This paper presents an overview of fatigue testing systems in high-cycle regime for metals subjected to uniaxial and multiaxial random loadings. The different are critically discussed, highlighting advantages possible limitations. By identifying relevant features, the classified terms type machine (servo-hydraulic or shaker tables), specimen geometry applied constraints, number load acceleratio...

R. Winkler,* A. Gade, T. Baugher, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, T. Glasmacher, G. F. Grinyer, R. Meharchand,* S. McDaniel, A. Ratkiewicz, and D. Weisshaar National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA (Received 27 February 2012; published 30 Ap...

The distribution of p+ Gamow-Teller strength in 26Mg, 54Fe and 56Ni is calculated in the QRPA and large-basis shell-model spaces. The quenching relative to the simplest jj coupled model found in the QRPA is similar to that found in a shell-model basis which includes 2p2h ground-state correlations within the major shell (sd or pf). For 26Mg there is significant additional quenching found in the ...

Microwave tomographic imaging technology using a bifocusing operator has been developed in order to detect the internal voids/objects inside concrete structures. The imaging system consists of several cylindrical or planar array antennas for transmitting and receiving signals, and a numerical focusing operator is applied to the external signals both in transmitting and in receiving fields. An i...

The results of NDE and material characterization with mode conversion of air-coupled ultrasound into plate and surface waves in solids are reported. Singleand both-sided configurations of efficient slanted wave conversion are developed and tested for various materials. An alternative option is based on the excitation of cylindrical plate and surface waves by a focused air-coupled beam incident ...

The effect of short fiber reinforcements on the mechanical properties of cement has been examined using a splitting tensile - digital image correlation (DIC) measurement method. Three short fiber reinforcement materials have been used in this study: fiberglass, nylon, and polypropylene. The method outlined provides a simple experimental setup that can be used to evaluate the ultimate tensile st...

Limnodrilus simplex sp. nov. (Oligochaeta: Naididae: Tubificinae) is described based on a single specimen from the mainstream of the Changjiang River near Anqing City, Anhui Province, China. The new species is assigned to Limnodrilus by the presence of long vasa deferentia, spindle-shaped atria with long ejaculatory ducts, large prostate glands, and thick cylindrical penial sheaths. It differs ...

CASE REPORTS CASE 1.-A youth, aged 172 years, was admitted to the Regional Sanatorium, Merlin Park, in November, 1954, with a history of cough with haemoptysis for two months. Radiography showed a collapsed middle lobe. On bronchoscopy a cherryred tumour was seen almost blocking the main bronchus at the level of the middle lobe. On November 25, 1954, the right middle and lower lobes were resect...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to derive the theoretical formulae to predict the pullout strength of pedicle screws with an inconstant outer and/or inner diameter distribution (conical screws). For the transpedicular fixation, one of the failure modes is the screw loosening from the vertebral bone. Hence, various kinds of pedicle screws have been evaluated to measure the pullout strength us...