Sentence examples for brittle infrastructure from inspiring English sources

If this sounds daunting, consider the alternative: longer development cycles, more brittle infrastructure and slower innovation than your competitors.

Over time, disparate interests begat a brittle political structure and an equally brittle infrastructure.

If nothing else, high compressive strength can be more brittle; some high strength concrete infrastructures have indicated a higher tendency for early age cracking.

The need for viable materials in sustainable infrastructures is driving the creation of multifunctional strain-hardening cementitious composites that combine brittle cementitious matrices with fibers.

This study provides new fundamental insights, design guidelines, and de novo strategies to turn the brittle C-S-H into a ductile material, impacting modern engineering of strong and tough concrete infrastructures and potentially other complex brittle materials.

Experience from past mining activity in the infrastructure preparation for the new mining method indicates that the mine is located in a hard, brittle rock mass with high horizontal stresses.

Engineered cementitious composites (ECCs), by reducing the brittle nature of concrete, have opened a new world of possibilities to enhance the safety, durability, and sustainability of civil infrastructure.

Quasicrystals are exceptionally brittle.

Enforced stability is brittle.

It could prove brittle.

But relations are brittle.