After mandibulectomy in cancer surgery, reconstruction is often performed with a reconstruction plate covered with a soft-tissue free flap in patients in poor condition. However, the rate of complications for mandibular reconstruction is higher with a reconstruction plate than with vascularized bone grafts. We have developed a costal cartilage wrapping method to prevent exposure of the mandible...

PURPOSE To compare stability and subsidence associated with 3 types of cervical spine stabilisation. METHODS The C3 to C4 vertebrae of 28 Polish pigs were used. Pigs with intact vertebrae (group 1) underwent standard anterior cervical discectomy (group 2), followed by stabilisation using a cage alone (group 3), a cage with plate (group 4), or a plate-cage (group 5). Cervical spine stability a...

License plate detection from images is an important step in vehicle license plate recognition for automated transport system. Dark images and complex background make license plate detection problems challenging. In this paper, a novel method of based on rectangle window was proposed to resolve license plate detection problems. The proposed method firstly enhances images using traditional method...

in this paper a mesh-free model of the functionally graded material (fgm) plate is presented.  the piezoelectric material as a sensor and actuator has been distributed on the top and bottom of the plate, respectively. the formulation of the problem is based on the classical laminated plate theory (clpt) and the principle of virtual displacements. moreover, the particle swarm optimization (pso) ...

in this paper, a rectangular sandwich plate with a constrained layer and an electrorheological (er) fluid core is investigated. the rectangular plate is covered an er fluid core and a constraining layer to improve the stability of the system. the two outer layers of the sandwich structure are elastic. the viscoelastic materials express the middle layer behavior under electric field and small st...

In this paper, a continuum model based on the nonlocal elasticity theory is developed for vibration analysis of embedded orthotropic circular and elliptical micro/nano-plates. The nano-plate is bounded by a Pasternak foundation. Governing vibration equation of the nonlocal nano-plate is derived using Nonlocal Classical Plate Theory (NCPT). The weighted residual statement and the Galerkin method...

In the current study, the effect of such parameters as the length, position and angle of crack on free vibrations of a cracked plate was examined by finite element method. The assumed crack was internal and through and its growth was ignored. In the proposed finite element model, crack was considered as a discontinuity on the plate surface and the results were compared with the results of other...

Detection of vehicle license plate is vital for identifying the vehicle because the license plate has unique information for each vehicle. However, in India, vehicle license plate standards, though they exist, are rarely practiced. Large amount of variations are seen in the parameters of license plate like size of number plate, its location, background and foreground color, etc. which makes the...

Effects of modifying the plate-bone interface with Silastic@were tested. The experimental plate, i.e.,aconventionalplate with aSilastic@backing wascompared with the standard plate. In vitro four-point bending tests showed similar strain per load behavior in the experimental and standard plate models. In vitro plate-bone contact was greater and interface pressure was lower for the experimental a...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether additional tension band wiring in the plate for traumatic disruption of symphysis pubis has clinical benefits. Therefore, outcomes and complications were compared between a plate fixation group and a plate with tension band wiring group. METHODS We retrospectively evaluated 64 consecutive patients who underwent open reduction and i...