In brittle materials such as concrete and ceramics, fibre reinforcement has been widely accepted as an effective way of improving their strength and toughness. In addition, a notable pseudo strain-hardening phenomenon can contribute to a significantly enhanced ductility of the composite when an adequately designed fibre system is used. This condition was first proposed by Aveston et al. [1], an...

in order to study the correlation between morphophenological and quantitative traits with yield and to determine the most important traits for yield, 600 ecotypes of mung bean were evaluated in normal and limited irrigation conditions through augmented design. computation of correlation coefficients showed that in two conditions, number of pods per plant, harvest index and biological yield had ...

It has been observed in field and laboratory conditions that failure of intact hard rocks at highly confined compression can be accompanied by abnormal violence. Under both of these conditions the failure process is associated with shear rupture development. David Ortlepp, who acquired more than 40 years of experience in the study of shear rupture rockbursts in deep and ultra-deep South African...

Pressure-volume (PV) and stress-strain relationships (a-e) were utilized for evaluation of stiffness changes in the human left ventricle. A total of 45 patients were studied with data available from routine cardiac catheterization. They were divided into eight groups from which five were chosen for statistical comparison. These were the groups of normal, idiopathic hypertrophy without obstructi...

Assessment of left ventricular (LV) deformation is essential for clinical evaluation of LV function and cardiac images are frequently used to evaluate the LV motion and function. By combining the images with mathematical models more information may be extracted from the images. The work presented in this thesis has focused on using the finite element (FE) method to describe the LV and its defor...