Sentence examples for apparent hardening from inspiring English sources

Despite the apparent hardening of positions and the lack of time before Copenhagen, climate negotiators said they had not given up hope of a positive outcome".

Western diplomats and China scholars have voiced grave concern about an apparent hardening of policy by the State Security Bureau, seemingly intended to intimidate the growing number of Western-educated Chinese who are returning to work or conduct research.

Some analysts here argue that the apparent hardening of Argentina's position stems from the recent market turbulence in neighboring Brazil and Uruguay, which is also showing signs of affecting Chile and Mexico.

Furthermore, an exceptional low scatter of the flow stress in various samples and no apparent hardening is found.

We show that the plasticity and toughness can be enhanced systematically with the increase of the heterogeneity and in certain circumstance even apparent hardening can be achieved.

Only in September, hints from Saudi Arabia that it might join an American attack prompted Saddam Hussein to declare that he would, after all, accept the UN weapons inspectors.While American officials hastened to downplay the apparent hardening of Saudi attitudes, Iraq thanked the kingdom for its "Arab solidarity".

The results indicate that a change in the mobile dislocation density, together with thermal softening, has substantial effects on apparent work hardening behavior at high strain rates, although the change in the mobile dislocation density is transcribed at macroscopic scale in the model.

In contrast to the apparent "work-hardening" behavior caused by the progressive propagation of shear band under monotonic loading, plastic softening occurs and then reaches saturation under cyclic compression.

The progressive propagation of shear bands causes an apparent work-hardening behavior, which can be well explained by assuming a higher critical stress for shear band initiation than propagation.

The thermo-mechanically coupled theory is able to capture the resulting inhomogenous deformation associated with the nucleation and propagation of transformation fronts, and also the 'apparent hardening' of the nominal stress-strain curves observed in the experiments.

For the case when the film is harder than substrate, the influence of film hardening was more apparent especially when the film/substrate yield stress ratio was low.