{"id":3924020,"date":"2026-02-19T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/obstacle-or-accelerator-how-imperfections-affect-material-strength\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:01:15","slug":"obstacle-or-accelerator-how-imperfections-affect-material-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/obstacle-or-accelerator-how-imperfections-affect-material-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstacle or accelerator? How imperfections affect material strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Imagine a material cracking\u2014now imagine what happens if there are small inclusions in the material. Do they create an obstacle course for the crack to navigate, slowing it down? Or do they act as weak points, helping the crack spread faster?<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-obstacle-imperfections-affect-material-strength.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a material cracking\u2014now imagine what happens if there are small inclusions in the material. Do they create an obstacle course for the crack to navigate, slowing it down? Or do they act as weak points, helping the crack spread faster? <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}