the hot compression tests were carried on x45crniw189 valve steel (x45) in the temperature rangeof 1000– 1200 °c and the strain rate range of 0.004 – 0.5 s-1 in order to study the high temperaturesoftening behavior of this steel. for the exact prediction of flow stress, the effective stress-effectivestrain curves were obtained from experiments under various conditions. on the basis of experimen...

compressibility characteristics of fine-grained soils are often the most important parameters for settlement evaluation of the founded layers. the compression index which is the slope of virgin curve is usually for determination of settlement potential of fine grained soils. in this research, the effects of different physical and index properties of soil samples were investigated on compression...

paulownia is one of the fast-growing species that was attended to supply industrial requirement in recent years. the application of this species is limited because of low density, so wood modification via compression and densification is an effective method. for this purpose, the paulownia boles were prepared from shastkalateh forest and cut into blocks with 60×20×20 mm dimension. the variable ...

Arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) under compression are known to exhibit a dissipative hysteretic response similar to classical foams. Here, we control the microstructure of the arrays during synthesis using a variable supply of carbon source and catalyst. We control CNT alignment and density along the array height, creating bands of highand low-density regions. We study the dynamic res...

Within recent years the use of medical images for diagnosis purposes has become necessity. The limitation in transmission and storage space also growing size of medical images has necessitated the need for efficient method, then image Compression is required as an efficient way to reduces irrelevant and redundancy of the image data in order to be able to store or transmits data. It also reduces...

Image data require huge amounts of disk space and large bandwidths for transmission. Hence, imagecompression is necessary to reduce the amount of data required to represent a digital image. Thereforean efficient technique for image compression is highly pushed to demand. Although, lots of compressiontechniques are available, but the technique which is faster, memory efficient and simple, surely...

Although numerous operations have been devised for lymphedema, most surgeons manage this vexing condition by nonsurgical means. Previous studies by us showed that high-pressure (90 to 100 torr) sequential external pneumatic compression (SEP) reduced both limb girth and volume in a lymphedematous extremity. To assess the long-term effects of a program entailing (1) SEP, (2) elastic compression s...

A sub-group of pelvic girdle pain (PGP) patients with a positive active straight leg raise (ASLR) responds positively to the application of external pelvic compression during the test. This study investigated the effect of this phenomenon on electromyographic (EMG) activity of the trunk muscles and intra-abdominal and intra-thoracic pressures in subjects with a unilateral sacroiliac joint (SIJ)...

The aim of this study was to establish a pressure ulcer model that visualizes the microcirculation, and to examine the participation of ischemia-reperfusion injury in the pathophysiology of pressure ulcers. An original system composed of a new skin fold chamber and compression device allowed loading quantitative vertical stress to the skin. An intravital microscopic technique enabled direct vis...