Sentence examples for rigid members from inspiring English sources

The links are the rigid members connecting the joints.

To the more rigid members of the French establishment, the encyclopaedia was a monster.

A radical departure in design, the parafoil, a soft airplane-wing shape with no rigid members, used by the skydiver as a parachute, assumes its efficient flying profile entirely from the wind's inflating the air channels along the leading edge.

If all the parts of a machine are comparatively rigid members whose deflections under load are negligible, then the constrainment may be considered complete and the relative motions of the parts can be studied without considering the forces that produce them.

To reveal the flexibility and robustness of the procedure, a complete assemblage of fabric textile, reinforcing cables and rigid members will be analysed from its initial design stage to its final loaded configurations.

Particularly interesting is the use of tensegrity structures for the construction of renewable energy supplies, due to their easy integration with solar and acoustical panels, which can form special rigid members of the structure.

The simplified two-dimensional model with two adjacent rows of plane structures connected by a rigid member at each floor level is reasonable and safe to use in the practical design of staggered truss system.

Borge was considered the most rigid member of the nine Sandinista comandantes who oversaw Nicaragua.

The ankle in the amputated leg can be considered as a rigid, insensitive member of the kinematic chain.

The preferred geometry of the ankle crossing, therefore, propagates into curvature preferences, because the ankle crossing at one vertex is linked by a relatively rigid structural member (the distal proximal pair) to the three neighbouring vertices.

To balance the music's rigid construction, group members often ended the songs with extended improvised codas, adding strange noises and extra energy without changing the melody or the rhythm.