With the objective of establishing biological and biochemical characteristics of a significant number of Trypanosoma cruzi strains from different geographical areas, 138 strains isolated from naturally infected humans, ...

This paper presents a new experimental method to measure the strain increment and the strain rate during the bulge of a copper sheet. The electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is combined with the bulge test to ...

Elastically mediated interactions between surface domains are classically described in terms of point forces. Such point forces lead to local strain divergences that are usually avoided by introducing a poorly defined ...

Introduction: Breathing produces a phenomenon of cyclic deformation throughout life. Biomechanically, deformation of the lung is measured as strain. Regional strain recently started to be recognised as a tool in the study ...

In the present study, tailor-welded blanks (TWBs) of dissimilar material combination were fabricated by laser welding of interstitial-free (IF) and dual-phase (DP) steels using 2.4-kW power and 4 m/min scan speed. ...

The triaxial compressive response of bituminous mixes with volume fractions of aggregate in the range 52 to 85% was investigated over a wide range stresses and strain rates. The types of loadings considered include triaxial ...

Although bovine herpesvirus type 4 (BoHV-4) is primarily associated with reproductive disorders of cattle, it canproduce a variety of clinical signs. To determine the distribution, the presence and type of microscopic ...

This work present a study of glulam beams reinforced with FRP. It was developed a theoretical model that calculates strength and stiffness of the beams. The model allows for the calculation of the bending moment, the ...