OBJECTIVE To determine which patient characteristics, postoperative characteristics, and walking features influence patients' partial weight-bearing performance after total hip arthroplasty. DESIGN A descriptive prospective study. PATIENTS Fifty patients with total hip arthroplasty were included; partial weight-bearing was performed at a 10% body weight target load (n=33) and at a 50% body ...

A finite element program based on elastic –plastic model of Mohr-Coulomb criterion was used to evaluate the bearing capacity coefficients of soil under shallow strip flexible footing . The results were compared with others’ analytical results and it was found that the present study could offer quite consistent and rather precise values for the bearing capacity coefficients . The effect of d...

A concept of new test stand for investigating fatigue strength of plain bearing surface layer has been presented in the paper. The machine with rotating load vector was designed, built and experimentally verified in tribological laboratory of the Technical University of Gdańsk. The machine of such a principle of slide bearing surface layer load generation is, according to ISO 7905 standard, a b...

To improve the seismic behavior of shear walls, a new composite wall composed steel-fiber-reinforced high-strength concrete (SFRHC) web and two square concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) columns, namely with CFST is proposed in this paper. Therefore, main purpose paper to present an experimental investigation SFRHC columns. Pseudo-static tests were carried out on seven performance walls was studi...

Articular cartilage, the load-bearing tissue of the joint, has limited repair and regeneration ability. The scarcity of treatment modalities for large chondral defects has motivated researchers to engineer cartilage tissue constructs that can meet the functional demands of this tissue in vivo. Cartilage tissue engineering requires 3 components: cells, scaffold, and environment. ...

This paper proposes mathematical modeling and analysis of ferrofluid lubricated newly designed slider bearing having convex pad (surface or plate) stator with two porous layers attached to the slider. The problem considers the effect of slip velocity proposed by Sparrow et. al.[1] and modified by Shah et. al.[2] at the film-porous interface. The squeeze velocity V=−which appears when the upper ...

despite the rapid growth of engineering science especially in the modern structural engineering and application of new materials in civil engineering, a significant percentage of world population in different countries are living in adobe buildings made from mud-bricks. in this paper, by performing experimental study on scaled mud-brick walls under monotonic load, in-plane behavior of the walls...

Hydroxyl radicals (OH) are capable of unspecifically cleaving cell-wall polysaccharides in a site-specific reaction. I investigated the hypothesis that cell-wall loosening underlying the elongation growth of plant organs is controlled by apoplastically produced OH attacking load-bearing cell-wall matrix polymers. Isolated cell walls (operationally, frozen/thawed, abraded segments from coleoptil...

in this study, a bearing capacity device is designed and fabricated to determine the load-settlement behavior of three circular footing models resting above the ground water table. capillary rise in the studied well graded sand is measured and the level of the water table is controlled at the desired heights during each bearing capacity test. moreover, shear strength parameters and soil water r...