compressive
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The researchers created a nanometer-thin germanium epilayer on silicon that is placed under 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
The bolts or dowels would be good for only a part of the safe shearing strength of the steel, because the bearing on the concrete would be too great for its compressive strength.
From Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910 by Godfrey, Edward
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