Sentence examples for rigid segments from inspiring English sources

The rigid segments have a tendency to aggregate, and the flexible segments act as springs connecting the rigid segments.

The rigid segments are normally prepared from MDI and a low-molecular-weight dialcohol such as ethylene glycol or 1,4-butanediol, while the flexible segments are made with MDI and a polyether or polyester glycol.

These results are compared with the corresponding rigid flexible polyethers having terphenyl rigid segments.

The rigid segments were either non-crystallisable or monodisperse crystallisable polyamides of varying lengths.

TPUs have alternating flexible and rigid segments connected by covalent links, as the diagram shows in Fig. 1.

This discrete beam model comprises a finite number of rigid segments connected by frictionless hinges and rotational springs.

Gait analysis, video-fluoroscopy of joint replacement, pre-operative planning, surgical navigation, and standard radiostereometry would require tools for easy access to three-dimensional graphical representations of rigid segment motion.

Several competing concerns must be considered together when choosing a rigid segment size.

At ∼0.25 microns per rigid segment, the longest filaments will comprise no more than 13 segments and will exhibit appropriate thermal writhing.

Because each pair of linked segments is considered in isolation from other forces and links, the method scales well to any discretization of filaments (the rigid segment size in Fig. 2).

As an example of balancing these competing criteria, consider my choice of a 100-monomer (at 2.45 nm per monomer) rigid segment size in simulating ParM mediated segregation of plasmids in E. coli with longest axis of 3 µm.