This study investigate the characterization of aluminum barrier laminate tubes produced using plastic materials and effect change in technical properties raw used production on stiffness tube material. Characterization measurements were taken by dynamic scattering calorimetric thermograms young modulus values obtained tensilemeter for stiffness. By comparing with reference from market, it is ai...

Quantitative assessment of the biomechanical properties of limb soft tissues has become more important during the last decade because of the introduction of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and finite element analysis to the prosthetic socket design. Because of the lack of a clinically easy-to-use apparatus, the site and posture dependences of the material proper...

BACKGROUND Excessive stiffness of lower limb muscles is associated with sports injuries. Therefore, the identification of a reliable measurement of the shear elastic modulus of various ankle plantar flexion muscles is required to evaluate lower leg sports injuries. This study investigated the reliable measurement of the shear elastic modulus of the ankle plantar flexion muscles at different ank...

The effect of modulus and film thickness on the release of adhered spores and sporelings (young plants) of the green fouling alga Ulva (syn. Enteromorpha) was investigated. PDMS elastomers of constant thickness (100 microm) but different elastic moduli were prepared by varying cross-link density with functional silicone oligomers with degrees of polymerization ranging from 18-830. This provided...

3 Anelasticity of solids 3 3.1 The complex Young modulus and the loss function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2 Simple models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.1 Perfect elastic solid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.2 Maxwell solid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

INTRAVASCULAR YOUNG′S MODULUS RECONSTRUCTION USING A PARAMETRIC FINITE ELEMENT MODEL R. A. BALDEWSING*1, C. W. J. OOMENS2, and A. F. W. VAN DER STEEN1,3, 1University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 3Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Corresponding e-mail: r.bald...

BACKGROUND Adults with obesity or type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are at higher risk for stroke and myocardial infarction. Increased carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) and stiffness are associated with these adverse outcomes. We compared carotid arteries in youth who were lean, were obese, or had T2DM. METHODS AND RESULTS Carotid ultrasound for cIMT measurement was performed, the Young ela...

698 September 2013 D espite the introduction of B-mode ultrasound into regional anesthesia, no evidence suggests any reduction in the incidence of unintentional intraneural injection.1 B-Mode ultrasound has several limitations: structures with similar scattering characteristics are difficult to differentiate; image quality is inconsistent among patients and deteriorates with age; and block need...