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bollarding ‎(uncountable)

(mechanical engineering) A defect in which a testpiece is deformed into a bollard-like shape.
- 2006, Jagabanduhu Chakrabarty, Theory of Plasticity
  An excessive film thickness, on the other hand, produces bollarding in which the diameter of the specimen becomes bigger at the ends than at the middle.