Sentence examples for shear spring from inspiring English sources

To resolve this problem, the shear load versus deformation model for the shear spring was developed using the existing OpenSees limit-state material model and shear limit curve developed by Elwood (2004).

The elements are plane, quadrilateral and connected by two normal springs and one shear spring on each side.

By combining the stress-strain models of concrete, steel reinforcement, lap-splice's bond model, anchorage bond slip and nonlinear shear spring into the fiber section frame element, the numerical results shows a good agreement with experimental ones.

The force displacement relationship of the shear spring and the bending moment rotation relationship of the flexural spring are schematized by means of the uniaxial material model recently proposed by Zona and Dall'Asta for steel buckling restrained braces.

FEA calculations have been carried out for a model rubber shear spring, consisting of a block of a highly elastic material, bonded between two rigid parallel plates and sheared by displacing one of the plates parallel to the other in its own plane.

Open image in new window Fig. 6 Schematic presentation of zero-length shear spring envelope curve used in ZEUS-NL.

At 10,000 N load, the restricted condition resulted in higher P1 axial compressive (p=0.015), maximum shear (p=0.043) and engineering shear (p=0.046) strains compared to the forward condition.

The working principles of such systems involve, for example, the application of hydrostatic pressure9,10, compressive11,12 or shear loading13,14.

— MICHAEL D. SHEAR Today's primary is playing out against a bleaker economic backdrop than those of the last two contests.

Previously reported bioreactors used for studies on chondrocyte biology and cartilage tissue engineering include systems applying compressive loading31,32, hydrostatic pressure33, shear loading13,34, and hybrid bioreactors incorporating multiple loading regimes15,17,35,36,37.

It is, however, by far lower than a study from Tanzania (Munishi and Shear 2004).