Background Ventilator tidal volumes of >8 mL/kg of predicted body weight (PBW) may
increase the risk of lung injury. We sought to evaluate the impact of a quality improvement …

BACKGROUND: We aimed to investigate the effects of incremental PEEP titration in patients
with ARDS on regional diaphragmatic motion with bedside ultrasound. METHODS: Dorsal …

… so that the overall score of a concept is the weighted sum of the given marks. All potential
product concepts can be ranked against one another based on the final weighted sum. …

… In order to satisfy equilibrium, the contributions of the different tractions at each interface
should sum to zero. Enforcing the balance and the compatibility of force and displacements at …

… The thickness fraction is the sum of the thicknessesof … A reduced material property for a
given orientation is simply the product of the engineering property and the sum of the thicknesses …

This study investigates several available sandwich beam theories for their suitability of
application to one-dimensional sandwich plates with functionally graded core. Two equivalent …

… Hence, the expression for the total strain energy, Ux, is obtained by summing these … and
Ambur, DR Damage Tolerance of a Geodesically Stiffened Advanced Composite Structural …

… In the above equations, as well as in the next ones, the Einstein summation convention
over a repeated index is implied, where Latin indices range from 1 to 3, while Greek indices …

… 0 ) k + x 3 ( H 1 k ) ] i k , where i k (k = 1, 2, 3) is the unit vector in the x k -th direction, and
throughout the paper, unless otherwise stated, the repetition of an index implies the summation …

This study concerns the determination of the contact stresses and contact region around bolt
holes and the bolt load distribution in single- and double-lap joints of composite laminates …