Sentence examples for hard plates from inspiring English sources

Sandwiched between hard plates, they discharge a rapidly expanding gas to absorb energy from a warhead.

Sutures divide the body surface into sclerites (hard plates), which may be fused or separated by flexible membranes.

Today's hard plates, worn inside vests, can stop bullets, but in Mr. West's view they cut down on mobility.

"After seeing what little kids can get their hands on, I went out and bought hard plates," designed for use in war zones, McClellan told me.

Each segment has four groups of hard plates (sclerites); the groups are the notum (upper), the pleura (sides), and the sternum (underside).

The body covering (exoskeleton) varies from very horny and rigid to soft and flexible, but it usually consists of hard plates (sclerites) separated by flexible membranes.

"Hard" plating is used because of its wear resistance and low coefficient of friction.

Using linear Poisson Boltzmann theory of the electric double-layer interaction between an ion-penetrable sphere and a hard plate allows a closed form evaluation.

c Pressure field for the cases of a hard solid plate (above) and coiling metamaterials surrounding a hard plate (below).

The study, published in Current Biology, describes how the researcher examined two arthropod ancestors related to modern-day insects, crustaceans, and spiders and identified a hard plate, known as the anterior sclerite, connected to their brains.

Notice that many recreational BCD's have a nylon loop attached above the hard plate.