Sentence examples for flexible protection from inspiring English sources

A flexible protection from flooding of lowlands surrounding harbour areas consists of a movable storm surge barrier, such as the Maeslantkering near Rotterdam.

While strong IPR regimes may be adequate for knowledge governance among advanced techno-dependent economies, more flexible protection is required to stimulate knowledge diffusion and to support more effective national science and technology (S&T) policies in less advanced countries.

The main function of HVDC Flexible protection system is to rapidly trip a fault or abnormally operating equipment in the system under the fault operating conditions, so as to ensure the safe operation of the remaining health system.

Interestingly, the designs that offer the best combinations of puncture resistance and flexural compliance are similar to the geometry and arrangement of natural teleost and ganoid scales, which suggests that natural evolution has shaped these systems to maximize flexible protection.

In recent years, a number of 3D-printed structures inspired by the dermal armors of various fishes have been developed to study their multiple mechanical functionalities, including flexible protection, improved hydrodynamics, body support, or tail prehensility.

Despite a growing interest in bio-inspired flexible protection, there is little guidelines as to the choice of materials, optimum thickness, size, shape and arrangement for the protective plates.

The present numerical study on scale-like protection system enables pathways to design a lightweight and flexible protective system.

Better-targeted, more productive and flexible social protection policies are needed to 1) minimise the possible negative impacts of reducing inefficient subsidies in the short term and 2) offer long-term opportunities for the poor to escape poverty and food insecurity.

The Austrian labour market is characterised by a heterogenic structure of entrepreneurship [5, p. 34, p. 40] and by very liberal and flexible employment protection legislation.

This paper proposes an effective design approach for quickly determining the specification, size and amount of components of a flexible rockfall protection barrier structure.

The calibrated chain-link model with contact is shown to successfully simulate a full-scale test of a flexible rockfall protection barrier.