Intrinsic impact

Likewise, dead sharp corners or notches subjected to tensile loads during impact may decrease the impact resistance of a product by acting as stress concentrators, whereas generous radii in these areas may distribute the tensile load and enhance the impact resistance. This point is particularly important for products comprised of materials whose intrinsic impact resistance is a strong function of a notch radius. Such notch sensitive materials are characterized by an impact resistance that decreases drastically with notch... 

Before reporting on conceptual schemes, three distinctive issues pertaining to interpretation need to be explored to understand this on-site influence on tourist behaviour these are intrinsic impact, information organisation, and the challenge of selectivity. 

The intrinsic impact of places and settings refers to their unadorned power to capture visitor attention and evoke strong emotional responses. De Botton (2002) writing about reactions to dramatic landscapes unearths and re-uses the term a sense of the sublime to indicate human responses... 

The nonreproducibility of data implies that the tests and the meaning of the term "sensitivity" need further study and understanding [6]. Questions arise as to whether certain tests actually measure the effect of the specified stimulus, even as one among several stimuli directed at the test sample by the apparatus. Kistiakowsky and Connor [1] concluded that a definite mechanical sensitivity of an explosive was not found. Koenen et al. [2] and Afanas ev and Bobolev [5] also concluded that an intrinsic impact sensitivity of an explosive does not exist, but is a function of the test method, container, compression, arrangement of the sample, state of the sample tested, its method of preparation, particle size and shape, and possibly the climactic conditions during testing. By extension these factors can also be expected to affect sensitivities to other stimuli. 

Xu, L.R. (2010), Intrinsic Impact and Fatigue Property Degradation of Composite Materials in Seawater , final technical report, published by Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, for the Office of Naval Research, 130,000.10/22/2007-2/28/2010. 

The first implantable pacemaker, introduced in 1960, provided a permanent solution to a chronic bradyarrhythmia condition. This invention had a profound impact on the future of medical devices. The pacemaker was the first implantable device which became intrinsic to the body, enabling the patient to lead a normal life. 

Another problem of EGAs is that they are non-site-specific. The reasons for this lie in the fact that they include the whole life cycle of systems with resources which may originate in different countries and waste products and emissions which may distribute globally. They deal with factual inputs, outputs and the environmental impact potentials of the system under investigation on a global, and, in some cases, regional scale. Yet, they do not address the intrinsic risks resulting from the system itself. However, a combination with risk assessment methods can be used to close this gap. 

It is difficult to give an exact limit because the impact of thickness broadening depends on the intrinsic width of experimental lines [31], which often exceeds the natural width 2r at by 0.05—0.1 mm s for Fe as studied in inorganic chemistry. This inhomogeneous broadening, which is due to heterogeneity and strain in the sample, causes a reduction of the effective thickness. Rancourt et ai. have treated this feature in detail for iron minerals [32]. 

Chirality at surfaces can be manifested in a number of forms including the intrinsic chirality of the surface structure and even the induction of chirality via the adsorption of achiral molecules onto achiral surfaces. The ability of STM to probe surfaces on a local scale with atomic/molecular resolution has revolutionized the understanding of these phenomena. Surfaces that are globally chiral either due to their intrinsic structure or due to the adsorption of chiral molecules have been shown by STM to establish control over the adsorption behavior of prochiral species. This could have profound consequences for the understanding of the origin of homochirality in life on Earth and in the development of new generations of heterogeneous chiral catalysts that may, finally, make a substantial impact on the pharmaceutical industry. 

Materials such as polypyrrole are exciting in terms of their future technological impact, not just because of the obvious applications of such a simple, cheap electrochromic but because it may be possible to develop them sufficiently to replace the more expensive, and often toxic, metallic conductors commonly employed in the electronics industry. This may not be such a distant dream since it has been calculated that the intrinsic conductivity of these materials, i.e. without the defects that are currently defeating attempts to increase their conductivity of c, < lOOOfl 1 cm", may be many times that of copper. 

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