The Materials and Methods section is a vital component of any formal lab report. This section of the report gives a detailed account of the procedure that was followed in completing the experiment(s) discussed in the report.
shear flow. Definitions: 1. a flow of a material in which parallel planes in the material are displaced in a direction parallel to each other. The definition information for shear flow is provided by Stedman's.
Definition and Mathematics of Pure Shear. In contrast to simple shear, pure shear is a three-dimensional constant-volume homogeneous flattening (Twiss and Moores, 1992). During homogeneous flattening a sphere is transformed into a pancake-like shape and a box is changed into a tablet or book-like form.