Sentence examples for placed under tension from inspiring English sources

The weight of the span and any traffic on it is supported by cables, which are placed under tension by the weight.

Otherwise, plastic deformation of glass (or ductility), which is generally observed in strength tests as the necking of a specimen placed under tension, is not observed; instead, glass failure is brittle that is, the glass object fractures suddenly and completely.

The hand hacksaw has a U-shaped frame and blades 20 to 30 cm (8 to 12 inches) long, 1.25 cm (0.5 inch) wide, and 0.06 cm (0.025 inch) thick that close the U and are placed under tension by a screw adjustment in the handle.

Let the hook be placed under tension.

Contractures are avoided if muscles are placed under tension for as many hours as possible but stretching exercises do not necessarily result in prevention of contractures unless maintained for at least six hours a day [16].

Sarraf and co-workers [ 24] reported that murine MSCs could differentiate into fibroblasts and myofibroblasts when embedded in a collagen type I matrix and placed under tension, either self-generated or externally applied.

The rings were placed under a tension of 1 g [ 3].

On day five, strips were placed under 2mN tension in a four channel flatbed organ bath (DMT) in m-KHS solution.

Rings (2 3 mm wide) were mounted in a myograph (model 610M; Danish MyoTechnology, Aarhus) placed under a resting tension of 1 mN and then allowed to equilibrate for ∼30 min with readjustments of tension to compensate for stress relaxation.

We have shown that S/MARs do share a characteristic structural property, they have a markedly high predicted propensity to undergo strand separation when placed under negative superhelical tension.

Strips were placed under optimum resting tension (1500 milligrams) and equilibrated for one hour, with washing, before exposure to compounds.