Stress fractures, a painful injury, are caused by excessive fatigue in bone. This study on damage accumulation in bone sought to determine if the Palmgren-Miner rule (PMR), a well-known linear damage accumulation hypothesis, is predictive of fatigue failure in bone. An electromagnetic shaker apparatus was constructed to conduct cyclic and variable amplitude tests on bovine bone specimens. Three...

A short-term flow, kind of softening of soil during cyclic loading, makes a perceivable impact on strain progression in saturated soil during cyclic loading. A short-term flow developed during cyclic mobility of soil can be seen from the stress-strain relationship observed during cyclic triaxial tests. After few cycles of loading soil starts to exhibit very low stiffness at the beginning of a l...

The microstrip patch is one of the most preferred antenna structures for low cost and compact design for wireless system and RF application. Dual-Band antennas are of a relative interest since they can support multiple communication systems. In this paper we present design of a novel compact small size microstrip antenna suitable for dual-band operations. By loading properly arranged slots on a...

BACKGROUND The epidemiology identifies cyclic lumbar loading as a risk factor for cumulative trauma disorder. Experimental biomechanical and physiological confirmation is lacking. The objective of this study was to asses the impact of different rest durations applied between periods of cyclic loading on the development of an acute lumbar disorder which, if continued to be subjected to loading, ...

statement of the problem : tooth restorations are exposed to stresses which produce marginal gaps resulting in microleakage. purpose in this study, microleakage of light-cured glass-ionomer and compomer class v restorations was evaluted and compared under cyclic loading materials and methods in this exprimental study, class v cavities were prepared on the buccal surfaces of maxillary premolars ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of cyclic loading and screw retightening on reverse torque value (RTV) in external and internal type implants. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cement-retained abutments were connected with 30 Ncm torque to external and internal type implants. Experimental groups were classified according to implant connection type and retightening/loading protoco...

This paper presents a numerical investigation on seismic performance of reinforced concrete (RC) cantilever columns under unidirectional and bidirectional excitations. The influence cross-sectional geometry multiple excitations have been examined in this study. An advanced nonlinear finite element model is employed to different failure modes RC excitation. simulates degradation materials cyclic...

Strain and damage distributions within a dogbone specimen containing rectangular notch were assessed in-situ via X-ray computed tomography coupled with digital volume correlation. The cut from continuous glass fiber mat reinforced polyester resin composite plate was subjected to cyclic tensile loading. strain–damage interplay evaluated by analyzing major eigen strain correlation residual fields...