We study the thermoelastic deformation of an elastic layer. The upper surface of the medium is subjected to a uniform thermal field along a circular area while the layer is resting on a rigid smooth circular base. The doubly mixed boundary value problem is reduced to a pair of systems of dual integral equations. The both system of the heat conduction and the mechanical problems are calculated b...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical value of rigid gas permeable contact lenses in children after traumatic corneal scarring. METHODS This comparative study included 15 children (age range: 5.7 to 14 years; mean ± standard deviation = 9.4 ± 2.9 years) with corneal scars and best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of worse than 20/20, history of penetrating ocular trauma, and/or cataract extraction. ...

Contact laryngomicroscopy is in vivo laryngeal mucosa microscopic examination and rigid telescopy is a non-invasive technique that enables the systematic observation of many details in the large area of vocal fold mucosa. These are performed during laryngomicroscopy. This study was performed in order to evaluate the use of rigid and contact endoscopy effectiveness in establishing the margins in...

In this paper, a simple and effective numerical approach is presented on the basis of the Member Discrete Element Method (MDEM) to investigate static and dynamic responses of steel frames with semi-rigid joints. In the MDEM, structures are discretized into a set of finite rigid particles. The motion equation of each particle is solved by the central difference method and two adjacent arbitraril...

PURPOSE To measure the MRD (margin reflex distance) in rigid contact lens wearers and controls by a new method, based on computerized image processing. METHOD The patients were selected from the Contact Lens Sector of the Ophthalmology Service at the "Complexo Hospitalar Santa Casa de Porto Alegre", and they were divided into two groups: the first was formed of rigid contact lens wearers (63 ...

The Polygonal Contact Model or PCM is originally an algorithm for contact analysis between rigid bodies with complicated geometries in multibody dynamics. In applications where the flexibility of contacting bodies is not negligible, rigid body contact modeling can not achieve realistic results and elastic body contact modeling should be utilized instead. Therefore, due to the importance and nec...

Demand for rigid gas permeable contact lens has increased recently. Many complications including microbial keratitis and corneal neovascularization can be induced by inappropriate management poor hygiene. Despite of the initial education proper management, actual compliance adherence to guideline is significantly low. We reviewed improve hygiene solutions cleaning conditioning lens.