Remediation methods and strength predictions were evaluated for wood I-joists with single, circular holes in the webs, leaving utilities in place. A full-scale bending test using four equally spaced point loads was applied to three depths of joists with varying flange widths and span lengths of 4.88 and 2.44 m. Failure modes for long-span joists without holes were in the flanges in tension, com...

Acetabular reconstruction cages are indicated for severe combined segmental and cavitary acetabular bone defects. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implications of screw placement and drill plunge and the potential insult to anatomical structures when implanting acetabular reconstruction cages. A segmental cavitary defect was reamed into the acetabulum and a cage was implanted in ea...

paper studies the modified sensitivity analysis applied into an elastic-plastic finite element analysis of a 3D blank design in sheet metal forming. Originally the sensitivity method has successfully been applied to several arbitrary shapes. In the present paper the sensitivity coefficients are not considered constant during the analysis. The presented approach computes the new coefficients fro...

In earlier work we developed inductive coupling for surface-mounted Lamb wave transducers operating at relatively low frequencies, such as 300 kHz. We now report on similar inductively-coupled transducers at higher (multiple MHz) frequencies. Our investigation was motivated by a particular application, to examine a box girder top flange, using transducers mounted along the flange edge. We emplo...

Presently, wrapping of the welds at the ends of stiffeners is not done to avoid the undercutting of the stiffener corners and the attendant weld repair. The fatigue performance of stiffeners with undercuts was evaluated in a factorial design fatigue experiment. Undercuts at the flange edge and filling of the stiffener cope with the fillet weld were also evaluated. The undercuts did not influenc...

difficulty in swallowing, problems with mastication and severe esthetic disfigurement. Improving esthetics and mastication are the reasonable objectives in these patients.2 The functional disabilities of mandible resections are primarily dependant on the amount resected, method of closure and amount of deviation of mandible. For successful prosthodontic rehabilitation of a segmental mandiblecto...

Splashplate feeds, e.g. [1], are increasingly used for high performance parabolic antennas. The feed is directly interfaced in the focus of the antenna by a straight circular waveguide through the antenna vertex which simultaneously acts as feed support. At the far side of the waveguide, the need of a circularto-rectangular waveguide transition is obvious to overcome proper interfacing with sta...

Steel beam cross sections are normally classified according to the effect of local buckling on the moment capacity of the section. This is achieved by defining slenderness limits for the flange and the web. This paper describes a series of bending tests on cold-formed RHS to examine these limits. The resulting experimental relationship between web slenderness and plastic rotation capacity is gi...

nonlinear hunting speeds of railway vehicles running on a tangent track are analytically obtained using hopf bifurcation theory in this paper. the railway vehicle model consists of nonlinear primary yaw dampers, nonlinear flange contact stiffness as well as the clearance between the wheel flange and rail tread. linear and nonlinear critical speeds are obtained using bogoliubov method. a compreh...