Sentence examples for cracking under stress from inspiring English sources

Like any good popular science book, Stuff Matters is full of stories, such as the one about the gardener who invented reinforced concrete to prevent huge flower pots from cracking under stress, and the one about the blazing row Miodownik had with a materials snob in the foyer of a cinema about the aesthetics of plastic.

Choon Fong Shih built his academic reputation on understanding how metal cracks under stress.

Was Bertarelli cracking under the stress of the delays or was he simply trying to up the pressure on Team New Zealand and the race committee to get things moving?

The implication of the findings on shear cracking under high confining stress is discussed.

Among societies targeted by terrorists, some cracked under the stress but others didn't.

Such pastes, applied an eighth of an inch thick, formed a mask that cracked under the stress of facial expression; this didn't matter at the distances of a live theatre, but in film closeups even hairline cracks showed.

Bringing Out the Dead (1999) starred Nicolas Cage as a New York paramedic who is beginning to crack under the stress of his job and offered some of the same surreal nighttime ambience as Taxi Driver.

Before expansion joint gaps were built into these structures, they would crack under the stress induced.

My pea coat had long ago cracked under the stress, shooting a button across a crowded waiting room and nearly taking a woman's eye out.

Setting a cut point, a bar, a marker of any kind, should be done with the understanding that the point is largely arbitrary and that making high stakes decisions based on a strict adherence to the marker will lead many students (and teachers) to crack under the stress.

The results show that the failure mode of the joint lug is stress corrosion cracking under the co-effect of tensile stress and corrosive environment.