From this 1-cm thick axial tissue slab, 25 tissue cubes were chosen to sample the entire cortical ribbon and most of the subcortical nuclei present at this brain level (see Figs 4 and 5).
From the left (formalin fixed) hemisphere, a 1-cm thick axial tissue slab was dissected by making a cut along the AC-PC plane (i.e. along a plane through the anterior and posterior commissures), and a second cut parallel and 1 cm dorsal to the AC-PC plane.
In the analysis, special attention is given to the increase of the axial load on the slab-column connection with temperature.
The experiments were used to evaluate the pertinence of Eurocode 2 in terms of shear in reinforced concrete slabs with axial load, to compare these results to the AFCEN ETC-C code used for nuclear buildings, and to compare them to the ACI 318 code.
The three shell refinements were also compared in terms of axial force variation in the slab.
The axial constraint imposed by the slab leads to additional compressive force, enhancing flexural response and in turn load carrying capacity of beams and joists.
a OPT-like curved thick slab reconstruction, b axial CT bone window and (c) 3D reconstruction from CT data set show a well-defined radiolucent lesion (arrows) located in the angle of the mandible.
The test results showed that the confinement of the slab-column joint from the surrounding slab increased the axial capacity of the column even though the column strength (f′c ≈ 200 MPa) as well as the ratio of the column concrete strength to the slab concrete strength (f′cc/f′cs≈4.0) are very high.
This difference is confirmed in plots (a) and (b) of Fig. 11, showing the variation of the peak axial force in the exterior slab panels in the long and short direction: A1 B1 B6 A6 and A1 F1 F2 A2, respectively after columns A1 and A2 are removed.
In order to calculate the temperature distribution in the outer CNT, the CNT is divided into 50 slabs along the axial direction.
On axial CT data sets, volumetric slabs were generated in a 20° right coronal oblique plane.
