Many industrial companies, particularly from the Engineer-to-order (ETO) sector, have great difficulties to interlock with each other the areas of engineering, manufacturing and installation on-site.
The proposed system is made up of thin-walled tubes with dumbbell-shaped cross section, which are specially designed to interlock with each other and thus provide lateral constraint under impact loadings.
As each thread of silk is pulled out, the proteins line up next to each other and interlock, producing nature's toughest material.
As the stem cell islands get larger, they connect to each other and form a protective interlocking layer over the wound.
The advantage of this double IPN structure lies in itself, which is that the two IPNs are topological interlocking within each other to make the matrix strong and tough.
First of all, the coarse aggregate volume fraction increases dramatically in this type of concrete when more than 20%% of coarse aggregate is scattered in the mixture, the coarse aggregates can interlock with each other, the friction forces among the aggregate contribute to the strength enhance in a certain extent.
Furthermore, we observe well-separated domains with little contact to adjacent domains, whereas individual AAA+ domains in p97 interlock with each other and share large interaction surfaces.
The AuxHex hybrid cell pattern is a combination of cells with different shapes that interlock with each other.
The material, which the researchers call Automend, is built of two small molecular building blocks that interlock with each other into a vast three-dimensional network.
The contact between the fretting surfaces makes the asperities interlock with each other at low applied normal loads, and results in a high tangential force coefficient, whereas at high applied normal loads tangential force coefficient decreases.
