Sentence examples for an element of friction from inspiring English sources

"The actual muscles that move the eyes are connected to the bones of the skull and there is an element of friction as these muscles move.

Price's remorselessness and violent streak serve an element of friction within the group, though he is often proven right about the darker side of human nature.

Mr. Besigye acknowledges an element of romantic friction in the political dynamics between him and President Museveni, but he said it was not a critical factor.

It would add an element of strategy.

It's an element of the past.

This brings an element of "unhealthy competition".

Include an element of water.

In 1821 French engineer Claude-Louis Navier introduced the element of viscosity (friction) for the more realistic and vastly more difficult problem of viscous fluids.

The microstructure of unidirectional fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites is described by a cylindrical unit cell that is then discretized by a set of friction elements.

A new-type nonlinear tuned mass damper (TMD) containing an additional element of elastic support dry friction compared with the common linear TMD is proposed to suppress machining chatter.

The paper also investigates the sensitivity of the deck response to critical assumptions of the compliance approach, i.e., the stiffness of the gap element, the presence of friction during contact, the occurrence of sticking during frictional contact, and the constitutive law of the contact elements.