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brittle fracture [¦brid·əl ′frak·chər] (metallurgy) A break in a brittle piece of metal which failed because stress exceeded cohesion. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Foundries should be aware of the factors that affect the strain rate sensitivity of ductile iron and the critical strain rate, which produces the brittle fracture. Among the rubber modified samples, the sample modified with 30 mesh fine crumb rubber had the lowest values indicating that this binder would be more flexible and therefore less susceptible to brittle fracture than the other samples. The volcaniclastic country rocks display brittle fracture and have high to very high quartz and quartz-carbonate vein densities. |
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