This paper discusses the modeling of residual stresses in fracture problems. Historically, residual stress effects in fracture have focused on the crack driving force, so that solely opening mode residual stresses are assumed to influence fracture. However, residual stresses can effect all components of stress at the crack-tip, and can thereby alter crack-tip constraint and influence material t...

background: there have been numerous researches on elastomeric ligatures, but clinical conditions in different stages of treatment are not exactly similar to laboratory conditions. the aim of this in vitro study was to simulate clinical conditions and evaluate the effect of three stretching patterns on the amount of force, tensile strength (ts) and extension to ts of the elastomers during 8 wee...

We present Casimir force measurements in a sphere-plate configuration that consists of a high quality nanomembrane resonator and a millimeter sized gold coated sphere. The nanomembrane is fabricated from stoichiometric silicon nitride metallized with gold. A Kelvin probe method is used in situ to image the surface potentials to minimize the distance-dependent residual force. Resonance-enhanced ...

In  this  paper  a  new  method  is  presented  for  structural  damage  identification.  First,  the damaged structure is  excited by short  duration impact acceleration  and then, the  recorded structural displacement time history responses under free vibration conditions are analyzed by Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) and Wavelet Residual Force (WRF) is calculated. Finally, an effective d...

Usually, the residual layer remains after patterning TiO2 sol. The existence of in non-pattern region affects its application microelectronic devices. Here, a simple method, based on room-temperature imprinting, to fabricate residual-free pattern is proposed. thermoplastic polymer with Ti4+ salt was fast patterned at room temperature by different interfacial force. Then, induced into lines with...

Purpose: Various aspects of the retention of mandibular complete dentures are unclear, as no evaluation method has been established to date. This study aimed to clarify the effect of suitable mouth opening, the shape of the residual ridge, and the form of the denture on retention when measuring retention of mandibular complete dentures. Methods: The subjects were 37 individuals wearing mandibul...

Starting from the residual estimates for GMRES formulated by many authors, usually in terms of the quotient of the Hermitian part and the norm of a matrix or by using the field of values of a matrix, we present more general estimates which hold also for restarted and augmented GMRES. Sufficient conditions for convergence are formulated. All estimates are independent on the choice of an initial ...

Residual stresses have become an important player in the field of the structural integrity for many years. Having an exact knowledge of residual stress distributions can be essential in designing the engineering components as unexpected failures are inevitable where such stresses are ignored.  There are many residual stresses measurement techniques including destructive and non-destructive ones...