Professor Lee said: «Everyday activity loads our bones and
causes microcracks to develop.
Steel is vulnerable to scratching, which can
cause microcracks that spread until the material fails.
Not exact matches
It gives a very strong improvement for detecting very tiny pinhole leak (possibly in imperfect welds), crack or
microcrack caused by inadequate sealing process.
A six - year study of seismic activity along the San Andreas Fault found that the 2004 Parkfield earthquake
caused breakage and
microcracking in shallow rock layers that changed the speed at which seismic waves moved through the area, making it more vulnerable to tremors for more than three years afterward.
The artwork appeared on the front cover of Applied Surface Science summarizes the benefits of a new bioceramic coating versus the commercially available Calcium Phosphate which develops
microcracks during processing and may later
cause osteolysis in load - bearing orthopedic implants.