The stresses acting upon a material in the real world are usually random in nature rather than cyclic.
The earliest housing in Ultimo was built of sandstone, a material in which the achievement of flares and frills is relatively easy.
Magnesite is used as a refractory material, a catalyst and filler in the production of synthetic rubber, and a material in the preparation of magnesium chemicals and fertilizers.
The mechanism involves a material in which some aspect of disorder of its constituent particles exists at 4 K or below (liquid helium temperatures).
Every wall is a material in itself; and ideally no material, if it is properly used, needs to be covered up.
Douglas Snelling's chairs used the same synthetic webbing that had been used to make parachutes; Roger McLay made his Kone chair, 1948, from aircraft-grade plywood, a material in plentiful supply, left over from the manufacture of de Havilland Mosquitos.
The transistor has evolved in many different ways since the days of the original invention, but, basically, it is still made of a material in which the electrons have just the right degree of attachment to nearby atoms.
As McDonough and Braungart put it, such products are "upcycled" rather than "downcycled"—their derisive term for conventional recycling, which often means little more than reconstituting a material in a lesser form.
Plaster also functions as a material in its own right, in wonderfully raw, expressive mounds -- the sculptural equivalent of the scribbled piles of line in many of Mr. Twombly's paintings.
From the moment in 1960-odd when Sol LeWitt asked gallery assistants to do his drawings for him, other people have become as common a material in the making of art as pastel or gouache.
An Israeli scientist won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering quasicrystals, a material in which atoms were packed together in a well-defined pattern that never repeats.
