{"id":91223,"date":"2019-05-23T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/behold-the-mayo-experiments-reveal-instability-threshold-of-elastic-plastic-material"},"modified":"2019-05-23T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T19:23:08","slug":"behold-the-mayo-experiments-reveal-instability-threshold-of-elastic-plastic-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/behold-the-mayo-experiments-reveal-instability-threshold-of-elastic-plastic-material","title":{"rendered":"Behold the mayo: Experiments reveal \u2018instability threshold\u2019 of elastic-plastic material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/behold-the-mayo-experiments-reveal-instability-threshold-of-elastic-plastic-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arindam Banerjee, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University, studies the dynamics of materials in extreme environments. He and his team have built several devices to effectively investigate the dynamics of fluids and other materials under the influence of high acceleration and centrifugal force.<\/p>\n<p>One area of interest is Rayleigh-Taylor instability, which occurs between materials of different densities when the density and pressure gradients are in opposite directions creating an unstable stratification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the presence of gravity\u2014or any accelerating field\u2014the two materials penetrate one another like \u2018fingers,\u2019\u201d says Banerjee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-mayo-reveal-instability-threshold-elastic-plastic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arindam Banerjee, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University, studies the dynamics of materials in extreme environments. He and his team have built several devices to effectively investigate the dynamics of fluids and other materials under the influence of high acceleration and centrifugal force. One area of interest is Rayleigh-Taylor instability, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}