Sentence examples for a decrease in toughness from inspiring English sources

Tempering weld alloy steels lead to a decrease in toughness as compared with the hardened condition.

However, an increase in strength is usually accompanied by a decrease in toughness.

Ageing in crystalline polymers is responsible for the deterioration of physical properties leading, for example, to a decrease in toughness and to dimensional changes that are to some extent responsible for warpage and scrap production in injection molding.

A decrease in toughness compared with the neat matrix was obtained for PLAlow SC): PLAlow < PLAlow PLLA) > PLAlow SC).

Also, there is a clear tendency for a decrease in fracture toughness with increasing impact rate for all materials investigated.

The modulus of the MWCNT/PVC composites increased while there was a reduction in their tensile strength, indicating a decrease in polymer toughness.

An increase in monoclinic content was correlated with a decrease in fracture toughness, increase in surface roughness, and increase in surface wear (Table  3) [ 8, 23, 24, 26- 28].

They show sub-micron grain size of both, the WC and the fcc hard phase and thus substantially higher hardness (with only a small decrease in toughness) as compared to conventionally prepared bodies of the same overall composition.

Toughening due to the lowering of an upper glass transition was counteracted by an antiplasticization effect, whereby the presence of the second network reduced the available free volume for segmental motion which caused an inherent decrease in toughness.

Due to the increase in grain size and observation of transgranular fracture when the amount of ZnO content was increased, the crack length of PMNT/ZnO ceramics extended longer than that in the pure PMNT ceramic, leading to a decrease in the fracture toughness.

The results show a decrease in the observed shielding toughness, leading to an overall reduction in the maximum toughness.