rndetermination of rock mass deformation modulus is very important in different projects, especially in civil and mining engineering works. in-situ measurements such as dilatometer, plate load and flat jack methods may be applied to determine the deformation modulus. however, these methods are very expensive and time- consuming. analytical methods are very useful approaches which can also be us...

Tendon is a highly specialized, hierarchical tissue designed to transfer forces from muscle to bone; complex viscoelastic and anisotropic behaviors have been extensively characterized for specific subsets of tendons. Reported mechanical data consistently show a pseudoelastic, stress-vs.-strain behavior with a linear slope after an initial toe region. Many studies report a linear, elastic modulu...

A microscopic empirical model of bulk modulus based on atomic-scale parameters is proposed. These parameters include the bond length, the effective bonded valence electron (EBVE) number, and the coordination number product of two bonded atoms, etc. The estimated bulk moduli from our model are in good agreement with experimental values for various polar covalent crystals including ionic crystals...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The trachea is essential to respiratory function and is a mechanically and biochemically complex composite tissue. Tissue-engineering approaches to treat tracheal diseases require detailed knowledge of the native mechanical and biochemical properties of the trachea. Although the porcine trachea represents an excellent preclinical model, relevant mechanical and biochemical ...

Hardening of invertebrate jaws and mandibles has been previously correlated to diverse, potentially complex modifications. Here we demonstrate directly, for the first time, that Zn plays a critical role in the mechanical properties of histidine-rich Nereis jaws. Using nanoindentation, we show that removal of Zn by chelation decreases both hardness and modulus by over 65%. Moreover, reconstituti...

In this paper, an algorithm for sparse channel estimation, called ‘1-regularized leastabsolutes (‘1-LA), and an algorithm for equalization, called linear least-absolutes (LLA), in non-Gaussian impulsive noise are proposed. The proposed approaches are based on the minimization of the absolute error function, rather than the squared error function. By replacing the standard modulus with the ‘1-mo...

We introduce the vector-valued sequence spaces w∞ Δ, F,Q, p, u , w1 Δ, F,Q, p, u , and w0 Δ, F,Q, p, u , S q u and S q 0u, using a sequence of modulus functions and the multiplier sequence u uk of nonzero complex numbers. We give some relations related to these sequence spaces. It is also shown that if a sequence is strongly Δuq-Cesàro summable with respect to the modulus function f then it is ...

We propose a variant of the KKLT (A)dS flux vacuum construction which does not require an antibrane to source the volume modulus. The strategy is to find nonzero local minima of the no-scale potential in the complex structure and dilaton directions in moduli space. The corresponding no-scale potential expanded about this point sources the volume modulus in the same way as does the antibrane of ...