ductility

Examples from literature

For boiler and ship plates, the mildest and most ductile steel is favored. 
Not many of us have ever seen iron, the pure metal, soft, ductile and white like silver. 
Nothing is so ductile and elastic. 
Their owner has learned to handle a ductile metal, to draw it from the rocks and fuse it in the fire. 
When the metal plates are very soft and ductile, the operation of punching does no appreciable injury. 

Examples of ductile

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Earlier fabrics, cross-cut by the veins, are more ductile in nature and may reflect the aseismic stage of the fault history.
This led to the generation of ductile transpressional shear zones while the crust was thermally weakened because of the high temperatures.
The hornblende lacks ductile bends and recrystallized margins.
The axial planes of these ductile folds generally parallel the stretching lineation.
The stretching lineation is associated with the formation of early ductile, high-temperature-type folds.
A limited number of studies invoked ductile extrusion in other collisional settings.
From studies of crevasse opening and closure, he contemplated both brittle and ductile aspects of ice deformation.
On the larger scale, observational studies of brittle and ductile deformation are included.
Several brittle extensional micro-faults bear a ductile overprint expressed in the folding of both foliation and fault surfaces.
Only limited evidence is preserved for ductile and brittle thrustsense movements along this portion of the fault zone.
To the southwest and west it is bounded by ductile-to-brittle shear belts and brittle faults.
Their bounding faults probably had a ductile detachment which was shallow because of earlier heating and magmatism.
Fabrics within the amphibolites are emplacement-related ductile shear fabrics which are parallel to the fabrics along the base of the ophiolite.
Figure 6 contains the graphical representation of the direct relationship between stress and strain for ductile material.
The term is used here to encompass not only contractional deformation but also ductile extension that followed immediately afterwards.
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