For the physics and fluid mechanics effect called "shear layer", see Boundary layer.
Shearing layers is a concept coined by architect Frank Duffy, which was later elaborated by Stewart Brand in his book, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Brand, 1994), and refers to buildings as composed of several layers of change. The concept has been adopted by a number of technology vendors to also describe the different layers of systems within an organisation.
Shearinglayers is a concept coined by architect Frank Duffy, which was later elaborated by Stewart Brand in his book, How Buildings Learn: What Happens...
boundary layers can be loosely classified according to their structure and the circumstances under which they are created. The thin shearlayer which develops...
on it. Every layer can exist without the layers above it, and requires the layers below it to function. Another common view is that layers do not always...
perpendicular to the force. Wall shear stress expresses the retarding force (per unit area) from a wall in the layers of a fluid flowing next to the wall...
mapping is also called shear transformation, transvection, or just shearing. The transformations can be applied with a shear matrix or transvection,...
two Ekman layers. The structure of D {\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}} is the Stewartson layer. The Stewartson layer consists of two outer layers, one on the...
pilots on rare occasions. Wind shear can also produce wave. This occurs when an atmospheric inversion separates two layers with a marked difference in wind...
behavior is known as the critical shear rate. When shearing a concentrated stabilized solution at a relatively low shear rate, the repulsive particle-particle...
a closed loop across the shearlayer between two airmasses in relative movement, e.g. stationary air in a valley, and a layer of wind above the valley...
in the layer of fluid close to the surface. The flow can be externally, around a body, or internally, in an enclosed passage. Boundary layers can be either...
mechanics where shear flow is the shear stress force per unit length, in fluid mechanics, shear flow (or shearing flow) refers to adjacent layers of fluid moving...
in a stream, to a velocity that relates shear between layers of flow. Shear velocity is used to describe shear-related motion in moving fluids. It is used...
architecture Rule of thumb – Approximate method for doing something Shearinglayers Systems theory – Interdisciplinary study of systems Typology (urban...
nutrients from the lower layer into the upper layer. Nutrient fluxes through the pycnocline are lower than at other surface layers. The microbial loop is...
human-centered community. Among other things, the book details the notion of Shearinglayers. Criticism of the architect Richard Rogers was removed from the UK...
source of jet noise is the turbulent mixing of shearlayers in the engine's exhaust. These shearlayers contain instabilities that lead to highly turbulent...
reported in 2012, by shearing a square graphite mesa a few micrometers across, and observing the self-retraction of the shearedlayer. Such effects were...
fractures into layers. A variety of materials, including laminate composites and concrete, can fail by delamination. Processing can create layers in materials...
flow, which occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between those layers. Turbulence is commonly observed in everyday phenomena...
practical value. In cases with well-defined shearlayers, this is likely due the dominance of streamwise shear components, so that considerable relative...
number is caused by small-scale instabilities from the separation of the shearlayer. Knowing Newton’s Second Law stating force is equivalent to mass times...
to 100 m or so (within the surface layer), with near constant average wind speed up through 1000 m. The shearing of the wind is usually three-dimensional...
displaced layering and dykes, or the deflection (bending) of layering/foliation into a shear zone, one can additionally determine the sense of shear. En echelon...