Drag and lift are the forces which act on a body moving through a fluid, or on a stationary object in a flowing fluid. We ...

Researchers found that peristaltic pump flow mechanically breaks supersaturation to induce amyloid formation by hen egg white lysozyme, a-synuclein, amyloid b 1-40, and b2-microglobulin. The high ...

This technology is a wall shear stress sensor for measuring the shear stress due to fluid flow over a test surface. The wall shear stress sensor is comprised of a wall shear stress sensor body and an ...

The factor that tips you over the edge from being at risk for a disease to actually developing the disease is not always clear. Now, researchers from Japan report one factor that triggers problematic ...

The free-body diagram method is emphasized. Topics include vector algebra, force, moment of force, couples, static equilibrium of rigid bodies, trusses, friction, properties of areas, shear and moment ...

CONCLUSION: Shear stresses play an important role in the Euler-Bernoulli theory for the bending of beams when shear force resultants exist at a given cross section.

"Our findings suggest that shear flow forces in various fluids in our body, such as blood and cerebrospinal fluid, could trigger amyloid formation," says Goto. Given that some medical procedures ...

The transverse load P will produce a shear force V in the positive y direction on a mathematical cut through the beam at point “a”. This shear force is directly responsible for the shear stress τ on ...