Use foggers, plastic sheeting and spray-on evaporation retarders to offset early surface drying and resulting defects including plastic shrinkage cracking, crusting, mortar flaking, premature ...

Introducing flaws into liquid crystals ... coming into contact with their surface to adapt and rotate in a different direction" explains D'Adamo. "This creates 'defect lines' in the material ...

De Leon is working on using a nitrogen-vacancy color center near the surface of a diamond to capture images of molecules. The approach takes advantage of a property of the defect known as ... in ...

Unlike conventional ultrasonic flaw detection systems, MIV-X exposes defects both on and below the surface. The MIV-X also provides a clear visualization of any flaws detected – another improvement ...

about one defect is reported per unit - and this has been the case "in recent years", the Housing Board has told The Straits Times. The bulk of reported flaws are "surface imperfections", such as ...