Self-compacting concrete (SCC) has been developed as a type of capable filling narrow gaps in highly reinforced areas mold without internal or external vibration. Bleeding and segregation SCC can be prevented by the addition superplasticizers. Due to these favorable properties, adopted worldwide. The workability is closely related its yield stress plastic viscosity levels. Therefore, accurate p...

The Miocene in Southern New Zealand was dominated by strike-slip tectonics. Stratigraphic evidence from this time attests to two zones of subsidence in the south: (a) a middle Cenozoic pull-apart basin and (b) a regionally extensive subsiding lake complex, which developed east and distal to the developing plate boundary structure. The lake overlay a block of crust with a significantly weak mid-...

A critical point in models of the human limbs when the aim is to investigate the motor control is the muscle model. More often the mechanical output of a muscle is considered as one musculotendon force that is a design variable in optimization tasks solved predominantly by static optimization. For dynamic conditions, the relationship between the developed force, the length and the contraction v...

A number of theoretical problems are discovered in the application of degenerated models in punching process of ballistic shields. Insufficient knowledge of dynamic behavi ours of these models based on non-linear complex constitutive materials or combination of mixed rheological Maxwell models with linear elastic elements or dissipative is the main reason of the problems. In the engineering app...

Abstract We investigate the specific attenuation factor for Bessel models of viscoelasticity. find that quality this class can be expressed in terms Kelvin functions and its asymptotic behaviours confirm analytical results found previous studies rheological properties these models.

Determination of rheological properties of whole blood with a scanning capillary-tube rheometer using constitutive models Sangho Kim, Bumseok Namgung, Peng Kai Ong, Young I. Cho, Keyoung Jin Chun and Dohyung Lim Division of Bioengineering and Department of Surgery, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117574, Singapore Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, Drexel University, ...

The aim of this work was to quantify the effects of psyllium fiber addition to wheat flour at the levels of 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4% on the rheological behavior of the dough. The rheological properties of the dough were investigated using the rheological device, Farinograph. Upon the addition of psyllium fiber, a significant increase in Farinograph water absorption, simultaneously with the increase of...