Laboratory mice provide a versatile experimental model for studies of skeletal biomechanics. In order to determine the strength of the mouse skeleton, mechanical testing has been performed on a variety of bones using several procedures. Because of differences in testing methods, the data from previous studies are not comparable. The purpose of this study was to determine which long bone provide...

[1] Plate tectonics on Earth involves the bending deformation of plates at subduction zones, and because plates are generally considered to be stiff owning to the rheology of mantle minerals, the role of energy dissipation by plate bending in the global energy balance has been frequently debated in the recent literature. Here we consider how bending dissipation should scale with slab parameters...

This Letter presents simulation and experimental results that explore bending insensitivity of fiber Bragg gratings in suspended-core optical fibers. The implementation of thin silica bridge in the fibers enhances index contrast of the fiber core and reduces bending-induced strain transfer to the fiber core. This fiber design lead to a reduction of over 7 times in strain-induced fiber Bragg gra...

bending analysis of multilayer graphene sheets (mlgss) subjected to non-uniform shear and normal tractions is presented. the constitutive relations are considered to be non-classical based on nonlocal theory of elasticity. based on the differential transformation method, numerical illustrations are carried out for circular and annular geometries. the effects of nano scale parameter, radius of c...

Attenuation characteristics of hollow, flexible, metal and metal/dielectric coated polycarbonate waveguides were investigated using an optically pumped far infrared (FIR) laser at 215 µm. The bending loss of silver coated polycarbonate waveguides were measured as a function of various bending angles, bending radii, and bore diameters. Minimal propagation losses of 1.77, 0.96 dB/m were achieved ...

On the loth of last October I was watching a football match on Rugby School Close, when J. S., aged 18, asked me to look at his right arm, which had been injured during the game. On cursory inspection, I could detect nothing far wrong; and, considering his symptoms due to a severe bruise, merely recomended rest and fomentation. Next day ho again presented himself, stating his conviction that he...