Despite numerous available treatment strategies, the management of complex proximal humeral fractures remains demanding. Impaired bone quality and considerable comorbidities pose special challenges in the growing aging population. Complications after operative treatment are frequent, in particular loss of reduction with varus malalignment and subsequent screw cutout. Locking plate fixation has ...

COTMAN, a crop monitoring program for cotton, uses the concept of 350 heat units after anthesis of the last effective flower population at NAWF=5 for termination of insecticide applications. Research and field observations have indicated that terminating insecticides at 350 heat units after physiological cutout (NAWF=5) results in a higher yield than when terminating earlier or later, although ...

The anisotropic advantageous properties of fiber reinforced composites may not be fully exploited unless the fibers are properly placed in their optimal spatial orientations. This paper investigates application of Cellular Automata (CA) for curvilinear fiber design of composite laminae for in-plane responses. CA use local rules to update both field and design variables in an iterative scheme ti...

Diorama artists produce a spectacular 3D effect in a confined space by generating depth illusions that are faithful to the ordering of the objects in a large real or imaginary scene. Indeed, cognitive scientists have discovered that depth perception is mostly affected by depth order and precedence among objects. Motivated by these findings, we employ ordinal cues to construct a model from a sin...

The current study deals with free vibration analysis of a sandwich beam in presence different cutouts. PVC foam and glass fiber were used for the core surface layers structures, respectively. First 6 frequencies structures determined cutout shapes to see effect on behavior structures. For this, beams but same area modeled. To cutouts-shape only shape cutouts was changed all other parameters kep...

The exploitation of yerba mate goes beyond economic issues, due to its insertion in a dynamic multidimensional territorial context. Therefore, the initial analysis construction occurs from relations object/subject study territory. plot inherent territory is marked by diversity subjects, elements and dynamics that compose territorialities, resulting complexity specific each clipping. This paper ...

This paper presents two methods to design cutouts that allow damage-free folding of the stiffest possible composite self-deployable thin shell structures complex shapes. The first method uses level-set functions define a general number cutouts. second spline representation contour single cutout and optimizes its shape. Material failure detection is implemented in solution. Both are applied depl...

Abstract This study carried out finite element dynamic analyses of carbon nanotubes/fiber/polymer composites (CNTFPC) with various geometries. In the first application, effects CNTs on nonlinear transient responses doubly curved shells for cutout sizes and curvatures are studied. The numerical results obtained in good agreement those reported by other investigators. For practical focus this is ...