Sentence examples for brittle point from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, the knowledge of the correlations established between the fracture temperature of asphalt concrete and the low temperature ductility as well as the brittle point of bitumen can be used in further project.

These cover: elasticity; vulcanization; second order transition, brittle point and crystallization; effects of fluids; creep and stress relaxation; dynamic properties– hysteresis; friction, abrasion and tearing; thermal effects; chemical properties; oxygen attack; ozone attack; light aging; resistance to water; and compression set.

Encouraging job satisfaction from learning and not from a brittle four point scale marking scheme would allow mastery to be more easily achieved.

Bleaching and death can make the physical structures of corals weak and brittle, Beck pointed out.

With good prospect for machining functional surfaces on hard and brittle materials, single point diamond grinding (SPDG) has been applied, but its wider application still need more effort and development.

Since the stalks and husks are so brittle at this point, snapping the ears of corn off is usually quite easy.

Lacking Currin's wit and Peyton's passion, the Scottish artist generates a brittle melancholy that points up the sharper authenticity of his New York mates.

Berio's skilful arrangements invoke a similar soundworld as Mahler's own orchestrations of his songs: it's colourful, slightly brittle, and vividly pointed up by Pons.

The sky was slate blue and brittle, and at one point I saw the green flare of a meteor burn out above a line of trees.

In the first bars of the prelude, summoning the elegant realm of Henri de Valois, he discovers a radically different kind of music — brilliant, brittle, simple to the point of being rude, with dissonances glinting like sudden sunlight.

The ductile behavior of amorphous polymers has been captured through traditional MD simulation methods by estimating the stress-strain response beyond the yield point; however, brittle fracture in highly crosslinked polymer materials such as epoxy thermoset has not been addressed appropriately and is the primary objective of this work.