UNLABELLED As acidic monomers of self-etching adhesives are incorporated into dental adhesives at high concentrations, the adhesive becomes more hydrophilic. Water sorption by polymers causes plasticization and lowers mechanical properties. The purpose of this study was to compare the water sorption and modulus of elasticity (E) of five experimental neat resins (EX) of increasing hydrophilicity...

this paper studies thoroughly and deeply the results of about one hundred triaxial compression tests on thirty types of rockfill materials. the materials are categorized in accordance with their particles shape (angular / rounded) and gradation characteristics. the main tool of the study is the hyperbolic model developed by duncan and chang. the focus of the study is on the variations of deform...

Offshore wind turbine (OWT) foundations are subjected to a combination of cyclic and dynamic loading arising from wind, wave, rotor and blade shadowing. Under cyclic loading, most soils change their characteristics including stiffness, which may cause the system natural frequency to approach the loading frequency and lead to unplanned resonance and system damage or even collapse. To investigate...

Initial retention of the bacterium Escherichia coli on model poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) surfaces was studied as a function substrate bulk and surface mechanical stiffness values. Our reference PDMS system designed such that out parameters govern bacterial adhesion only systematically varied. This achieved by varying crosslinking density PDMS. Following crosslinking, we performed Soxhlet extr...

In the ambit of the mini course, to which I have been kindly invited to participate, I would like to develop some results concerning the Stokes and Navier-Stokes initial boundary value problems with nondecaying data. To better explain the aims, we split the case of the Stokes problem from the one of the Navier-Stokes. The Stokes initial boundary value problem with nondecaying data is essentiall...

PURPOSE There is a discussion in literature concerning mechanical properties and modelling of surgical meshes. An important feature of elastic modulus dependency on load history is taken into account in this paper, as implants are subjected to variable loading during human activity. The example of DynaMesh®-IPOM surgical implant is studied. METHODS The analysis is based on failure tension tes...

We find a bound for the modulus of continuity of the blow-up time for the semilinear parabolic problem ut = ∆u + |u|u, with respect to the initial data.

The aim of the work reported in this article was to investigate the effects of medium temperature and industrial by-products on the key hardened properties of high performance concrete. Four concrete mixes were prepared based on a water-to-binder ratio of 0.35. Two industrial by-products, silica fume and Class F fly ash, were used separately and together with normal portland cement to produce t...

During recent years, the fabrics made from different yarns have been used for industrial purposes such as composite materials. Given the importance of the shear properties of these fabrics, a mechanical model based on the Grosberg and Park's Model for hybrid plain-woven fabrics is proposed. In this model, using the Energy method, the initial load-shear angle behavior of hybrid fabrics is calcul...

The three-phase-lag model and Green–Naghdi theory without energy dissipation are employed to study the deformation of a two-temperature fiber-reinforced medium with an internal heat source that is moving with a constant speed under a hydrostatic initial stress and the gravity field.  The modulus of the elasticity is given as a linear function of the reference temperature. The exact expressions ...