Sentence examples for vulnerable to shearing from inspiring English sources

Given that the corpus callosum is particularly vulnerable to shearing and stretching during TBI (both acutely and chronically, Ewing-Cobbs et al., 2008; Wang et al., 2011; Wu et al., 2011), we also investigated whether damage to this tract could explain some of the language variance in our sample.

With ministers also planning £1bn cuts to benefits for the disabled, Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, accused Osborne of hitting the most vulnerable to shore up his base in the Tory party.

Murthy (2006) found that open ground storey buildings were highly vulnerable to shear generated during strong earthquakes and those were relatively flexible in the ground storey.

The test results indicate that bolts are vulnerable to shear fracture and that failure is usually controlled by bolt shear rather than by plate bearing.

In particular, the interlayers are vulnerable to shear activities induced by the aforementioned vehicular actions, leading to spalling, loosening and shoving failures of the pavement.

In general, voided slabs are vulnerable to shear strength deterioration; hence, the slab specimens were designed to have low tensile reinforcement ratios of 0.353% to induce flexural failure prior to shear failure.

In case the columns are vulnerable to shear failure after flexural yielding, then the drift capacity model proposed by Elwood and Moehle (2005) can be utilized to define the accurate limit curve.

Although existing RC columns are vulnerable to shear failure because of insufficient transverse reinforcement and deficient seismic details, little research exists on the reinforcement locations and FRP reinforcement level required to prevent column shear failure.

Although all cell compartments are affected by the injury, axons are especially vulnerable to shear injury given their relatively long length and high membrane-to-cytoplasma ratio.

We presume that in malignant hypertension, the above mentioned lipoprotein thrombi led red blood cells to be more vulnerable to shear stress, which could aggravate microangiopathic hemolysis and worsen renal function.

Human astrocytes display very long thin processes that cross through several laminae from the pia to the ventricular walls, so called interlaminar processes and are hence vulnerable to shear and deformation forces similar to those that cause diffuse axonal injury in white matter tracks [ 104, 105].