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21Magnetorheological fluid — Continuum mechanics …
22Earthquake engineering — is the study of the behavior of buildings and structures subject to seismic loading. It is a subset of both structural and civil engineering.The main objectives of earthquake engineering are: * Understand the interaction between buildings or… …
23Ductility — For ductility in Earth science, see Ductility (Earth science). Malleability redirects here. For the property in cryptography, see Malleability (cryptography). Tensile test of an AlMgSi alloy. The local necking and the cup and cone fracture… …
24radiation — radiational, adj. /ray dee ay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. b. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and… …
25Carbon nanotube — Not to be confused with Carbon fiber. Part of a series of articles on Nanomaterials Fullerenes …
26Steel frame — usually refers to a building technique with a skeleton frame of vertical steel columns and horizontal I beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame. The… …
27resilience — 1. Energy (per unit of volume) released upon unloading. 2. Springiness or elasticity. [L. resilio, to spring back, rebound] * * * re·sil·ience ri zil yən(t)s n 1) the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation… …
28Collapsible flow — is a phenomenon that occurs in steady flow in tubes with significant distensibility, or the capability of swelling or stretching, under conditions of lower internal pressure relative to pressure outside the tube.[1] Such conditions occur rarely… …
29solids, 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.… …
30Properties of concrete — Concrete has relatively high compressive strength, but significantly lower tensile strength, and as such is usually reinforced with materials that are strong in tension (often steel). The elasticity of concrete is relatively constant at low… …
