Sentence examples for weak grains from inspiring English sources

Heavy crushing pressures, for example, tend to create splintery, sharp, and weak grains.

Steam injection is widely used in heavy oil reservoirs to enhance oil recovery; elevated temperatures increase fluid mobility in several ways, but can also generate damage through shearing, crushing of weak grains, and casing impairment by shear, collapse, or buckling.

Dwell sensitivity in titanium alloys is generally attributed to the phenomenon of load shedding, which is a time dependent redistribution of stress from weak grains, with their c-axis perpendicular to the loading direction, to strong grains, with their c-axis approximately parallel to the loading direction.

These indicate weak grains, which may be easier to begin a split in.

The company said revenue had been hurt by the West Coast port strike and weak grain exports.

The fracture/damage mode is seen to be predominantly brittle, with damage initiating at the weak grain boundaries.

The well-known Ni-Mn-based magnetic shape memory alloys exhibit fascinating multicaloric effects (including elastocaloric, magnetocaloric and barocaloric effects), but they are intrinsically brittle because of weak grain boundary cohesion, which results in poor cyclic stability of elastocaloric effect.

The latter is complemented by results on fracture of materials with very weak grain boundaries, thus providing a clear perspective on evolution of the failure process for varying degrees of embrittlement.

Therefore, morphology of weak grain coalescence (low γ g) was observed for trials with higher oxygen flow rates (Fig. 4a).

Replacement of pore fluids by a solid mineral phase at weak grain contacts results in an increase in both bulk and shear modulus during the precipitation process.

Despite its great strides to diversify into construction equipment and lawn mowers, the farm machinery maker, hammered by weak grain prices, is facing a 60% drop in profits this year.