The effective elastic properties of composite materials are critical for predicting and optimising the structural performance of engineered systems. Composites, which combine two or more constituent ...

Whenever a perforated metal is used, the potential to offer a required level of elasticity can be a crucial factor. By knowing that a perforated metal is not as rigid as a non-perforated metal, ...

This paper develops elastic styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS) beads to be used as additives in magnetorheological fluids (MRFs). With their ability to control physical properties in the ...

Studies on resource potential of unconventional reservoirs are drawing the attention of scientific community since the last couple of decades. Because of low permeability of shale, the production ...

Quantitative characterization of nanomechanical properties has invariably been a holy grail for atomic force microscopy. This article explains some of the industry’s earlier attempts made at ...

This course is designed to provide a theoretical background on the propagation of elastic stress waves in solids with periodic variation in geometry or elastic properties, a review of experimental ...

Earlier this year, amorphous diamond was synthesized for the first time using a technique involving high pressures, moderately high temperatures and a tiny amount of glassy carbon as starting material ...

A group of scientists, including specialists from Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITF), described a universal characteristic, in which many unique graphene properties are "hidden". It turned ...

Currently, there are very little data on the maximum crush experienced by vehicles during impact. Measurements of the maximum crush were made on selected vehicles to provide some insight on the amount ...

Knitted fabrics like a scarf or socks are highly elastic, capable of stretching as much as twice their length, but individual strands of yarn hardly stretch at all. It’s the way those strands form an ...