Sentence examples for rigid and durable from inspiring English sources
This means that carbon fiber is extremely light but at the same time extremely strong, rigid and durable.
A 9.7 m aperture parabolic trough mirror is formed by inflated, metallized, polymeric films mounted on a rigid and durable concrete support structure.
Highly lignified wood is rigid and durable and therefore a good material for many structural applications.
With a more rigid and durable constitution than lower density foam, microcellular urethane elastomers are best used for more rigorous applications.
The final structure was watertight, rigid and sufficiently durable to withstand multiple assembly, transport and scanning protocols.
Roller-compacted concrete pavement (RCCP) is an economic and durable rigid pavement.
Multi-site MEAs can be mass fabricated on ceramic (Al2O3) substrate using photolithographic methods, imparting a high level of precision and reproducibility in a rigid but durable recording device.
Equally important, the series is a crowbar meant to pry open a rigid canon and admit outliers whose work, however obscure, has proved significant and durable.
It has been found that the use of thin asphalt layers over semi-rigid pavement foundation in PP structure will create more sustainable, economical, and durable PP structures in comparison with typical thick asphalt layers PP structures.
Both major reviews of Oliver's work (Fenner's 1995 essay and Fink's 2002 journal article) draw attention to dualism and contradiction in the sculptures: Fenner describes them as "delicate and ephemeral, [yet] structurally robust and durable"; Fink sees them as "ethereal but solid, fluid yet rigid, open but closed".
The pristine layered crystal structure of ZrP nanoplatelets is rather rigid and brittle, while the hexylamine-intercalated ZrP nanoplatelets should be tougher and more elastic, which makes them more stable and durable under a relatively heavy load, thus leading to a better tribological performance for such layered nanoplatelets in oils.
