Sentences with phrase «when microcracks»
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When these particles settled on the glass fibers they created microcracks, which widened over days and weeks until the fibers failed.
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But a computer simulation after the accident showed that a concentrated load on the edge of the 52 - centimeter - diameter tubes might create microcracks on the neck that could give way when the tank was filled.