The branch adsorbed water with less success than an unnotched branch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Though I focused on a very simple problem (multiaxial fatigue at fatigue limit, unnotched specimens), I have got to (I hope) quite important conclusions concerning different aspects of commonly used solution technologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference

All methods I am trying to evaluate are working in the same way - they are using local stresses (i.e. nominal ones for unnotched specimens, which thus relate to something you would probably call the multiaxial fatigue limit) and reduce them in some more or less complicated way to a single parameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference