OBJECTIVE To assess quantitatively the number of early X-ray workers, their risk of becoming a radiation victim, and their most common radiation-induced (skin) disease. METHODS Information on professional life and occupational disease was retrieved from the Ehrenbuch, a book of honour containing biographies of 404 radiation victims, as well as member and congress lists of the German and US ra...

Recently, short fiber reinforced composites are widely utilized in many structural parts in automobile, infrastructure and electric equipment applications due to their high specific strength, high specific stiffness, long fatigue life and high impact resistance as well as cost effective capability of production. If these parts are exposed to low-velocity impact, significant damages may develop ...

Abstract This paper deals with the fatigue failure of composite coupon characterized by circular hole and subjected to tensile cyclic loading conditions. A limited sensitivity analysis has been performed study onset propagation intralaminar damages, in terms fibers matrix failure. The residual strength material properties degradation model, proposed Shokrieh Lessard, implemented FEM code ANSYS ...

This study evaluates the occurrence of Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts in reclaimed effluents if method 1623 with the Envirochek capsule filters (standard and high-volume [HV] filters) and a modified version of the Information Collection Rule method (ICR) with the polypropylene yarn-wound cartridge filter are used. The recovery efficiency of the analytical methods was evaluated with s...

Punitive damages are remedies for non-specific subjects like communities without specific rights suffering from illegal behaviors. Having the functions of compensation, punishment, and prevention, punitive necessary solution to inherent deficiencies in current remedy system China that both civil public can hardly cover losses communities. However, misunderstood theoretically practically China. ...