Sentences with phrase «call shear»

Secondary waves, or S - waves, pull rocks apart as they undulate through the planet, creating what scientists call shear forces.

As in conventional glass, stress rearranges the atoms into deformations called shear bands.

More than 15 years ago, Ehman began experimenting with mechanically produced seismic waves — called shear waves — that could travel through human tissue.

Before the 1970s, researchers believed that a crack could only move as fast as a water wave — like ripple called a transverse wave, which clocks out at the so - called shear speed of three kilometers (1.9 miles) a second.

This type of failure... is called shear failure.

Foams in the area of damping devices like in sports equipment or accessories which are exposed to high level of impact, can be manufactured with specially filled fluids called Shear thickening fluids (viscosity of fluids increases with increase in shear rate or stress).

Structurally the biggest change is a big aluminum plate bolted underneath the front end called a shear panel.

High - level winds — called shear — are a major issue.

While Chileans initially responded to the 1960 earthquake there, which hit 9.5, by tightening construction codes and reinforcing concrete frames with numerous reinforced concrete walls, called shear walls, their vigilance soon wore off in the face of cost - saving.

Not exact matches

During what Leonard DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort calls his brokerage firm's «weekly act of debauchery,» a young sales assistant agrees to have her head shorn for $ 10,000.

The wool is sheared (we're thinking that in midsummer, the sheep appreciate that), and within the wool is a grease called lanolin, which contains vitamin D3.

That was the Welshman's second game in four days and with that in mind, he's an instant doubt this weekend, which means Dalglish, who is already shorn of star striker Luis Suarez, will have to call upon Andy Carroll.

My bench shear, which makes cutting aluminium sheet so much easier; my frosting wheel (I call it the wheel of danger as it is slightly hazardous — but I love the finish so it's worth it) and I can't live without my Macbook!

With a phone call to come from the mill at any moment with November's shearing ready (12 fleeces), and a spring shearing just around the corner (12 more fleeces), and this all on my studio table (below, iron for size reference!)

Seismological data has revealed a denser region deep beneath southern Africa called the African Large Low Shear Velocity Province.

One school proposes that the transformation comes from a turbulence - generated sheared flow of edge plasma generated by a process called «Reynolds stress.»

Coulomb's equation states that in order to slide one hand against the other the shear stress — akin to the force applied to slide your hands — divided by the surrounding pressure — squeezing the sand together — must equal something called the friction coefficient.

The smoke - induced increase in wind speed at an altitude of 1 km enhanced a phenomenon called wind shear, the difference in wind velocity between one layer of the atmosphere and another.

Pinton and colleagues, with help from recent advances in a technology called ultrasound elastography, developed an ultrasound imaging device and data - processing algorithms to track the larger, more powerful shear waves that they and other researchers suspect cause tissue damage after head injuries.

Opposing theories — one drawing mostly on experimental evidence, the other on results of modeling studies — have been proposed to explain shear thickening in suspensions of microscopic particles, also called colloids.

Also called a secondary wave or shear wave.

We have discovered a great remedy called the «Flu Bomb» courtesy of our friend Robyn Atticks Founder of Shear Miracle -LSB-...]

I discovered a partner dating site launched by the same company (Spark Networks), which provides dating options for gays and lesbians called Spark.com At a time when Godly marriage is under serious attack, it is shear compromise when Christians support a company that endorses, and facilitates, Homosexual relationships.

Slouching past his prime and feeling it, Tiff casts a leery eye at his younger, stronger competitors, particularly the square - jawed Bigelow (Pete Murnik) and a shorn hunk of sculpted muscle who calls himself Polar Bear Nelson (James Hyndman).

Demdike, folk call me, after the dammed stream near my dwelling place where the farmers wash their sheep before shearing.

In the wild, these teeth would perform a variety of tasks such as grooming (the 6 small incisors at the front of each jaw), grasping and killing prey (the 4 long canines, also called «fangs»), and crushing and shearing the meat off the prey's bones to eat (the pointed molars and premolars along the sides of the jaws, also called «cheek teeth»).

But looking back at them now, many people who havent played them, call them a thing of shear beauty.

i havent finished it yet, but ive only had it one day, and i a in love, this beats halo in multiplayer, this beats call of duty in plot and tops everything in shear awesomeness, admitidly, the orange box is a little better, and the graphics are a little flawed, id say this ould of had a 9 if it included online co-op and more multiplayer scenarious, the multiplayer mode is pure genous, just

To be sure, increased thermodynamic instability, increased moisture content in the atmosphere (2 factors that Kevin called out), and increased vertical wind shear within 5 kilometers above the ground create an environment more favorable for a tornado outbreak.

A: Wind shear, changes in wind speed and direction with elevation, gives a thunderstorm its spin in the form of rotating updrafts called mesocyclones.

Tornadoes require strong upper level winds, up to three miles above the ground, to contrast with slower currents near ground level in what's called wind shear.

The combination of strong directional shear and strong velocity shear is combined by meteorologists into a parameter called «helicity» which is used in tornado forecasting.

This shear helps organise storms and provides the source of rotation for the most severe thunderstorms, called supercells.

As it is, a Hadley cell that conserves angular momentum develops large wind shears and the flow becomes baroclinically unstable (it can be shown through the so - called thermal wind equation that the vertical gradient of the horizontal wind velocity is proportional to the horizontal temperature gradient).

For some time now, Bradley Shear has been railing on his Social Media Law blog about a scourge that he calls «social media credential fraud.»

«Mr. Obama calls himself a «night guy,»» he wrote, «and as president, he has come to consider the long, solitary hours after dark as essential as his time in the Oval Office...» Sometimes, Shear tells us, after dark, the president read novels.