the platform switching (pls) concept was introduced in the literature in 2005. the biological benefits and clinical effectiveness of the pls technique have been established by several studies. in this article different aspects of pls concept are discussed. crestal bone loss, biologic width, and stress distribution in this concept are comprehensively reviewed. in this article the relative publis...

In this study, mass, stiffness and damping matrices of the Nosrat jacket; located in Persian Gulf; equipped with Semi Active Tuned Mass Damper (SATMD) system have been derived after modeling the structure in SACS software. Owing to huge number of the degrees of freedom in the model, computation of on-line control of SATMD was time consuming. For this purpose, the size of the model was reduced i...

in recent decades, canola has been considered as the most important oilseed. harvesting is the most major problem of canola cultivation, since canola pods are very sensitive to shocks and vibrations. large amount of produce will fall on the ground especially when the combine's head is not adjusted properly. when canola harvested with a combine, the losses may reach up to 50%. the yields can be ...