In the current global economic conditions, airlines need to curtail financial expenses. It is known that share of airline costs for maintenance and repair (MR) in total cost structure amounts at least 20%, which more than 40% aircraft engines (AE). According actual expertise, this item expenditure will continue grow due inevitable sophistication AE structures, specified by increase efficiency e...

BACKGROUND Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is a life-saving therapy for patients with diseases that preclude adequate oral or enteral food intake. HPN has a large impact on daily life. Many patients suffer from fatigue and depression, and they experience limits in social activities. This all contributes to a lower quality of life. PURPOSE Fatigue is the most frequently mentioned problem in Du...

AIM Skeletal muscle fatigue is characterized by a failure to maintain force production or power output during intense exercise. Many recent studies on isolated fibres have used brief repetitive tetanic contractions to mimic fatigue resulting from intensive exercise and to investigate the underlying cellular mechanisms. Such studies have shown that characteristic changes in Ca2+ regulation occur...

Acoustic emission behavior during fatigue deformation and fracture was investigated in Al-Mg-Si alloys for automotive body panels. Generation of fatigue cracks was clearly identified by the burst of AE signals at the early stage of fatigue test. During the middle stage of fatigue, AE signals having low amplitude about 60dB corresponding to the propagation of striations appeared continuously. At...

Introduction: Muscular fatigue is a common phenomenon in daily sports activities and is worsening motor performance. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of neck muscular fatigue on static and dynamic postural control in elite male volleyball players. Correspondence: Maryam Mazidi, MSc. Department of Sp...

Fretting fatigue process have many features such as early stage crack initiation at contact edge, very slow crack propagation and fatigue failure after very long life operation. In this paper at first we present fretting fatigue model in high cycle region, which is considering the wear process near contact edge. And then we present fretting fatigue life estimation method in low cycle fatigue re...

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) can reduce fatigue and impairment. Recently, it was found that changes in fatigue-perpetuating factors, i.e. focusing on symptoms, control over fatigue, perceived activity and physical functioning, are associated with and explain up to half of the variance in fatigue during CBT for CFS. The therapy relationship, e.g. outcome e...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between physical performance and fatigue in child and adolescent cohorts during the first three cycles of chemotherapy. DESIGN Prospective, observational design. SETTING Two pediatric cancer centers in the upper Midwest region of the United States. SAMPLE 16 children and 14 adolescents newly diagnosed with cancer. METHODS Standardized instr...

Most of the research related to human fatigue in the aviation industry has focussed on long-haul pilots, but short-haul pilots also experience elevated levels of fatigue. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of early start times on the amount of sleep obtained prior to duty and on fatigue levels at the start of duty. Seventy short-haul pilots collected data regarding their duty sched...

A fatigue test method by a miniaturized hourglass-shaped fatigue specimen has been developed for International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) and sufficient potential as the alternative to a conventional large specimen was presented. Furthermore, focused ion beam micro-sampling method was successfully applied to microstructural analysis on fracture process. Where, the effects of ...