Sentences with phrase «of frictional»

Incidentally, this work coincides with the amount of frictional dissipation related to precipitation.

Wilson (1964); Wilson (1966); Wilson (1969); Wilson's starting - point was the suggestion that the center of Antarctica was at the pressure melting point, see Robin (1962), p. 141, who adds that «one would not expect the ice to surge over a large part of Antarctica at one time»; the role of frictional heat in ice - sheet instability was pointed out back in 1961 (in partial support of Ewing - Donn theory), drawing on earlier work by G. Bodvarsson, by Weertman (1961).

Also, I had asked in the other thread about this recent Eos paper finding a large degree of frictional melting in a recent Greenland jokulhlaup.

Being an avid fan of Frictional Games» previous work, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, I was expecting more of the same from SOMA, just in a new horrifying environment.

CC — I agree that investing is a zero sum game, and would go further to suggest that it is really a «less - than - zero» sum game because of frictional costs such as fees, taxes, etc..

The long - term, successful practical application of any investment strategy is difficult, and is made more so by all of the frictional costs that the investor encounters.

In his study of Frictional Finance, Lasse H. Pedersen, NYU finance professor and principal of AQR Capital Management, proposes that «frictions are central to the dynamics of financial markets, stronger than any other influence on the market, including systemic risk.»

These flat pads comprised of frictional material make contact with the rotor, bringing your vehicle to a stop.

It should also be noted that under - inflated tires create a lot of frictional heat.

• NGK does not recommend the application of lubricant to spark plug threads as the resultant reduction of frictional forces at the thread faces will render the torque charts inaccurate and over tightening could occur

High - tech innovations include a dual - stage intake valve - lift system, a substantial reduction of frictional losses, and a lightweight, low - noise chain drive.

«The daily variations in the tidal stresses from Saturn due to that eccentricity distort Enceladus and dump gigawatts of frictional heat into its interior,» Spencer wrote.

«Using friction experiments we have shown that the extent of frictional melting depends on the composition of the rock and magma, which determines how fast or slow the magma travels to the surface during the eruption.»

For example, when a normal tire travels over water at a high speed, pressure builds until a film forms to lubricate the interface; this is called hydroplaning, and results in a complete loss of frictional control.

Kiyoshi Mabuchi and his colleagues at Kitasato University in Tokyo noted, however, that the simple question of the frictional coefficient of banana skin has not been answered to date (doi.org/vn6).

The major part of these energy losses is caused by turbulence, a phenomenon that leads to a drastic increase of frictional drag and hence much more energy is required to pump the fluid.

«We will be analyzing the data to characterize the amount of frictional heat on the fault during the Tohoku earthquake,» Fulton said.

«We've been hamstrung without in situ measurements of frictional stress, and we now have that from the temperature data,» she said.

«Along with evidence of frictional obstruction to subduction,» Tsuji says, «the fault structure appears to have also impacted earthquake location and behavior.

Not exact matches

These commenters asserted that unless the Department took such an approach, it could be forced to grant a series of short extensions, which would produce serious frictional costs, protracted uncertainty (for advisers, financial institutions, and retirement investors), wasted expenses on interim and conditional compliance efforts, and unnecessary market disruption.

Part of this underperformance was due to selling during crashes and buying during booms, part of it had to do with frictional expenses such as brokerage commissions, capital gains taxes, and spreads, and part of it was the result of taking on too much risk by investing in assets that weren't understood.

Economists distinguish a number of types of unemployment, however: cyclical unemployment is brought about by the vagaries of the business cycle; structural unemployment is brought about by changes in the economy or the labour market, when the jobs available do not fit the workforce's skills; frictional unemployment is the phenomenon of people being «between jobs»; and seasonal unemployment is linked to certain types of seasonal jobs, such as farm work and construction.

Its revolutionary aluminium alloy skin could expand by a third of a metre to cope with the frictional heating at such speeds.

Rotary shear experiments reveal the frictional properties of clay - rich material recovered directly from the fault zone.

With Loveless, the team created earthquake scenarios based on GPS estimates of present - day frictional locking along the Nankai Trough and for the first time rigorously tested methods for creating potential future earthquake scenarios from the GPS measurements.

The mechanics of great subduction earthquakes are influenced by the frictional properties, structure, and composition of the plate - boundary fault.

The most plausible option... is the dark matter in at least one of the galaxies is feeling a frictional force from the dark matter in the cluster.»

The JFAST results show that the frictional stress on the shallow portion of the fault was very low during the earthquake, which means that either the stress was low to begin with or all of the stress was released during the earthquake.

«We now have four lines of evidence that frictional stress was low during the earthquake,» Brodsky said.

Because friction generates heat (like rubbing your hands together), taking the temperature of a fault after an earthquake can provide a measure of the fault's frictional resistance to slip.

According to Brodsky, measuring the frictional forces on the fault is the key to a fundamental understanding of earthquake mechanics.

To demonstrate the point, Reid showed that the rocks» surfaces have a frictional coefficient of 0.8, compared to 0.1 for a geologist's feet.

Between measuring frictional properties of potential fabrics in NASA wind tunnels and modeling the fluid dynamics of jiggling flesh, the manufacturers have definitely created some hydrodynamic suits.

In the end, the pattern of electrovibration that felt to users most like the picture matched the frictional forces to the slope of the bump: the steeper the curve, the more voltage required to increase the friction.

«This upward movement pulls the soil structure upward, thereby reducing the frictional strength along the base of the landslide, which is essentially a solid block sliding on a surface,» says Schulz.

First, the frictional process of sliding: glaciers are rivers of ice that move («slide») ice from centers of accumulation to oceans, a process that affects climate and water levels.

At those speeds, the force of gravity acting on a racing car would be less than the frictional force holding the car on the wall.

«We'd like to see if frictional heating on faults of icy moons can explain the geysers of liquid water observed on their surfaces,» McCarthy said.

They found that for an open wheeled racing car weighing around 700 kg, the force of gravity would be 8571N less than the frictional force, meaning the car would easily be able to stay on the vertical banking.

Its central black hole is as massive as 16 million suns, and the region of space surrounding it shines with the strength of 1 trillion suns — energy derived, in part, from intense frictional heating within the disk of gas being sucked into the maw.

That increasing pressure reduces the frictional strength of faults, Abers explains, allowing them to slip.

U.S. Geological Survey scientist Jeanne Hardebeck calculated the frictional strength of subduction zone faults worldwide, and the stresses they are under.

There are all kinds of theories — floor mats that ride up to depress the accelerator pedals, frictional wear in the brake mechanism, defective electronic controls, electromagnetic interference.

Eventually, though, the orbit of V Hydrae's companion will continue to decay because it is losing energy in this frictional interaction.

But in your rock situation on the ice because of what you just explained about the thin film up front, you have the opposite frictional situation.

The stars are much less affected by the drag from the gas [3] and, because of the huge gaps between them, do not have a slowing effect on each other — though if two stars did collide the frictional forces would be huge.

The concept of «jamming by shear» was introduced to explain how frictional fluid materials transition from a flowing to rigid state.

They have discovered that frictional force is affected by the composition of the materials beneath the surface.

What the physicists discovered was surprising: although the uppermost layer of the surface always consisted purely of SiO2, the tip of the atomic force microscope experienced different frictional forces depending on the thickness of the silicon dioxide layer.

A competing model invokes frictional contacts — essentially, particle collisions caused by stress — as the primary driver of thickening.