Although steel reinforcements are used to withstand tensile forces in concrete, cracks are an unavoidable phenomenon.The presence of cracks, in fact, increases the risk for lowering the service life and durability of concrete structures.A critical issue occurs when due to splitting forces, cracks appear in concrete along the tensioned rebars which
In this part, an implicit time dependent solution is presented for the Boltzmann transport equation discretized by the analytic coarse mesh finite difference method (ACMFD) over the spatial domain as well as the simplified P3 (SP3) for the angular variable.In the first part of this work we proposed a SP3-ACMFD approach to solve the static eigenvalu
Abstract Background Periprosthetic joint Eye Cream infection (PJI) is one of the most common causes of early revision for total hip and knee arthroplasty.Mechanical and chemical debridement typically referred to as debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention (DAIR) can be a successful technique to eradicate PJI in acute postoperative or acute h
Background: The implementation of models of integrated care for chronic conditions is not well Schwarzkopf Professional understood.We conducted a realist evaluation to determine how and why the implementation of the National Diabetes Programme in Ireland worked (or not).Methods: Documentary analysis and qualitative interviews with a purposive sampl