Sentence examples for means of rigid from inspiring English sources

The patients, 7 males and 47 females, were divided into 2 groups: 28 patients stabilized by means of rigid fixation and 26 patients fixated with interosseous wires.

Surgical instrumentation used for posterior craniocervical instability has evolved from simple wiring techniques to sophisticated implant systems that incorporate multiple means of rigid fixation for the cervical spine.

It is held on either by means of a strap that passes above the kneecap or by means of rigid metal knee hinges attached to a leather thigh corset.

Instead, she takes the metaphor of work at its word, characterizing ours as an age "when monogamy becomes labor, when desire is organized contractually, with accounts kept and fidelity extracted like labor from employees, with marriage a domestic factory policed by means of rigid shop-floor discipline".

Mechanical operation by means of rigid links is satisfactory for single brakes, but when several brakes are actuated from a single source, as on an automobile, it is difficult to obtain equal braking effectiveness on all wheels; for this reason, hydraulic actuation, with oil under the same pressure acting on all brakes, is preferable.

After a preliminary analysis performed on a unit cell meshed by means of elastic FEs and non-linear interfaces, macroscopic moment curvature diagrams so obtained are implemented at a structural level, discretizing masonry walls by means of rigid triangular elements and non-linear interfaces.

The prize achieved credibility by means of a rigid balance between pairs of opposites, the right and left, theoreticians and empiricists, Chicago economists and followers of Keynes.

This remarkable conservation suggests that the association of sterols and hopanoid surrogate molecules arose from the early need in prokaryotes to stabilize pLGIC TM regions by means of relatively rigid lipid molecules.

This paper considers a frictionless receding contact problem between an anisotropic elastic layer and an anisotropic elastic half plane, when the two bodies are pressed together by means of a rigid circular stamp.

For long-span suspended bridges, the aeroelastic stability analysis performed by means of a rigid section model can be sometimes inadequate, while a multi-mode approach gives better results with only a slightly larger computational burden.

The corresponding mathematical model composed of imaginary rectangular modules connected to each other in series by means of hypothetical rigid links is shown in Fig. 1b.