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  2. T-beam - Wikipedia

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    Unlike an I-beam, a T-beam lacks a bottom flange, which carries savings in terms of materials, but at the loss of resistance to tensile forces. [5] T- beam designs come in many sizes, lengths and widths to suit where they are to be used (eg highway bridge, underground parking garage) and how they have to resist the tension, compression and shear stresses associated with beam bending in their ...

  3. Compressibility - Wikipedia

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    The particles in real materials interact with each other. Then, the relation between the pressure, density and temperature is known as the equation of state denoted by some function . The Van der Waals equation is an example of an equation of state for a realistic gas. = (,).

  4. Compression (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Compression of solids has many implications in materials science, physics and structural engineering, for compression yields noticeable amounts of stress and tension. By inducing compression, mechanical properties such as compressive strength or modulus of elasticity, can be measured. [5]

  5. Isentropic process - Wikipedia

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    Such an idealized process is useful in engineering as a model of and basis of comparison for real processes. [7] This process is idealized because reversible processes do not occur in reality; thinking of a process as both adiabatic and reversible would show that the initial and final entropies are the same, thus, the reason it is called ...

  6. Diaphragm (structural system) - Wikipedia

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    The diaphragm forces tend to be transferred to the vertical resisting elements primarily through in-plane shear stress. [1] The most common lateral loads to be resisted are those resulting from wind and earthquake actions, but other lateral loads such as lateral earth pressure or hydrostatic pressure can also be resisted by diaphragm action.

  7. Compression (geology) - Wikipedia

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    In geology, the term compression refers to a set of stresses directed toward the center of a rock mass. Compressive strength refers to the maximum amount of compressive stress that can be applied to a material before failure occurs.

  8. Compressive stress - Wikipedia

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    When an object is subjected to a force in a single direction (referred to as a uniaxial compression), the compressive stress is determined by dividing the applied force by the cross-sectional area of the object. [1] Consequently, compressive stress is expressed in units of force per unit area. Axial Stress

  9. Stretched exponential function - Wikipedia

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    In phenomenological applications, it is often not clear whether the stretched exponential function should be used to describe the differential or the integral distribution function—or neither. In each case, one gets the same asymptotic decay, but a different power law prefactor, which makes fits more ambiguous than for simple exponentials.