Sentence examples for a weakening effect from inspiring English sources

In addition, increasing the number of layers produces a weakening effect on the overall mechanical performance in terms of critical strain.

Generally, it was found that acetic acid had a weakening effect on the flexural strength of samples sintered at 1700 °C but a beneficial effect on KIC of ceramics sintered at 1600 °C.

A comparison of the SFR-RPC samples, with and without ducts, shows a weakening effect indicating there was a change in the cracking load and a decrease of bearing capacity for SFR-RPC without a duct.

(Social conditioning is a powerful sedative when it comes to radical change. In the 17th century, rocking the cradle was said to have a weakening effect on men not all that different from the message my dad was given 200 years later).

The Devil's Quadrangle earned its name from the fact that improving one dimension has a weakening effect on at least one other (Reijers and Liman Mansar 2005).

Another factor has a weakening effect on tax revenue in many towns: Even in places with some of the highest percentages of internal migrants, a scarcity of new births and internal immigrants has actually meant a net population loss overall.

The conclusions in each case are the same: a spread in phase has a simple weakening effect, while a small spread in frequency affects the response in the same way as light damping.

A similar evolution is observed for the α-methylbenzyl alcohols 7, for which an expected HB acidity increase is measured (+0.09) upon monofluorination, whereas the presence of a second fluorine atom has a dramatic weakening effect (−0.35).

It verifies that water-temperature has a significant weakening effect on the gypsum, while a much weaker effect from the chlorine ions.

The spectre of nuclear war has a curiously weakening effect on superpowers.

The Turkish PM's latest foray into monetary policy had a predictably weakening effect on the lira, knocking it to 2.1460 against the US dollar, from 2.1350 beforehand.