! Guillaume Puel1 ! 1Laboratoire MSSMat (Ecole Centrale Paris/CNRS UMR8579), 
 Grande voie des vignes, 92290 Châtenay-Malabry, France ! When dealing with the numerical prediction of material fatigue, classical life estimation methods, such as those described in [1], can give poor results as far as one is interested with complex loading histories (such as a loading with a slow-evolving average) ...

A time advance strategy for cyclic loading will be presented, applied to the fatigue formulation first proposed by [1]. The coupling of both formulations provides a comprehensive approach to simulate high cycle fatigue problems accurately and with an important computational cost reduction. The capabilities of the proposed procedure are shown in a numerical example.

The in vitro effect of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) on cell loading, proliferation, and osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) is assessed on distinct resorbable and synthetic calcium *Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected] Figures 1–4 and 6 appear in color online: http://jba.sagepub.com JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS APPLICATIONS Volume...

A Hybrid Adsorption and Biological Treatment System (HABiTS) was investigated for efficient nitrification in on-site wastewater treatment. Variable septic tank effluent loading experiments were carried out in bench-scale columns, with and without zeolite addition. Enhanced NH4-N removal (80%) was observed in the HABiTS column that combined expanded clay and clinoptilolite compared with a contro...

Beams of neutral polar molecules in a low-field seeking quantum state can be slowed down using a Stark decelerator, and can subsequently be loaded and confined in electrostatic quadrupole traps. The efficiency of the trap loading process is determined by the ability to couple the decelerated packet of molecules into the trap without loss of molecules and without heating. We discuss the inherent...

Nowadays the question of improving overhead-line (OHL) operation efficiency is more than ever considered as a very critical issue. This is because power losses have recently acquired an extra cost due to the CO2 release penalty. It is well known that a good portion of the electricity required to operate a power grid is spent as OHL power losses. In this paper the key points of the maximum OHL t...

We describe the loading of laser-cooled rubidium atoms into a single-mode hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber. Inside the fiber, the atoms are confined by a far-detuned optical trap and probed by a weak resonant beam. We describe different loading methods and compare their trade-offs in terms of implementation complexity and atom-loading efficiency. The most efficient procedure results in loadin...