Sentence examples for specimen assembly from inspiring English sources

Some important aspects need to be considered due to the specimen assembly.

This indicates that the absorbed water in the specimen assembly was completely purged and that the samples reached textural equilibrium.

The next step is the specimen assembly, placing it into the testing machine, and thermo gauge installation.

This is because the conductivity was affected by absorbed water in the specimen assembly (e.g., Yoshino 2010).

As described in Takahashi et al. (2013), the specimen assembly consisted of a cylinder of porous Shirahama sandstone, 20 mm in diameter and 40 mm in length, containing a 0.65-g (≈0.5-mm-thick) gouge layer along a sawcut inclined 30° to the cylinder axis; a pair of porous tungsten-carbide spacers; a pair of alumina spacers; and upper and lower stainless-steel pistons.

By measuring the net elongation in the specimen-actuator assembly and the geometric parameters of actuator and specimen sections, the tensile strain (ϵs) in the specimen can be calculated from the force balance equation as shown below: ϵ a = δn A a n A a L s + A s L a (5).

In other words, for calculation of a/W, the crack length due to specimen-fixture assembly has to be considered rather than considering crack length of the specimen alone.

Therefore, the principal problem for a test specimen-fixture assembly is that it is designed such that the loading history of the recovered specimen is known.

For the CGIC specimens, the assembly was held in place for 10 min.

Ultimate capacity of wall assembly specimen under flexural load, kN.

Ultimate capacity of wall assembly specimen under shear load, kN.