Piezoelectric response and failure behavior of cement paste under external loading

Rate Sensitive Behavior of Cement Paste and Mortar in Compression

Hyperelastic Behavior of Porcine Aorta under Sub-Failure Inflation Loading

While traumatic aortic rupture (TAR) continues to be a major cause of fatality in motor vehicle accidents, the underlying mechanisms of it are not well understood. A major step to gain an insight into this problem is to understand the mechanical behavior of aortic tissue under loading conditions that lead to the failure. Although the mechanical properties of blood vessels under physiological pr...

Stability of Manipulator Configuration under External Loading

The paper is devoted to the analysis of robotic manipulator behavior under internal and external loadings. The main contributions are in the area of stability analysis of manipulator configurations corresponding to the loaded static equilibrium. In contrast to other works, in addition to usually studied the end-platform behavior with respect to the disturbance forces, the problem of configurati...

Decalcification shrinkage of cement paste

Decalcification of cement paste in concrete is associated with several modes of chemical degradation including leaching, carbonation and sulfate attack. The primary aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of decalcification under saturated conditions on the dimensional stability of cement paste. Thin (0.8 mm) specimens of tricalcium silicate (C3S) paste, white portland cement (W...

Bacterial Cell Surface Deformation under External Loading

UNLABELLED Viscoelastic deformation of the contact volume between adhering bacteria and substratum surfaces plays a role in their adhesion and detachment. Currently, there are no deformation models that account for the heterogeneous structure and composition of bacteria, consisting of a relatively soft outer layer and a more rigid, hard core enveloped by a cross-linked peptidoglycan layer. The ...