Health impact assessment (HIA) on a strategic level focuses on the broad determinants of health. However, the evidence with regard to the health impacts is often necessarily 'soft'. The example of a health impact review on national housing policy in the Netherlands shows that HIA can be effective even in the absence of hard data. Strategies used to overcome the problem of not having hard data a...

in this research the quality of walnut kernels under impact loading were studied. due to unavailability of specific varieties of walnut in iran, the tests were carried out on the available genotypes. three different genotypes from walnut orchards of azarshar region were selected and were collected in 2009. a drop test device was designed and constructed to perform the experiments. the impact te...

Titanium carbides attract attention from both academic and industry fields because of their intriguing mechanical properties proven potential as appealing candidates in the variety such nanomechanics, nanoelectronics, energy storage oil/water separation devices. A recent study revealed that presence Ti8C5 not only improves impact strength composites coatings, but also possesses significant stre...

New computational models of closed-cell cellular structures that account for the effects of gas inside the pores are described in this paper. The behaviour of cellular models under uniaxial impact loading and large deformations has been analyzed with the LS-DYNA code. Parametric computational simulations illustrate the effect of pore gas on macroscopic behaviour during deformation regarding the...