These researchers also noted analogies with modern Komodo dragons : the flexural strength of the lower jaw decreases towards the tip linearly, indicating that the jaws were not suited for high precision catching of small prey but for delivering slashing wounds to weaken big prey.
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As the passive margin matures, the crust and uppermost mantle become colder and stronger, so that the compensating deflection in the base of the lithosphere is broader than the actual rift . Higher flexural strength results in a broadening of the gravity anomaly with time.
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My experience tells me that properly mixed concrete does not begin to deteriorate for something like a hundred years . properly mixed concrete tends, when demolished, to break into large pieces held together with rebar . substandard concrete tends to pulverise when impacted and has little flexural strength.
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It was also found that through incorporation of 40 % ZrB 2 flexural strength was reduced from 500 MPa and 359 MPa in SiC and ZrB 2 single crystals to 212.96 MPa, with flexural strength highly correlated to the size of grains in the annealed ceramic material.
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It was also found that through incorporation of 40 % ZrB 2 flexural strength was reduced from 500 MPa and 359 MPa in SiC and ZrB 2 single crystals to 212.96 MPa, with flexural strength highly correlated to the size of grains in the annealed ceramic material.
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The slender Hypersonic Aero-thermodynamic Research Probes ( SHARP B1 and B2 ) briefly exposed the UHTC materials to actual reentry environments by mounting them on modified nuclear ordnance Mk12A reentry vehicles and launching them on Minuteman III ICBMs . Sharp B-1 had a HfB2 / SiC nosecone with a tip radius of 3.5 mm which experienced temperatures well above 2815 �C during reentry, ablating away at an airspeed of 6.9 km / s as predicted; however, it was not recovered and its axially-symmetric cone shape did not provide flexural strength data needed to evaluate the performance of UHTCs in linear leading edges.
