Sentence examples for reduction of hardness from inspiring English sources

SiC coatings presented excellent thermal stability as no reduction of hardness was observed at temperatures up to 1100 °C.

The reduction of hardness was consistent with the commonly applied rule that the indent depth should not exceed 10% of the film thickness in order to avoid influences of the substrate.

Thus the increment in the impact toughness of DM-III compensates for the decrease in wear resistance resulted from the reduction of hardness.

The structural changes are consistent with the hardness and Young's modulus evolution, as seen by the significant reduction of the hardness and influence on the Young's modulus by increasing pO2/pN2.

The deterioration in coherent TaC/SiC interface resulted in the reduction of both hardness and toughness.

A series of experiments was designed and implemented in order to investigate whether these effects and associated physical changes may cause a reduction of water hardness.

The reduction of water hardness, which occurs at waterfalls on rivers in karst areas, is considered to be a result of the waterfall effects.

When a supersaturated solution was passed through a jet-stream producer, a rapid reduction of water hardness and an increase of pH appeared.

Increasing the N content leads to an increasing amorphous phase, which ultimately causes a reduction of stress, hardness, H3/E2, and wear resistance.

A too small infeed per workpiece revolution would result in insufficient grinding heat, and in turn, bring about an undesirable tempered hardened layer and a reduction of its hardness.

Regarding the mechanical properties, no variations were found for films with Ag contents lower than 13 at.%; a reduction of both hardness and compressive residual stress was then observed for higher values.