Sentence examples for main legs from inspiring English sources

Mr Chovanec attacks one of the main legs of the economic case for high-speed rail in China, that transporting passengers thus would free up track desperately needed for shifting coal.

In the perpendicular Load Case IA, both main legs, which are in compression, failed simultaneously.

In other words, Apple has lost one of the main "legs" of their table, as Jobs used to describe it.

The main legs were modelled using beam elements, while the bracing members were modelled using truss elements.

It has a 3 × 3 m base with four main legs consisting of 50 × 50 × 5 mm steel angle sections.

Three-planar KT-joints are one of the most important joint types in the six-legged offshore jacket-type structures since they connect the bracing members to the main legs of the jacket template.

For $50 (a handsome monthly wage for a Ukrainian), his workmen, guaranteed sober and competent, will come round at any time of the day or night and fix the damage.This, and an insurance brokerage, features heavily in the other main leg of his business: a glossy colour quarterly magazine called The Ukrainian, which takes an unusually cheerful view of the country's state and prospects.

The specific mobility of robot legs is analyzed to obtain two main leg types as the goal of design.

Very large towers considered in the literature usually use a K-type truss bracing system to support the main leg, and within these bracings there are secondary and redundant members.

This paper addresses steel lattice transmission towers with main leg members retrofitted by steel angles through bolted double steel angle connectors, a method that is widely used in practice but to date with little experimental research to support it.

The muscles have also been greatly enlarged, with the main leg muscles accounting for over 17% of the total mass of the frog.