Sentence examples for crack sealing from inspiring English sources

Water capillary absorption can be significantly reduced by crack sealing.

Main applications include repair of worn or damaged surfaces through building up or crack sealing.

Pore pressure builds-up with increasing the number of closed extension cracks, which may not be in one-to-one relationship, and its timescale is similar to that of crack sealing.

Here we propose a novel model of quartz vein formation associated with fluid advection from host rocks and silica precipitation in a crack, in order to quantify the timescale of crack sealing.

Depending on the crack initiation time and environmental conditions, crack sealing varies from a few tens of years to a few thousand years.

The crack sealing degree decreases with the increase in crack width, and only fine cracks of 10 20 μm can be healed completely.

Instead, crews built a separate floor section that incorporated a pre-scored crack sealed with plaster.

The cracks sealed themselves as the Trieste rose into warmer waters and eventually broke through the waves, in time for two navy planes to zoom overhead and tip their wings in salute.

Yong-Gang Li, a geologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and his colleagues thought they might get a better handle on this process by measuring how quickly the cracks seal up after a major quake.

The project, now scheduled to begin Feb. 14, will fill cracks, seal the pavement and repair joints.

In addition, pavement roughness was found having certain correlation with friction for the control sections and the sections with crack seal.