The phrase "about to rupture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is on the verge of breaking or bursting, often in a physical or metaphorical sense.
Example: "The pressure in the balloon was so high that it felt like it was about to rupture at any moment."
Alternatives: "on the brink of bursting" or "ready to explode".
He's got a ruptured this, he's about to rupture that, his asthma's kicking in, and he has logo on the magogo.
Most experts think that small aneurysms do not cause any symptoms unless they are about to rupture.
And for someone facing a massive heart attack or an aneurysm that is about to rupture, the risk of NTM infection "becomes vanishingly small in comparison to the very real concrete risk that those medical emergencies pose to a patient who needs surgery," Bell said.
According to a separately released statement from Google today, "Maybe there could be a test for the enzymes given off by arterial plaques that are about to rupture and cause a heart attack or stroke.
The investigation did discover that BP's rig supervisors and crew members from Transocean had not carried out a crucial safety test properly, missing an important early warning that the pressure was too high and the well was about to rupture.
I see you at that stoplight, about to rupture a lung.
The asperity area, with a length of about 300 km, simultaneously began to rupture with a high moment rate, and the rupture continued for 30 40 s (the frames of 45– 60 s to 75 90 s).
Prior to the pain he did not know he even owned a plantaris and he is still clueless about how he managed to rupture this mysterious muscle.
With nowhere to go, the sewage built up enough pressure to rupture the underground pipe about a quarter-mile from the station, said Rehg.
The per cent reduction to rupture was about 20% mostly due to the presence of microcrystalline grains acting against crack propagation.
The composites possess approximately one order of magnitude lower steady-state creep rate and about eight times higher time-to-rupture at 873 K/200 MPa.
