Cohesive-frictional soils are widely used in the construction of embankment structures and due to the method of construction, i.e. applying compactive efforts in the vertical direction in these cases, the occurrence of anisotropy in the soil strength and permeability seems to be inevitable. In this study, attempts have been made to evaluate the shear strength of c-f soils through modifying a l...

INTRODUCTION The orientational dependence of the diffusion-weighted MR signal intensity has been exploited to characterize the integrity and orientation of white-matter pathways in the brain. Anisotropy observed in traditional single pulsed field gradient (single-PFG) acquisitions is primarily a product of the interaction betweeen cellular membranes and diffusing water molecules suggesting the ...

Radiographic imaging plays a crucial role in the diagnosis of osteosarcoma. Currently, computed-tomography (CT) is used to measure tumor-induced osteolysis as a marker for tumor growth by monitoring the bone fractional volume. As most tumors primarily induce osteolysis, lower bone fractional volume has been found to correlate with tumor aggressiveness. However, osteosarcoma is an exception as i...

We present a study on the magnetic anisotropy and magnetization reversal of Fes110d islands grown on Al2O3 versus the island size, the island size distribution, and the magnetic interaction between islands. For small islands magnetically connected via a polarizable capping layer, the samples behave as a uniform film with an induced uniaxial in-plane anisotropy. Magnetically isotropic samples ar...

Granular anisotropy is attributable to many complex behaviors of granular materials and reflects important microstructures at the grain scale, and should be fully considered towards the development of realistic constitutive models for such materials. In this paper, we present a study on the behavior of anisotropy using a three-dimensional Discrete Element Method (DEM). Isotropic packings of san...

Nonmagnetostrictive CoFeSiB alloy wires were subjected to cold drawing processing followed by annealing under tension, in order to induce the formation of circular magnetic anisotropy. The axial (M Z – HZ) and circular (M f – Hf) hysteresis loops indicate the existence of induced transverse anisotropy, with the magnitude of the anisotropy field being dependent on the processing conditions, whil...

[1] This paper examines the use and applicability of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility at Low-Temperature (77 K), called LT-AMS. Paramagnetic susceptibility increases significantly with low temperature, which permits high precision determination of the anisotropy of paramagnetic susceptibility of a rock from measurements at liquid nitrogen temperature. We describe a new procedure that measu...

The symmetry-induced magnetic anisotropy due to monoatomic steps at strained Ni films is determined using results of first principles relativistic full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) calculations and an analogy with the Néel model. We show that there is a magnetoelastic anisotropy contribution to the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy energy in the vicinal plane of a stepped surfac...