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"One potential method of dissipating some of the vehicle's kinetic energy is to design an obstacle that utilizes a crushable concrete material," explains Doyle, Radlinska, and Qiu.

"From the very beginning I suspected that the entire scandal reeked of a publicity stunt developed in a Hollywood marketing brainstorming meeting to boost the careers of everyone involved, from Kristen Stewart to Robert Pattinson to Rupert Sanders, and yes, even to Liberty Ross," Crushable writer Jenni Maier wrote.

It is a strip at the end of the runway consisting of lightweight, crushable concrete blocks, which are designed to collapse under the weight of an aircraft and slow it to a halt.

According to the firm known as JR West, the trains have intensified strength in the cockpit area of the front vehicle and are equipped with a so-called ''crushable zone'' near the roof area which is designed to absorb collision damage to compartments by crushing relatively easily on impact.

The plastic behavior of foam is taken into account using the CRUSHABLE FOAM and the CRUSHABLE FOAM HARDENING options in the Abaqus/Explicit software package [14].

Wallaroo's products are said to be crushable, washable, and foldable.

An ultra soft body and crushable auto-tune megaphone make it easier to vary the call's tone and intensity.

TECT creates crushable structures to absorb impact energy and disperse it away from occupants during a collision.

Absorbing crash energy over the longest possible time makes it essential to use up every last available square millimetre of crushable space, especially under the bonnet.

The seats incorporate shock attenuation crushable elements developed at Land Systems South Africa.

Bariatric surgery patients must switch their medications to liquid or crushable alternatives to get the medicine past the physiologic obstacles created by the surgery.

The car's front end reduces the risk of injury to pedestrians with impact-absorbing qualities in the bonnet structure and bumper and radiator mounts and a crushable structure fitted to the back edge of the bonnet.

The truth has been unearthed: Plastic grocery bags have become thinner and more crushable to the point that 100 plastic bags consume less space inside a landfill than 20 paper bags.

Accident experience shows that the extent of crushable structure between the occupants and the principal point of impact on the airplane has a direct bearing on the severity of the transmitted crash forces and, therefore, on survivability.

Top tips for packing: Take dresses and kaftans in crushable materials; Roll up linen to prevent deep creases; Pack as many small, lightweight items as you can; Siphon off beauty products into miniatures; Forget CDs, buy an MP3 player; Don't go mad in duty free buying even more products