Because ships in the North Atlantic were subjected to low temperatures, they were susceptible to brittle failure.

The cusp was formed by brittle failure of the catheter on a breast implant in silicone rubber.

This results in cracks, rupture and brittle failure.

Thus the chief safeguard against brittle failure lies in a high work of fracture.

These properties allow it to absorb significantly more energy during a crash without the risk of brittle failure.

The latter is hard and thus prevents any penetration through the shell, but is subject to brittle failure.

Diffusion creep results in plastic deformation rather than brittle failure of the material.

For this reasons, the size effect on the strength in brittle failures of concrete structures and structural laminates has long been ignored.

Some materials will break sharply, without deforming, in what is called a brittle failure.

Quite often, phenomenological failure criteria of the same form are used to predict brittle failure and ductile yield.