Sentence examples for monolithic slab from inspiring English sources

Not only is Sony's series of increasingly powerful video game systems about to enter its fourth generation when the monolithic slab known as PlayStation 4 launches this week, this is also an empire that has transformed the cultural landscape.

In this paper, to design the ZnO monolithic slab waveguide for electro-optical switch, the refractive indices of top and bottom electrode layers and core layer were investigated.

Emerging from a grassy slope, the monolithic slab runs for 50 metres with only a single break, where the presence of a glazed doorframe is the one telltale sign that this is not another piece of land art, but a habitable building.

His last theatre designs were for the Peter Hall company over several seasons, a meticulous Peter Gill revival of Osborne's second play, Epitaph for George Dillon, starring Joseph Fiennes and Anne Reid, at the Comedy in 2005 and a monolithic slab of ecclesiastical grey stone for John Patrick Shanley's Doubt at the Tricycle, north London, in 2007.

This paper presents the comparative analyses of experimental and numerical research results of RC connections between the precast slab and monolithic wall (Type 1), and both monolithic slab and wall elements (Type 2).

Richard Artschwager is sitting on the steps of one of his sculptures, leaning against its monolithic slab, quietly absorbed in a book.

Protruding into the stiletto-defying cobbles and Gotham City spires are one or two monolithic slabs of concrete like the stubby fingers of a giant Soviet town planner.

Instead of being monolithic slabs of glass, their 10-meter-diameter mirrors are composed of 36 small hexagons warped and fitted together.

Made of monolithic slabs of reinforced concrete coated with smooth sandy-colored stucco and arranged like overscaled Froebel building blocks, the Allen/Wenner house on Further Lane is a heroic gesture.

In order to compare the behaviour of listed structure connection types, three specimens made of precast slabs and monolithic wall as well as three specimens made of monolithic slabs and walls were tested under quasi-static load.

Several crystal configurations, including small size crystal arrays but also thick monolithic slabs, have been tried with the goal to optimize the best trade-off detector performance.