In this paper, nonlinear vibration analysis of functionally graded piezoelectric (FGP) beam with porosities material is investigated based on the Timoshenko beam theory. Material properties of FG porous beam are described according to the rule of mixture which modified to approximate material properties with porosity phases. The Ritz method is used to obtain the governing equation which is then...

In industry, the porosity of petrochemical reservoirs is measured frequently by coring and is an important property when trying to determine if a site is appropriate for drilling. Porosity can also be used in waste water treatment in order to determine if a material is ideal for water purification in industrial or residential applications. The purpose of this experiment was to simulate a oil re...

In this paper we investigate the extent to which variable porosity drug-eluting coatings can provide better control over drug release than coatings where the porosity is constant throughout. In particular, we aim to establish the potential benefits of replacing a single-layer with a two-layer coating of identical total thickness and initial drug mass. In our study, what distinguishes the layers...

Paradigm shift in hydrocarbon exploration and development strategies has increased utilization of seismic data many fold for reservoir characterization. Complicated and nonlinear relationship between seismic attributes and reservoir properties has been addressed recently using artificial neural network techniques for lithofaices classification and prediction of reservoir properties through unsu...

Laboratory bench tests have shown that porosity reduction increases the fatigue life of bone cement specimens. Clinically, however, the effect porosity reduction is subject to debate. We hypothesized that the discrepancy between clinical and experimental findings is related to differences in the stress distribution, which is typically uniform in experimental test specimens, while stress concent...

The migration process of contamination materials in the porous rock mass was visualized and analyzed by X-ray CT image data. In this study, Kimachi sandstone, which had approximately 26% porosity, was used as a rock sample. Here two cases of diffusion phenomena were analyzed. One is the case that solute diffuses into the porous rock mass from the crack surfaces, and it simulates the contaminati...

We study through numerical simulations the dependence of the hydraulic permeability of granular materials on the particle shape and the grain size distribution. Several models of sand are constructed by simulating the settling under gravity of the grains; the friction coefficient is varied to construct packs of different porosity. The size distribution and shapes of the grains mimic real sands....

Formation of biofilm within a porous matrix reduces the pore size and the total open space of the system, altering the porosity and permeability of the medium. This change in the pore size distribution can be quantified by expressing the porous structure with a proper geometrical model. A set of pertinent multispecies biofilm models is used to arrive at the dynamic biofilm thickness distributio...