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Articular cartilage is the load bearing soft tissue that covers the contacting surfaces of long bones in articulating joints. Healthy cartilage allows for smooth joint motion, while damaged cartilage prohibits normal function in debilitating joint diseases such as osteoarthritis. Knowledge of cartilage mechanical function through the progression of osteoarthritis, and in response to innovative regeneration treatments, requires a comprehensive understanding of the molecular nature of interacting extracellular matrix constituents and interstitial fluid. The objectives of this study were therefore to (1) examine the timescale of cartilage stress-relaxation using different mechanistic models and develop and apply a novel (termed “sticky”).
Small amounts of organoclays in different sizes and concentrations were added into thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer (TLCP) by a combination method of ultrasonication, centrifugation, and solution casting (and shear-induced phase separation). Four kinds of organoclay-modified TLCP composite...
We use a transient 3D free surface finite element method to simulate flow of entangled polymer fluids in the dual cylinder wind-up extensional rheometer. The constitutive equations are K-BKZ integral representations of the Doi-Edwards models with and without the independent alignment approximatio...
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This work aims to present a valuable and predictive model for the description of polymeric soft foams which are widely exploited as packaging, padding, or cushioning materials. Belonging to the class of cellular solids, polymeric foams and synthetic sponges can be regarded as permeable or imperme...
In this paper, we proposed a meshless analog equation method (MAEM) to solve a heat transfer problem of molten polymer flow, which is considered to be a generalized Newtonian viscous flow. The MAEM, free from mesh generation and numerical integration, is a powerful meshless method. The numerical ...
This article presents modeling of bond performance and short-term prestress losses of prestressed carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite sheets for strengthening prestressed concrete beams, using an integrated anchor system that consists of steel plates bonded with CFRP sheets. A simple...
The present study numerically investigates a fiber orientation in injection-molded short fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite by using a rheological model, which includes the nonlinear viscoelasticity of polymer and the anisotropic effect of fiber in the total stress. A nonisothermal transien...
We present an experimental study of self-assembled polymeric nanoparticles in the process of flash nanoprecipitation using a multi-inlet vortex mixer (MIVM). β-Carotene and polyethyleneimine (PEI) are used as a model drug and a macromolecule, respectively, and encapsulated in diblock copolymers....
This paper focuses on the effects of biological and synthetic polymers on the formation of amorphous silica. A concise review of relevant literature related to biosilicification is presented. The importance of synergies between polyelectrolytes on the inhibition of silicic acid condensation is di...
This paper proposes a numerical model of the fatigue damage process in short fiber-reinforced plastics. In the fatigue fracture of these composites, the microcracks in the polymer matrix increase with fatigue cycles and dominate the fatigue damage process. Therefore the matrix crack was modeled b...
The filling process of a micro-cavity was analyzed by modeling the compressible filling stage by using pressure-dependent viscosity and adjusted heat transfer coefficients. Experimental filling studies were carried out at the same time on an accurately controlled microinjection molding machine. O...
