tooth/implant supported fixed prostheses may present biomechanical design problems, as the implant is rigidly anchored within the alveolus, whereas the tooth is attached by the periodontal ligament to the bone allowing movement. many clinicians prefer tooth/implant supported fixed prosthesis designs with rigid connectors. however, there are some doubts about the effect of attachment placement i...

This work is concerned with formulating and validating a Lagrangian-Lagrangian (LL) approach for the simulation of fully resolved Fluid Solid/Structure Interaction (FSI) problems. In the proposed approach, the method of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is used to simulate the fluid dynamics in a Lagrangian framework. The solid phase is a general multibody dynamics system composed of a coll...

There has been a plethora of studies on domain wall dynamics in magnetic nanostrips, mainly because its versatile non-linear physics and potential applications data storage devices. However, most the focus out-of-plane walls or in-plane head-to-head (tail-to-tail) walls. Here, we numerically study field-driven side-by-side ferromagnetic strips, which can be stable presence an easy-axis anisotro...

Abstract In this paper we introduce the open-source code MercuryDPM : a for simulating discrete particles. The discusses software and management issues that may be interesting developers of other codes. Then review new features have been added since last publication: an improved Hertz-Mindlin model; liquid bridge model Lian Seville; droplet-spray better support re-creating complex, measured par...

UNLABELLED Coccidia are protozoan parasites that cause significant human disease and are of major agricultural importance. Cryptosporidium spp. cause diarrhea in humans and animals, while Toxoplasma causes disseminated infections in fetuses and untreated AIDS patients. Eimeria is a major pathogen of commercial chickens. Oocysts, which are the infectious form of Cryptosporidium and Eimeria and o...

The mitigation of seismic-induced dynamic earth forces by placing a vertical layer of expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam buffer between a rigid retaining wall and the backfill soil is a recent geotechnical innovation. In this paper, the influence of an EPS geofoam buffer on the reduction of dynamic wall forces is numerically studied by simulating the results of three reduced-scale models of rig...

considering recent developments in earthquake engineering, researchers has detected different effects of earthquakes far and near from the fault. investigations that have been done in this area show that near fault earthquakes have shorter time period comparing far fault earthquakes and in the velocity of near fault earthquakes, there are one or more impacting pulses with a big domain and perio...

This Demo presents a framework for the live synchronization of an RDF view defined on top of relational database. In the proposed framework, rules are responsible for computing and publishing the changeset required for the RDB-RDF view to stay synchronized with the relational database. The computed changesets are then used for the incremental maintenance of the RDB_RDF views as well as applicat...

The outermost layer of skin comprises rigid nonviable cells (corneocytes) in a layered lipid matrix. Using atomistic simulations we find that the equilibrium phase of the skin lipids is inverse micellar. A model of the corneocyte is used to demonstrate that lamellar layering is induced by the patterned corneocyte wall. The inverse micellar phase is consistent with in vivo observations in region...

Membranes are essential to cellular organisms. They are like fortresses in that they provide a barrier between the inside and outside with guarded drawbridges in the form of proteins that regulate the influx and efflux of material. Unlike the rigid walls of a fortress, membranes are fluid and are able to bend and move. The bricks forming a membrane, called lipids, freely move. Plasma membranes ...