BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although discomfort during walking is a common complaint in individuals with knee osteoarthritis (OA), how an acute bout of walking affects femoral cartilage remains unclear. Current literature has suggested that frontal plane knee malalignment (ie, varus and valgus) is associated with the initiation and/or progression of knee OA. However, the association between knee ali...

An iterative algorithm is proposed to recover the 3D deformation of the heart wall from tagged magnetic resonance (MR) images. Tagged MR images provide limited information about the deformation due to the “throughplane problem”. The proposed method provides exact estimates of the parameters of the through-plane problem. The deformation is recovered by minimizing an objective function which pena...

MATCHED asymptotic expansions are used to examine the stress and pore pressure fields near the tip of a plane strain shear (mode II) crack propagating on an impermeable plane in a linear elastic diffusive solid. For propagation speeds V that are large compared with c/I, where c is the diffusivity and I is the cracklength, boundary layers are required at the crack-tip and on the line ahead of th...

We present an alternative 2-parametric deformation GL(2)h,h′ , and construct the differential calculus on the quantum plane on which this quantum group acts. Also we give a new deformation of the two dimensional Heisenberg algebra.

Young's classic analysis of the equilibrium of a three-phase contact line ignores the out-of-plane component of the liquid-vapor surface tension. While it is expected that this unresolved force is balanced by the elastic response of the solid, a definitive analysis has remained elusive because of an apparent divergence of stress at the contact line. While a number of theories have been presente...

A Trigonometric Shear Deformation Theory (TSDT) for the analysis of isotropic plate, taking into account transverse shear deformation effect as well as transverse normal strain effect, is presented. The theory presented herein is built upon the classical plate theory. In this displacement-based, trigonometric shear deformation theory, the in-plane displacement field uses sinusoidal function in ...

an important concern in rock mechanics is non-homogeneity as joints or fault. this noticeable feature of failures in rock is appearance of slip surfaces or shear bands, the characteristics of that are associated with deformation being concentrated in a narrow zones and the surrounding material remaining intact. adopting the joints as fractures, fractures are well known for their effects on the ...

5.1.1 Vibration Detection in the Presence of a Reference Wave 5.1.2 Vibration Detection without a Reference Field 5.2 Deformation Measurement by Speckle Interferometry 5.3 In-Plane Oscillations by Image Plane Recording 5.3.1 Theory 5.3.2 Time-Average Exposures of in-Plane Oscillations 5.3.3 Display of Young's Fringes 5.3.4 Comparison of Fringe Shapes for Different Motions 5.4 Tilt Analysis by F...