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Textile fibers must be flexible to be useful. The flexural rigidity or stiffness of a fiber is defined as the couple required to bend the fiber to unit curvature (3). The stiffness of an ideal cylindrical rod is proportional to the square of the linear density. Because the linear density is proportional to the square of the diameter, stiffness increases in proportion to the fourth power of the filament diameter. In addition, the shape of the filament cross-section must be considered also. For textile purposes and when flexibiUty is requisite, shear and torsional stresses are relatively minor factors compared to tensile stresses. Techniques for measuring flexural rigidity of fibers have been given in the Hterature (67—73). 

Use of Eq. 11.9 to describe rate effects is often called the over-stress model which was developed mostly for metals under high rates of loading and used more in dynamic circumstances of impact, ballistic penetration, wave propagation, etc. (See Christescu, (1967)). Krempl and his associates have used the over-stress technique for various polymers (e.g., Bordonaro and Krempl, (1992)). 

Pyles R (2003) Aging aircraft USAF workload and material consumption life cycle patterns. RAND, Pittsburgh Rao MV, Samuel R, Ramesh K (1990) Dual vacuum stressing technique for holographic NDT of honeycomb sandwich panels. NDT Int 23 267-270 Reynolds WN (1988) Inspection of laminates and adhesive bonds by pulse-video thermography. NDT Int 21 229-232... 

Thermal Stresses. When the wak of a cylindrical pressure vessel is subjected to a temperature gradient, every part expands in accordance with the thermal coefficient of linear expansion of the steel. Those parts of the cylinder at a lower temperature resist the expansion of those parts at a higher temperature, so setting up thermal stresses. To estimate the transient thermal stresses which arise during start-up or shutdown of continuous processes or as a result of process intermptions, it is necessary to know the temperature across the wak thickness as a function of radius and time. Techniques for evaluating transient thermal stresses are available (59) but here only steady-state thermal stresses are considered. The steady-state thermal stresses in the radial, tangential, and axial directions at a point sufficiently far away from the ends of the cylinder for there to be no end effects are as fokows ... 

Nondestmctive testing (qv) can iaclude any test that does not damage the plastic piece beyond its iatended use, such as visual and, ia some cases, mechanical tests. However, the term is normally used to describe x-ray, auclear source, ultrasonics, atomic emission, as well as some optical and infrared techniques for polymers. Nondestmctive testing is used to determine cracks, voids, inclusions, delamination, contamination, lack of cure, anisotropy, residual stresses, and defective bonds or welds in materials. 

Chhabildas, L.C. and R.A. Graham (1989), Techniques and Theory of Stress Measurements for Shock Applications, AMD-83 (edited by R. Stout, F. Norwood, and M. Fourney), ASME, p. 1. 

A. Segmuller and M. Murakami. X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Strains and Stresses in Thin Films. In Analytical Techniques for Thin Films. (K.N. Tu and R. Rosenberg, eds.) Academic, San Diego, 1988, p.l43. 

Although Griffith put forward the original concept of linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM), it was Irwin who developed the technique for engineering materials. He examined the equations that had been developed for the stresses in the vicinity of an elliptical crack in a large plate as illustrated in Fig. 2.66. The equations for the elastic stress distribution at the crack tip are as follows. 

This photoelastic stress analysis is a technique for the nondestructive determination of stress and strain components at any point in a stressed product by viewing a transparent plastic product. If not transparent, a plastic coating is used such as certain epoxy, polycarbonate, or acrylic plastics. This test method measures residual strains using an automated electro-optical system. 

A technique for performing dynamic mechanical measurements in which the sample is oscillated mechanically at a fixed frequency. Storage modulus and damping are calculated from the applied strain and the resultant stress and shift in phase angle. 

Stressed Mirror Polishing A Technique for Producing Non-axisymmetric Mirrors. Lubliner, J., Nelson, J., 1980,Applied Optics 19, 2332 Figure Control For a Fully Segmented Primary Mirror. Mast, T., Nelson, J., 1982, App. Optics 21, 2631... 

The electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM) is a very useful technique for detecting small mass changes at the electrode surface that accompany electrochemical processes. In 1880, Jacques and Pierre Curie discovered that when stress was applied to some crystals, such as quartz, it resulted in an electrical potential across the... 

Various techniques for collection of root exudates are associated with the risk of root injury by rupture of root hairs and epidermal cells or rapid change of the environmental conditions (e.g., temperature, pH, oxygen availability) during transfer of root systems into trap solutions, application of absorbtion materials onto the root surface, and preparation of root systems for exudate collection. The possible impact of those stress treatments may be assessed by measuring parameters of plant growth in plants either. subjected or not subjected to the collection procedure (6) and by comparing exudation patterns after exposure of roots to the handling procedures with different intensity. 

For many decades, the standard technique for measuring carotenoids has been high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). This time consuming and expensive chemical method works well for the measurement of carotenoids in serum, but it is difficult to perform in human tissue since it requires biopsies of relatively large tissue volumes. Additionally, serum antioxidant measurements are more indicative of short-term dietary intakes of antioxidants rather than steady-state accumulations in body tissues exposed to external oxidative stress factors such as smoking and UV-light exposure. 

The band at 2223 cm-1 was deduced to have tetrahedral symmetry from the splitting that occurs upon a partial isotopic substitution of D for H (Bai et al., 1985) as was discussed in Section III.3. This band also shows a stress splitting pattern that can be fit with a tetrahedral model (Bech Nielsen et al., 1989). The suggestion (Bai et al., 1985) that this center may be a SiH4 or VH4 complex has been retained as a possible explanation of the symmetry determined by uniaxial stress techniques. 

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