some physical properties such as geometrical, gravimetrical, frictional and aerodynamic features of seeds of desi chickpea and its splits were studied at a moisture content of 8.2 and 9.0% w., respectively from north-western of iran. geometrical and gravimetrical properties including the average length, width, thickness, the geometric mean of diameter, sphericity, 1000-seed weight, unit weight,...

Background: A rippled type of pigmentation is observed on the arms, forearms, and bony prominences, more commonly in women with a history of chronic rubbing. The terminology (commonly referred to as frictional melanosis) and its relation with cutaneous amyloidosis has been debated. Materials and Methods: Twenty one patients with pigmented skin lesions with manifestations suggestive of frictiona...

The change in near-tip stress field in Small Scale Yielding (SSY) for cracks located at an interface between two materials with different plastic work hardening is investigated. The difference in hardening is termed hardening mismatch, and is quantified through the parameter n, which is the difference in hardening exponent between the two materials. For cracks in elastic-ideally plastic materia...

Drought stress is the main cause of mortality of holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) seedlings in forest plantations. We therefore assessed if drought hardening, applied in the nursery at the end of the growing season, enhanced the drought tolerance and transplanting performance of holm oak seedlings. Seedlings were subjected to three drought hardening intensities (low, moderate and severe) for 2.5 and ...

Strain hardening capability is critical for metallic materials to achieve high ductility during plastic deformation. A majority of nanocrystalline metals, however, have inherently low work hardening capability with few exceptions. Interpretations on work hardening mechanisms in nanocrystalline metals are still controversial due to the lack of in situ experimental evidence. Here we report, by us...

The microstructural evolution during low temperature ageing of two commercial purity alloys (Al1.2Cu-1.2Mg-0.2Mn and Al-1.9Cu-1.6Mg-0.2Mn at.%) was investigated. The initial stage of hardening in these alloys is very rapid, with the alloys nearly doubling in hardness during 20 h ageing at room temperature. The microstructural evolution during this stage of hardening was investigated using diffe...

Based on experimental results, a dislocation material model describing the dynamic strain aging effect at different temperatures is presented. One and two stage loading tests were performed in order to investigate the influence of the loading direction as well as the temperature influence due to the hardening mechanism. Bergström’s theory of work hardening was used as a basis for the model deve...

The present study considers an elastic-plastic contact analysis during loading-unloading of a deformable sphere with a rigid flat using finite element method. The effect of strain hardening on the contact behavior of a nonadhesive frictionless elastic-plastic contact is analyzed using commercial finite element software ANSYS. To study the strain hardening effect different values of tangent modu...

The evolutionary history of vertebrate locomotion is punctuated by innovations that have permitted expansion into novel ecological niches. Frictional adhesion of geckos is an innovation renowned for enabling locomotion on vertical and inverted smooth surfaces. Much is known about the microstructure and function of the fullyexpressed gekkotan adhesive apparatus, although how it originated is poo...