Sentence examples for crack constitutes from inspiring English sources

These results provide experimental proof that in a very high cycle regime, the propagation stage of the crack constitutes a small part of the lifetime of the specimen.

The experimental and numerical results suggested that, within the very short time scale of the pulse propagation, the water inside of a crack constitutes an elastic medium with viscoelastic damping.

Fatigue cracking constitutes one of the main distresses responsible for the decline in the service life of asphalt pavements.

As mixed-mode crack growth can constitute a significant portion of the total fatigue life, analysis of crack growth rates and correlations under combined stresses is presented.

It has been shown in a previous study that cracked constituent particles constitute the majority of the observed fatigue crack nucleation sites in several aircraft aluminum alloys.

The public radio network NPR pointed out that the WikiLeaks grand jury is just one of a spate of federal investigations into leaking that constitutes a major crack down by the Obama administration.

The exemption policy constitutes the first crack in the wall for the requirement to buy coverage.

As in previous studies [ 20, 23], our data suggest that the anti-drug law and police crack-down policy constitute an important barrier to clean needle and syringe distribution programmes.

These nodes constitute the crack plane, that is, crack propagation was simulated by the subsequent release of node constraints.

Recently, new fatigue crack growth models, based on elastic plastic stress strain histories at the crack tip region, along with strain-life damage models have been proposed, which constitutes a class of local fatigue crack propagation models.

This paper constitutes the second part of a study of interface cracks with contact zones in thermopiezoelectrical bimaterials, and it is concerned with the case of an electrically impermeable interface crack.