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physics.class-ph2012
Why old tires are still being preferred as dock bumpers in harbours
Miguel Lagos
The usage of old tires as dock and tugboat bumpers has been a common practice from long ago, proving to be safe for docking even the largest freighters. The reaction force and stor…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012
Evidence of a two--dimensional grain sliding regime in the plastic deformation of micron and sub--micron films
Miguel Lagos, Víctor Conte, Michel Ignat
Copper and aluminium sub-micron films are structured as columnar arrays of grains traversing the entire film, and hence are virtual two-dimensional polycrystalline solids. A closed…