hoffa fracture is a rare injury consisting of unicondylar tangential posterior fracture of the distal femur and only very few cases have been reported in the literature. these fractures are due to high energy trauma and conservative treatment generally yields poor results, but rigid internal fixation allows early functional rehabilitation and decreases the incidence of complications. the purpos...

We use a two-dimensional plane strain dynamic rupture model with strongly rate-weakening friction and off-fault Drucker-Prager plasticity to model damage zones associated with buried second-order thrust faults observed in the SSC reservoir. The modeling of ruptures propagating as self-sustaining pulses is performed in the framework of continuum plasticity where the plasticity formulation includ...

Background: Hypercyphosis and vertebral deformity are related to vertebral fractures. There are no studies in chronic alcoholics. Objective: To analyse the relationship which exists between the Cobb angle and different degrees of vertebral deformity, and bone mass and various variables related to bone metabolism in chronic alcoholic patients. Material and methods: 57 alcoholic males aged 52 ± 1...

In this paper, ‎the multi-sensor fault diagnosis in the exhaust temperature sensors of a V94.2 heavy duty gas turbine is presented‎. ‎A Laguerre network-based fuzzy modeling approach is presented to predict the output temperature of the gas turbine for sensor fault diagnosis‎. Due to the nonlinear dynamics of the gas turbine, in these models the Laguerre filter parts are related to the linear d...

Abstract Geological structures such as faults and fractures have an important influence in the process of fluid movement below surface. The hydraulic behavior aquifers can be determined by proper characterization fractures, fault zones their connectivity. In this study, we concern on detection identification groundwater basin to verify whether area connect surface, occurring serve conduits or b...

P-wave anisotropy is significant in the mylonitic Alpine Fault shear zone. Mineral- and texture-induced are dominant these rocks but further complicated by presence of fractures. Electron back-scattered diffraction synchrotron X-ray microtomography (micro-CT) data acquired on exhumed schist, protomylonite, mylonite, ultramylonite samples to quantify mineral phases, crystal preferred orientation...

The Derbyshire Platform is a Mississippian aged flat-topped, steep sided platform that forms the westernmost expression of Derbyshire-East Midlands Platform. On south-east margin, 60 km2 Visean limestone has been dolomitised, forming two distinct bodies. One these bodies along major NW–SE trending basement fault and smaller, associated, N–S faults fractures. This study uses outcrop, petrographi...

an approach for assignment of the optimal location and tap changer adjustment related to flux-lock type superconducting fault current limiters with tap changer (tc-flsfcl) is used in this paper by debating the reduction of fault current flowing from each device and enhancement of reliability varying with customer type in a distribution network connected with distribution generation (dg). tc-fls...

AIM To describe the epidemiology of sport-related open fractures from one centre's adult patient population over a 15-year period. METHODS A retrospective review of a prospectively-collected database was performed: The database contained information all sport-related open fractures, sustained from 1995 to 2009 in the Edinburgh, Mid and East Lothian Populations. RESULTS Over the 15-year peri...