The results show that including the spatial variability of material properties is useful to obtain a better insight of the actual structural reliability of pavements.
A means is developed for forming polysaccharide-based composites with useful material properties through use of unmodified and chemically modified natural rubber latex (NRL).
This review presents a collection of material properties that are useful for discrete element method, DEM, simulations gathered from contributions of various laboratories around the world.
To have a better understanding of the material properties and provide useful insight and design guidelines for particulate composites, the concept of "effective in situ constituent properties" and an indirect method were employed in this study.
A number of parameters such as the dimple depth, dimple area density, and dimple shape, affect the tribological performance of dimpled surfaces, and a comprehensive tribological characterization of the depth-dependent nature of their material properties would be useful.
It is hoped that the discussions and results in this work would not only contribute towards the development of sawdust reinforced vinyl ester composites with better material properties, but also useful for the investigations of thermal and mechanical properties in other composites.
Fundamental solutions, or Green functions, for waves propagating in acoustic media that exhibit random material properties, besides being useful in their own right, also serve as the basic building block for integral equation formulations that can be used for the numerical solution of acoustic wave scattering problems of practical importance.
Metabolic engineering of plants allows the possibility of using crops for the synthesis of novel polymers having useful material properties.
A test requiring more instrumentation, but measuring material properties that are more useful for analysis, is the pulling apart of two sides of a sample containing a crack that is initially cut about one-third of the way through the sample.
Many of these smart systems are reversible, giving rise to finer control over material properties and biological interaction, useful for various therapeutic treatment strategies.
