Sentence examples for resisting compression from inspiring English sources

Human femurs have been shown to be capable of resisting compression forces of 800 1,100 kg (1,800 2,500 pounds).

The loop-retained and loop-removed specimens manifest the role of loops in resisting compression.

The ECM serves structural functions that include tensile strength, elasticity, resisting compression, filling space, and providing hydration.

FEM allows characterizing the compressions at deformations beyond the wall thickness, when both bending and stretching contribute to the force resisting compression.

Discs allow bending and twisting of the spine whilst resisting compression from gravity and muscle action [ 4].

If the thermal pressure, which resists compression, is small compared with gravity and rotation, which cause the disk to contract vertically, the disk will be geometrically thin, and its thickness will be much smaller than its radial extent.

The nonlinearity models the fact that cables resist expansion but do not resist compression.

Most of the annulus fibrosus then acts like a fibrous solid to resist compression (Fig. 5) [3, 11].

Wood is among the few natural materials, which is able to resist compression, tension and bending stresses.

The restoring force can be modeled owing to the cable with one-sided Hooke's law so that it strongly resists expansion but does not resist compression.

The ability to resist compression is intimately associated with the high abundance of aggrecan throughout the extracellular matrix of articular cartilage beneath its superficial zone.