For ex vivo measurements of fracture callus stiffness in small animals, different test methods, such as torsion or bending tests, are established. Each method provides advantages and disadvantages, and it is still debated which of those is most sensitive to experimental conditions (i.e. specimen alignment, directional dependency, asymmetric behavior). The aim of this study was to experimentally...

The coupling of space–time torsion to the Dirac equation leads to effects on the energy levels of atoms which can be tested by Hughes–Drever type experiments. Reanalysis of these experiments carried out for testing the anisotropy of mass and anomalous spin couplings can lead to the till now tightest constraint on the axial torsion by K ≤ 1.5 · 10−15 m−1.

It is well-entrenched folklore that torsion gravity theories predict observationally negligible torsion in the solar system, since torsion (if it exists) couples only to the intrinsic spin of elementary particles, not to rotational angular momentum. We argue that this assumption has a logical loophole which can and should be tested experimentally. We give an explicit counterexample where a rota...

The increasing interest to improve the description of plastic behavior and fracture prediction for ductile materials under complex loading conditions conducted researchers overcome J2 plasticity theory. To do this more sophisticated model base on damage have been implemented. Material parameters must be identified by means proper testing calibration procedures requiring different conditions. Di...

We show that in an arbitrary o-minimal structure the following are equivalent: (i) conjugates of a definable subgroup of a definably connected, definably compact definable group cover the group if the o-minimal Euler characteristic of the quotient is non zero; (ii) every infinite, definably connected, definably compact definable group has a non trivial torsion point. ∗The author was supported b...