Engineered cartilage is a promising option for auricular reconstruction. We have previously demonstrated that a titanium wire framework within a composite collagen ear-shaped scaffold helped to maintain the gross dimensions of the engineered ear after implantation, resisting the deformation forces encountered during neocartilage maturation and wound healing. The ear geometry was redesigned to a...

introduction: the aim of the present study was to compare hand stainless steel k-files and nickel-titanium profile 0.04 taper 29 series rotary instruments for their efficiency, procedural errors and time consumed in preparation of root canal system. materials and methods: a total of 46 maxillary and mandibular first premolars extracted for orthodontic purposes were collected (two contralateral ...

A stable and accurate deformable model to simulate the deformation of soft tissues is a challenging area of research. This paper describes a soft tissue simulation method that can deform multiple organs synchronously and interact with virtual surgical instruments accurately. The model we used in our method is a multi-organ system by point masses and springs. The organs that anatomically connect...

Corneal Visualization Scheimpflug Technology (CST) and Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA) measurements were carried out in 105 eyes of 69 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma. All patients had axial length (AL), central corneal thickness (CCT), intraocular pressure (IOP) with Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) and eight visual fields (VF)s with the Humphrey Field Analyzer. VF progression was...

Initial dislocation structure in annealed high-purity Mo single crystals and deformation substructure in a crystal subjected to 1% compression have been examined and studied using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques in order to investigate dislocation multiplication mechanisms in the early stage of plastic deformation. The initial dislocation density is in a range of 10 ∼ 10 cm, a...

Fluid mixing controls many natural and industrial processes, including the spread of air pollution1, mass transfer and reactions in microfluidic devices2,3 and the detection of odours or other chemical signals4. Strongly nonlinear flows enhance mixing by chaotic advection5,6, stretching and folding7,8 fluid volumes. Though these processes have been studied in simple models9,10, stretching and f...

While significant advances have been made in concrete materials and in concrete structures over the last decade, research in materials and in structural engineering are often carried out separately. As a result, opportunities in major leaps in structural performance may be missed, or research emphasis in materials development may be misguided. This paper introduces the concept of integrated str...

The influence of the sample size (diameter while keeping the length constant) in equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) of pure aluminum is examined using finite element method (FEM) and experiment. Different sized aluminum rods were processed via ECAP and the effect of sample size on the strain homogeneity, process load, and the ratio of the friction to the total force were evaluated. The resul...

Experimental observations of an increase in resistance with decreasing specimen size and under the presence of non-uniform plastic deformation fields have pushed the development for small scale plasticity theories since the early 90’s. The observed phenomenon has been explained in terms of an accumulation of a density of geometrically necessary dislocations, which is required in order to accomm...