What is "compressive"

Usage examples of "compressive".

Anderson knew already what he would write in his postmortem Diagnostic Report upon his return to Florida, The cause of Renee Goode's death was compressive asphyxia resulting from sustained blunt force applied to the abdomen and lower thoracic area.

But for most stars the oscillation will damp out—unless, just at the right moment, yer hit it again with another compressive pulse.

What is it that can impose such a systematic, exactly timed compressive pulse on a whole star?

Make the currents large enough and this reaction force is enough to overcome the compressive strength of the metal.

If we are willing to sacrifice the coil (and perhaps the rest of the setup) in the effort then the ultimate limit to the compressive forces generated by this arrangement is governed only by the rise time of the current dumped through the coil and the length of time the coil manages to conduct that current before it fails.

Doping them with compounds like tantalum carbide makes them into submicron-sized superconducting wires, and packing them with potassium-doped buckyballs achieves the same effect, and if the buckytube is sized properly to fit the buckyball such packing would probably also serve to increase their already phenomenal stiffness and boost their compressive strength as well.

As with the cable we can get better results by tapering the structure, and by pressurizing the structural members we can effectively swap tensile strength for compressive strength.

In the first place the huge compressive forces involved tend to squeeze the oil from the rock strata in which it is imbedded and to disperse it in whichever direction the pressure permits -- up, down or sideways.

In the case of porous rock, the oil, influenced by those compressive forces, will seep upward through the rock until the distributive pressure eases, when it will come to rest at or very close to the surface of the earth.

The resulting crystalline structure has a high compressive strength and damn good tensile strength.

Wherever local pressure exceeded the compressive strength of the neutron, matter disappeared.

That's solid granite, which has ten times the compressive strength of concrete.