Class 1 malocclusions are a frequent finding in the dentition of the horse. These malocclusions often result in tooth elongations that can be detrimental to normal mastication, cause pathologic orthodontic tooth movements, and predispose to painful periodontal disease. Odontoplasty, the removal of tooth material with manual or motorized instrumentation, is generally used in a conservative manne...

Optical methods that give displacement or strain fields are now emerging significantly in the mechanical sciences. In the Material Research laboratory at École des Mines d'Albi, we have developed a binocular stereovision system that can be used a) to measure the 3D shape of a static object or b) to measure the deformations of an object undergoing some 3D mechanical or thermal stress. In this pa...

Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) are promising materials used at high temperature, but their low plasticity restricts their application. Based on the valence electron concentration (VEC) principle, four kinds of RHEAs (ZrTiHfV0.5Nb0.5, Zr2.0TiHfVNb2.0, ZrTiHfNb0.5Mo0.5, and ZrTiHfNb0.5Ta0.5) are designed (VEC < 4.5). The experimental results show that the plasticity of these alloys was gr...

Antiferromagnetic manipulation was used to controllably stretch individual metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes ~SWNT’s!. We have found that SWNT’s can sustain elongations as great as 30% without breaking. Scanned gate microscopy and transport measurements were used to probe the effects of the mechanical strain on the SWNT electronic properties, which revealed a strain-induced increase in in...

Applications of granular materials, such as packed particle beds, are frequent in the oil and gas sector. Granular solids can also be used as adsorbents for natural gas storage in vehicles. Therefore, knowledge of the properties of such materials is important for safe and efficient equipment design. In this work, in order to evaluate the influence of particle shape on the porosity of particle b...

The relaxation in a spin transition compound is modeled on the basis of molecules interacting by the way of connecting springs and situated in a bidimensional open boundary hexagonal lattice. The switch of individual molecules is randomly checked using a standard Monte Carlo procedure. The switching probability depends on the energy gap between the two states in the absence of interactions and ...

An Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy without Sc or Zr additions was subjected to overaging and processing by equal channel angular pressing, obtaining a grain size of ∼160 nm and a fraction of high-angle boundaries of 56%. The high elongations attained at high strain rate (10-10 s) and low test temperature (250-300 oC) are attributed to the formation of new recrystallized grains, ∼500 nm in size, during heatin...

All four 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thio-nucleosides (ddtNTPs) function as substrates for the Y410F mutant of Deep Vent (exo-) DNA polymerase. Not only are the ddtNTPs incorporated to form the N + 1 product, but further elongations are observed in which the key step is attack of the 3'-thiol on the 5'-triphosphate. Although other polymerases are likely to differ in their use of the ddtNTPs, there does no...