The thermodynamic dislocation theory presented in previous papers is used here to describe shear-banding instabilities. Central ingredients of the theory are a thermodynamically defined effective configurational temperature and a formula for the plastic strain rate determined by thermally activated depinning of entangled dislocations. This plastic strain rate is extremely sensitive to variation...

background : in many jobs, individuals are exposed to thermal stress, and thus, evaluation of heat stress is necessary. this study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the relationship of perceptual strain index (pesi) with other heat indexes under hot laboratory conditions. methods: this empirical-experimental and cross-sectional study was performed in 5 different temperatures (21 º...

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of speech rate on children's performance on a widely used language comprehension test, the Test for Reception of Grammar, version 2 (TROG'2), and to explore how test performance interacts with task difficulty and with the child's working memory capacity. Participants were 102 typically-developing Swedish-speaking children randomly assigned to one...

Introduction: Nonphysiologic mechanical loading of articular cartilage, as can arise in obesity or traumatic injury, may be a contributing factor in the development of degenerative diseases of cartilage. Previous investigations [1] have suggested that relatively rapid (strain rate ~0.5 s) and very slow (strain rate ~0.00005 s) ramp loads applied to osteochondral explants can give rise to differ...