Hardness is a property largely used in material specifications, mechanical and metallurgical research and quality control of several materials. Specifically for timber, Janka hardness is a simple, quick and easy test, with ...

There is now a considerable increase on the part of universities in the incursion into the development of nanosatellite missions. In the aerospace sector, almost every operation is full of risks and big investments of time ...

Creep behavior of geosynthetics is commonly determined by means of creep tests performed with in-isolation specimens. Soil-geosynthetic interaction and duration of the tests were already addressed in previous studies with ...