We studied the cellular response to physeal distraction in the growth plates of skeletally immature rabbits. We used a new method of labelling and detection of proliferating cells with bromodeoxyuridine (BUdR) and an anti-BUdR antibody. The application of an external fixator but no distraction force produced no changes in the growth plates. After five days of distraction at a maximum force of 2...

where u is the displacement and f 2 L( ) is the body force. Some of the simplest plate elements such as the Morley element (cf. [29]), the Zienkiewicz element (cf. [3]), the Fraeijs de Veubeke element (cf. [22]), the incomplete biquadratic element (cf. [34]) and the Adini element (cf. [1]) are nonconforming. Overlapping domain decomposition methods for nonconforming plate elements were studied ...

Many studies have shown that industrial products can exhibit a great variability in their vibratory and acoustical behaviour; but the influence of this physical variability on the perception of sound emitted by these products has not yet been investigated. The aim of this study was to evaluate that influence in the case of a computed system, including a force source linked to a plate through th...

As in gnathostomes, the hagfish feeding apparatus includes skeletal, dental and muscular components. In the present study, we examined feeding morphology and kinematics in two hagfish species, Eptatretus stoutii and Myxine glutinosa, representing the two major hagfish lineages. E. stoutii have larger dental plates, larger basal plates, and stronger clavatus muscles (the major dental plate retra...

this paper studied the mathematical method of flow with regard to two-phase boundary layer that created over the iced surface. based on experimental results, skin drag over the iced surface compared with this force that compute with slip condition. based on this results, for iced surface blasius equation solving at non-slip condition, can replace with solving the blasius equation with slip cond...

In this paper, an analytical approach for deriving the Green’s function of circular and annular plate was presented. Null-field integral equations were employed to solve the plate problems while kernel functions were expanded to degenerate kernels. The unknown boundary data of the displacement, slope, normal moment and effective shear force were expressed in terms of Fourier series. It was noti...

Spring constant calibration of the atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever is of fundamental importance for quantifying the force between the AFM cantilever tip and the sample. The calibration within the framework of thin plate theory undoubtedly has a higher accuracy and broader scope than that within the well-established beam theory. However, thin plate theory-based accurate analytic determi...

A description of self-stress produced by hydrogen absorption into thin metallic circular-plates with clamped edges is presented. The plate deflects when the average hydrogen content exceeds a critical value, which depends mainly on the size of the plate, if no external load is applied; the plate distortion exhibits bistable characteristics, i.e. the deflection direction may be either upward or ...