Outdoor access is an important part of organic and free-range poultry production, yet limited information exists on the effect of various housing and production systems on growth performance and colonization of food-borne pathogens. Therefore, the primary purpose of the current study was to evaluate the influence of different housing systems, particularly fixed versus small, portable houses, wi...

We use the Airy stress function to derive exact solutions for plane strain deformations of a functionally graded (FG) hollow cylinder with the inner and the outer surfaces subjected to different boundary conditions, and the cylinder composed of an isotropic and incompressible linear elastic material. For the shear modulus given by either a power law or an exponential function of the radius r, w...

In recent years many experimental and numerical studies have been conducted on the fatigue behaviour of CNG storage pressure vessels. The main objective of these studies is to estimate the total fatigue life, which consists of two parts: i) Life till crack nucleation and ii) Crack growth life. Although fatigue evaluation methods for metal cylinders are widely covered in literature including the...

Femur fractures occur during broaching and impaction of the implant during hip arthroplasty. Prophylactic cerclage of the proximal femur with braided cable and steel wire has been shown to decrease hoop stresses and has been posited as a way to decrease the incidence of intraoperative fracture. In this biomechanical study, the authors investigated the strain across the proximal femur during bro...

The vibrational structure of the chromophore in the primary photoproduct of vision, bathorhodopsin, is examined to determine the cause of the anomalously decoupled and intense C(11)=C(12) hydrogen-out-of-plane (HOOP) wagging modes and their relation to energy storage in the primary photoproduct. Low-temperature (77 K) resonance Raman spectra of Glu181 and Ser186 mutants of bovine rhodopsin reve...

A constructional scheme for making pressure cabins inraune from catastrophic failure without undue weight penalty It seems desirable to m&e some reference here to a construc-tional scheme put forward by the writer in a sequel to the present report". This scheme has its origin in paragraph 6 of Appendix D of the present report, where It is shown (see Fig.ZD) that when the former rings are reduce...

BACKGROUND Stent longitudinal distortion, while infrequent, can lead to adverse clinical events. Our first bench comparison of susceptibility of different stent designs to distortion applied force to the entire circumference of the proximal stent hoop. The test increased understanding of stent design and led to recommendations for design change in some. Our second-generation test more closely m...

Abstract. Experiments were performed to observe the fracture behavior of thinwall and initially-flawed aluminum tubes to internal gaseous detonation loading. The load can be characterized as a propagating pressure jump with speed of 2.4 km/s and magnitude ranging from 2 to 6 MPa, followed by an expansion wave. Flaws were machined as external axial surface notches. Cracks ran both in the upstrea...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine how the architecture of the lamina cribrosa (LC) microstructure, including the shape and size of the lamina pores, influences the IOP-induced deformation of the neural tissues within the LC pores using computational modeling. Methods We built seven specimen-specific finite element models of LC microstructure with distinct nonlinear anisotropi...