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 ...

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

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

Raising global concerns, the Three Gorges Dam is showing signs of deformation, sparking fears about its long-term stability. As one of the largest engineering projects ever built, any structural ...

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 ...

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