Sentence examples for minor stiffness from inspiring English sources

At first, Piazza said, he considered the weather conditions and thought he had only a cramp or some minor stiffness.

The use of non-organically modified clays (Cloisite Na+ and Laponite) resulted in intercalated nanocomposites, with only a minor improvement in stiffness.

Beyond this load, minor difference in the stiffness is observed upto the ultimate load.

Such design advantage is the independency of both vertical bearing mechanism and the mechanism that provides lateral pre-yield stiffness against minor vibration loads.

Based on parametric studies conducted in this paper, even a minor positive post-yield stiffness can greatly reduce residual displacements as another benefit of the proposed system.

Compared to the fully backed sandwich case, the core height shows a great influence over the impact process of a simply supported sandwich system, in which the global behavior of the sandwich is dominant; while the core stiffness shows minor effect over the impact process.

This article confirms, both computationally and experimentally, the well known observation that damage caused by tensile loading in fiber reinforced polymeric composite laminates may induce only minor variations in the longitudinal stiffness, thereby rendering this stiffness a poor measure for estimating the residual strength of such materials.

Upon laparoscopy, we found minor serous ascites and wall stiffness at the 20-cm segment of the mid-to-distal ileum.

The curves of the several specimens showed a good correspondence, although with minor variations in the initial stiffness on account of different values of a 0. The R-curves were built from the P δ curves following the previously mentioned data reduction methods, allowing to relate G I with a or a eq during the crack growth phase of each test [31].

Two studies reported minor adverse events such as stiffness and tiredness [ 42, 46].

In the minor strength direction, the local bending stiffness of the panels can be predicted using the theoretical bending stiffness calculated according to the Shear Analogy theory.