Tidal devices are likely to faced with shear flows and subjected various wave climates. The paper presents an experimental study of the combined impacts profile irregular waves on loading a 1/20th scale device operating at peak power extraction. experiments presented were conducted depths facilitate analysis effects flow impact positions in water column. fluid field was measured three different...

Neuropeptides such as vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) are present in nerve fibers of bone tissues and have been suggested to potentially regulate bone remodeling. Oscillatory fluid flow (OFF)-induced shear stress is a potent signal in mechanotransduction that is capable of regulating both anabolic and catabolic bone remodeling. However, the interac...

An experimental and analytical research on shear buckling of a comparably large polymer composite I-section is presented. It is known that shear buckling load of a large span composite beam is difficult to determine experimentally. In order to sensitively detect shear buckling of the tested I-section, twenty strain rosettes and eight displacement sensors were applied and attached on the web and...

BACKGROUND Understanding the biomechanics of spinal manipulative therapy requires knowing how loads are transmitted to deeper structures. This investigation monitored displacement at sequential depths in thoracic paraspinal tissues parallel with surface load directions. METHODS Participants were prone and a typical preload maneuver was applied to thoracic tissues. Ultrasound speckle tracking ...

While the effect of normal compression on the measured shear material properties of viscoelastic solids has been already acknowledged in rheological studies in the literature, to our knowledge, no systematic study has been conducted to investigate this effect in detail to date. In this study, we perform two sets of experiments to investigate the effect of normal strain and strain rate on the dy...

An efastic half-plane containing a su~ace-b~ak~og crack normal to the free surface, subjected to loading by uniform tractions over a given length af its surface, is considered. The tractions consist of pressure, constant in time, and a shear load, varying sinu~idaily in time, both applied adjacent to the crack. This geometry approximates the classical fretting problem with a resulting fatigue c...