The mechanical properties of ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) thin films were measured using microcantilever deflection and membrane deflection techniques. Bending tests on several free-standing UNCD cantilevers, 0.5 μm thick, 20 μm wide and 80 μm long, yielded elastic modulus values of 916–959 GPa. The tests showed good reproducibility by repeated testing on the same cantilever and by testi...

Distal canine femurs were sectioned into 8 mm cubic specimens. Orthogonal compression tests were performed to preyield in two or three directions and to failure in a third. Apparent density and ash weight density were measured for a subset of specimens. The results were compared to the human distal femur results of Ciarelli et al. (Transactions of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Rese...

The discrimination of fluid content and lithology in a reservoir is an important characterization that has a bearing on reservoir development and its management. For the unconventional reservoirs, such as shale gas formations, besides other favorable considerations that are expected of them, it is vital that reservoir zones are brittle. Brittle zones frac better and fracing of shale gas reservo...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the viscoelastic properties of cervical mucus plugs(CMPs) shed during labor at term. DESIGN Experimental research. SETTING Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. POPULATION/SAMPLE Spontaneously shed CMPs from 18 healthy women in active labor. METHODS Viscoelastic properties of CMPs were investigated with a dynamic oscillat...

Flight feathers of birds interact with the flow field during flight. They bend and twist under aerodynamic loads. Two parameters are mainly responsible for flexibility in feathers: the elastic modulus (Young's modulus, E) of the material (keratin) and the geometry of the rachises, more precisely the second moment of area (I). Two independent methods were employed to determine Young's modulus of...

Lokesh Singh1 1GD rungta college of Engineering & Technology, India [email protected] ABSTRACT A heterogeneous object is referred to a solid object made of different constituent materials. The object is made up of finite collection of regions having set of prescribed material classes of continuously or discontinuously varying material properties. These properties have an abrupt or gradual ch...

Abstract The type of subgrade a railroad foundation is vital to the overall performance track structure. With train speed and tonnage increase, as well environmental changes, evaluation influence are even more paramount in structure performance. A geomechanics classification for proposed coupling stiffness (resilient modulus) permanent deformation behaviour evaluated by means repeated triaxial ...