Sentence examples for rigid material from inspiring English sources

Dr. Gaylord developed a rigid material, siloxane-methacrylate, that was both permeable and suited to the production of lenses.

To make a cast in metal, a foundry requires from the sculptor a model made of a rigid material, usually plaster.

John Benjamin of Garrison, a wall restorer for 30 years, said: "An old-timer told me, 'A good piece of stone masonry will look visually soft.' You are building something out of the most rigid material and you've done a good job if you make it look soft".

The model is usually clay rather than plaster because if the forms of the sculpture are at all complex it is easier to remove a plaster mold from a soft clay model than from a model in a rigid material, such as plaster.

"Origami engineers" build a variety of objects by folding sheets of rigid material along set creases.

Delivering power to the rigid material causes it to get hot, frying the surrounding soft tissue in the process.

Sound waves are readily transmitted through rigid materials.

Meanwhile, against a wall between the two off-beat clocks is a subtly surrealistic array of slender, upright objects: lengths of pipe, wood and other rigid materials.

Rigid materials such as metals, concrete, or rocks sustain large forces while undergoing little deformation, but if sufficiently large forces are applied, the materials can no longer sustain them by elastic deformation alone.

"I often use mesh and chain mail in my costume designs," he said, "and I was fascinated by the opportunity to make something light and fluid out of rigid materials".

A design modeled in plastic materials may be intended for reproduction by casting in more permanent and rigid materials, such as metal, plaster, concrete, and fibreglass, or it may itself be made rigid and more permanent through the self-setting properties of its materials (for example, plaster) or by firing.