While pericellular material maintained stiffness asymmetry, stiffness magnitudes were reduced.
This unit cell possesses an internal degree of freedom, which introduces hysteresis under a loading-unloading cycle, resulting in substantial energy dissipation, while maintaining stiffness.
The internal geometries required to produce such characteristics were designed by topology optimization, which is the most effective structural optimization method for realizing macroscopic inward deformation and for maintaining stiffness.
Ideally a LET joint would have low torsional stiffness while maintaining high stiffness in the other directions [10].
While static friction between the elements prevents back-driving the system and thus helps to maintain high stiffness without having to power the screw, mm height adjustment is only possible under significantly decreased preload, and thus stiffness, and is considered a set-up change operation.
Scientists have long pondered how the body's tissues maintain their stiffness in the face of growth, injury, and other forces.
These fibres probably maintain the stiffness of the notochord, the main role of which is keeping the body from shortening when the animal swims.
Ideally, the dynamic plate design should maintain adequate stiffness of the construct while providing a reasonable load sharing with the strut graft.
In order to maintain the stiffness and forming conditions under higher forming loads, stamping dies have to be designed with larger dimensions and thicker structures which may result in heavier die weight.
The biological function of type X collagen is thought to maintain tissue stiffness, regulate chondrocytes metabolism and interact with hypertrophic chondrocytes (Luckman et al., 2003).
