compressive
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The researchers created the breakthrough material by growing a thin germanium layer on a silicon wafer and then applying a precise amount of compressive strain.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2025
Compared with the bare sections, biocrust-covered rammed earth was less porous and had higher shear strength and compressive strength, the team reports today.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
As these irregularities move, they induce a compressive stress that triggers the rebonding effect.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
The cars weren’t equipped with alignment control couplers that “resist lateral coupler movement under compressive in-train forces.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
Although a column is normally subjected to compressive stresses, when the slenderness ratio—that is, the length divided by the radius of gyration of the cross section—becomes great, a secondary bending stress may be produced.
From The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman by Robert M. Vogel
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