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The sad news is that a large percentage of implants contain cracks which have the potential of causing fracture after fatigue growth. This is the outcome of the present study in which a 100 implants were examined, all apparently intact, having been extracted for various reasons, most likely biological but definitely not mechanical.

It seems that the whole field of dental implants, which is growing very fast, needs a serious mechanical re-assessment, from the design stage all the way up to surface roughening.

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Hi,

Does anyone know how to compiler an umat in c/c++ for abaqus under windows system?

The Umat wrote in fortran works well, but I do prefer using c/c++ to make program.

I have installed visual studio 2010 c++, intel fortran.

Or is it possible to use c/c++ for umat?

Thanks in advance.

In this work, we developed a conductive silver nanowire (AgNW)-PDMS composite thin film for a flexible strain sensing application. The piezoresistivity of AgNWs-PDMS nanocomposite thin film was experimentally investigated and analyzed by a computational model. The strain sensor shows a strong piezoresistivity with an average gauge factor in the ranges of 1.6 to 14 and a high stretchability up to 70 %. We found excellent agreement between our experiment and simulation results.

We developed highly stretchable, flexible and very soft conductors based on the carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-silicone rubber (Ecoflex®) nanocomposite thin films. The resistance of the CNTs-Ecoflex nanocomposite thin film was recovered to its original value under cyclic loading/unloading for strains as large as 510%. Failure strain of the CNTs-Ecoflex nanocomposite was measured to be about ~ 1380% showing its ultra-high stretchability and robustness.

In this work, we develop high flexible and compressible porous PDMS structures by using sugar cubes as templates. Force sensitive resistor (FSR) sensors were fabricated by the filtration of the CNT solution inside the porous structure of PDMS. We found that sufficient acid treatment can increase the adhesion between CNTs and PDMS. FSR sensors respond the applied pressure and compressive strains by high linearity (R2>0.97) and sensitivity (GFs>2) with a reliable manner.

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