Measuring icing load and icing rate are important parameters for an atmospheric icing sensor. A new icing sensor has recently been designed and developed at Narvik University College for measuring atmospheric icing rate, icing load and icing type. Unlike the existing atmospheric icing sensors commercially available in market, which uses the axial loading for measuring icing load and icing rate,...

In this paper, thermo-elastic analysis of a rotating thick truncated conical shell subjected to the temperature gradient, internal pressure and external pressure is presented. Given the existence of shear stress in the conical shell due to thickness change along the axial direction, the governing equations are obtained based on first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). These equations are so...

Title: With axial loading during MRI diurnal T2-value changes in lumbar discs are neglectable: a cross sectional study Authors: Leif Torén ([email protected]) Hanna Hebelka ([email protected]) Izabela Kasperska ([email protected]) Helena Brisby ([email protected]) Kerstin Lagerstrand ([email protected]) Version: 2 Date: 21 Dec 2017 Author’s respons...

OBJECTIVE Considering past studies on the orthotropic anisotropy of arteries in the circumferential and axial directions, this work aims to experimentally study the anisotropic behaviour of arteries by tensioning multi-directional strips of porcine thoracic aorta. METHODS Histology is first analyzed by staining arterial sections of three orthotropic (axial, circumferential, and radial) planes...

Constitutive law for shape-memory alloys subjected to multi-axial loading, which is based on a semi-micromechanical integrated multi-plane model capable of internal mechanism observations, is generally not available in the literature. The presented numerical results show significant variations in the mechanical response along the multi loading axes. These are attributed to changes in the marten...

born on the 15 of October, 1986 in Amsterdam. After graduating high school (Bilingual VWO, Berlage Lyceum, Amsterdam, cum laude) in 2005, he studied medicine at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. During his studies in 2008, he became involved in spine research through a one-year research internship within the PhD project of dr. R.J. Kroeze, “Adipose stem cells on a biodegradable polymer for s...

Finite element analysis of a tubular T-joint subjected to various loading conditions including pure axial loading, pure in-plane bending (IPB) and different ratios of axial loading to in-plane bending loading has been carried out. This effort has been established to estimate magnitudes of the peak hot spot stresses (HSS) at the brace/chord intersection and to find the corresponding locations as...

This paper reviews the design and validation of a novel bearing test rig developed at the KU Leuven. The test rig allows multi-axial static and dynamic loading of a rolling element bearing. Different types and sizes of bearings can be mounted and loaded as if built into a real machine. The test rig will be used to analyse the effect of external dynamic loads on the lifetime of these bearings. T...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of implant tilting and the loading direction on the displacement and micromotion (relative displacement between the implant and bone) of immediately loaded implants by in vitro experiments and finite element analysis (FEA). METHODS Six artificial bone blocks were prepared. Six screw-type implants with a length of 10 mm and diame...