Flexural strength at break, elastic modulus and Shore D surface hardness were 30.3 MPa, 5946 MPa, and 81.5°, respectively, and these corresponded to the highest values for the entire study.
When Merckx attacks over the Oude Kwaremont, and again on the Muur, he still can't quite break the elastic, invisible band that strings the fractured peloton together.
Stoop N., Lagrange R., Terwagne D., Reis P.M. and Dunkel J. "Curvature-induced symmetry breaking determines elastic surface patterns" Nature Materials, 14, 337 (2015).
Before the Second World War broke out, elastic materials were rationed and unavailable for clothing.
If there is broken or stretched elastic, the sheet may slip off the mattress and bunch around baby's face, increasing the risk of suffocation.
The deformation experienced in all disks appears to be mainly elastic until broken catastrophically and cracks propagated dynamically.
A Girth for each saddle in good repair with no frayed elastic or broken buckles!
Under greater deformation, such elastic solids exhibit either brittleness (in which the internal elastic forces are broken down) or ductility (in which certain internal mechanisms permit shearing displacements to occur within the atomic structure).
The five minutes spent in front of a stove, dragging a wooden spatula across the pan to ward off scorched spots and looking for that subtle thickening that seizes the custard just before all-out lumps break out, are elastic, meditative, (ideally) unbothered — a reminder that sometimes the comfort of a comfort food has less to do with eating than it does with cooking.
