Myocardial infarction was experimentally induced in rat hearts and harvested immediately, 7, 14 and 28 days after the infarction induction. Anterior wall infarct samples underwent biaxial tensile and uniaxial compressive testing. Orientation of collagen fibres was analysed following mechanical testing. In this paper, we present the tensile and compressive stress-strain raw data, the calculated ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Previous studies on grass leaf tensile properties (behaviour during mechanical stress) have focused on agricultural applications such as resistance to trampling and palatability; no investigations have directly addressed mechanical properties during water stress, and hence these are the subject of this study. METHODS Critical (lethal) relative water contents were determine...

Introduction Increase of mechanical stress in the arterial wall leads to an altered arterial function and structural degeneration. The study of circumferential stress profile across the arterial wall, and change of this profile by functional loss of components can enhance understanding of pathological events in arterial degeneration and disease [Avolio et al. 1998, Loree et al . 1992, Spina et ...

Effect of Mean Stress on Low-Cycle Fatigue Strength of a Medium Carbon Steel S45C True Stress-Controlled Cyclingby Tatsuo ENDO*, Shoji HARADA*, Yoshihiro FUKUSHIMA* and Haruo SAKAMOTO** Nominal stress-controlled low-cycle fatigue life under imposed mean stress is affected by elongation or contraction due to cyclic stress-induced creep. Therefore, the effect of mean stress was examined by a micr...

Stress relieving is a common practice among manufacturing codes for reducing the magnitude of residual stresses in welded, quenched, and tempered steel structures and pressure vessels. The present work investigates the effect of stress relieving at 480, 560, 620, and 680°C on the microstructure and mechanical properties of 20 mm ASTM A517 Gr. B steel plate weldments produced by shielded metal a...

Dual phase steels with different martensite volume fraction and morphology were tensile tested at a temperature range of 25 to 5500C. Stress-strain curves of all steels showed serration flow at temperatures of 250 and 3500C, and smooth flow at the other temperatures. Both yield and ultimate tensile strengths increased with increasing testing temperature up to about 450<sup...

Realistic simulations are increasingly demanded to clarify the dynamic behaviour of foam materials, because, on one hand, the significant variability (e.g. 20% scatter band) of foam properties and the lack of reliable dynamic test methods for foams bring particular difficulty to accurately evaluate the strain-rate sensitivity in experiments; while on the other hand numerical models based on ide...

It is well recognized that the stress of the SiNx layer in GaAs-based device structures can impact the electrical performance and lead to degradation. For GaAs MESFET and HEMT devices, it has been demonstrated not only the magnitude of the stress but also the stress state, compressive or tensile, can affect the performance [1]. Stressinduced failure via microvoid formation in SiNx MIM capacitor...