Sentences with phrase «apply mechanical forces»

Just the electric field itself will apply mechanical forces to the dielectric material.

Recent developments in atomic - force microscopy have enabled researchers to apply mechanical forces to individual molecules to induce chemical reactions.

But we can more easily apply mechanical forces to a material.»

Not exact matches

This mechanical forcing applied to the whole planet causes strong currents in the outer core, which is made up of a liquid iron alloy of very low viscosity.

Inserting magnetic droplets at different locations in the tissue, and generating forces by applying a magnetic field to the droplets, the researchers showed that the tissue behaves like a fluid while growing, with similar mechanical characteristics as thick honey.

By carefully controlling the composition of the droplets and the strength of the magnetic field, the forces applied by the droplet can be controlled, and the response of the surrounding tissue reveals its mechanical characteristics as well as the cues that cells are exposed to as the tissue grows.

Folds or wrinkles in a surface are the result of mechanical instability — compression forces applied to some part of the material.

But there may be a way to cut drag force by almost 30 %, according to computer simulations of turbulent ocean - water flows reported in the 19 May issue of Science by mechanical engineer Yiqing Du of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and applied mathematician George Karniadakis of Brown University.

But if mechanical force is applied to move one electrode, the change lowers the surface area where the two electrodes interact.

To demonstrate this, the authors used an engineering technology called finite element analysis — computer modeling of a structure to calculate the strains and stresses experienced when different forces are applied to it — to simulate the mechanical performance of the weapons of different rhinoceros beetle species under both the species» own style of battle and other species» fighting styles.

When a mechanical force is applied, the ions diffuse across the membrane, creating a continuous direct current.

Piezoelectric materials can generate electricity from a mechanical force; conversely, they also can generate a mechanical strain from an applied electrical field.

The differential outcomes could be attributable to the greater intensity and duration of the WBV protocol used by Jing et al. (44); specifically, this report applied comparable mechanical force (0.5 g) at slightly higher frequency (45 Hz, as opposed to 32 Hz in the current study).

The vapor - recoil force «is not well - studied, and has never been applied, to my knowledge,» says Alexander Yarin, UIC Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and senior author on the study, published in the journal Nature Microgravity.

Blood, air, and nutrient media can be flown through the chips, and mechanical forces can be applied to them, recreating the microenvironment and dynamic state that cells experience inside the body.

This structure could represent a stretch activated state of TREK - 2, where mechanical force applied to the lipid membrane leads to an upward movement in transmembrane helices M2 - M4 into this up conformation.

This advanced biomechanical support system stabilizes your dog's tarsus joint by applying a corrective force location supporting the tarsus joint and two counter force locations that complete the dynamic mechanical environment acting within the OrthoPets Tarsus Brace system.

This advanced biomechanical support system stabilizes your dogs carpus joint by applying a corrective force location supporting the carpus joint and two counter force locations that complete the dynamic mechanical environment acting within the OrthoPets Carpus Brace system.

I think trees do respond to mechanical stresses of wind and I think there have been posts at CA mentioning this — simple beam strength requirements mean it will be in the tree's «interest» to develop a thicker section inline with the applied force.