Abstract: Fuji Pressensor film has been widely used for measurement of contact stresses in articular joints. In relatively smooth contact fields, measurement errors are reported to be in the range of ...

Abstract: Three-dimensional finite element analysis is used to explore the influence of several lesion characteristics upon mechanical stress distributions in segmentally necrotic human femoral heads. Variables ...

Abstract: Field studies of the oil consumption characteristics of oil-fired residential heating systems have been carried out in several homes in a severe winter climate. Daily recording of the fuel ...

Abstract: A pilot-scale research boiler (750 kg steam/hr) has been used to study the degree of sulphur neutralization during combustion experiments with three lignites. A series of four closely controlled ...

Abstract: Recent technical improvements and cost reductions in electromagnetic motion tracking systems invite their application to motion axis determination in the surgical setting. After evaluation of the ...

Abstract: The rate of deposition of vanadium pentoxide vapor from combustion gases produced by burning a liquid fuel (kerosene with added vanadium ethyl hexoate) under controlled mixing-history conditions ...

Abstract: A dynamic nonlinear finite element model was developed to study juxtarticular stresses in the splinted rabbit knee, an established laboratory model for creating osteoarthrosis due to impulsive ...

Abstract: Six major mechanical design variables characterizing single-upright lateral prophylactic knee braces were studied experimentally, using a generic modular brace (GMB). Impulsive valgus loading tests ...

Abstract: Recent applications of 20 MHz pulsed ultrasound Doppler velocimetry (PUDVM) in microsurgical research have necessarily employed piezoelectric crystals whose diameter is not negligible compared to ...