News tagged with deformations
NASA Radar Images Show How Mexico Quake Deformed Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has released the first-ever airborne radar images of the deformation in Earth's surface caused by a major earthquake -- the magnitude 7.2 temblor that rocked Mexico's state of Baja California ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Underground Forces: Deformation Processes in Gravel Deposits
Deformation bands in the gravel layers of the Eisenstadt-Sopron Basin form as a result of heterogeneous displacement in the surrounding sediment. This is caused by gradients in the deformation intensity, which ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Single-particle resonances in a deformed relativistic potential
A variety of structural phenomena in exotic short-lived nuclei far from stability, especially in systems close to the particle drip lines, challenge model descriptions based on the self-consistent mean-field approximation. ...
Jun 03, 2010 |
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30 years after Mount St. Helens blast, agency pushes high-tech warning system
The first earthquake rattled Mount St. Helens on March 20, 1980 -- nearly two months before the mountain erupted. But it took awhile for anyone to notice.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2010 |
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Iowa State engineers design power structures that help keep the lights on
(PhysOrg.com) -- Iowa State University engineers are developing new and improved poles to carry electricity across the countryside. They say the new structures -- which can bend and deflect an extreme load ...
May 11, 2010 |
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Researchers develop a robot that folds towels (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team from Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department has figured out how to get a robot to fold previously unseen towels of different sizes. Their approach solves a key problem in ...
Apr 05, 2010 |
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Perfectly shaped solid components
(PhysOrg.com) -- When metals are shaped, the materials they are made of are often damaged in the process. One cause of this is excessive press force, which cracks and perforates the material. By running simulations ...
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Novel zoom objective with deformable mirrors
Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs deployed on landscape analysis missions carry optical measuring equipment that is required to operate free of chromatic aberration. Researchers have now designed an all-reflective ...
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Bone Implant Offers Hope for Skull Deformities
(PhysOrg.com) -- A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon. Implants replacing some of the infant’s bone with the biodegradable ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 19, 2009 |
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A New Glance on Microscopic Images
A doctoral student at the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) suggests interpreting the images generated by Kelvin probe force microscopy in a new way. She recently published her ...
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Safety of combat military vehicles examined
A Queen's University Belfast academic is working on research that could help protect the lives of military based in Afghanistan.
Jul 29, 2009 |
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New study sheds light on earthquake hazard along San Andreas Fault
New research by a team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) offers new insight into the San Andreas Fault as it extends beneath Southern ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Salt block unexpectedly stretches in new experiments
To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Fruit fly steps in to fight human disease
Belgian scientists have successfully introduced genes coding for a variant of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, into fruit flies. CMT is one of the most common hereditary disorders of the peripheral nervous system. VIB ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Surgery in patients with RA is often 'too little, too late'
A new study published by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reveals that one of the most common conditions caused by Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is best treated surgically, sooner rather than later.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 02, 2009 |
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