The phrase "as a second support" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an additional source of assistance or reinforcement in a particular context.
Example: "The main structure is strong, but we have included a beam as a second support to ensure stability."
Alternatives: "as an additional support" or "as a supplementary support".
Through a delicate choreography of loaded glances and small hand gestures, it captures Hanna's struggle for acceptance from her biological mother, as well as her discovery of a second support system in Paris Continental, a fictional vogue femme legend played by real-life vogue femme starlette Brenda Holder.
This was related to the strength and stiffness provided by the non-supported confining element, which acted as a fourth support.
Modifying additives provide increase of thermal stability of porous structure of both highly dispersed Al2O3, as the second support, and the catalyst as a whole.
Proceeding to introduce smart fabrics demonstrates the potential to foster costumes that sustain tennis performance and operate as a second skin to support muscles and collect bio-data.
As a second approach to support the coexistence of several micrometric domains, we looked for complementarity.
As a second metric of support for the models of Limenitis evolution, we calculated the minimum number of deep coalescences under a species tree corresponding to the topology of the model being tested.
The proposed system was designed with purpose to be utilized in daily clinical practice as a second opinion tool to support cytopathologists' decisions, when a definite diagnosis is difficult to be obtained.
But Rockwell is still often found as a second stringer – amid the support casts of The Assassination of Jesse James...and Frost/Nixon, or playing a brattish villain in Iron Man 2, even upstaging Robert Downey Jr with sheer showboat obnoxiousness.
With this set of techniques, the firm commonly used financial analysis as a second step "to help support the deal preferences" that emerged from the discussions.
But what many characterized in private as a tough opening negotiating stand by the governor was nevertheless viewed with gratitude in public by the Newark, Essex County and YankeeNets officials who support the arena proposal; they applauded it as a first sign of support.
