Lower limbs are normally the first contacted body region during car-pedestrian accidents, and easily suffer serious injuries. The previous tibia bending tolerances for pedestrian safety were mainly developed from three-point bending tests on tibia mid-shaft. The tibia tolerances of other locations are still not investigated enough. In addition, tibia loading condition under the car-pedestrian i...

The modulus of elasticity (E) was determined in simple three- and four-point bending for an 0.0175" (3 X 0.008") stainless steel arch wire. Using variable light loads (10-160 g) to limit the elastic deflection of a wire to less than 5% of its beam length, the force-deflection profiles were determined for three nominal span lengths (L = 0.35", 0.75", and 1.00") in three-point bending and three n...

Three kinds of L-shaped latticed joint were designed to study the shear bearing capacity joints prepared by welding wooden dowels with self-tapping screws. The results showed that such composite in all specimens varying degrees bending and splitting on surface beech dowel after test. was moment at geometric center four dowels. force each generated from equal same direction. ultimate standard va...

This paper reports results of the test of HTS conductor manufactured by Intermagnetics General Corporation (IGC). The HTS version of the CESR dual bore quadrupole magnet has been analyzed using data obtained in this test. 1 HTS test The main purpose of the experiments described below was to obtain HTS characteristics needed for magnet design. The prime goal was to measure the HTS performance de...

PURPOSE To examine and compare in an ex vivo study different nitinol stent designs intended for the superficial femoral artery (SFA) with regard to the appearance of fracture. METHODS Seven different 8-×40-mm nitinol stents were evaluated (Misago, Absolute, Smart, Luminexx, Sentinol, Lifestent NT, and Sinus-Superflex). Finite element analysis (FEA) was used for digitalized stent design compar...

The flow behavior of a semiflexible polymer in microchannels is studied using multiparticle collision dynamics, a particle-based hydrodynamic simulation technique. Conformations, distributions, and radial cross-streamline migration are investigated for various bending rigidities, with persistence lengths L(p) in the range 0.5 ≤ L(p)/L(r) ≤ 30. The flow behavior is governed by the competition be...

In the first part (Lebée and Sab, 2010a) of this two-part paper we have presented a new plate theory for out-of-plane loaded thick plates where the static unknowns are those of the Kirchhoff-Love theory (3 inplane stresses and 3 bending moments), to which six components are added representing the gradient of the bending moment. The new theory, called Bending-Gradient plate theory is an extensio...

This paper reports results of the test of HTS conductor manufactured by Intermagnetics General Corporation (IGC). The HTS version of the CESR dual bore quadrupole magnet has been analyzed using data obtained in this test. 1 HTS test The main purpose of the experiments described below was to obtain HTS characteristics needed for magnet design. The prime goal was to measure the HTS performance de...