The use of the Finite Element Method (FE) is an appropriate way to study occlusal forces and tooth movement. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of different occlusal contact patterns on tooth displacement in an adult dentition using a three-dimensional FE model of a human maxilla and mandible. Initially, images of a computerized tomography scan were redrawn in a computer prog...

This paper deals with the influence of hardware aspects of modern computer architectures to the design of software for numerical simulations. We present performance tests for various tasks arising in FEM computations and show under which circumstances performance loss can occur. Further we give key ideas for our new software package FEAST, which is especially designed for high performance compu...

Women are interested to wear high-heeled shoes to increase their attractiveness. High-heeled shoes might create harmful effects on the musculoskeletal system. Besides earlier studies proved that the function of foot and lower extremity will change due to wearing highheeled shoes [1,2]. Because of limitations of the experimental methods, direct measurements of internal strains and stresses of th...

Contrary to top-loaded deep beams, Inverted-T (IT) beams are loaded on ledges at the beam’s bottom chord. The presence of load near creates a tension field in web loading points. An experimental investigation was carried out which 8 specimens reinforced concrete IT were tested and effect following variables studied: changing hanger diameter, arrangement terms spacing distribution distance, rein...

When doing high field (1.5T) magnetic resonance breast imaging, the use of a compression plate during imaging after a contrast-agent injection may critically change the enhancement characteristics of the tumor, making the tracking of its boundaries very difficult. A new method for clinical breast biopsy is presented, based on a deformable finite element model of the breast. The geometry of the ...

Shear connectors in composite beam are used to ensure proper connection between concrete slab and steel beam. Headed stud shear the types most commonly constructions. Despite its popularity, this type of has presented some drawbacks, notably installation technique which demands many requirements. Recently, several have been developed as an alternative studs. The aim present paper is a study new...