The tensile and compressive properties of human glenohumeral cartilage were determined by testing 120 rectangular strips in uniaxial tension and 70 cylindrical plugs in confined compression, obtained from five human glenohumeral joints. Specimens were harvested from five regions across the articular surface of the humeral head and two regions on the glenoid. Tensile strips were obtained along t...

ABSTRACT: The mechanical parameters of constitutive equations for soil and rock can be determined by laboratory experiments in which a cylindrical specimen is commonly tested under uniaxial and triaxial compressive conditions. The distribution of stress in the specimen during the tests must be kept uniform and homogeneous. In this paper, numerical simulations are carried out to determine the di...

Abstrati-The transport properties of holes in Si, _ ,Ge, are studied with a Monte Carlo technique. If the strain is applied to the Si, _ ,Ge, channel, it raises the degeneracy of the heavy-hole and light-hole bands: for compressive strain, the heavy-hole band lies at a higher energy than the light-hole band, while for tensile strain, the order reverses, although it is technologically uncertain ...

Cement stabilization has been widely used for improving the strength and stiffness of soft clayey soils. Cement treated soil specimens used to investigate the stress-strain behaviour in the laboratory study are usually cured for 7 days. This paper examines the effects of curing time on the strength and stress strain behaviour of cement treated marine clay under triaxial loading condition. Labor...

We present experimental and theoretical studies of Pd/Cu(100) and Cu/Pd(100) heterostructures in order to explore their structure and misfit strain relaxation. Ultrathin Pd and Cu films are grown by pulsed laser deposition at room temperature. For Pd/Cu, compressive strain is released by networks of misfit dislocations running in the [100] and [010] directions, which appear after a few monolaye...

We present a prediction for the formation of surface defects in a thin amorphous silica layer during relaxation of externally imposed stresses and strains, based on extensive ab initio molecular dynamics calculations. Our calculations show that the application of a biaxial compressive stress leads to the creation of edge-sharing tetrahedron and/or silanone defects at the silica surface, which t...

We have analyzed by transmission electron microscopy silicon and GaAs crystals polished with sandpapers of different grain size. The surface damage induced a crystal permanent convex curvature with a radius of the order of a few meters. The curvature is due to a compressive strain generated in the damaged zone of the sample. Contrary to what was reported in the literature, the only defects dete...