Burgeoning computer capabilities often are unreliable, or brittle, at first. Capabilities that work successfully in one instance may fail miserably when applied to another area. At the moment, machine ...

Researchers have found a bulk metallic glass based on palladium that's as strong as the best composite bulk metallic glasses and comparable to steel, aluminum and titanium. From the production of ...

Old software that has been patched so many times that even small changes to the source code make the program fail. The term stems from metal that has been worked and reworked so often that it becomes ...

Acoustic time and density have a poor relation with brittleness while elasticity has a good linear correlation with brittleness. Variable compressive strength causes irregular brittleness distribution ...