Environmental Friendly Materials for Lightweight Structural Components

Determining the components of the structural characteristics assessment tool for the age-friendly hospitals

Objectives: Since hospitals are one of the most prolific and vital areas for the elderly, and the evaluation of the present situation is one of the first steps to create an appropriate environment, this study was aimed at determing effective factors in an assessing tool for evaluating the structural characteristics of age- friendly hospitals. Methods: In this methodological research, a list of ...

Design of Lightweight Structural Components for Direct Digital Manufacturing

The rapid growth in direct digital manufacturing technologies has opened the challenge of designing optimal micro-structures for high-performance components. Current topology optimization techniques do not work well for this type of problems and hence in this paper we propose a technique based on an implicit representation of the structural topology. The detailed microstructure is defined by a ...

Environmental friendly carrier material for nifedipine as hypertension drug

Nifedipine is a hypertension drug must be consumed three times a day due to its low oral bioavailability. One way of developing a controlled drug delivery system is making nifedipine microcapsules by using environmentally friendly polymers of polylactic acid and polycaprolactone via the evaporation method using oil-in-water solvents. Polylactic acid and polycaprolactone can be said to be enviro...

Identifying Structural Suitability Components of Elderly-friendly Mosques in Iran: A Qualitative Study

Objectives: One way to improve the social participation of the elderly is to pay attention to environmental adaptation, and ensure safety and independence of them in places they use. Due to the rapid growth of the aging population in Iran and considering the important role of mosques as one of the main religious-spiritual places for the elderly, conducting studies to determine the structural su...

14 Lightweight Plastic Materials