Inflatable plstic splints have been in use for some time in the United States for the emergency splinting of fracures;t are also gaining popularity in casualty departmentsand clinics in the United Kingdom. Splints of this type cost essentially of a double-walled trAhsparent plastic jacket with a slide fastener and a screw valve in the outer _wa for tion (Pig,,1). The jacket is placed on the lim...

Successful development of the offshore wind energy resource depends upon the reliability of the structures that support the electricity-generating rotor-nacelle assemblies that form the core of a wind turbine system. The risk posed to offshore wind turbines (OWTs) by extreme environmental events such as Atlantic hurricanes requires a more detailed examination of post-elastic structural performa...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was investigated the effect of tight clothes on cervical and thoracic spine muscles activities during shoulder abduction. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects of this study were 10 healthy males. The subjects performed two shoulder abduction trials for each of two jacket-wearing conditions. The right upper, middle, and lower trapezius and serratus anterior mus...

I argue that conventional wisdom about attitude reports lumps together theorizing about the attitudes themselves with theorizing about the meaning of attitude reports. Instead of conflating these, I propose to treat them as distinct (although obviously related) topics. A central reason for this separation is the distinction between anaphoric constructions that are internally about the same obje...

In this study, mass, stiffness and damping matrices of the Nosrat jacket; located in Persian Gulf; equipped with Semi Active Tuned Mass Damper (SATMD) system have been derived after modeling the structure in SACS software. Owing to huge number of the degrees of freedom in the model, computation of on-line control of SATMD was time consuming. For this purpose, the size of the model was reduced i...

This paper reports the improved model of a tempering machine for heating formulation mixture marshmallow, characterized by heat supply to working tank through replacement steam jacket with film resistive electric heater radiative type (FREhRT). The surface exchange device was increased stirrer FREhRT; secondary energy (30....85 °C) used converting it Peltier elements autonomous operation superc...

Indefinites in intensional contexts, such as attitude reports or intensional argument positions, give rise to a well-known ambiguity. Consider (1): On the so-called specific reading, it says that there is a particular object which happens to be a jacket like Malte’s jacket such that Adrian wants to buy that particular object. Adrian need not know that that object is a jacket like Malte’s. On th...

In this paper, an offshore platform subjected to dynamic loading for different damage cases was modelled via fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis. Different models were considered in the case where one leg broken, and Young’s modulus of damaged member reduced with four severity ratios. addition five structures, undamaged structure according two spacing conditions. Thus, compared among the...

In the structural optimization problem, the aim is to decrease the amount of structural costs and weight, but the safety of platform should not violate the individual limits enforced by offshore codes. The outer diameter and thickness of members are two important variables in the optimization process and their final dimensions should be obtained according to the optimization algorithms such as ...