INTRODUCTION The mechanical characterization of soft biological tissues is essential to a number of medical applications, such as surgery planning, surgical training deploying virtual reality based simulators, or diagnosis. Quantitative data sets are available on the in-vivo mechanical properties of soft tissues in animal organs, but very limited data are available on the behavior of soft tissu...

Employing profits data of Japanese firms in 2003–2005, we kinematically exhibit the static log-normal distribution in the middle scale region. In the derivation, a Non-Gibrat’s law under the detailed balance is adopted together with following two approximations. Firstly, the probability density function of profits growth rate is described as a tent-shaped exponential function. Secondly, the val...

In this paper the Quasi-Static poro-thermoelasticity model of a hollow and solid sphere under radial symmetric loading condition (r, t) is considered. A full analytical method is used and an exact unique solution of the Quasi-Static equations is presented. The thermal, mechanical and pressure boundary conditions, the body force, the heat source and the injected volume rate per unit volume of a ...

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In this research, quasi-static penetration and ballistic properties of non-woven kenaf fibres/Kevlar epoxy hybrid laminates with thicknesses ranging from 3.1 mm to 10.8 mm by hard projectile at normal incidence have been experimentally investigated. Hybrid composites were fabricated by hand lay-up technique in a mould and cured at room temperature for 24 h by static load. Hybrid composites cons...