This study was designed to analyze how anterior tibial tunnel placement can result in graft impingement by the intercondylar roof. The relationship of the ACL to the intercondylar roof was studied using magnetic resonance scans. An attempt was made to predict the amount of bone that may need to be removed from the intercondylar roof to prevent impingement on a 10 mm thick ACL graft. Magnetic re...

A flat roof surface is known to be subjected to unusually high suction associated with a pair of vortices created under diagonally skewed wind. Prediction of the wind load and its influence on the roof system is an important engineering topic but wind tunnel testing of this situation is not easy with a scaled model. Considering the physics of wind flow for the most critical case, a possibility ...

Inside tunnels, the possibility of over-reach of radiated power from the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) service zone to the out-of-service zone is high, since the waves are confined in the tunnel space. To inspect this more carefully, wideband directional channel measurements were conducted inside an arched transportation tunnel, and the gain, angle-of-arrival and delay of each pro...

BACKGROUND Anatomic tunnel positioning is important in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructive surgery. Recent studies have suggested the limitations of a traditional transtibial technique to place the ACL graft within the anatomic tunnel position of the ACL on the femur. The purpose of this study is to determine if the 2-incision tibial tunnel-independent technique can place femoral tu...

Primary anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is considered a successful surgical procedure, but the results reported for revision ACL surgery are less satisfactory. The most common cause of technical failure in primary reconstruction is tunnel misplacement, particularly on the femoral side, although an anterior placement of the tibial tunnel may lead to graft impingement and failure....

Contact between an anterior cruciate ligament graft and the intercondylar roof has been termed roof impingement. Grafts with impingement sustain permanent damage, and if the injury is extensive enough, then the graft may fail, causing recurrent instability. This study evaluated two mechanical factors that could be responsible for the graft injury associated with roof impingement: an increase in...

Gable roof buildings are widely used in industrial buildings. Based on wind tunnel tests with rigid models, wind pressure distributions on gable roof buildings with different aspect ratios were measured simultaneously. Some characteristics of the measured wind pressure field on the surfaces of the models were analyzed, including mean wind pressure, fluctuating wind pressure, peak negative wind ...

To effectively deploy wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for monitoring and assessing the condition of tunnels, a Propagation Path Loss (PL) Model, which describes the power loss versus distance between the transmitter and the receiver for the tunnel environment is required. For most of the existing propagation measurements that have been conducted in tunnels, the antennas have been positioned alo...

To effectively deploy wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for monitoring and assessing the condition of tunnels, a Propagation Path Loss (PL) Model, which describes the power loss versus distance between the transmitter and the receiver in a specific environment, is required. For most of the existing propagation measurements conducted in tunnels, the antennas have been positioned along the central ...