Mailing address: Gabriel Antonio Stanisci Miguel • Rua Santa Madalena, 290/131 01322-020 São Paulo, SP Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Manuscript received November 13, 2006; revised manuscript received February 16, 2007; accepted March 13, 2007. We treated a 37-year old male patient with diagnosis of poor left ventricle compaction. The two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated extensive...

3D printing is expected to revolutionize health care through uses in tissue and organ fabrication; creation of customized prosthetics, implants, and anatomical models; and pharmaceutical research regarding drug dosage forms, delivery, and discovery.

* Corresponding author; Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT An important task in mixed-mode fracture analysis and prediction is the simulation of crack growth under mixed-mode conditions. To complete such a task, one must have (a) a computer code capable of handling the kinematics of general crack growth and determining the stress and deformation states during crack growth, and (b) a fracture crit...

The effects of cryogenic temperature on the toughness of a Zr-based metallic glass are investigated. Based on three-dimensional fracture morphologies at different temperatures, the crack formation and propagation are analyzed. Through the calculation of the shear transformation zone volume, the shear modulus and bulk modulus of the metallic glass at different temperatures and the crack formatio...

A recently introduced method of crack representation as a distribution of three-dimensional Volterra dislocations is used in conjunction with two-dimensional dislocation dynamics simulations to study the brittle to ductile transition behavior of Ferritic Steels. The crack-tip plasticity zone is represented as an array of discrete dislocations emitted from crack-tip sources. The dislocations shi...

Multimaterial 3D printing using microfluidic printheads specifically designed for seamless switching between two visco-elastic materials "on-the-fly" during fabrication is demonstrated. This approach opens new avenues for the digital assembly of functional matter with controlled compositional and property gradients at the microscale.

3D printing is a relatively new, rapidly expanding method of manufacturing that found numerous applications in healthcare, automotive, aerospace and defense industries and in many other areas. In this review, applications in medicine that are revolutionizing the way surgeries are carried out, disrupting prosthesis and implant markets as well as dentistry will be presented. The relatively new fi...

New generation jet engines are subject to severe reduced fuel consumption requirements. This usually leads to thin components in which damage issues such as thermomechanical fatigue, creep and crack propagation can be quite important. The combination of stresses due to centrifugal loads and thermal stresses usually leads to mixed-mode loading. Consequently, a suitable crack propagation tool mus...

In the present study, plasticity induced crack closure (PICC) concept and three dimensional (3D) finite element methods (FEM) are used to study the effect of compressive residual stress field on the fatigue crack growth from a hole. To investigate the effect of compressive residual stress on crack opening levels and crack shape evolution, Carlson’s experiments were simulated. Crack shape evolut...