displacement curve
1force-displacement curve — in structural testing of a given material, a graph showing the displacement in millimeters of a given material as different forces are applied, measured in newtons …
2Displacement current — Electromagnetism Electricity · …
3Curve fitting — best fit redirects here. For placing ( fitting ) variable sized objects in storage, see fragmentation (computer). Curve fitting is the process of constructing a curve, or mathematical function, that has the best fit to a series of data points,… …
4curve of areas — a curve that is composed in its foward half of a curve of versed sines and in its after half of a trochoid and is used in distributing the displacement in the design of a ship …
5Brachistochrone curve — A Brachistochrone curve (Gr. βραχίστος, brachistos the shortest, χρόνος, chronos time), or curve of fastest descent, is the curve between two points that is covered in the least time by a point like body that starts at the first point with zero… …
6Wien's displacement law — Wien s Law redirects here. For the historical distribution law, see Wien s Distribution Law. Black body thermal emission intensity as a function of wavelength for various absolute temperatures. Wien s law is not obvious in the picture, because… …
7Froude resistance curve — The Froude resistance curve is a limitation on the speed conventional displacement ships may achieve.Hydrofoil, planing, and submerged buoyancy [http://ness.external.lmco.com/nessb/ship systems/applications/seaslice.html] craft are able to exceed …
8S-curve distortion — The distortion in the image produced by a scanning sensor which results from the forward displacement of the sensor during the time of lateral scan …
9Nanoindentation — is a variety of indentation hardness tests applied to small volumes. Indentation is perhaps the most commonly applied means of testing the mechanical properties of materials. The nanoindentation technique was developed in the mid 1970s to measure …
10Drill string compensator — active heave compensator redirects here. For other uses, see active heave compensator (disambiguation). A drill string compensator decreases the influence of the heave of a drilling vessel on the drill bit. Drill string compensators are also… …
