BACKGROUND AND AIM: Laminate veneer restorations exhibit excellent ability to reproduce the natural teeth regarding esthetic and biomechanics. The aim of the present study was to determine the impact of laminate veneers on oral health-related quality of life (OHQoL).METHODS: In this case series study, the impact of treatment on OHQol was measured using the standard questionnaire OHIP-14. This ...

Objectives: Cuspids migrated medially into the position of lateral incisors create unpleasant esthetic appearances. This kind of a situation and the related disturbances such as the diastemas and the positional and/or proportional irregularities, create major challenges in front of the dental practitioners. Materials and Methods: The diagnostic additive wax-up, gingival esthetic recontouring, v...

Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) offers a non-destructive evaluation (NDE) technique that takes advantage of the inherent electrical properties in carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites for internal damage characterization. This paper investigates a method of optimum selection of sensing configurations for delamination detection in thick cross-ply laminates using ERT. Reduction...

The present paper deals with optimization of hybrid fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) laminated plates subjected to impact loading using island model parallel genetic algorithm (IMPGA). Finite element method (FEM) and IMPGA have been used to obtain optimum laminates in terms of minimizing the cost, weight or both cost and weight of Graphite/Epoxy (T300/5208)–Aramid/Epoxy (Kevlar 49) hybrid laminat...

Certain hierarchical laminates with a wide separation of length scales are known theoretically to have optimal transport and mechanical properties. We derive analytical expressions for the n-point probability functions that statistically characterize the microstructure for more general hierarchical laminates with an arbitrary number of stages and a finite separation of length scales. Using two-...

This article investigates the scattering characteristics of Lamb waves from a debonding at a structural feature in a composite laminate. This study specifically focuses on the use of the low frequency fundamental antisymmetric (A(0)) Lamb wave as the incident wave for debonding detection. Three-dimensional finite element (FE) simulations and experimental measurements are used to investigate the...