Sentence examples for balloon structure from inspiring English sources
"Five minutes up, five minutes to go!" he shouts, as the newly formed 2.009 teams race to build the tallest free-standing balloon structure they can using 144 balloons in their team's color and three rolls of packing tape.
It indicates that time-dependent effects in a balloon structure can lead to significant stress redistribution and large increases in the transverse strains in the lobes.
Blow into the balloon structure until it's pretty much full.
This paper presents a computational study of the stability of simple lobed balloon structures.
The inflated elastomeric balloon structures are widely used in engineering fields such as elastomeric actuators and artificial muscles.
Let the games begin: In Killian Court, Professor David Wallace (center) gives 2.009's newly assembled teams 10 minutes to build balloon structures as they role-play different approaches to teamwork.
Inspecting the "ballooning" structure (when a building holds itself up by its exterior walls and roof), he sees that two horizontal roof pieces are bowing slightly.
The bladder is a balloon-shaped structure with walls of muscle.
Mr. Yost would eventually hold 26 patents dealing with ballooning equipment, including inflation mechanisms, balloon body structures and gondola designs.
A plastic, balloon-like structure that resembles a giant eggplant or a lopsided, purple doughnut, it is billed as the world's first portable, inflatable concert hall.
During the first attempt on Thursday to pump air into the module known as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or Beam, the bulbous, balloon-like structure did not expand as much as expected.
