BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to design a customized fixation plate for mandibular angle fracture using topological optimization based on the biomechanical properties of the two conventional fixation systems, and compare the results of stress, strain and displacement distributions calculated by finite element analysis (FEA). METHODS A three-dimensional (3D) virtual mandible was rec...

The shear dependent location of the isotropic-nematic spinodals in suspensions of bacteriophage fd is studied by means of time resolved birefringence experiments. The hysteresis in the birefringence on increasing and subsequently decreasing the shear-rate allows the determination of the location of points in the shear-rate vs concentration phase diagram between the isotropic-to-nematic and the ...

PURPOSE To investigate the influence of various technical factors on the variation of cone packing density estimates in adaptive optics flood illuminated retinal images. METHODS Adaptive optics images of the photoreceptor mosaic were obtained in fifteen healthy subjects. The cone density and Voronoi diagrams were assessed in sampling windows of 320×320 µm, 160×160 µm and 64×64 µm at 1.5 degre...

The photophysics of a donor-acceptor substituted chromophore, 9-amino-10-cyanoanthracene (ACAN), has been investigated in polar and nonpolar solvents to understand its intriguing dual absorption and emission behavior. Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence studies clearly indicate that the short wavelength emission band of ACAN arises from the higher excited singlet state, S2, while the lo...

This study presents a comprehensive periodic slab DFT investigation into structures, electronic properties and thermodynamic stability of all plausible terminations of CuBr and CuBr2 surfaces. We first estimate lattice constants, formation and cohesive energies for the two bulk copper bromides before proceeding to analyse geometrical and electronic features of CuBr and CuBr2 configurations. Sur...

In this study, active tendons with Proportional Integral Derivation type controllers were applied to a SDOF and a MDOF building model. Physical models of buildings were constituted with virtual springs, dampers and rigid masses. After that, equations of motion of all degrees of freedoms were obtained. Matlab Simulink was utilized to obtain the block diagrams for these equations of motion. Param...

An analysis of flow in rotary positive displacement machines has been carried out using a standard CFD package by separating out the motions of the fluid and the instantaneous volume in which it is contained. Examples are given of both twin screw and scroll compressors. Pressure-volume diagrams obtained from such analyses are compared with experimental results and good agreement shown. Longer t...

An enhanced unfolding Inverse Finite Element Method (IFEM) has been used together with an extended strain-based forming limit diagram (EFLD) to develop a fast and reliable approach to predict the feasibility of the deep drawing process of a part and determining where the failure or defects can occur. In the developed unfolding IFEM, the meshed part is properly fold out on the flat sheet and tre...

water quality in each area, indicates the impact of geology, climate and anthropogenic pollutants. monitoring of water quality in most cases result in complex data which shows the perfect act of water resources, so they need appropriate method for analyzing. in this study hydro-chemical evaluation of hiv basin which located in west of hashtgerd have been done. to measure the concentration of ma...