Sentence examples for toughness less from inspiring English sources

In composite form, significant improvements can be achieved such as increased fracture toughness, less strength variability, less flaw sensitivity, reduced crack propagation, and better reliability; and even more significantly, the failure manner of sialon composites can be changed and controlled.

The effect of increasing matrix toughness was less significant, leading to an increase in scatter but some stable damage growth.

It is also observed that for each material the mode III fracture toughness is less than the corresponding mode I fracture toughness value.

In fact, at 3-wt% loading the toughness is less than that of pure PDMS due to loss of elongation caused by filler aggregation.

While SiAlON with high fracture toughness shows less micro-chipping, which occurs at the initial stage (1 5 holes) of the drilling process, SiAlON with high hardness has the highest abrasion resistance at the later stage.

Although most of them have a potential to reduce the wear rate of steel, aluminum or titanium alloy parts, further improvement of oxidation resistance and wear toughness with less use of lubricants is still needed to meet the severe wearing conditions required by the coming automotive parts.

Leaves with low concentration of secondary metabolites and less toughness could explain that male plants had higher herbivory than female plants in our three study species.

In a sense, these inconsistencies played into the theme of the day, established when Tortorella made the gutsy decision to replace forwards Brad Richards and Arron Asham and their combined 165 games of playoff experience with the toughness of the less-experienced Kris Newbury and Micheal Haley.

The only engineering materials with both high strength and toughness, and with densities less than 1000 kg m−3, are natural materials (woods) and some plastics.

Fracture-surface morphology investigations reveal that interlaminar toughness enhancement is significantly less for an aerospace infusion resin than that for a much tougher hand lay-up marine epoxy.

Sticking to Plan A when the economy is weakening so fast will look less like necessary toughness and more like political dogma.