nonabradable
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nonabradable (not comparable)
- Not abradable.
- 1980, Robert C. Bill, Preliminary Study of Methods for Providing Thermal Shock Resistance to Plasma-Sprayed Ceramic Gas-Path Seals, page 1:
- They are generally nonabradable, so that rubs result in blade tip wear; and this further aggravates the blade tip clearance problem.
- 1986, Harold E. Helms, Ceramic Applications in Turbine Engines, page 154:
- The acceleration is not shown because the nonabradable shroud peak stress occurred during deceleration.
- 2012, E. Morscher, Endoprosthetics, page 159:
- In their view, theoretically at least there is a case for using a flexible but nonabradable surface to interface with bone at the acetabulum [71, 181].