the goal of this laboratory study is to investigate the effect of pore shapes on seismic wave velocities in carbonate rocks under reservoir conditions. in this research, 41 core plugs of carbonate rocks from oil fields of the southwest of iran were prepared. the compressional and shear wave velocities were measured in both dry and brine saturated samples under several pressures especially reser...

A novel modeling technique for porous tissue scaffolds with targeting the functionally gradient variational porosity with continuous material deposition planning has been proposed. To vary the porosity of the designed scaffold functionally, medial axis transformation is used. The medial axis of each layers of the scaffold is calculated and used as an internal feature. The medial axis is then us...

While glassy materials can be made from virtually every class of liquid (metallic, molecular, covalent, and ionic), to date, formation of glasses in which structural units impart porosity on the nanoscopic level remains undeveloped. In view of the well-established porosity of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and the flexibility of their design, we have sought to combine their formation principle...

Laboratory bench tests have shown that porosity reduction increases the fatigue life of bone cement specimens. Clinically, however, the effect porosity reduction is subject to debate. We hypothesized that the discrepancy between clinical and experimental findings is related to differences in the stress distribution, which is typically uniform in experimental test specimens, while stress concent...

Additive manufacturing by laser sintering is able to produce high resolution metal constructs for orthopedic and dental implants. In this study, we used a human trabecular bone template to design and manufacture Ti-6Al-4V constructs with varying porosity via laser sintering. Characterization of constructs revealed interconnected porosities ranging from 15-70% with compressive moduli of 2579-369...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Braided self-expandable stents and flow diverters of uniform construction may develop zones of heterogeneous porosity in vivo. Unwanted stenoses may also occur at the extremities of the device. We studied these phenomena in dedicated benchtop experiments. MATERIALS AND METHODS Five braided devices of decreasing porosity were studied. To simulate discrepancies in diamete...

[1] Model applicability to core-scale solute transport is evaluated using breakthrough data from column experiments conducted with conservative tracers tritium ðHÞ and sodium-22 ðNa Þ, and the retarding solute uranium-232 ðUÞ. The three models considered are single-porosity, double-porosity with single-rate mobile-immobile mass-exchange, and the multirate model, which is a deterministic model t...

In this paper we focus on the application of reinforcement learning to obstacle avoidance in dynamic Environments in wireless sensor networks. A distributed algorithm based on reinforcement learning is developed for sensor networks to guide mobile robot through the dynamic obstacles. The sensor network models the danger of the area under coverage as obstacles, and has the property of adoption o...

This short paper focuses on the application of concepts and methods of Spatial Cognition to building analysis. We investigate the close relationship between spatial knowledge and built environment by combining theoretical analysis with user comments and behavioral data. Based on an empirical study in a complex multi-level-building two main aspect of navigational space are considered: architectu...

Firstly, we define an order for differential forms. Secondly, we also define the supersolution and subsolution of the A-harmonic equation and the obstacle problems for differential forms which satisfy theA-harmonic equation, and we obtain the relations between the solutions toA-harmonic equation and the solution to the obstacle problem of the A-harmonic equation. Finally, as an application of t...