The theory of superimposed incremental elastic deformations is applied to a deformed configuration residually-stressed circular cylindrical tube. tube subject internal or external pressure and an axial load that maintain its shape, then bifurcations from this shape are analysed. Detailed governing equations boundary conditions provided for axisymmetric, prismatic asymmetric general form strain–...

A unified analysis is presented for the elastic response of a pressurized cylindrically anisotropic hollow disk under assumed conditions of plane stress, or a hollow cylinder under plane strain conditions, and a spherically anisotropic hollow sphere, made of material which is nonuniform in the radial direction according to the power law relationship. The solution for a cylinder under generalize...

Calibration of Noninvasively Recorded Upper-Limb Pressure Waves To the Editor: The article by Verbeke et al1 raises an important question: how does one calibrate the radial artery waveform obtained by applanation tonometry? Does one apply systolic and diastolic brachial values from the Korotkov technique, the “gold standard”, or does one use an oscillometric wrist technique, despite lack of con...

this paper deals with leader-following and leaderless consensus problems of high-order multi-input/multi-output (mimo) multi-agent systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics in the presence of uncertain external disturbances. the agents may have different dynamics and communicate together under a directed graph. a distributed adaptive method is designed for both cases. the structures of the contro...

This paper is concerned with the consensus tracking problem of high order MIMO nonlinear multi-agent systems. The agents must follow a leader node in presence of unknown dynamics and uncertain external disturbances. The communication network topology of agents is assumed to be a fixed undirected graph. A distributed adaptive control method is proposed to solve the consensus problem utilizing re...

The main objective of this paper is to employ basic modal testing principles in order to assess the dynamic behavior of fluid filled catheter in invasive pressure measurements. This type of dynamic measurement is particularly suitable in biomedical engineering applications, where accurate blood pressure readings are required in order to assess the patient real condition. The measurement procedu...

The aim of this study was to characterize the mechanical and self-expansion properties of braided bioabsorbable stents. In total four different stents were manufactured from PLLA fibres using a braiding technique. The changes in radial pressure stiffness and diameter recovery of the stents were determined initially, and after insertion and release from a delivery device. The braided stents were...

Time-dependent creep analysis is presented for the calculation of stresses and displacements of axisymmetric thick-walled cylindrical pressure vessels made of functionally graded material (FGM). For the purpose of time-dependent stress analysis in an FGM pressure vessel, material creep behavior and the solutions of the stresses at a time equal to zero (i.e. the initial stress state) are needed....

This is a prospective study of a series of 26 patients with closed unstable comminuted intra-articular fracture distal end of the radius treated with two different methods of treatment to compare their anatomical and functional results. The external fixation group consisted of 12 patients and internal fixation group consisted of 14 patients. The anatomical and functional assessments were perfor...

This research was undertaken to develop a cardiovascular simulator for use in the study of pulse diagnosis. The physical (i.e., pulse wave transmission and reflection) and physiological (i.e., systolic and diastolic pressure, pulse pressure, and mean pressure) characteristics of the radial pulse wave were reproduced by our simulator. The simulator consisted of an arterial component and a pulse-...