Based on existing construction practices, and the difficulty of sourcing rock armor materials in Philippines, an alternative to conventional rubble mound breakwaters was considered for a beach resort development Cebu, Philippines. A tangent bored pile wall, consisting circular piles placed diametrically along specified alignment, analyzed designed as breakwater. It relies embedment depth soil f...

The routine study of bone marrow trephine biopsies involves fixation, decalcification, paraffin-embedment, sectioning and staining. However, this process creates artifacts, produces shrinkage of tissue, consumes time and can result in sections of unsatisfactory cytological quality. It also renders the tissue unsuitable for enzyme-histochemical and immunohistochemical analyses. Frozen section of...

In this article, we identify and analyze a subsea organism to serve as a model for biologically inspired burrowing technology to be used in applications such as anchoring, installation of cables, and recovery of oil. After inspecting myriad forms of life that live on or within ocean substrates, the Atlantic razor clam, Ensis directis, stood out as an attractive basis for new burrowing technolog...

In order to investigate the failure mechanism and the failure load of quadruple fastenings with bonded anchors a series of numerical investigation was carried out. The studied specimens were bonded anchors in a concrete block and subjected to tensile loading. In the calculations the microplane model with relaxed kinematic constraint was used to simulate the concrete and bond materials. Totally ...

A new formalism for the simultaneous determination of the membrane embedment and aggregation of membrane proteins is developed. This method is based on steady-state Förster (or fluorescence) resonance energy transfer (FRET) experiments on site-directed fluorescence labeled proteins in combination with global data analysis utilizing simulationbased fitting. The simulation of FRET was validated b...

Synthetic and naturally occurring lipid-rich nanoparticles are of wide ranging importance in biomedicine. They include liposomes, bicelles, nanodiscs, exosomes and virus particles. The quantitative study of these particles requires methods for high-resolution visualization of the whole population. One powerful imaging method is cryo-EM of vitrified samples, but this is technically demanding, re...

This paper provides a comprehensive review on the application of proppants to maintain fracture permeability over lifetime well based published observations from experiments and modeling. The identifies describes important processes occurring during proppant embedment, hydraulic fracturing, laboratory testing conductivity, embedment modeling embedment. Finally, this challenges knowledge gaps th...

This study aims to demonstrate the effects of geogrid reinforcement on bearing capacity strip footing under eccentric loading. Numerical analysis using finite element program called (PLAXIS 2D Professional v.8.2) are presented. The effect each depth ratio topmost layer (u/B), vertical distance between consecutive layers (h/B), number (N), and effective (d/B) were studied, where (B) is width. Al...