The use of palpation is mentioned in the first medical writings dating back 3,500 y. Now known as elastography, this elasticity measurement is used for assessing the stage of liver fibrosis or ...
Endovascular surgical procedures require the navigation of catheters and wires through the vasculature to reach distal target sites. Quantitative frameworks for device selection hold the potential to ...
The northern part of the Jurassic Sichuan Basin has long been thought of as a foreland basin in relation to the post-collisional compression along the northern margin of the Yangtze block. However, ...
Electronic Ceramics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Jamova cesta 39, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia ...
1 School of Mechanics and Construction Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Disaster Forecast and Control in Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. 2 School of Civil Engineering and ...
In this study, Young's modulus of henequen fibers was estimated through micromechanical modeling of polypropylene (PP)-based composites, and further corroborated through a single filament tensile test ...
Moreover, the cracking load and ultimate load of BTRC specimens with short fibers were further improved in comparison with those without short fibers. Particularly, the cracking load’s greatest ...
Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica. Escuela de IngenieríaForestal, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Cartago, Costa Rica. Costa Rica, as a small country with limited ...
This paper presents the effect of nonlocal scaling parameter on the coupled i.e., axial, flexural, shear and contraction, wave propagation in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The axial and ...