Self-organized canals enable long-range directed material transport in bacterial communities by Li, Ye, Liu, Shiqi, Zhang, Yingdan, Seng, Zi Jing, Xu, Haoran, Yang, Liang, Wu, Yilin

“…Using Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonies as a model system, we discover that a large-scale and temporally evolving open-channel system spontaneously develops in the colony via shear-induced banding. Fluid flows in the open channels support high-speed (up to 450 µm/s) transport of cells and outer membrane vesicles over centimeters, and help to eradicate colonies of a competing species Staphylococcus aureus. …”
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A molecular dynamics simulation to shed light on the mechanical alloying of an Al-Zr alloy induced by severe plastic deformation by Morkina, Alina Y., Babicheva, Rita I., Korznikova, Elena A., Enikeev, Nariman A., Edalati, Kaveh, Dmitriev, Sergey V.

“…It is revealed that orientation of the grain boundary with segregation normal to the shear direction promotes more efficient mixing of alloy components compared to its parallel arrangement. …”
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Net section fracture of aluminium alloy angle-to-plate connections: testing, modelling and design by Jiang, Ke, Li, Shuai, Guo, Tong, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…The test setup, procedures and key obtained results, including failure loads, load–elongation curves, failure modes and strain distributions at failure cross-sections were reported. The shear lag effect and influences of the out-of-plane eccentricity, in-plane eccentricity, connection length and type of the connected leg on the net section efficiency were discussed. …”
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Rotator cuff tendons of the shoulder joint : anatomy and investigation of strain profile by Sheng, Jia-Min

“…The FE model showed similar trends in the strain as compared to the experimental results. High shear stresses were observed near the footprint within the supraspinatus. …”
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Micro-engineered perfusable 3D vasculatures for cardiovascular diseases by Menon, Nishanth Venugopal, Tay, Hui Min, Wee, Soon Nan, Li, King Ho Holden, Hou, Han Wei

“…Whole blood was perfused (1-10 dyne cm-2) into the microdevices and distinct platelet and leukocyte adherence patterns were observed due to increased shear stresses at the constriction, and an additional convective flow through the collagen. …”
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A network-based approach to interpreting pore blockage and cake filtration during membrane fouling by Han, Qi, Li, Weiyi, Trinh, Thien An, Liu, Xin, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Although limited fouling cases were examined in the current study, it is expected that the network model developed here can be readily applied to study more complex phenomena involved in a membrane filtration process (e.g., shear-induced diffusion), and the associated insights would be significantly enhanced when coupled with more advanced fouling characterization techniques (e.g., Optical Coherence Tomography).…”
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Remarkably enhanced thermal transport based on a flexible horizontally-aligned carbon nanotube array film by Qiu, Lin, Wang, Xiaotian, Su, Guoping, Tang, Dawei, Zheng, Xinghua, Zhu, Jie, Wang, Zhiguo, Norris, Pamela M., Bradford, Philip D., Zhu, Yuntian

“…Here we report a simultaneous sevenfold increase in in-plane thermal conductivity and a fourfold reduction in the thermal contact resistance at the flexible CNT-SiO2 coated heat sink interface by coupling the CNTs with orderly physical overlapping along the horizontal direction through an engineering approach (shear pressing). The removal of empty space rapidly increases the density of transport channels, and the replacement of the fine CNT tips with their cylindrical surface insures intimate contact at CNT-SiO2 interface. …”
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Electric ARC furnace steel slag and copper mine tailing as asphalt paving materials by Oluwasola, Ebenezer Akin

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Role of Sm3+ ions as network-modifying on elastic, mechanical, and radiation shielding properties of MgO–B2O3–TeO2 glasses by Zalamin, S.N.F., M Zaid, M.H., Matori, K.A., Karim, M.K.A., Yaakob, Y., Cheong, W.M., Loh, Z.W., Sayyed, M.I.

“…In addition, the bulk modulus, K, varies between 33.37 and 40.00 GPa, and the shear modulus, G, ranges between 20.39 and 24.93 GPa. …”
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Experimental, numerical study and design of concrete-encased concrete-filled steel tube columns and beam-column joints by Ma, Youxin

“…Arising from this test programme, there were new experimental results on the structural behaviour of concrete beam-to-CECFST column joints under lateral cyclic loading including storey shear force versus horizontal displacement curves, energy dissipation, ductility, strength and stiffness degradations. …”
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Evaluating the rheological, chemical and mechanical properties of hybrid asphalt binders and mixtures for enhanced performance by Wan Noor Hin, Mior Sani, Putra Jaya, Ramadhansyah, Khairil Azman, Masri, Amar, Dulaimi

“…Rheological properties of the hybrid asphalt binders were analysed using a Dynamic Shear Rheometer (DSR), while microstructural characteristics were examined through scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). …”
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Hydrate-phobic surfaces: fundamental studies in clathrate hydrate adhesion reduction by Smith, J. David, Meuler, Adam J., Bralower, Harrison L., Venkatesan, Rama, Subramanian, Sivakumar, Cohen, Robert E., McKinley, Gareth H., Varanasi, Kripa K.

“…In this paper, we present an alternate approach of using functionalized coatings to reduce hydrate adhesion to surfaces, ideally to a low enough level that hydrodynamic shear stresses can detach deposits and prevent plug formation. …”
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Strain engineering of antimonene by a first-principles study : mechanical and electronic properties by Kripalani, Devesh Raju, Kistanov, Andrey A., Cai, Yongqing, Xue, Ming, Zhou, Kun

“…The upper region of its valence band is found to solely consist of lone pair p-orbital states, which are by nature more delocalized than the d-orbital states in transition metal dichalcogenides, implying superior transport performance of antimonene. The Young's and shear moduli of β-antimonene are observed to be ∼25% higher than those of bulk antimony, while the hexagonal lattice constant of the monolayer reduces significantly (∼5%) from that in bulk, indicative of strong interlayer coupling. …”
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Efficacy of riprap design for protection of quay structures against propeller-induced scouring by Tan, Qin Xiang

“…Rock stability tests were conducted to determine the critical efflux velocity of the propeller jet when shear failure of the riprap was observed. The critical efflux velocity measured from the experiments were subsequently compared with the critical efflux velocity predicted using the German and Dutch methods. …”
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The behavior of suspensions and macromolecular solutions in crossflow microfiltration: an update by Chew, Jia Wei, Kilduff, James, Belfort, Georges

“…Fouling mitigation efforts have focused on high-throughput modification platforms and more energy-efficient unsteady-state shear methods. Finally, membrane modules can be modernized based on the knowledge accumulated to better improve their efficiency, and factoring in important considerations like feed type, mechanical stability, hydrodynamics, economics and application goals.…”
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Organic solvent-assisted control of hydrogel structures and properties by Zhou, Quan

“…This became possible for the following two reasons: 1) the addition of ethanol makes SA solution exhibit the upper critical solution temperature (UCST) behavior in which gelation occurred when the temperature was reduced below the sol-to-gel transition temperature, and 2) the presence of ethanol significantly increased the viscosity of SA solution and enhanced its shear-thinning feature, thus making it ideal for 3D printing. …”
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Computation fluid dynamics on drag reduction II by Zang, Bin

“…Five RANS turbulence models: Spalart-Allmaras (Vorticity-based production); Spalart-Allmaras (Strain / Vorticity-based production); k-ε Standard (Enhanced Wall Treatment); k-ε Realizable (Enhanced Wall Treatment) and k-ω Standard (Shear Flow Correction), are chosen after comparing with DNS data published by Moser et al (1999). [20] Subsequently, the single and multiple dimpled channel flows are modeled and simulated by the five RANS models chosen in the verification stage with periodic boundary condition, a Reynolds number of 20000, and a three-dimensional channel of L = 1.5 m, B = 0.454 m and H = 1 m. …”
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Long-term slip rate of the southern San Andreas Fault from 10Be-26Al surface exposure dating of an offset alluvial fan by Ryerson, Frederick J., Van der Woerd, Jérôme, Klinger, Yann, Sieh, Kerry, Tapponnier, Paul, Mériaux, Anne-Sophie

“…This result puts new constraints on the slip rate of the San Jacinto and on the Eastern California Shear Zone for the last 35 kyr. Our study shows that more sites along the major faults of southern California need to be targeted to better constrain the slip rates over different timescales.…”
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Structure-activity relationships of photo-activated soft tissue Adhesive by Wicaksono, Gautama

“…Finally, to demonstrate potential applications, the proposed CaproGlu bioadhesive is mixed with osseointegrative additive to form a bone cement biocomposite using a model PMMA pin that allows biocomposite curing through a transparent light guide, with resulting lap shear strength up to 40 kPa. Overall, this diazirine-based adhesive system demonstrates a novelty in adhesive design where excellent tunability in material properties can be achieved by modifying composition (adding liquid polymer or solid particles) and light activation parameters (power, wavelength) with direct application towards soft and hard tissue adhesion.…”
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Debonding-on-demand Fe₃O₄-epoxy adhesively bonded dissimilar joints via electromagnetic induction heating by Caglar, Hasan, Aksoy, Y. Altay, Idapalapati, Sridhar, Caglar, Baris, Sharma, Mohit, Chian, Kerm Sin

“….%) of Fe3O4 exhibited beneficial effects on the mechanical, thermal, thermomechanical, wettability and lap shear strength.…”
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