Background: Intermaxillary elastics are widely used in corrective orthodontic treatment particularly for the interdigitation of buccal segments and the correction of the midline. However, latex has been known to cause ...

Background: Intermaxillary elastics are widely used in corrective orthodontic treatment particularly for the interdigitation of buccal segments and the correction of the midline. However, latex has been known to cause ...

Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is valued for its properties of transparency to light, lightness, flexibility, mechanical strength, chemical stability, ease of processing, and low-cost production. Ceramics have low mechanical ...

The class of elastic bodies, that is bodies incapable of dissipation in whatever motion that they undergo, has been significantly enlarged recently (see Rajagopal 2003, On implicit constitutive theories. Appl. Math., 48, ...

Although the Hertz theory is not applicable in the analysis of the indentation of elastic-plastic materials, it is common practice to incorporate the concept of indenter/specimen combined modulus to consider indenter ...

In the context of the theory of nonlinear magneto-elastic deformations, the problem of the extension (shortening) of a cylinder of finite length under the influence of a magnetic field applied far away in free space is ...