The "Lullaby of Birdland" writer suffered from congestive heart failure Monday in New York City. By The Associated Press NEW YORK – Sir George Shearing, the ebullient jazz pianist who wrote the ...

In my previous column, I noted that the shear strength and shear stiffness of the core material in a sandwich panel can be determined in situ while performing flexural tests to evaluate other sandwich ...

The latest of the ASTM standards for determining the shear strength and shear stiffness of materials — composite materials in particular — has just been released. The V-Notched Rail shear test was ...

Finding new, low-cost ways to make better metal alloys and composites is one of the holy grails of the materials research world. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest ...

Geosynthetic materials are integral to modern civil engineering applications, from landfill containment systems to reinforced soil structures. Their shear strength and interface behaviour dictate the ...

Controllable deformations have a form which is independent of the specific form of the strain energy function. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a deformation to be controllable for three ...

Dave Brubeck today led the tributes to George Shearing, the ebullient British-born jazz pianist who wrote the standard Lullaby of Birdland and who died yesterday at the age of 91. Pianist Brubeck, who ...