Sentence examples for function the mechanical from inspiring English sources

The zoologist and historian of science E.R. Russell summed up the great biological controversy of the first half of the nineteenth century: "Is function the mechanical result of form, or is form merely the manifestation of function or activity?

To provide adequate separator function, the mechanical properties may be disconnected from the transport properties by selection of an appropriate architecture combined with an adequately long ethylene oxide chain.

Phonon propagation speed is a function of the mechanical properties of the matrix and therefore a function of hydrogen content.

Fourth is the coordinating function of the mechanical engineer, including management, consulting, and, in some cases, marketing.

The temperature of the friction pin develops as a function of the mechanical power density applied.

The report reviews the spectrum distortion problem of the deformations distribution function in the mechanical system in numerical simulations.

Furthermore, the rate of growth and removal of the oxide film was a function of the mechanical power.

Using these stress components for each ply, the Monte Carlo method is used to predict the distribution function of the mechanical response, in addition to the failure probability.

Located between the saclike crop and the intestine, the gizzard has a thick muscular wall and may contain small stones, or gastroliths, that function in the mechanical breakdown of seeds and other foods.

The significant loss of diplopod specimens per stump after stump harvesting may be linked to a corresponding loss in function, particularly the mechanical breakdown of woody substrates.

This observation is also supported by research at Hofsjökull61 where it was shown that the relationship between surface melt and basal sliding is a function of the mechanical properties of the deforming bed and the surface slope (i.e. low angle soft-bedded glaciers are sensitive to melt water production).