Brittle Britain

Brittle, isn't she?

Bringing out its brittle quality. Oh, yes.

It's got a brittle star hitching a ride.

I wanted to look mellow and I look brittle.

That's the trouble with my regenerative process it makes everything so brittle.

They are quite brittle. So you've only got a part of one there.

To get an iron spoon pewter and aluminium were too soft or too brittle

And there are brittle stars that produce bands of light that dance along their arms.

I'm about to snap like a brittle twig, when suddenly someone taps me on the shoulder.

Numerous papers have been published on new work presenting the results of brittle material response to hypervelocity impactE.

The impact resistance of carbon carbon materials is comparable with aluminium however, they have some brittle features (spall effects).

On the left, this is a brittle star it's covered with lenses that the people at Lucent Technologies have found have no distortion whatsoever.

In conjunction with the Unit for Space Sciences at the University of Kent, a programme of tests was performed to compare the response of brittle materials to a range of hypervelocity impact conditions.

In conjunction with the Unit for Space Sciences at the University of Kent, they have completed a programme of simulations to investigate the response of brittle materials to a range of hypervelocity impact conditions.

And it's brittle, because each of these steps has to be flawless, otherwise you lose that data, whereas in the brain, you have a system that stores data in a distributed way, and it's robust.

Cuprates are notoriously difficult materials to work with, because they are very brittle. This is exacerbated by their strong anisotropy the materials have a quasi two dimensional structure consisting of a weakly coupled stack of conducting sheets.

,E. A. Taylor, N.R.G. Shrine and L. Kay, quot Hypervelocity impact on semi infinite brittle materials fracture morphology related to projectile diameter quot , paper B0.8 0003, 31st Scientific Assembly of COSPAR, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 14 21 July 1996.

Empires can impose order and stability for a long time but imperialists rather like many Americans today become tired, and their subjects grow restless. The imperial order becomes brittle, and, as Kagan rightly notes, when the old order finally breaks down, mayhem often follows.

What is scarce is attention, which depends on credibility and government propaganda is rarely credible. For all of China s efforts to position the Xinhua news agency and China Central Television as competitors of CNN and the BBC, the international audience for brittle propaganda is vanishingly small.

Congress, at its core, pursues a form of dynastic democracy with the characteristics of a Sultanistic regime a regime with no purpose or function apart from maintaining the leader s personal authority. But, though such leaders perhaps have more personal authority than even medieval monarchs, their authority is brittle.

Ukraine s fate has become Europe s fate. Indeed, Putin not only wants to stop European political, civic, and social norms from taking root within Ukraine he wants to roll them back in the Baltics, the Balkans, and anywhere else in Europe made politically brittle by economic crisis and or demagogic populism.

HOUSTON Russia watchers are rightly focusing on the latest brittle ceasefire in Ukraine, seeking to discern President Vladimir Putin's intentions there. But they would be wise not to overlook another unfolding struggle one that will have profound long term consequences for Europe and for Putin's ability to exert pressure on the continent.

The Islamic Republic will not be able to get away with the Chinese option to combine political suppression at home with economic reform and greater openness to the outside world because its structures are too weak and brittle for this. The ruling ideology, moreover, is unlikely to survive such a step unharmed.

The youth revolt that began in Tunis and Cairo in 2010 2011 has come to an end (at least for the time being), though the region has been changed fundamentally by it. The victory of counter revolution and power politics, as in Egypt, has only seemed to restore the old order the current regime s political foundations are simply too brittle.

In choosing the material, the design temperature range shall be taken into account with respect to risk of brittle fracture, to stress corrosion cracking and to resistance to impact. When fine grain steel is used, the guaranteed value of the yield strength shall be not more than 460 N mm2 and the guaranteed value of the upper limit of the tensile strength shall be not more than 725 N mm2 according to the material specification.

In choosing the material the design temperature range shall be taken into account with respect to risk of brittle fracture, to stress corrosion cracking and to resistance to impact. When fine grain steel is used, the guaranteed value of the yield strength shall be not more than 460 N mm2 and the guaranteed value of the upper limit of the tensile strength shall be not more than 725 N mm2 according to the material specification.

In choosing the material, the minimum design temperature shall be taken into account with respect to risk of brittle fracture, to hydrogen embrittlement, to stress corrosion cracking and to resistance to impact. When fine grain steel is used, the guaranteed value of the yield strength shall be not more than 460 N mm2 and the guaranteed value of the upper limit of the tensile strength shall be not more than 725 N mm2 in accordance with the material specifications.