Cartilage metabolism in response to mechanical loading is an important subject in sports science and medicine. In animal studies high-impact exercise is known to stimulate bone adaptation and increase bone mass. However, mechanical impacts potentially induce tissue swelling and occasionally degradation of connective tissues in synovium and articular cartilage. These detrimental outcomes should ...

The behavior of steel plate walls (SPWs) under various impulsive loadings and the effects of different mesh sizes are investigated in this paper. With the aim of accurately inspecting SPWs, a series of analyses with 250 models with different plate geometric assumptions and different blast impulsive loadings are performed to study the SPWs’ out-of-plane behavior. The mild steel material specific...

This research bridges the gap between quasi-static and high-strain-rate loading regimes in cross-laminated timber (CLT) by investigating two areas that have remained unstudied or elusive, i.e., rolling shear failure of CLT under impulsive, blast-like intermediate strain rates CLT. To study conditions would promote modes failure, a novel, highly adaptable center-point testing system methodology ...

Evidence from both human and animal studies suggests that sensitivity to rewarding stimuli is positively associated with impulsive behaviors, including both impulsive decision making and inhibitory control. The current study examined associations between the hedonic value of a sweet taste and two forms of impulsivity (impulsive choice and impulsive action) in healthy young adults (N = 100). Par...

Abstract Baker built the displacement equations of motion for a thin spherical shell to spherically symmetric internal blast loading, and further provided analytical solution elastic-plastic response under triangular decaying pressure, neglecting thinning radius variation [1], which was widely used in fields analysis design explosion containment vessels. However, it appears that some improvemen...

Concrete is brittle; hence, it incredibly likely that concrete buildings may fail in both local and global ways under dynamic impulsive stresses. An extensive review investigation was carried out to examine reinforced (RC) slab behavior low-velocity impact loading. Significant past research studies dealt with experimental numerical simulations analytical modeling of the RC slabs loading have be...

Impulsive and convective frequencies are one of the most important subjects for evaluation of the seismic behavior of tanks. These two frequencies are defined by Housner and used for obtaining Rayleigh damping in time history analysis. ACI 350 and NZSEE standards have suggested some analytical solutions for finding convective and impulsive frequencies. These frequencies can also extract from mo...