Sentence examples for glass failure from inspiring English sources

Otherwise, plastic deformation of glass (or ductility), which is generally observed in strength tests as the necking of a specimen placed under tension, is not observed; instead, glass failure is brittle that is, the glass object fractures suddenly and completely.

Google Glass' failure to gain consumer traction is hardly surprising.

Studies of this type can be helpful in identifying the mechanisms for glass failure and designing mitigating features to eliminate glass failure modes during a chemical hood fire.

Normal and 3-parameter Weibull distributions appear to be usable for reliability analyses of architectural glass failure pressures, but they are not as consistent in producing reasonable lower bounds of glass failure pressures as is the 2-parameter Weibull distribution.

In this paper, simulation data to better understand the effects of fire on thermal loading and glass failure in a chemical hood are discussed.

Several concepts even possess a post-breakage strength that is larger than the initial glass failure load, while demonstrating extensive deformation capacity.

The idea is that by raising a glass to failure, it will help people to learn from it.

When they've laid out their story before the audience, they raise a glass to failure – and once and for all put their failed startup to bed, to the cheers and support of the crowd".

The rapid cell degradation was correlated to the open circuit voltage measurements and was attributed to glass seal failure, probably due to unbalanced stress conditions.

And sadly my verdict is that, in its present form with its current software, Google Glass is a failure.

Again, glasshole is a great example of that — a word that effectively contains the full story of Google Glass' abject consumer failure wrapped up in those two mocking syllables.