A possible explanation is a thermal blunting resulting from adiabatic heating at high speeds.
At this state, the network is rigid but free of eigen-stress and features stress relaxation through crack blunting, resulting in optimal resistance to fracture.
For the case of a clean interface, crack blunting resulting from the plastic flow of the metallic substrate will eventually arrest the delamination.
In individuals with insulin resistance or pre-diabetes, this response is significantly blunted, resulting in a disproportionate contribution of FFAs to postprandial whole-body energy consumption (20, 21).
At either 10 or 30 μM vitamin E, the inhibition caused by CPF was blunted, resulting in a net value not distinguishable from the effect of vitamin E alone but significantly different from that of CPF alone.
In many obese subjects, and more particularly so in subjects with abdominal obesity, these effects of insulin are blunted, resulting in post-prandial hyperglycemia and hyperlipemia in spite of a normal or even increased insulin secretion.
Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill, a blunt, results-oriented pragmatist to his supporters, is dismissed as a quirky loose cannon by his critics, some of them Republican.
Blunt trauma results in an inflammatory process.
Attorney General Eric Holder's assessment that the United States is a "nation of cowards" on issues of race was perhaps off-puttingly blunt but results from the recent Presidential election support his call for Americans to talk more about race.
Blunt trauma resulted in more injuries to the chest, abdomen and pelvis including lung contusions, hemo-pneumothoraces, solid organ injuries and visceral injuries.
