The phrase "advancing side" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a side or aspect that is making progress or moving forward, often in discussions about competition, strategy, or development.
Example: "In the debate, the advancing side presented compelling arguments that swayed the audience's opinion."
Alternatives: "progressive side" or "forward-moving side".
The cyclic plastic strain was observed intensively on the advancing side in the soft stir zone.
Microstructural studies revealed that the material placed on the advancing side dominates the nugget region.
So-called band patterns from the advancing side to the weld center were detected in the stir nugget zone.
The fatigue results showed that the overlap joints loaded on the retreating side exhibited superior performance compared to the advancing side.
The friction stir welded joints presented a brittle failure from the retreating side of the weld nugget, which suffers from defect formation when compared to the advancing side.
In the stir zone, a 〈1 0 0〉 fiber texture component containing a dominant orientation was observed from the center to the advancing side.
It was found that: (i) the tensile strength of FSW joints approached that of the base material but with a significant reduction in the fatigue life, (ii) the probe plunge and removal locations served as the key crack nucleation sites in specimens with discontinuous welds, and (iii) double pass welds with overlapping advancing sides showed outstanding fatigue life and very good tensile properties.
The advancing side-thermo-mechanically-affected zone (AS-TMAZ) of joint made by THC profiled tool shows coarse and severely deformed elongated grains at the interface.
In both air and water cooling medium, the tunnel defects are observed in the advancing side-PIR of the joints fabricated using STC and TAC profiled tools.
Should they get through, they will meet the three advancing sides from Group B in the second phase, with the top two teams from the pool of six contesting the final.
The plan was to attack with the battalion's four companies advancing side-by-side from the north-east to attack from behind the German defences, sweeping down on the village like a fan with the left-most company providing flank protection and establishing a series of posts to stop the garrison from escaping while the two centre and the right-most companies took the village.
