The fibres, acting in combination, are strong enough to resist the force of an impact, and the aligned molecules are rigid enough to transmit that force sideways, away from the target.
In this arrangement, called unit-body (or unibody) construction, the steel body shell is reinforced with braces that make it rigid enough to resist the forces that are applied to it.
Osteosynthesis using miniature plates and screws in these unstable fractures produces anatomical reduction of fractures with stabilization that is rigid enough to allow early mobilization of adjacent joints without allowing loss of reduction, thereby preventing stiffness and hence good functional results.
This would allow us to better understand practice patterns and systems of care that are rigid enough to reliably manage the known risk factors and flexible enough to respond to the random unpredictable events.
The bullet-shaped earphones have sturdy aluminum housings and symmetrical cables that are just rigid enough to resist tangling (there's no anti-tangle slider though).
Developed in Europe in the 1990s, cross-laminated timber, or CLT, is among the latest in a long line of "engineered" wood products that are strong and rigid enough to replace steel and concrete as structural elements in bigger buildings.
The two pegs pull the central guy line of the tent in opposite directions, establishing tension that makes the line rigid enough to support other parts of the tent.
Instead, we propose that RIF mark regions of the chromatin that would serve as scaffolds rigid enough to keep broken DNA from diffusing away, but open enough to allow the repair machinery to access the damage site.
As a consequence the measured residual deformities might also been caused by postoperative loss of correction due to soft-tissue tensioning, weak cortical bone, delayed union, bone-plate-constructs that failed or were not rigid enough.
As the lateral stiffness increases, the story shear demands increase while the story displacement and inter-story drift decrease, with the assumption that the diaphragm is rigid enough to distribute uniformly the lateral loads on the vertical elements.
