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21Work hardening — Work hardening, also known as strain hardening or cold working, is the strengthening of a metal by plastic deformation. This strengthening occurs because of dislocation movements within the crystal structure of the material.[1] Any material with… …
22Daniel Theaker — Daniel George Theaker (b. March 30, 1967 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; ) is a neoromantic composer, conductor and woodwind instrumentalist. He is a self described champion of the bass oboe and heckelphone, and a practitioner of the Elastic… …
23Ferroelectret — Ferroelectrets are thin films of polymer foams, exhibiting piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties after electric charging. Ferroelectret foams usually consist of a cellular polymer structure filled with air. Polymer air composites are… …
24Peripheral nuclear collisions — of two relativistic colliding charges is equivalent to a collision between swarming photons. ] Brief historyIn 1924, Enrico Fermi, then 23 years old, submitted a paper On theTheory of Collisions Between Atoms and Elastically Charged Particles to… …
25Contact mechanics — Continuum mechanics …
26oxalis — /ok seuh lis, ok sal is/, n. any plant of the genus Oxalis, comprising the wood sorrels. [1595 1605; < L: garden sorrel, sour wine < Gk oxalís, deriv. of oxýs sharp] * * * Any of about 850 species of small herbaceous plants that make up the genus …
27rock — rock1 rockless, adj. rocklike, adj. /rok/, n. 1. a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like. 2. Geol. a. mineral matter of variable composition, consolidated or unconsolidated, assembled in masses or considerable… …
28Rock — /rok/, n. a male given name. * * * I In geology, a naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of minerals. The three major classes of rock igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic are based on the processes that formed them. These three classes are… …
29deformation and flow — Alteration in size or shape of a body under the influence of mechanical forces. Flow is a change in deformation that continues as long as the force is applied. Gases and liquids normally flow relatively freely, while solids deform when subjected… …
30solids, mechanics of — ▪ physics Introduction science concerned with the stressing (stress), deformation (deformation and flow), and failure of solid materials and structures. What, then, is a solid? Any material, fluid or solid, can support normal forces.… …
