Shear stress critical

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Individual cells react to mechanical stress in a number of ways. Cells that normally adhere to surfaces and to other cells have more difficulty doing so at high levels of shear stress. Endothelial cells tend to distort and to align their long axes in the direction of the chronic shear. A shear stress of 20 dynes/cm for 48 h was found to cause alignment parallel to the flow in aortic endothelium, but caused alignment perpendicular to the flow in the aortic valve. It is not known if the differences in alignment are due to different phenotypes. 

Shear stress induces larger amounts of elastin in cells and inhibits tissue calcification. Occludin, a transmembrane protein that forms tight junctions between cells, and is the main contributor to the blood-brain barrier (an obstacle to free passage of complex molecules into the central nervous system), is present in lesser amounts at high shear stress values (about 10% less at 20-30 dynes/cm ). 

FIGURE 6.13.2 Neuronal cell injury increases linearly as shear stress increases. 

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This line represents the critical shear stress that a powder can withstand which has not been over or underconsolidated, i.e., the stress typically experienced by a powder which is in a constant state of shear, when sheared powders also experience fiiciion along a wall, this relationship is described by the wall yield locus, or... 

To answer questions regarding dislocation multiplication in Mg-doped LiF single crystals, Vorthman and Duvall [19] describe soft-recovery experiments on <100)-oriented crystals shock loaded above the critical shear stress necessary for rapid precursor decay. Postshock analysis of the samples indicate that the dislocation density in recovered samples is not significantly greater than the preshock value. The predicted dislocation density (using precursor-decay analysis) is not observed. It is found, however, that the critical shear stress, above which the precursor amplitude decays rapidly, corresponds to the shear stress required to disturb grown-in dislocations which make up subgrain boundaries. 

Figure 8.11. Effect of molecular weight on critical shear stress at onset of elastic turbulence in poly(methyl methacrylate). (After Howells and Benbow )...

Figure 4,2, Medal struck in Austria to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the critical shear stress law by Erich Schmid. The image represents a stereographic triangle with "isobars showing crystal orientations of constant resolved shear stress (courtesy H.P. Stiiwe).

For copper alloys Efird proposed that a critical shear stress (see Table 1.31) at the surface could be obtained which corresponded with the removal... 

Alloy Composition Critical velocity in 25 mm dia. tube ms Critical shear stress Nm ... 

Some materials have the characteristics of both solids and liquids. For instance, tooth paste behaves as a solid in the tube, but when the tube is squeezed the paste flows as a plug. The essentia] characteristic of such a material is that it will not flow until a certain critical shear stress, known as the yield stress is exceeded. Thus, it behaves as a solid at low shear stresses and as a fluid at high shear stress. It is a further example of a shear-thinning fluid, with an infinite apparent viscosity at stress values below the yield value, and a falling finite value as the stress is progressively increased beyond this point. 

There is evidence to suggest that the yield stress of thin hlms grows with the time of experiments, over a remarkably long duration—minutes to hours, depending on the liquid involved. Figure 9 gives the critical shear stress of OMCTS, measured by Alsten and Granick [26], as a function of experiment time. The yield stress on the hrst measurement was 3.5 MPa, comparable to the result presented in Ref. [8], but this value nearly tripled over a 10-min interval and then became stabilized as the time went on. This observation provides a possible explanation for the phenomenon that static friction increases with contact time. 

In both models, the magnitude of friction can be determined in terms of the shear strength of boundary films, i.e., the critical shear stress when slip occurs, regardless of how the films are formed, by adsorption, reaction, or solidification. The existence of a critical shear stress, independent of ap-... 

For superlattices with small modulation wavelength of several nanometres, the dislocation multiplication cannot occur, and the dislocation activity is demonstrated by the movement of individual dislocations from B layer into A layer by stress. The critical shear stress to move a dislocation from B layer into A layer (cta/b) can be given by the Lehoczky theory equation [108] as shown in Fig. 13. Figure 13 also gives the normalized oq as function of tglb. It can be seen that there is no strength enhancement as t Ab, which corresponds to very small layer thickness (< 1 nm), and the disappearance of interfaces due to the diffusion between layer A and layer B. The increases rapidly with the increase of... 

Fig. 13—Normalized o>/b as function of tglb, cta/b is the critical shear stress to move a dislocation from the B layer into the A layer, Q=(G -Gb)/(G +Gg), G and Gg are the shear moduli of A and B, b is the Burgers vector, fg is the thickness of one single B layer, and e is the angle between the A/B interfaces and the dislocation glide plane.

With a set of parameters studied during shear stress experiments a critical shear stress level for recombinant and non-recombinant BHK cells could be determined [48,52]. Figure 2 shows the critical level by calculating the LDH-Release Rate as a marker for cell death. 

Table 2. Summary of the parameters indicating the critical shear stress level (Nm )...

In addition to the measurement of the viscosity, this technique also allows the yield stress to be estimated. For a typical yield stress type material, there is a critical shear stress below which the material does not deform and above which it flows. In pipe flow, the shear stress is linear with the radius, being zero at the center and a maximum at the wall. Hence, the material would be expected to yield at some intermediate position, where the stress exceeds the yield stress. The difficulty with this method is in the determination of the point at which yielding occurs and, indeed, whether the material is appropriately modeled as having a yield stress or is... 

For silt and clay, the critical shear stress concept is used. If the critical shear stress for scour is exceeded, scour takes place On the other hand, if the actual shear stress is less than the critical value for deposition, deposition occurs. 

Metallic glasses are almost elastic-perfectly plastic, so indentations in them are limited by the critical shear stress, not by strain-hardening as in crystalline... 

Fig. 8 Tensile curves of cellulose II fibres measured at an RH of 65% (1) Fibre B, (2) Cor-denka EHM yarn, (3) Cordenka 700 tyre yarn, (4) Cordenka 660 tyre yarn and (5) Enka viscose textile yarn [26]. The solid circles represent the strength corrected for the reduced cross section at fracture. The dotted curve is the hyperbola fitted to the end points of the tensile curves 1,3 and 5. The dashed curve is the fracture envelope calculated with Eqs. 9,23 and 24 using a critical shear stress rb=0.22 GPa... 

Critical Shear Stress and Critical Shear Strain... 

By neglecting the chain extension it is assumed that Wb=Wbs. Thus the observation that Wb is approximately constant for fibres of the same polymer with different degrees of orientation means that not only a constant critical shear stress, rb, but also a maximum shear strain, (0-0b), is a useful criterion of... 

In conclusion, the initiation of fracture in a polymer fibre preferably occurs in the domains in the tail of the orientation distribution. The reasons are (1) in these domains the local shear stress will exceed the critical shear stress first, (2) the release of the strain energy is most effectively brought about by fracture of these domains and (3) the Griffith length in these domains adopts its lowest value. 

So far we have employed in this discussion a critical shear stress as a criterion for fibre fracture. In Sect. 4 it will be shown that a critical shear strain or a maximum rotation of the chain axis is a more appropriate criterion when the time dependence of the strength is considered. 

Fig. 24 The strength versus the modulus curves for PBO fibres calculated for three different critical shear stress values and the observed strength of PBO (Zylon) given by the manufacturer... 

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