OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects on the mechanical properties of rats' calcaneus tendons, of repair arrangements using suture material in the absence of any healing process. METHOD Twelve male Wistar rats were used. They were subjected to placement of a modified Kessler suture stitch in the calcaneus tendon. The sacrifices were performed immediately after and six we...

Early investigators found contradictory evidence that vascular smooth muscle activation reduces the elastic modulus of the arterial wall under isotonic conditions but increases it under isometric conditions, concomitant with increased pulse-wave velocity. We examined the individual contributions of aortic constituents to the elastic modulus of the aortic wall to determine if isobaric analysis p...

The failure properties of rubbery networks exhibit a maximum as a function of cross-link density or modulus. To avoid excess creep, elastomers are usually formulated such that their state of cure falls past this maximum, which means there is an inevitable compromise between modulus and failure properties (stiffness and strength). This review describes various approaches to circumventing the pro...

The now canonical proof of Schwarz’s Lemma appeared in a 1907 paper of Carathéodory, who attributed it to Erhard Schmidt. Since then, Schwarz’s Lemma has acquired considerable fame, with multiple extensions and generalizations. Much less known is that, in the same year 1907, Landau and Toeplitz obtained a similar result where the diameter of the image set takes over the role of the maximum modu...

for a polynomial p(z) of degree n, having all zeros in |z|< k, k< 1, dewan et al [k. k. dewan, n. singh and a. mir, extension of some polynomial inequalities to the polar derivative, j. math. anal. appl. 352 (2009) 807-815] obtained inequality between the polar derivative of p(z) and maximum modulus of p(z). in this paper we improve and extend the above inequality. our result generalizes certai...

In this study concept of experimental design is successfully applied for the determination of optimum condition to produce PP/SWCNT (Polypropylene/Single wall carbon nanotube) nanocomposite. Central composite design as one of experimental design techniques is employed for the optimization and statistical determination of the significant factors influencing on the tensile modulus and yield stres...

Just a bit of water enables one to turn a pile of dry sand into a spectacular sandcastle. Too much water however will destabilize the material, as is seen in landslides. Here we investigated the stability of wet sand columns to account for the maximum height of sandcastles. We find that the columns become unstable to elastic buckling under their own weight. This allows to account for the maximu...

In this paper, an attempt was made to assess the effectiveness of finger jointing in utilising mango wood sections for various end uses like furniture. The study was based on the estimation of Modulus of elasticity and Modulus of rupture under static bending and Maximum Crushing Stress and Modulus of elasticity under compression parallel to grain of finger jointed sections and comparing them wi...

Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform (GDFT) with nonlinear phase is a complex valued, constant modulus orthogonal function set. GDFT can be effectively used discrete multi-tone (DMT), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and code division multiple access (CDMA) communication systems. The constant modulus transforms like discrete Fourier transform (DFT), Walsh transform, and Gold ...