Afterward, the specimens were broken to analyse crack shape.
Different SHCC and mortar specimens were broken after different durations of chloride exposure.
After a certain period of cyclic wetting and drying exposure, some of the specimens were broken to observe actual corrosion in the steel bar.
For the nitrogen sorption analysis, the specimens were broken into small pieces and then ground using a mortar and pestle to pass a #16 sieve (1190 μm spacing).
The scientists also believe that males of M. hotaula fight each other, because this behavior is known in other species of beaked whales, and because the teeth of two adult male specimens were broken.
After the process of corrosion had just been initiated, the concrete specimens were broken and the total and free chloride contents at the rebar level were measured and assumed as the chloride thresholds for starting corrosion.
In femur shaft mechanical test, all femoral specimens were broken into two pieces, the proximal part was used and embedded in resin up to the lesser trochanter and a cylinder was shaped.
The specimen is broken anteriorly close to the midsagittal plane, allowing a good approximation of the symphyseal section.
This region of the maxilla is broken in specimens referred to Eocarcharia, and its distribution within the remainder of Allosauroidea is poorly known.
The ventral surface of the orbitosphenoid is broken in all specimens currently referred to Acrocanthosaurus, although remnants of an interorbital septum have been proposed in NCSM 14345 [76].
