Sentences with phrase «shearing forces»

«That produces an S - shape in the neck, and that can develop a lot of shear forces in the neck,» Romilly says.

Kipping pullups place a tremendous amount of shear force on your shoulder joint.

They say factors external to the cluster, such as shearing forces produced by the galaxy's rotation, disrupt the cluster more intensely and prevent stars from forming.

The MIT team set out to create a gel that could survive strong mechanical forces, known as shear forces, and then reform itself.

Significantly high shear forces develop in the neck and brain, the spinal curves straighten and the spine is compressed.

«It's resistant against the typical shearing forces during wiping,» he states.

Others note that shear forces from shaking are not the only issue — bursting of bubbles caused by shaking may also damage cells or denature proteins.

Geckos» feet are, by default, non-sticky, but the stickiness can be activated by a small shear force to produce this surprisingly tough form of adhesion.

The Institute's dynamic ratings of good, acceptable, marginal, or poor are derived from two seat design parameters (peak acceleration of the dummy's torso and time from impact initiation to head restraint contact with the dummy's head) plus neck tension and shear forces recorded on BioRID during the test.

A rotor - stator homogenizer [1] uses shear forces to emulsify liquids that don't usually mix.

A slip or stumble can result in strong sudden shear forces across a joint, or sudden twisting which pulls directly on the ligaments - one interesting fact is that ligaments are NOT designed to be used at all!

However, one has to ensure that the cells remain alive, especially if passed through an inkjet needle, involving considerable shear forces and thermal stresses.

This prevents anterior tilt of the shoulder blades, preventing shear forces on the cuff and tendons of the shoulders and elbows.

Secondary waves move only through solids; shear forces don't exist in liquids (since liquids can't be torn apart).

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

Then, the team assessed how much shear force was required to remove the biofilm on the experimental material.

When most liquids experience a sideways shearing force, such as by pushing your finger down against them, they move out of the way.

That would have created powerful shearing forces against the armour plates.

Engineers Develop Flexible «Skin'that Can Help Robots, Prosthetics Perform Everyday Tasks By Sensing Shear Force

Kenneth Gibbs, a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, expressed concern about the «shearing forces inside the biomedical research pipeline.»

Vascular Imaging Integrating 4 - D light - sheet imaging and hemodynamic shear forces to elucidate endocardial Notch - Nrg1 - ErbB2 signaling and trabeculation Tzung Hsiai, University of California, Los Angeles Matrix metalloproteinase - targeted imaging of vascular remodeling in aortic aneurysms Mehran Sadeghi, Yale University

We also have a strong interest in mechanotransduction, i.e., how circulating cells transduce fluid shear forces into changes in biochemical signaling cascades.

Coleman thinks the blender induces shear forces in the liquid sufficient to prise off sheets of carbon atoms from the graphite chunks («as if sliding cards from a deck», he explains).

The role of many elements of the proper deadlifting form, such as keeping an erect torso and not allowing the bar to drift away from the body, is to minimize shearing force.

This shortens the range of motion and keeps the torso more upright, which reduces the amount of shearing force placed on the spine.

Is it safe to be doing kettle bell swings that add shear forces?

For one, there's less shear forces on the spine because you're forced to hold a strong spinal position the entire time, and you get the effect of holding a single leg side plank at the same time.

The joint shear forces are reduced to about 200N (about 45 lbs).

The core muscles help to resist spinal rotation during running, which can help to prevent the pelvis from rotating and applying shearing forces on the lumbar spine and down the body into the knees / ankles.

However, in practice it rarely helps and sometimes exacerbates the problem due to the large shear forces that accompany the leg extension movement.

«It's in the safety cell and the floor to absorb shear forces, to transfer the energy from the front of the vehicle into the back.»

The second set of evaluation criteria is comprised of the maximum neck shear force and maximum neck tension measured on the dummy during the test.

However, it seems such bendable e-readers are back again, thanks to a group of researchers based in Taiwan who claim to have hit upon a novel way of devising electronics that could withstand bending and shearing forces up to some extent.

Just as bridges and high rise buildings need a tiny bit of give in them to weather high winds and earthquakes, ligaments need the elastic properties of collagen to bear shearing forces within the joints.

As cartilage degenerates it becomes more fragile and susceptible to injury as a result of the abnormal shearing forces exerted on the now unstable joint.

TTA is a surgical procedure where we move the Tibial Tuberosity forward to change the angle of the Patellar Ligament to neutralize the tibeofemoral shear force during weight bearing.

Deadlifts train the spine to remain stable while exposed to ridiculously high shear forces, which, of course, results with inhumane levels of strength and power!

If a researcher extracts a one - inch sample of rock from the fault zone located inside a single plate and subjects it to compression and shearing forces in a laboratory until it slips, it will behave in much the same way that rocks in the ground do.

Geckos» feet are by default nonsticky, and this stickiness is activated through application of a small shear force.

The Institute's dynamic ratings of good, acceptable, marginal, or poor are derived from two seat design parameters (peak acceleration of the dummy's torso and time from impact initiation to head restraint contact with the dummy's head) plus neck tension and shear forces recorded on the BioRID dummy during the test.

The younger portion of this group believes strongly in the power of the individual to achieve based on little more than shear force of will.

Bill Gurley: One thing I would say to that is I don't think there are any opportunities to disrupt healthcare in that type of way, simply because the amount, the shear force of inertia, the amount of regulation that exists, there's no way for someone to rush in and disrupt at that level with kind of hackneyed solutions.