lateral and anterior displacements of mandible may cause malocclusion. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of these displacements in a population of 597 childrens age 12 in mashhad secondary schools. displacment of mandible was shown to be in 11.8 percent of the population (6.2 percent anterior and 5.6 percent lateral displacement).anterior displacement of mandible was diagnos...

This paper discusses static stability of a planar object grasped by multifingers with three joints. Each individual joint (prismatic joint or revolute joint) is modeled as a linear spring stiffness. The object mass and the link masses are also included. We consider not only pure rolling contact but also frictionless sliding contact. The grasp stability is investigated using the potential energy...

let (m,g ) be a compact immersed hypersurface of (rn+1,) , λ1 the first nonzeroeigenvalue, α the mean curvature, ρ the support function, a the shape operator, vol (m ) the volume of m,and s the scalar curvature of m. in this paper, we established some eigenvalue inequalities and proved theabove.1) 1 2 2 2 2m ma dv dvn∫ ρ ≥ ∫ α ρ ,2)( )2 2 1 2m 1 mdv s dvn nα ρ ≥ ρ∫ − ∫ ,3) if the scalar curvatu...

Recently, we have used the symmetric bracket of vector fields, and developed the notion of the symmetric derivation. Using this machinery, we have defined the concept of symmetric curvature. This concept is natural and is related to the notions divergence and Laplacian of vector fields. This concept is also related to the derivations on the algebra of symmetric forms which has been discu...

A finite element analysis (FEA) model was developed for Euler and Timoshenko curved beam elements by incorporating trigonometric displacement distribution patterns. Local polar coordinate stiffness matrices were derived based on force-displacement relations static equilibrium conditions. By employing the kinetic energy theorem triangular functions, an expression consistent mass matrix of a obta...

The deep mounting of CFRP strips to masonry using a flexible adhesive was developed as minimally-invasive and cost-effective out-of-plane seismic retrofitting technique for unreinforced (URM) buildings. Previous experiments on one-way spanning full-scale walls confirmed the significant added value lateral resistance displacement capacity Flexible Deep Mounted (FDM) retrofitted with respect maso...

This paper analyzes the adequacy of shell models for predicting stresses and strains in thick-walled tubes subjected to detonation loads. Of particular interest are the large axial strains which are produced at the inner and outer surfaces of the tube due to bending along the tube axis. First, comparisons between simple shell theory and a static finite element model are used to show that the ax...