L. Kumosa

TL;DR: Long-term studies in animals of a continuous, totally implanted glucose sensor that wirelessly transmits glucose concentration values to an external receiver show that by proper design of the sensor system, previous reservations can be overcome and provide a foundation for human trials, which may require several years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the most important characteristics of the brittle fracture process, which can occasionally affect high voltage nonceramic transmission line insulators, leading to their catastrophic in-service failures, have been presented in addition to several experimental techniques were suggested for the simulation of brittle fracture under laboratory conditions.

TL;DR: Moisture absorption tests were performed on unidirectional glass/polymer composite materials used in high voltage composite (non-ceramic) insulators as mentioned in this paper, and their resistance to moisture absorption in terms of the rate of moisture absorption, maximum moisture content and apparent diffusivities was determined.

TL;DR: In this article, the residual thermal stresses in unidirectional graphite/polyimide composite plates and in the embedded aluminum and silver inclusions with interlaminar and intralaminar particle distributions have been modeled by using elastic and visco-elastic laminate theories and the Eshelby method.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors established critical surface conditions leading to the initiation of stress-corrosion cracks on the as-supplied surfaces of three unidirectional E-glass/polymer composites with modified polyester, epoxy and vinyl ester resins subjected to a nitric acid solution without mechanical loads.