This paper reviews the design and validation of a novel bearing test rig developed at the KU Leuven. The test rig allows multi-axial static and dynamic loading of a rolling element bearing. Different types and sizes of bearings can be mounted and loaded as if built into a real machine. The test rig will be used to analyse the effect of external dynamic loads on the lifetime of these bearings. T...

Knee arthroplasties are designed to accommodate flexion, axial rotation and anteroposterior (AP) translation. Axial rotation during extension varies, with some rotating platform devices allowing unrestricted rotation while some conforming fixed-bearing designs almost none. The purpose of this study was to examine in vivo kinematics of a fixed-bearing medial rotation-type arthroplasty (MRK) duri...

We study analytically plane strain static deformations of functionally graded eccentric and non-axisymmetrically loaded circular cylinders comprised of isotropic and incompressible linear elastic materials. Normal and tangential surface tractions on the inner and the outer surfaces of a cylinder may vary in the circumferential direction. The shear modulus is taken to vary either as an exponenti...

The heme coordination of ovine prostaglandin H synthase (PGHS) has been characterized by EPR, magnetic circular dichroism, resonance Raman, and optical spectroscopies. The EPR spectrum of ferric PGHS is consistent with an equilibrium mixture of high-spin and low-spin heme species. Both species disappear on reaction of the synthase with hydroperoxides. The high-spin to low-spin interconversion i...

This paper presents the effect on circular polarization of multilayer circular annular ring patch (CARP). A CARP have been fabricated on FR4 substrate of dielectric constant 4.2 and thickness 1.52mm. Experimental resonant frequency impedance bandwidth and Axial ratio of simple CARP, covered CARP, spaced dielectric CARP and CARP with two superstrates have been measured and simulated using full w...

There are many types of bearings available, each used for different purposes and different conditions. Two major types of bearings are contact bearings and noncontact bearings. By considering the ball material, I separate the contact bearings to steel bearings and ceramic ball bearings. On the other hand, there are bearings that can run without any contact between the sliding surfaces in the be...

Investigation to evaluate axial wall heat conduction has been conducted for heat transfer in a laminar flow circular tube with two classical thermal boundary conditions at the outside wall. The tube ends are either adiabatic or with heat losses. The simulation is three-dimensional with various wall materials, wall thicknesses and tube lengths. A wide range of Peclet number from 7 to 14,000 is c...

We present a new family of pupil masks to control the axial component of the intensity distribution in the focal region of tightly focused light fields. The filters, which consist of a circular clear pupil with a single shaded ring, allow to control the width of the central lobe of the axial spot together with the residual sidelobes energy. The filters can be applied to improve the optical sect...

In hydrostatic skeletons, it is the internal fluid under pressure surrounded by a body wall in tension (rather than a rigid lever) that enables the stiffening of the organism, the antagonism of muscles and the transmission of force from the muscles to the environment. This study examined the ontogenetic effects of body size on force production by an organism supported with a hydrostatic skeleto...