Strategies of resource allocation that maximize fitness can differ between benign and stressful environments, including that of stresses imposed by chemotherapy (Buckling et al. 1997).
Membranes of hides are strong in tension (stresses imposed by stretching forces), but poles must be added to take compression (stresses imposed by compacting forces).
The major surface currents of the oceans are driven by the surface shear stresses imposed by the wind.
The airframe is designed to withstand all aerodynamic forces as well as the stresses imposed by the weight of the fuel, crew, and payload.
The pulmonary circulation may be damaged by the stresses imposed by a high blood flow over a long period of time.
The nomination last week of Janet L. Yellen as Ben S. Bernanke's successor at the Federal Reserve and the stresses imposed by the fiscal debate imply that the Fed will continue its current policies for a while longer.
Stress fractures result from abnormal stresses imposed on normal bones by the continued and repeated actions of muscles or from normal stresses imposed on abnormal bones.
Leg bones must withstand the compressive stresses imposed by an animal's weight.
In practice, the stresses imposed by service loadings are likely to be complex.
The local stresses imposed on the component are also influenced by kinematics, stiffness, axle mass, dampers, bearings, bump geometry etc.
Finally, several of the australopiths exhibit derived traits on their facial skeletons that act to withstand high stresses imposed by feeding (e.g., Rak 1983).
