The unsteady and incompressible flow of non-Newtonian fluid through composite stenosis is investigated in the present study. The micropolar fluid is treated as a blood flow model. Mild stenosis and slip velocity are also taken into account. The governing equations are given in cylindrical coordinates system. Analytic solutions of velocity and volumetric flow flux are developed interms of modifi...

The influence of contraction stress in composite resins on both the shear bond strength to dentin (BS) and marginal adaptation in a standardized dentin cavity was investigated using three restorative resin systems. A teflon ring mold (TF) or copper ring with a roughened inner surface (CP) placed on human tooth dentin was filled with the composite resin, and a shearing test was then performed. A...

Cavitation in an aperture flow in a flat plate is studied using viscous potential flow. The maximum tension criterion for cavitation used here was proposed by Joseph [Phy. Rev. E, vol. 51, pp. 1649–1650, 1995; J. Fluid Mech., vol. 366, 367–378, 1998]: “Liquids at atmospheric pressure which cannot withstand tension will cavitate when and where tensile stresses due to motion exceed one atmosphere...

An integrated model for keratectasia risk assessment has received much attention over many years. The objective of this article is to propose a more complete, conceptual model by which high risk individuals can be screened, even with no topographic irregularity or corneal thinning. In this model, corneal ectasia results from the fatigue effect of cyclic shear stress and tensile stress, caused b...

Non-coaxial response refers to the deviation between directions of principal stress and plastic strain increment. In this paper, an extended hypoplastic model is proposed based on anisotropic critical state theory, describe non-coaxial sand subjected both monotonic loading rotation axis. A fabric tensor that characterizes internal structure introduced into a model, reflect effect anisotropy dil...

S. AHN, A. ISHII, D. SHIN, F. VINUELA, S. SINHA Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States OBJECTIVES Low and/or oscillatory shearing stress at a vessel wall is regarded as a risk factor of the evolution of atherosclerotic plaques . In vivo hemodynamic study concurrent with tem...

Concentrated cell suspensions exhibit different mechanical behavior depending on the mechanical stress or deformation they undergo. They have a mixed rheological nature: cells behave elastically or viscoelastically, they can adhere to each other whereas the carrying fluid is usually Newtonian. We report here on a new elasto-visco-plastic model which is able to describe the mechanical properties...

This paper describes a micro-optical three-axis tactile sensor capable of sensing not only normal force, but also shearing force. The normal force was detected from the integrated gray-scale values of bright pixels emitted from the contact area of conical feelers. The conical feelers were formed on a rubber sheet surface that maintains contact with an optical waveguide plate. The shearing force...