This paper is concerned with the surface and small scale effects on transverse vibration of a viscoelastic single-layered graphene sheet (SLGS) subjected to an in-plane magnetic field. The SLGS is surrounded by an elastic medium which is simulated as Visco-Pasternak foundation. In order to investigate the small scale effects, the nonlocal elasticity theory is employed due to its simplicity and ...

We evaluated the level of intraocular light scatter in a group of patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) who had minimal or no lens opacities, since such patients not infrequently complain of photoaversion. Intraocular light scatter was measured in 20 patients with RP who were < 60 years of age and who had no more than a trace of posterior subcapsular (PSC) lens opacity by slit-lamp evaluation...

The problem of settlement shallow foundations is among the most important ones in classical soil mechanics. And while for flexible elastic solutions are widely used, rigid rectangular where actual contact pressure distribution still unknown, approximated either analytically assuming a or semi‐empirically combining theory elasticity with experimental and/or numerical results. A third and often a...

This study develops a micromechanical damage model for two-phase functionally graded materials considering the interfacial debonding of particles and pair-wise interactions between particles. Given an applied mechanical loading, in the particle-matrix zones, the interactions from all other particles over the representative volume element are integrated to calculate the homogenized elastic field...

OBJECTIVE Since the color of esthetic brackets should match that of teeth, the aims of this study were to determine the color and translucency of esthetic brackets by means of the clinically relevant use of a spectroradiometer, and to compare the color of brackets with that of a commercial shade guide. METHODS The color of central and tie-wing regions of four plastic and four ceramic brackets...

Objectives. To assess visually color-matching and blending-effect (BE) of a universal shade bulk-fill-resin-composite placed in resin-composite-models with different shades and cavity sizes and in natural teeth (extracted and patients' teeth). Materials and Methods. Resin-composite-discs (10 mm × 1 mm) were prepared of universal shade composite and resin-composite of shades: A1, A2, A3, A3.5, a...

We construct a protocol for constant round Two-Party Secure Function Evaluation in the standard model which improves previous protocols in several ways. We are able to reduce the number of calls to Oblivious Transfer by a factor proportional to the security parameter. In addition to being more efficient than previous instantiations, our protocol only requires black box calls to OT and Commitmen...

In this paper, the bending waves propagating along the edge of a semi-infinite Kirchhoff plate resting on a two-parameter Pasternak elastic foundation are studied. Two geometries of the foundation are considered: either it is infinite or it is semi-infinite with the edges of the plate and of the foundation coinciding. Dispersion relations along with phase and group velocity expressions are obta...