stiffness

Stiffness

Stiffness variance

Just a little stiffness. That's all.

Exhibited a tensile strength far beyond our existing technology.

That's not guessing. The child has a fever, headache, stiffness.

Their strength they're almost the strongest material, tensile strength material known.

Here are stress strain curves generated by tensile testing five fibers made by the same spider.

The only real problem with the ascending aorta in people with Marfan syndrome is that it lacks some tensile strength.

So this makes quantifying silk properties by methods such as tensile testing, which is basically, you know, tugging on one end of the fiber, very amenable.

like Richard, or a cockroach, or a crab, or a kangaroo, the relative leg stiffness of that spring is the same for everything we've seen so far.

It's an observation with obvious medical applications in humans as well, but it's also relevant in a broad sense, I think, to the design of prosthetics, soft robots, basically anything where changes of shape and stiffness are important.

And on the fourth week, the doctors come and they mow out an area, put a tensile structure on the top, and when the doctors have finished treating and seeing patients and villagers, you cut down the clinic and you eat it.

So if you're ever thinking about the issue of compliance, when we're talking about stiffness, think about these curves and the fact that where the slope is tells you how compliant something is, and that arteries are going to be more compliant than a stiff pipe, certainly, but less compliant than the veins.

This painting is often compared to an early renaissance painting by Raphael's teacher Perugino The Giving of the Keys to Saint Peter and you can begin to see here in this early work by Raphael indications of what we understand now as the high renaissance style as opposed to the kind of stiffness of the 15th century of the early renaissance.