Most known debris discs around other stars are fairly young, but the two images on the right, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in January 2006, are old enough (roughly 300 million years) to have settled into stable configurations.
As a result, configurational volume forces which are settled in the intermediate configuration embody non-vanishing dislocation density tensors while their material counterparts directly incorporate non-vanishing gradients of distortions.
So presumably, in folding, the cortex also simply settles into the configuration of least mechanical energy.
The relationship comes about because the bent-up paper settles into the configuration that minimizes its energy.
However, attempt to settle the absolute configuration of chiral center C-2′ of the lactyl moiety by Mosher's method failed.
Under certain circumstances, it has been observed that a pumpkin balloon may be unable to pressurize into the desired cyclically symmetric equilibrium configuration, settling into a distorted, undesired state instead.
After generation 35, the system settles for this configuration while optimizing the z-position of the new attractor.
During deaeration, the grains settle and form a very loosely packed configuration, perhaps with few point contacts between the grains, which, with minimal disturbance, can break so that the material re-fluidizes.
After determining that, for those who retained wrist movement, the flexing of a wrist would be the best way to activate the controller, she settled on a wristwatch-like configuration made possible by the advent of a new kind of sensor called, despite its small size, the gigantic magnetoresistive sensor.
The sequencing suggested that the working stroke consisted of two stages, one in which both the MD and the lever arm move from an M-ward tilt toward a Z-ward tilt in Stage 1, with Stage 2 beginning when the MD settled into the strong binding configuration and only the lever arm moved.
We experimented with how many cords there should be (we settled on five) and different configurations (we settled on a V-shape).
