Pavement Hierarchy Manhattan's street grid beautifully accommodates urban chaos within its rigid frame of right angles.
A rigid frame does not incorporate a folding mechanism into the design, thereby significantly improving aesthetics, performance, strength, and weight.
High-rise structures begin at the lowest range with the rigid frame in both steel and concrete.
Reinforcement beams in doors are designed to deflect impact forces downward to the more rigid frame structure below the door.
In 1994, the state completely replaced the bridge, adding 17 extra feet to the rigid frame that arches over the road.
Mr. Claybaugh, from Baltimore, and Mr. O'Brien, from Greenbelt, Md., designed a sheet of material like synthetic silk or vinyl film stretched to fit a rigid frame.
James Bogardus built the Cast Iron Building (1848, New York City) with a rigid frame of iron providing the main support for upper-floor and roof loads.
In the latter there is a rigid frame composed of longitudinals and ribs secured by lashings or pegs, and the skins are stretched over the completed framework.
If you want to spend less money, there's the $35 TacType, which has a rigid frame to hold the keys in place more accurately.
A giant Connecticut state seal graces the rigid frame's center.
It much more starts behaving like rigid frame structure.
