Sentence examples for form of plate from inspiring English sources

For longer spans, steel beams are made in the form of plate girders.

It is not known with any certainty whether this is because the dynamic nature of Earth's surface obliterates such evidence or because processes different from the modern form of plate tectonics existed at the time.

Thus the thrill of discovering, as scientists did in 2014, that icy Europa, a moon of Jupiter, has a form of plate tectonics remarkably similar to Earth's.Further interesting comparisons may be made between Pluto and Charon not least because, like Earth's moon, Charon is thought to be the result of an earlier catastrophic collision between its parent and a third body.

Trencher, originally a thick slice of bread, used as a primitive form of plate for eating and for slicing meat (hence its derivation from "trancher"—to cut, or carve), but by the 14th century a square or circular wooden plate of rough workmanship.

Since the 1990s, however, most geoscientists have begun to accept that some form of plate tectonics occurred throughout the Proterozoic Eon, which commenced 2.5 billion years ago, and some extend these models back into the Archean, more than 2.5 billion years ago.

No patient in the plating had hardware failure in the form of plate bending or screw backout.

In iron meteorites, it often is found in the form of plates and as shells around nodules of troilite (an iron sulfide mineral).

Hence, in a young, active patient, surgical fixation of an acute displaced mid-shaft clavicle fracture in the form of plating appears to result in improved outcome.

The required mechanical, structural and other properties of stainless steels have to be maintained in these joining processes of components of various shapes and sizes in the form of plates, ribs, shells, etc.

In the Regulation of the Buildings to be Constructed in Disaster Regions (Trianafillou 1998), there is the condition that if FRP is used in the form of plates the span between the axes of plates (s f ) will be smaller than the sum of plate width (w f ) and one-fourth of the useful beam height (d) (w f  + d/4) (Trianafillou 1998).

In this work, bulk metallic glasses Mg60Cu30Y10, Mg65Cu20Y10Zn5 and Mg65Cu20Y10Ni5 (BMGs) in the form of plates with thickness of 1 mm were successfully synthesized by the high-pressure casting.