Sentence examples for poor toughness from inspiring English sources

Use of these materials is frequently limited by their poor toughness.

Poor toughness, a serious shortcoming of high strength concrete, can be overcome by reinforcing with short discontinuous fibers.

Poor toughness of fibrous materials results in failure, which is an issue of importance to both engineering and medical practice.

Conversely, carbon fiber led to poor toughness due to unfavorable combination of coefficient of thermal expansion with the matrix.

A poor toughness and a predominant interfacial failure were observed in the case of the SBM with a long polystyrene block.

The present study shows atomic level evidence on how crystal defects and their interactions influence the mechanical properties, especially the poor toughness at low temperatures, of C15 C15Nb.

Test results indicated that at low fiber volume fractions (Vf ≤ 1.0%), the twisted fibers provided the highest flexural strength, but they exhibited similar strength and poorer toughness than the straight fibers at a Vf equal to or higher than 1.5%.

The poor fracture toughness of cubic pyrochlores has severely blocked their wide application.

At the same time, it was found that the isothermal holding led to poor impact toughness because of remarkable precipitation hardening.

Through-the-thickness stitching has been shown to have the capacity of improving the poor interlaminar toughness of laminated composites for many years.

The low thermal conductivity and poor fracture toughness of traditional laser gain media (rare-earth-doped single crystals) limits the overall power deliverable from a laser system.