Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is characterized by complete mirroring of gross cardiac anatomy and position combined with an incompletely mirrored myofiber arrangement, being normal at the apex but inverted at the base of the left ventricle (LV). This study relates myocardial structure to mechanical function by analyzing and comparing myocardial deformation patterns of normal and SIT subjects, fo...

In this paper, the effects of the restoring force device on the response of a space frame structure resting on sliding type of bearing with a restoring force device is studied. The NS component of the El Centro earthquake and harmonic ground acceleration is considered for earthquake excitation. The structure is modeled by considering six-degrees of freedom (three translations and three rotation...

Droplet impact dynamics of the shear-thinning fluids on the hydrophobic surfaces have been experimentally studied and compared to the base fluid, water. In this work, hydrogels are prepared by lading water with Polyacrylamide polymer at three loading rates 1, 2, and 3 wt. %. The resultant hydrogel phase behaves as a shear thinning fluid with altered rheophysical properties. The presence of poly...

The repaired denture base material fractures at the interface of base and repair material. This study evaluated the effect of different chemical treatment of the surfaces on the shear bond strength of conventional heat-cured resin repaired with autopolymerized acrylic resin. The specimens were divided into four groups, 30 specimens each according to surface treatment by chemical etchants Group ...

Hybrid control system composed of a base isolation system and a magneto-rheological damper so-called smart base isolation is one of effective semi-active control system in controlling the seismic response of structures. In this paper, a design method is proposed for designing the smart base isolation system in order to achieve an effective performance under multiple earthquakes. The base mass, ...

This paper is an extension of previous work which characterises soil behaviours using the grading entropy diagram. The present work looks at the piping process in granular soils, by considering some new data from flood-protection dikes. The piping process is divided into three parts here: particle movement at the micro scale to segregate free water; sand boil development (which is the initiatio...

Long's equation describes two dimensional stratified flow over terrain. Its numerical solutions under various approximations were investigated by many authors under the assumption that the base flow field is without shear. Special attention was paid to the properties of the gravity waves that are predicted to be generated as a result. In this paper we address, analytically, the nature and prope...

Vascular endothelial cells (EC) are continuously exposed to shear stress associated with the flowing blood. Over the years, it has become clear that such shear exerts a multitude of effects on endothelial biology and vascular function and structure, ranging in time span from seconds to months. On the scale of seconds, shear-dependent vasodilation has been demonstrated in many experimental setti...

in this paper, turbulent mixed convective heat transfer of water and al2o3 nanofluid has been numerically studied in a horizontal tube under non-uniform heat flux on the upper wall and insulation in the lower wall using mixture model. for the discretization of governing equations, the second-order upstream difference scheme and finite volume method were used. the coupling of pressure and veloci...