Sentence examples for flaw growth from inspiring English sources

The second phase is flaw growth tests for evaluation of visible impact damage growth to estimate inspection intervals.

Proper characterization of plasticity-induced crack closure is necessary to predict both flaw growth and flaw shape evolution under cyclic loading.

For the rapidly cooled material, though the larger sized quartz particles debonded at higher temperatures owing to thermal stress, their presence, even in small quantities, contributed to natural flaw growth.

Failure of the composites was due to either oxidation-induced unbridged crack growth, which dominated the higher stress regime (⩾179 MPa) or controlled by degradation of the fibers, probably caused by intrinsic creep-induced flaw growth of the fibers or internal attack of the fibers via Si diffusion through the CVI SiC and/or microcracks at the lower stress regime (⩽165 MPa).

Wangler et al. [31] demonstrated that inhomogeneous wetting could lead to flaw growth, by creating bending moments due to local swelling, if the wet region is comparable in size to the flaw.

But such length-based limits are often flawed, because growth rates vary depending on conditions in the ocean.

"Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves," the book says.

The material is assumed to contain flaws, and their growth is assumed to stem from crack tip plasticity.

Civil claims have alleged that Autonomy's accounts were deeply flawed, with sales growth, certain revenues and operating margins all allegedly lower than was reported in the books.

After creating small defects in the teeth of rats, the team beamed lasers on the dental flaws to activate growth.

The new economy, despite its flaws and exaggerated growth ratios, has awakened the entrepreneurial spirit in German students.