found to have two distinct power law regimes, the first one with exponent p− = 1− θ for time t < t ∗ ∼ κ−1/θ, where 0 < 1−κ < 1 measures the fraction o...