In the Edo period, when women came of age, the sleeves of their furisode would be cut shorter and “fastened” by stitching them. As the verb “kiru” (to cut) in Japanese also has the inauspicious meaning of “breaking off a relationship,” this action was instead referred to with the...
However, this approach was still influenced by the fracture strength of the metal material itself due to the low impedance of the polyurea and polymers coatings themselves, which cannot change the direction of the shock wave at the back-blast surface [23,24]. The material would still produce ...