We evaluated the inducibility of nitrate-dependent Fe(II)-EDTA oxidation (NDFO) in non-growth, chloramphenicol-amended, resting-cell suspensions of Dechloromonas sp. strain UWNR4 and Acidovorax sp. strain 2AN. Cells previously incubated with Fe(II)-EDTA oxidized ca. 6-fold more Fe(II)-EDTA than cells previously incubated with Fe(III)-EDTA. This is the first report of induction of NDFO by Fe(II).

A three-dimensional finite-element (FE) model of a human dry skull was devised for simulation of human bone-conduction (BC) hearing. Although a dry skull is a simplification of the real complex human skull, such model is valuable for understanding basic BC hearing processes. For validation of the model, the mechanical point impedance of the skull as well as the acceleration of the ipsilateral a...

The viscoelastic properties of cells are important in predicting cell deformation under mechanical loading and may reflect cell phenotype or pathological transition. Previous studies have demonstrated that viscoelastic parameters estimated by finite element (FE) analyses of micropipette aspiration (MA) data differ from those estimated by the analytical half-space model. However, it is unclear w...

The interest in automatic volume meshing for finite element analysis (FEA) has grown more since the appearance of microfocus CT (μCT), due to its high resolution, which allows for the assessment of mechanical behavior at a high precision. Nevertheless, the basic meshing approach of generating one hexahedron per voxel produces jagged edges. To prevent this effect, smoothing algorithms have been ...

X-ray absorption fine structure(XAFS) is used to investigate the local structural change of Fe60Cu40 and FegoCu20 with the ball milling time. The XAFS results verify that the solid solution of mechanically alloyed Fe-Cu samples are inhomogeneous. We propose that the bcc to fcc structural transformation of Fe small particles of Fe60Cuq0(160h) is induced by interfacial Cu atoms dissolving in smal...

Aims High resolution computed tomography (CT) image based finite element (FE) models have been widely applied to assess the mechanical properties of human trabecular bone. However, the prohibitive computational cost of voxel-based FE models limits its clinical applications, especially in whole bone strength prediction by nonlinear FE analysis. There is a strong need for an alternative modeling ...

During the last decades, the part of polymeric materials considerably increased in automotive and packaging applications. However, their mechanical behaviour is difficult to predict due to a strong sensitivity to the strain rate and the temperature. Numerous theories and models were developed in order to understand and model their complex mechanical behaviour. The one proposed by Richeton et al...

The microstructure and mechanical properties of Zr48Cu48 - x Al4M x (M ≡ Fe or Co, x = 0, 0.5, 1 at.%) metallic glass (MG) composites are highly dependent on the amount of Fe or Co added as microalloying elements in the parent Zr48Cu48Al4 material. Addition of Fe and Co promotes the transformation from austenite to martensite during the course of nanoindentation or compression experiments, resu...

Nanostructured plasmonic metamaterials, including optical nanoantenna arrays, are important for advanced optical sensing and imaging applications including surface-enhanced fluorescence, chemiluminescence, and Raman scattering. Although designs typically use ideally smooth geometries, realistic nanoantennas have nonzero roughness, which typically results in a modified enhancement factor that sh...

Although friction stir welding (FSW) has made its way to industrial application particularly in the last years, the FSW process, its influences and their strong interactions among themselves are still not thoroughly understood. This lack of understanding mainly arises from the adverse observability of the actual process with phenomena like material flow and deposition, large material deformatio...