The universal increase in the number of patients with nonhealing skin wounds imposes a huge social and economic burden on the patients and healthcare systems. Although, the application of traditional wound dressings contributes to an effective wound healing outcome, yet, the complexity of the healing process remains a major health challenge. Recent advances in materials and fabrication technologies have led to the fabrication of dressings that provide proper conditions for effective wound healing. The 3D‐printed wound dressings, biomolecule‐loaded dressings, as well as smart and flexible bandages are among the recent alternatives that have been developed to accelerate wound healing. Additionally, the new generation of wound dressings contains a variety of microelectronic sensors for real‐time monitoring of the wound environment and is able to apply required actions to support the healing progress. Moreover, advances in manufacturing flexible microelectronic sensors enable the development of the next generation of wound dressing substrates, known as electronic skin, for real‐time monitoring of the whole physiochemical markers in the wound environment in a single platform. The current study reviews the importance of smart wound dressings as an emerging strategy for wound care management and highlights different types of smart dressings for promoting the wound healing process.
Bending analysis of thick laminated rectangular plates with various boundary conditions
is presented using Generalized Differential Quadrature (GDQ) method. Based on the Reissner first
order shear deformation theory, the governing equations include a system of eight first order partial
differential equations in terms of unknown displacements, forces and moments. Presence of all plate
variables in the governing equations provide a simple procedure to satisfy different boundary
condition during application of GDQ method to obtain accurate results with relatively small number
of grid points even for plates with free edges .Illustrative examples including various combinations
of clamped, simply supported and free boundary condition are given to demonstrate the accuracy
and convergence of the presented GDQ technique. Results are compared with other analytical and
finite element predictions and show reasonably good agreement.
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