I DESCRIBED recently a form of hardness micro-tester which permits light loads to be applied to a diamond indenter of pyramidal form as a means of determining the hardness figures of minute ...

Push an object's ends together, eg when an empty drinks can is squashed. A rubber band undergoes elastic deformation when stretched a little. A metal drinks can undergoes inelastic deformation ...

Soft viscoelastic solids are flexible materials that can return to their original shape after being stretched. Due to the ...

In a surprising turn of events, an international team of scientists has found that lead-208 (208Pb), the heaviest known ...

Kilauea has been erupting episodically for the past two months in Halema‘uma‘u, nested within the south end of Kaluapele, the ...

A rubber band undergoes elastic deformation when stretched a little. A metal drinks can undergoes plastic deformation when it is squashed.

New double network hydrogel technology features automated self-strengthening that rapidly activates upon deformation of its ...

Accurate assessment of the land surface damage (such as small-scale fracturing and inelastic deformation) from two major ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.