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.
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.
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.
In the majority of cells arrested after S phase but before anaphase, sister minichromosome molecules are not topologically interlocked with each other.
(3) The docking domains interlock with each other using a protruding β-hairpin (known as "peg") from each of the DN and DC subdomains, forming a rigid, threefold symmetrical, membrane distal layer.
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.
