Purpose — In-stenting restenosis is one of the major complications after stenting. Clinical trials of various stent designs have reported different restenosis rates. However, quantitative correlation between stent features and restenosis statistics is scant. In this work, it is hypothesized that stress concentrations on arterial wall caused artery injury, which initiates restenosis. The goal is...

Values of the strain-rate tensor r epresented at a 20 m length sca le a re found to explain the pattern and orientation of crevasses in a 0.13 km 2 reach of Worthington Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A. The flow fi eld of the reach is constructed from surveyed displacements of 110 markers spaced 2030 m apart. A velocity gradient m ethod is then used to calcul ate values of the principal strain-rate axes ...

Many materials exhibit a highly nonlinear elastic behavior, such as textiles or finger flesh. An efficient way of enforcing the nonlinearity of these materials is through strain-limiting constraints, which is often the model of choice in computer graphics. Strain-limiting allows to model highly non-linear stiff materials by eliminating degrees of freedom from the computations and by enforcing a...

Monitoring of surface strain on mesosurfaces is a difficult task, often impeded by the lack of scalability of conventional sensing solutions. A solution is to deploy large networks of flexible strain gauges, a type of large area electronics. The authors have recently proposed a soft elastomeric capacitor (SEC) as an economical skin-type solution for large-scale deployment onto mesosurfaces. The...

K U n t s c h e r (1934) employed the strain-sensitive lacquer for the first time to investigate the mechanical characteristics of bones. This technique was then used by G u r d j i a n and Lissner (1945), Evans and Lissner (1948), Evans, Lissner and Pedersen (1948), Evans and Lissner (1955), Evans and G o f f (1957), and Endo (1961) in their biomechanical studies on the bone. The technique of ...

We determined inhomogeneity of strains around discontinuities as well as changes in orientation of collagen fibrils under applied load in skin. Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) images of collagen fibrils were obtained at different strain magnitudes. Changes in collagen orientation were analyzed using Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) while strain inhomogeneity was determined at different distances ...

We report the principal characteristics of 'Eisenbergiella massiliensis' sp. nov. strain AT11 (CSURP = P2120, DSM = 101499) that was isolated from a stool sample collected after bariatric surgery of a 56-year-old obese French woman.

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