Understanding Shear Force. Shear force is any force corresponding to a material’s surface. In liquid, for example, this leads to friction between fluid particles, leading to particle size reduction.

For example, bolting two parts together can involve material properties and loading forces. Here, we will focus on preloading, shear and tear-out in a bolted assembly.

An international team of researchers have observed a phenomenon called virtual melting in colloidal crystals. They studied how it helps enable changes from one crystalline structure to another ...

Flexible 'skin' can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force Date: October 17, 2017 Source: University of Washington ...

Abstract: Delamination of rigid objects from an elastic substrate with finite thickness is a fundamental problem underlying applications such as marine fouling release coatings or anti-icing ...

1. E-skin fabrication and assembly (A)—the device consists of three layers, assembled by lamination: a bottom 1-mm-thick PU layer with an array of hills (hill diameter, 1 mm; height, 200 μm) (i ...