Researches on the effects produced by the sun light upon polymeric matrix composites have been increased on the last ten years. It is commonly to find literature about mechanical characteristics degradation due to different environment effects. But a few ones are related to the shear behaviour. Moreover a limited studies are related to glass fibre polyester, even that are the composites most co...

Arterial hemodynamic shear stress and blood vessel stiffening both significantly influence the arterial endothelial cell (EC) phenotype and atherosclerosis progression, and both have been shown to signal through cell-matrix adhesions. However, the cooperative effects of fluid shear stress and matrix stiffness on ECs remain unknown. To investigate these cooperative effects, we cultured bovine ao...

Tropical cyclogenesis is studied in the context of idealized three-dimensional Boussinesq dynamics with perhaps the simplest possible model for bulk cloud physics. With low-altitude input of water vapour on realistic length and time scales, numerical simulations capture the formation of vortical hot towers. From measurements of water vapour, vertical velocity, vertical vorticity and rain, it is...

background: dental surfaces prepared with different er:yag laser distance may have different characteristics compared with those prepared with conventional instruments. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of er:yag laser irradiation distance from enamel and dentin surfaces on the shear bond strength of composite with self-etch and etch and rinse bonding systems compared with con...

Shear strength of concrete members without transverse reinforcement: A mechanical approach to consistently account for size and strain effects, Engineering structures, UK, 2015, pp. 360-372. Keywords: Concrete structures Shear strength Aggregate interlock Residual tensile strength of concrete Dowel action Arching action Critical Shear Crack Theory Size effect Strain effect a b s t r a c t Many ...

Fluid flow advecting one substance while others are immobilized can generate an instability in a homogeneous steady state of a reaction-diffusion-advection system. This differential-flow instability leads to the formation of steady spatial patterns in a moving reference frame. We study the effects of shear flow on this instability by considering two layers of fluid moving independently from eac...

A series of experiments was conducted to determine the effects of various factors on Warner-Bratzler shear force measurement of cooked beef. As the extent of thawing of frozen steaks before cooking for shear force evaluation increases (-2 vs 12 degrees C), shear force decreases (P < .05; 7.34 vs 5.99 kg). Location within the longissimus thoracis et lumborum from which steaks were obtained (caud...

We will study the fully developed flow of a generalized second-grade fluid down an inclined plane. The viscosity is not only a function of the shear rate shear-thinning or shear-thickening but also depends on the temperature in an exponential way. The effects of radiation boundary condition at the free surface are considered. The boundary value problem is solved numerically, and the velocity an...

Acupunct Med Month 2017 Vol 0 No 0 Figure 1 Shear wave elastography of the gastrocnemius muscle in a longitudinal plane. Rectangular field of view demonstrating good quality shear-wave elastogram as indicated by homogeneously distributed blue colour-coded muscle (A) and evenly spaced propagation waves (B). Quantitative analysis of gastrocnemius muscle stiffness was achieved by placing the small...

This paper deals with a theoretical study of the shear thickening effects in concentrated suspensions of non-Brownian particles. Our analysis shows that an increase of the shear rate of the suspension flow leads to a decrease of the mean thickness of the gaps between the nearest particles in dense suspensions. In turn, this leads to the growth of energy dissipation in these gaps, which means an...