They enable morphological shape change while maintaining structural strength, and can reversibly alternate between rigid, load bearing and compliant, flexible states capable of deformation within unstructured environments.
In addition to the use of conventional rigid load plates to transfer applied load to the test specimens, a silicon-membrane-type water bladder was also designed to attach at the bottom of the conventional rigid load plate to form a flexible load plate.
Exoskeletons comprised of rigid load-bearing structures have been developed for many years, but a new paradigm is to create "exosuits" that apply tensile forces to the body using textiles and utilize the body's skeletal structure to support compressive forces.
The difficulty in sine sweep testing is that the non-rigid load dynamics are unknown and it can severely modify the shaker's performance during sweep test.
Ăge Hareide had promised that people would see "a different Denmark" but this was more of the same – a rigid display loaded with defensive discipline, in which they managed to nullify the threat of Modric and Rakitic.
It was also observed that with reduction in cell height over the rigid base, load carrying capacity of the composite cells got increased.
Structures are more rigid under loads that are applied along their long axes and are more flexible under bending and torsion, which increases with length.
Case studies of a rigid ball loaded against a layered elasto-plastic half-space are conducted to explore the effects of the modulus, yield strength, and thickness of the coating on the hardness, stiffness, and plastic deformation of the composite body.
It's the little things like the Rift's more rigid spring-loaded straps that distinguish the very much refined feel of Oculus's offering from the considerably less sleek Vive.
Note that pavement surface deflection is typically used to evaluate the flexible pavement structure and the rigid pavement load transfer and is measured as the pavement surface's vertical deflected distance as a result of an applied static or dynamic load [79 82].
