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
The more nappy waste in the concrete, the lower the compressive strength.
From Scientific American ● May 22, 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 maximum compressive fiber stress in the concrete was assumed at 550 lb. per sq. in. for the beams, and at 350 lb. for the columns, a low figure, because of their eccentric loading.
From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by George Robert Graham Conway
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