Pursuant to the high usage of rotating the disk in aircraft gas turbine engine, turbo pumps in oil and gas industries, steam and gas turbines in power plants, marine gas turbine and other industrial rotary machines designing and getting under the mechanical and thermal loading casued this design and analysis to be as a special significance. These disks are subjected to mechanical and thermal lo...

PURPOSE To assess the relationship between mandibular asymmetry and disorders of the temporomandibular joint. METHODS We used advanced imaging of the temporomandibular joint to distinguish different causes of mandibular asymmetry. MR imaging and arthrography were applied to the temporomandibular joints of 11 patients presenting with mandibular asymmetry. RESULTS Condyle hyperplasia was iden...

Due to their large strain capability, dielectric elastomers are promising materials for application as transducers in cameras, robots, valves, pumps, energy harvesters, and so on. The dielectric elastomer transducers are based on the deformation of a soft polymer membrane contracting in thickness and expanding in area, induced by the application of a voltage across the two compliant electrodes ...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Psychological and behavioral traits may be important for the diagnosis and management of orofacial pain. PURPOSE This study compared the levels of depression and somatization in patients in single and multiple research diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders (RDC/TMD) diagnostic groups. MATERIAL AND METHODS The RDC/TMD was established to allow standardizatio...

The disk in diametral compression has been investigated frequently on developing experimental techniques, such as photoelasticity and Moiré interferometry, for several decades. Theoretically, the compression as a concentrated force is more conducive to analyze but it is impossible to achieve such loading condition experimentally. The distributed compression on a finite area at rim is important ...

Forty-eight patients had 50 extraforaminal disk herniations (EFDHs) demonstrated on CT and/or MR by (1) presence of disk density or disk signal material lateral to the neural foramen, (2) displacement or obliteration of paravertebral fat, and (3) nerve root or ganglion compression or displacement. Forty-one of 50 EFDHs had a coexisting intraforaminal component; nine of 50 had an isolated far la...

We update the method of the Holmberg & Flynn (2000) study, including an updated model of the Milky Way’s interstellar gas, radial velocities, an updated reddening map, and a careful statistical analysis, to bound the allowed surface density and scale height of a dark disk. We pay careful attention to the self-consistency of the model, including the gravitational influence of the dark disk on ot...

We update the method of the Holmberg & Flynn (2000) study, including an updated model of the Milky Way’s interstellar gas, radial velocities, an updated reddening map, and a careful statistical analysis, to bound the allowed surface density and scale height of a dark disk. We pay careful attention to the self-consistency of the model, including the gravitational influence of the dark disk on ot...