Nematic elastomers with a locked-in anisotropy direction exhibit semisoft elastic response characterized by a plateau in the stress-strain curve in which stress does not change with strain. We calculate the global phase diagram for a minimal model, which is equivalent to one describing a nematic in crossed electric and magnetic fields, and show that semisoft behavior is associated with a broken...

With the increasing demand for resource consumption, mining depths gradually increase, resulting in increases of temperature at tens or even hundreds degrees. High could damage to interior structures and alter mechanical properties rock mass. Therefore, studying effects on dynamic failure behaviors are great significance deep resources exploitation. In this study, study high treatment strength ...

AIMS The present study aims to compare the change of left ventricular deformation during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) with the reference standard of invasive myocardial fractional flow reserve (FFR) to assess the haemodynamic significance of intermediate coronary lesions. METHODS AND RESULTS In 30 patients with an intermediate coronary artery stenosis in one epicardial coronary ar...

Early investigators found contradictory evidence that vascular smooth muscle activation reduces the elastic modulus of the arterial wall under isotonic conditions but increases it under isometric conditions, concomitant with increased pulse-wave velocity. We examined the individual contributions of aortic constituents to the elastic modulus of the aortic wall to determine if isobaric analysis p...

Strong motion records made by vertical arrays allow estimation of nonlinear soil behavior in layers at different depths. As an example, records obtained during the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake at Port-Island, SGK, and TKS sites are used to estimate the stress-strain dependencies of soils. For different layers, different types of nonlinear stress-strain curves are determined, showing the best...

– We study the strain response to steady imposed stress in a spatially homogeneous, scalar model for shear thickening, in which the local rate of yielding Γ(l) of mesoscopic ‘elastic elements’ is not monotonic in the local strain l. Despite this, the macroscopic, steady-state flow curve (stress vs. strain rate) is monotonic. However, for a broad class of Γ(l), the response to steady stress is n...

It has been proposed that with the appropriate models, instrumented indentation test (IIT) data can be reduced to yield the uniaxial stress–strain behavior of the test material. However, very little work has been done to directly compare the results from uniaxial tension and spherical indentation experiments. In this work, indentation and uniaxial tension experiments have been performed on the ...

This study examined the stress-strain behavior of 10 calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2)-activated Hwangtoh concrete mixes. The volumetric ratio of the coarse aggregate (V agg) and the water-to-binder (W/B) ratio were selected as the main test variables. Two W/B ratios (25% and 40%) were used and the value of V agg varied between 0% and 40.0%, and 0% and 46.5% for W/B ratios of 25% and 40%, respectivel...

The mechanical behaviors of five polyether block amide foams, obtained by mold-opening foam injection process, were investigated with regard to their microstructures. materials vary in mass ratios hard versus soft segments, and/or process packing time. resulting microstructures have been characterized terms cavity size and shape ratios, analyzing scanning electron microscope images after carefu...