Sentence examples for material collapse from inspiring English sources

The fundamentalism of the policies being pushed by the Tories, and echoed in police tactics, is rooted in desperation of the material collapse of global capitalism – and the scope of reform runs much further than the darkest years of Thatcherism.

Mill, who welcomed communism in so far as it meant equality, the abolition of privilege and state ownership of land, foresaw more than half a century before the Russian revolution that the system's intrinsic tyranny ('the absolute dependence of each on all, and surveillance of each by all') could end only in moral stagnation and material collapse.

This feature enables us to give physically reasonable interpretations for size effects and shear banding during material collapse.

The material collapse can be assumed to occur when the damage is complete, that is, when the parameter D reaches the unity.

However the most dangerous eruptive feature are the pyroclastic flows generated by material collapse, which move down the side of the mountain at extreme speeds of up to 700 km per hour and with the ability to extend the reach of the eruption hundreds of kilometers.

Starting at rest, the granular material collapses and accelerates downslope until it reaches its maximum speed after 45 seconds (~45 m s-1).

Recently at a mine in Southwestern Pennsylvania, roof material collapsed above shields that created two large voids and caused major challenges for shield recovery.

A "surface collapse feature", also known as a subsidence crater, was formed by material collapsing into the cavity formed by the explosion.

The material collapses upon itself, forming a fast-moving pyroclastic flow (known as a block-and-ash flow) that moves down the side of the mountain at tremendous speeds, often over 150 km per hour.

At lower temperatures the polymeric material is in a highly hydrated state, but when transitioning to temperatures above the LCST, water moves into bulk solution and the polymeric material collapses onto itself forming hydrophobic interactions.

This change in shape results from the flexibility of the polymer/protein shell material collapsing onto itself since there is no longer a rigid PS core to maintain the original spherical structure.