objective: repair of an indirect restoration is usually preferred over its replacement. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of silane in different surface preparation techniques on the bond strength of direct to indirect composite resin.   methods: for this in vitro experimental study, 48 indirect composite cubes were fabricated, divided into 4 groups of 12 and subjected to the following pr...

withdrawal of oil and gas from reservoirs causes a decrease in pore pressure and an increase in effective stress which results to a reservoir compaction. reservoir compaction will result in surface subsidence through the elastic response of the subsurface. usually in order to determine the subsidence above a hydrocarbon field, the reservoir compaction must be first calculated and then the effec...

deep rolling is a kind of mechanical surface treatments that can improve surface quality, dimensional accuracy and mechanical properties of the parts. compressive residual stresses generated by the process reduce the tensile stresses during loading into the workpiece. the distribution of residual stress induced by deep rolling can be influenced by rolling parameters; such as overlap of the roll...

We utilize the recently developed surface Cauchy–Born model, which extends the standard Cauchy–Born theory to account for surface stresses due to undercoordinated surface atoms, to study the coupled influence of boundary conditions and surface stresses on the resonant properties of h100i gold nanowires with f100g surfaces. There are two major purposes to the present work. First, we quantify, fo...

Generally, fatigue failure in an element happens at the notch on a surface where the stress level rises because of the stress concentration effect. The present paper investigates the effect of a notch on the fatigue life of the HSLA100 (­high strength low alloy) steel which is widely applicable in the marine industry. Tensile test was conducted on specimens and mechanical properties were obtain...

In this work,The free nonlinear vibrations of nanotubes using the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory along with the von Kármán geometric nonlinearity in presence of surface effects has been investigated. Natural frequencies of a simply-supported nanotube in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions are obtained by using the free vibration modes of the corresponding linear problem. The numerical results d...

Some strains of the food borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes persist in food processing environments. The exact reason behind this phenomenon is not known, but strain differences in the ability to adhere to solid surfaces could offer an explanation. In the present work, initial adhesion of nine strains of L. monocytogenes was investigated under liquid flow at two levels of shear stress on six...