Volume fraction of fibres (A), aspect ratio of fibres (B) and fibres orientation (C) are considered as control factors in the determination of hardness strength, hardness strength of plantain fiber reinforced polyester composites (PFR P). These properties were determined for plantain empty fruit bunch (PEFB) and plantain pseudo stem (PPS). Hardness tests were conducted on the replicated samples...

Manual handling is recognised as a major cause of work-related back injuries. Although widely implemented, manual handling training programmes appear to have had limited success in reducing these injuries. This may stem from the inadequacy of training programmes and/or their inability to accommodate variations in task, workplace, and worker. Designing training programmes based on the techniques...

One of the primary objectives of this work is to better understand the frictional behavior of joints under shear loads, including the creation of damage zones. Discontinuities have an important influence on the deformational behavior of rock systems. The choice of a general criterion to determine the shear strength of rough rock joints is a general problem that has been investigated for many ye...

the shear strength and shear energy per unit area, as well as the force and energy required for picking flowers, are important parameters in the design and development of harvesting mechanisms. in this study, shear strength and shear energy per unit area of saffron (crocus sativus l.) stems were determined at different bevel angles and shear velocities. the force and energy required for picking...

Particle breakage is one of the issues that significantly affect strength characteristics aggregate. In this paper, pre-crushed limestone aggregate was evaluated through investigating friction angle, stress–strain behaviour, and single-particle strength. The particle phenomenon studied for samples prepared at different conditions, including non-soaked samples, water-soaked acid-soaked samples. ...

injury are probably due to increased intracranial pressure,3 but there was no question of this in our patient either symptomatically or on computed tomography. The most logical explanation for the haematoma in our patient was shearing injury to the blood vessels supplying the lower midbrain and upper pons with no damage to brain stem tissue, which might explain why he remained alert and conscious.